Top 20 SEO quotes from SMX London
Fri 22 May 2009 16:46, Eduard Blacquière
1. Websites don't link to other websites. People point to other people's work. (Lyndon Antcliff, Cornwall SEO) 2. If you want links, not traffic, Twitter is pretty much useless. (Patrick Altoft, Branded3) 3. You have about 2.7 seconds to reach a linker. (Lyndon Antcliff, Cornwall SEO) 4. It doesn't matter if a link is paid for or not. Important is if the end product looks like a paid link or not. (Patrick Altoft, Branded3) 5. Alexa data is slightly better than random guessing. (Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz) 6. For most brand (authority) sites with some good rankings, it only a
needs a couple of good anchor text links to get good rankings. If you
are not a brand, you need to look natural. (Patrick Altoft, Branded3) 7. Search engines can automatically determine if a link is in a footer or sidebar and devaluate those. (Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz) 8. Wrong settings in a robots.txt could delay Google search indexing on your website (Luisella Mazza, Google) 9. If somebody links to you, show some gratitude (for example put it on twitter, stumble upon etc.) (Patrick Altoft, Branded3) 10. When you have little links per page, a sitewide internal link can get a new page ranking quickly. (Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz) 11. Treat your email subject, twitter post, etc if it were a headline. (Lyndon Antcliff, Cornwall SEO) 12. Crawling is not a guarantee you're indexed. (Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz) 13. Don't worry too much about duplicate content. (Luisella Mazza, Google) 14. Places to sculpt with nofollow: register/login, my account,
shopping cart, terms of service, privacy, legal notice, anything
disallowed by robots.txt. (Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz) 15. Places not to sculpt nofollow: about page, editorial external links, categories & subcategories, product/detail pages. (Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz) 16. Search marketing only has a 1.5% mindshare of the average Fortune 500 CMO. (Brian Featherstonhaugh, Ogilvy) (also see the pre-event SearchCowboys interview with Brian) 17. Does an affiliate marketing program cause a traffic drop? No, but pure affiliate sites are unlikely to rank. (Luisella Mazza, Google) 18. Will hacking websites work? Yes... reason for telling this: it can happen to you. (Mikkel deMib Svendsen, deMib.com) 19. We don't bother with digg anymore, it's too much of hit and miss. We make a personal promotion network (Patrick Altoft, Branded3) 20. A 12 year old has a better performance dashboard than an 40 year old CMO (referring to world of warcraft) (Brian Featherstonhaugh, Ogilvy)
Fri 20 Jan 2012, Kelly Ge
0 comments
There is nothing special about heatmap. You can easily find one and use it for your site, and many like it, for it is easy to get an idea on browsing behavior of visit...... read more
Fri 9 Dec 2011, Kelly Ge
0 comments
Be careful! Your comments on Weibo can be indexed and searched by others on Baidu. How can it happen? Baidu Open data makes it possible. I have introduced Baidu open d...... read more
Tue 19 Apr 2011, Kelly Ge
1 comment
Baidu index is used for keywords research and monitoring search trends in China. You can check the "media exposure" and "users concern" on certain keyword in the past ...... read more
Tue 28 Sep 2010, Mark Farragher
3 comments
Google has rolled out its new search platform Caffeine in June, but the company has been a little tight lipped about the implementation details. We were told that Caff...... read more
|
Bloggers
-
Profession: Consultant
Company: Self-employed
Newsletter
Subscribe to SC Newsletter:
|
My BlogLog
|
Comments (29)
Rand Fishkin is leader in awesome seo quote generation :)
Great list, cowboy!
Sat 23 May 2009, 08:35
Great resume I wish I could have gone...Thanks for making this comment and please talk more on SMX
Good luck!!
Sat 23 May 2009, 12:55
Thanks for the highlights...very helpful!
Sat 23 May 2009, 21:29
2. If you want links, not traffic, Twitter is pretty much useless.
(Patrick Altoft, Branded3)
strongly disagree, as any site of value is going to get voluntary links as a result of effective tweeting.
Sun 24 May 2009, 09:02
Thanks to Luisella Mazza for making us to know that "Don't worry too much about duplicate content"
Tue 26 May 2009, 12:48
13. Don't worry too much about duplicate content.
(Luisella Mazza, Google)
We know baby.. we know.. XD
Tue 26 May 2009, 13:06
Eduard,
Thanks for sharing a nice list of useful quotes!
Fri 29 May 2009, 12:50
Hi Eduard!
I wasn't able to attend the SMX this year, but I'll hopefully be back next year.
By the way - you've got some very interesting topics here at SearchCowboys and I'm sure you will find some of the topics in my blog relevant too.
I've got about 11 years of professional SEO experience and have a very mixed certification list. You may see this list at http://www.ExposeIT.no/about/ which is a personal presentation of me and what I do :-)
Perhaps we could have a lunch at the SMX at London next year?
Best regards,
Trond :-)
Tue 9 Jun 2009, 14:03
@all
Thanks for your comments and appreciation, which I appreciate! :)
@Trond
Of course we can have lunch at SMX London 2010 :)
Tue 9 Jun 2009, 23:09
Great list Eduard and some great one line insightful quotes.
Mon 22 Jun 2009, 12:58
Thanks for putting these nice quotes about SEO.
Thu 2 Jul 2009, 14:59
You most certainly can get backlinks through using Twitter - and to think it's even been quoted. Poor show.
Sun 13 Sep 2009, 20:09
Hi
Really nice list of useful quotes!
Thanks for the lovely quotes.
Mon 14 Sep 2009, 14:23
thanks for putting this seo quotes..
Fri 4 Dec 2009, 18:53
Thanks for putting nice info about seo quotes
Fri 4 Dec 2009, 18:56
Interesting to hear the CEO mindshare at 1.5%. Big opportunities in the space.
Wed 6 Jan 2010, 15:21
Great list of SEO quotes. I have Google it for some lists but i think this is the best.
Thu 14 Jan 2010, 09:42
Here is another one for ya. "If it wasn't for spam SEO wouldn't be so hard." Well maybe its not a quote, but its what I believe.
Wed 2 Jun 2010, 19:04
Some great tips i would like to share some more
- My rule of thumb is build a site for a user not a spider.
Mon 25 Oct 2010, 08:56
haha, nice post admin!
Tue 16 Aug 2011, 17:42
muhaaaa... lol :P
Tue 16 Aug 2011, 17:43
don't forget to watch alim online ghaliyaaaaa
Tue 16 Aug 2011, 17:45
For a detailed list, thanks to a post.
Sun 28 Aug 2011, 18:37
Awesome Sharing!
I appreciate the information which you discussed here in your post. It is really good read to me.
Thanks
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 08:27
Haha there are some nice quotes in it! Thanks for sharing this list, I used some in a powerpoint presentation for an pitch!
Tue 20 Sep 2011, 10:26
Thanks for sharing all this lovely Quotes...............
Mon 7 Nov 2011, 13:06
Nice quotes. I put some on my tumblr page.
Fri 2 Dec 2011, 23:42
All perfectly and well posted. Good points have given credits.
Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:46
Thank you so much for this info, love quotes and stats for the industry, keeps changing!! love it
Tue 17 Jan 2012, 14:48