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Stephan Spencer

Member since: 07-28-08

Website: http://www.stephanspencer.com

Recent Posts

'Tis The Season For Link Baiting
The Secret Life Of The Black Hat SEO
25 Super Common SEO Mistakes
Google Power User Tips: SERP URL Parameters
Google Power User Tips: Query Operators
SEO Checklist Part 2: Best Practices
29 Worst Practices & Most Common Failures: SEO Checklist Part I
36 More SEO Myths That Won't Die But Need To
SEO Myths Reloaded: Clarifications, Consensus And Controversy
36 SEO Myths That Won't Die But Need To
Anatomy Of A Google Snippet
Organic Search & Paid Search: Are They Synergistic Or Cannibalistic?
In The SEO Game, It's All About Strategies And Systems
The Science Of Scoring Your SEO
10 Last-Minute SEO Tips For Holiday Shopping Season
How To Choose Content Management Systems For SEO
Link Economics 101: A Prerequisite For Advanced SEO
The Social Media Underground
Can The SEO Industry Switch To A Pay-for-Performance Pricing Model?
What?! A Search-Hostile Site That Still Ranks Well
A Deeper Look At Robots.txt
URL Rewrites and Redirects: The Gory Details (Part 2 of 2)
URL Rewrites & Redirects: The Gory Details (Part 1 of 2)
Optimizing A Large-Scale Web Site? Do The Two-Step
Tools of the SEO Trade

Recent Comments

The Secret Life Of The Black Hat SEO
@firestorm, Sometimes what Google says is not what happens in the real world. That's the case with acquiring bad inbound links for a competitor. If th
Google Power User Tips: SERP URL Parameters
@Terry, the setting for turning off personalized results is under the "Web History" link in the search results page. There is no &pws= parameter i
36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To
@Duane, These myths ROCK! I wish I would have connected with you before publishing my article so I could have incorporated them. :) Congrats on the
36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To
I'm not dissuading anyone from creating great websites with high quality, fresh content that includes relevant keywords as well as links to valuable,
36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To
@Badams, It's always possible to find flaws and things to pick at in someone else's study, but IMO having *some* research is a lot better than having
36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To
@ jakehadlee, I like how you think! Conversion is DEFINITELY a critical component to SEO! I'm a big proponent of optimizing the elements that will imp
36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To
@Dave Ashworth, Re: #14, I think the effect that's going on there is that the regular updates are making the site more link-worthy and thus it's attra
36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To
@KevinSpence, thanks for weighing in. In regards to your first point, I think that authority sites get to operate under a different set of rules -- e.
36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To
@Casual, yes I realized that I went a bit overboard once I hit the 2500 word mark. ;-) Re: #14, I think freshness is mildly helpful but generally n
36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To
@adamryp, Thanks for your comment. I agree that a site CAN shift drastically in a particular SERP when personalization is on. When I stated that "the
10 Last-Minute SEO Tips For Holiday Shopping Season
You have to hand it to these comment spammers, they are getting more sophisticated -- and more manual. Can you say "Mechanical Turk"? ;) "Cheers Up
How To Choose Content Management Systems For SEO
@TriExpert, absolutely correct, I was referring to a 'note to self' function. Actually more importantly, I see it as a 'note to colleagues' function -
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