http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog Optimize for top 10 natural rankings Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:07:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en pThe WSJ a href=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122697024336935679.htmlreported/a that Jerry Yang is stepping down from the Yahoo! CEO role as soon as the board can find a replacement. May the bleeding soon stop. To appreciate the agony Jerry Yang lived through watch this Web 2.0 interview of him by John Battellebr / object width=425 height=344br ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/yahoo-yahoo-yahoo/2008/11/ pIn response to my post yesterday A href=http://www.seobook.com/art-seo-proposalThe Art Of The SEO Proposal/a, we had a a href=http://www.seobook.com/art-seo-proposal#commentsfew comments/a from readers wanting to see examples of proposals. Thanks for the feedback, guys. It really helps us to cover areas you find most valuable./p pI looked back through some old proposals looking ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/free-search-marketing-rfp-proposal-template/2008/11/ pGoogle recently added a big ugly AdSense block to Google Finance. It looks poorly integrated and noisy.br / img src=http://www.seobook.com/images/google-finance-adsense.png/p pI am surprised they didn't look to take a page out of Yahoo!'s book on this front. Yahoo!'s ads offer more in the lines of branding, and they also sell custom research ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/google-finance-adds-adsense-ads/2008/11/ pimg src=/images/seoproposal.jpg/p pFollowing on from last weeks post, a href=http://www.seobook.com/how-be-seo-service-providerHow To Be An SEO Service Provider/a, we'll now take a look at the art of the SEO proposal./p pPitching and proposal writing is a time consuming business, so ideally you want to put your efforts where they will get the most reward. ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/the-art-of-the-seo-proposal/2008/11/ h3Changes in Search/h3 pIn recent years a href=http://www.seobook.com/archives/002023.shtmlpersonalization/a, localization, a href=http://www.seobook.com/google-universal-searchuniversal search/a, a href=http://www.seobook.com/seo-tips-google-search-suggestsearch suggestion/a, and specialized algorithms like a href=http://www.seobook.com/archives/002295.shtmlquery deserves freshness/a have altered the landscape of search. But even outside of these add-ons, Google's core relevancy algorithms are (at least to some degree) query dependent. /p h3Competitive Keywords/h3 pWhen there are ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/googles-relevancy-algorithms-change-by-keyword-longtail-vs-core-category-words/2008/11/ pAs an SEO professional it is easy to over-estimate a href=http://training.seobook.com/google-ranking-valuethe value of top search engine rankings/a. After all, we sell traffic and rankings. In some cases (thin affiliate sites, for instance) good SEO is the difference between a website worth $34 dollars and $34 million dollars, but ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/word-of-mouth-marketing-vs-search-when-top-google-rankings-are-worthless/2008/11/ pimg src=/images/seoagency.jpg/p pWhen we asked for questions from our readers on topics they'd like to see covered, we received a few requests on how to set up an SEO agency and position the service./p pHere's my take on it:/p pbDon't do it!/b/p pOK, I'm being facetious :) But before you run out and ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/how-to-be-an-seo-service-provider/2008/11/ pimg src=/images/lemmings.jpg/p pSocial media is the next big thing! No, it's ithe/i big thing! It is here, now, and it is big! Let's face it, if you're not aboard the cluetrain to social media marketing city, you're sitting on that station alone!/p pA pity, then, that social media traffic is a href=http://www.seobook.com/can-you-trust-marketing-statisticsso ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/is-social-media-marketing-a-waste-of-time/2008/11/ pWe are always trying to come up with good content ideas to write about, but we would love to get your feedback on what you would like to read. Here is a href=http://moderator.appspot.com/#16/e=af15a Google Moderator page/a where you can submit SEO, marketing, link building, pay per click, domaining, search, webmaster, ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/have-any-seo-questions-please-ask/2008/11/ pimg src=http://www.seobook.com/images/semrush.png/p h3What is SEM Rush?/h3 pA new competitive research tool by the name a href=http://www.semrush.com/SEMRush/a is being beta tested, backed by the same programmers who created a href=http://seodigger.com/SEO Digger/a. SEM Rush can be seen as a deeper extension of the SEO Digger project (adding PPC data and tracking AdWords keywords), and ... http://www.rankrover.com/seo_blog/sem-rush-search-marketing-research-review-of-semrushcom/2008/11/