Anchor Text Quality

In the pursuit of top search engine rankings, there are a lot of pieces to the pie. I recently posted in www.seoscale.com that the <title> tag must be optimized first and foremost! This means that IF you were only allowed to perform one piece of optimization, then <title> optimization would be it. (see post here)
Not [...]

Google And StumbleUpon in Firefox Results

Ok – I’ve read a lot about the Google, StumbleUpon, Ebay, and such… but I’ve just recently noticed in Firefox that the search results are actually showing StumbleUpon ratings directly to the upper right hand corner of the result.
Just go to Firefox, and search, let’s say “real estate”. You should see the StumbleUpon icon and [...]

Will Google Eventually Provide WiFi Worldwide?

Of course, this is my prediction, by let me justify this point!
The USA Today has front page news stating that cities have turned down the proposal to provide city wide WiFi access.
BAD DECISION! And a reflection of the stark difference between the “decision makers” mindset at the municipal level and the ad revenue mindset of [...]

The Science Lab Of Google Adwords

The more I learn about Google Adwords, the more I understand how SO MANY people are losing money quickly from it. The depth of keyword variance is almost without limit, yet new people launch out in Adwords with almost no targeting whatsoever.
In this post, I’m going to try to help, through examples (that don’t apply [...]

Microsoft: An example of being too successful (what?)

A European Union court Monday rejected Microsoft’s appeal of a European antitrust order requiring it to share software information with rivals and pay a record $690 million in fines for quashing competition.
It’s a sad day in history when a company is required to stop beating it’s competition. Or, to put it another way, it’s a [...]