http://www.slingshotseo.com/feeds/blog-author-jeremy-dearringer-rss.xml Slingshot SEO's Jeremy Dearringer RSS Feed en-US http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/02/content-farms-strategic-investment-or-time-bomb I was almost ready to leave the office today when I noticed a tweet on my iPhone by Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land. He mentioned content farms, tweeting "the more publicity particular content farms get, the more likely they risk being targets in a Google "update" that wipes them out". I had an idea, but at... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/02/content-farms-strategic-investment-or-time-bomb#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:50:27 -0600 Jeremy Dearringer http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/02/content-farms-strategic-investment-or-time-bomb http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/page-load-times-speed-as-a-ranking-factor I just watched an interview with Matt Cutts at Pubcon in Las Vegas. In this interview he discusses speed and website load times as possible ranking factors for Google's Caffeine search. We have known for some time that load times affect your quality score for Google Adwords PPC advertising not to mention the impact reduced load times have on... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/page-load-times-speed-as-a-ranking-factor#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:47:30 -0600 Jeremy Dearringer http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/page-load-times-speed-as-a-ranking-factor http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/udi-manber-reading-between-the-lines One of my favorite things to do when conducting SEO research is to find the latest off-the-beaten-path information. I like to find YouTube videos, blogs and news that focus on Google's current or former search engineers. Specifically, I am NOT talking about Matt Cutts (head of Google's SPAM team), but rather the shockingly more nerdy rocket scientists that don't function as the public... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/udi-manber-reading-between-the-lines#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:37:42 -0600 Jeremy Dearringer http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/udi-manber-reading-between-the-lines http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/10/seo-checklist-for-landing-page-optimization Do you feel like you've reached a glass ceiling with regards to the number of competitive keywords you can get your homepage to rank for? Is it possible that traffic from some of your competitive keyword phrases might not convert well if your homepage is the first thing that website visitor sees? If so, you may be... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/10/seo-checklist-for-landing-page-optimization#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:48:12 -0500 Jeremy Dearringer http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/10/seo-checklist-for-landing-page-optimization