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Posted on November 6th, 2006 by admin
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These days, search engine optimization is almost as vital to online business as the internet itself. If a consumer in need of widgets, searching for “widgets” using Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, etc. fails to notice your site, “Widget Emporium” within the search results, it’s safe to say that you’ve lost a sale… most likely to a competitor. It’s a science, really, tweaking your site for search engine optimization and (as such) there are SEO “scientists.” We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Murray of FathomSEO whom has been in the business of maximizing online presence since 1997. Of course, Murray is keen on the newest methods in SEO and isn’t shy about sharing knowledge.

Siding on the debate over links vs. content to optimize search engine appearance, Murray explains his stance as, “It’s not content, content, content… it’s links, links, links. Work those keywords into your link structure… be strategic about which words you’re getting in your link structure…”

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22 Responses to “The Science of SEO”

  1. Jaan Kanellis Says:

    Sure links are important and having the right links internally is a no-brainer, but I have never understood the stance when people say:

    “It’s not content, content, content… it’s links, links, links. Work those keywords into your link structure… be strategic about which words you’re getting in your link structure…”

    Well this is just like the chicken before the egg scenario. Why would some one link to a website without content? It makes no sense. It is about content, it always has been and it always will be. Links have to be secondary.

    I do agree with Google links are counted heavier, but your not going to get any links without solid content.

  2. Kjell Bleivik Says:

    Great viedo.

    WPW’s kgun :-)

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  5. Manta SEO Solutions Says:

    This interview certainly gives some good information and it also shows that SEO is not an exact science. We can never pinpoint exactly what the next move of any search engine is and that is what makes SEO so exciting.

  6. David Castle Says:

    Hi Chris, great stuff mate ,
    Shared Ownership

    My latest keyword LOL

  7. Tuggle Says:

    Lot’s of good information here. Great video.

  8. Debbie Says:

    Good interview!

    Lots of good info. Not quite sure I agree with links-links-links part, but thats debatable.

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  11. Ben Says:

    Thanks for the good info here - esp. the thoughts on linking vs. content.

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    Very cool to have videos like this. I do not agree with the links vs. content statement though… but this is cool nonetheless.

  13. pohin Says:

    Thank for good interview!

  14. seopractices Says:

    I would say that is a balance, we need good content and we need links, they are complementary. Each webmaster has to do it’s own test to see what works better for the website, having in mind both concepts.

    Excellent video, thanks.

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  16. Sam Says:

    Is there any special techniques that can be used to optimize a wordpress blog on my server for SEO. One issue I see is no way to change the title tags on each page, where it seems to take the blog name for the home page.
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    There is plenty of content, about 30 articles.
    What else can I do? What else should I do to optimize my blog?

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