Comments on: You May Be Screwing Yourself With Hyperlinked Headers

By: Brandlink Communications, The Bloggess, PR Fails, and Fallout | Smackdown!

Brandlink Communications, The Bloggess, PR Fails, and Fallout | Smackdown! — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:51:22 +0000

[...] you link to the post more than once, make sure that link is the first link to the [...]

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:10:30 +0000

Sometimes site designs limit the number of characters in the main navigation if the site uses tabs. In this case would it actually be better to use images with keywords in the alt tag rather than simple/generic words such as “Home”, “Insurance” etc?

By: Three 2010 SEO Trends to Look Out For: Social Media, Onpage SEO & Link Diversity | Internet Marketing Inc.

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:54:13 +0000

[...] Link Priority – After verified over and over by various SEO professionals after this was first mentioned by Michael VanDeMar in 2007, order of links is important. In the case of duplicate links within the [...]

By: Does The Second Link From A Page Pass Value? – SEO FAQ « widaca

Does The Second Link From A Page Pass Value? – SEO FAQ « widaca — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:36:13 +0000

[...] link debate, and contributes some original research himself. Other relevant posts come from Rand, Mike van de Mar, Dave Eaves and Michael Martinez. Some partial information was also provided by Matt Cutts to Debra [...]

By: Why WordPress SEO Themes Suck

Why WordPress SEO Themes Suck — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:24:37 +0000

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By: PPC Blog » Google Still Not Treating Underscores As Word Seperators

PPC Blog » Google Still Not Treating Underscores As Word Seperators — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:40:10 +0000

[...] (Yahoo and ASK give them some weight), while keywords used within a meta description alone are not enough for Google to retrieve the page under search (only with the use of anchor text aswell). So this gives us some idea of the weight keywords in a [...]

By: How your virtual Googles shape your SEO ideas - SEO Theory - SEO Theory and Analysis Blog

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:51:26 +0000

[...] VanDeMar’s passes the disclosure test. He showed us the queries and named the site he was targeting. However, he introduced other flaws into his test, such as mixing two elements (meta data and [...]

By: Google counting only the first link to a domain - rebunked | SEO Scientist - Applying the scientific method to SEO

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:19:00 +0000

[...] that Google will count only one link to a URL from any given page. This is a phenomenon that was originally noticed by Michael VanDeMar but many an eyebrow was risen at both posts. That particular facial hair [...]

By: How Does Google Approach Anchor Text? « Internet Marketing Blog by NoonanNight

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:24:43 +0000

[...] in October of 2007, Smackdown! made a post which was titled You May Be Screwing Yourself With Hyperlinked Headers. The basis of this post was that Google only takes into consideration the anchor text of the first [...]

By: Interview with Aaron Wall on Linkbuilding

Interview with Aaron Wall on Linkbuilding — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:23:51 +0000

[...] I think a couple people tested this recently, starting with MichaelVandemar last October http://smackdown.blogsblogsblo.....ed-heade... [...]