Archive for March, 2008

Gigablast SEO Part II

gigablastSo, I received an email back from Marcus Ruark (Vice President, Sales and Marketing) of Gigablast with a press release for March 18th, 2008, and in it were a few SEO tips:

“The most frequent complaint regarding alternative site search services is the freshness of the site search results,” said Marcus Ruark, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Gigablast. “Gigablast Site Search with Gigaboost provides a tremendous search advantage to websites with dynamic, user-generated content, frequent page updates, or regular sales promotions.

Moreover, since web pages with Gigablast Site Search receive priority in the Gigablast indexing process, web searches on www.gigablast.com, or on any of Gigablast’s affiliate sites, will have fresh and comprehensive access to those Gigablast Site Search web pages.

Their most important SEO tip is very similar to ranking highly on MSN/Live.com search. They pointed out that freshness and updating is of tremendous importance. To boost your rankings, I would suggest your include frequently updated content. If you don’t write a lot of content, encourage user comments or parse an external RSS feed into your site.

I posted a few other tips in Gigablast SEO and Gigaboost part I.

BTW, I just checked, and it appears that this site is ranked first for “Gigablast SEO“. :)

CNN = SEO

CNN.com is probably one of the most-perfect examples of pure SEO. A simple search for “news” reveals them as the authority in news:

CNN is #1 in Google

A lot can be learned just from examination. Personally, I believe the reason is that they are the only ones with a Google PageRank of 9 on the entire page (and it’s certainly not because of anchor text).