February 5, 2012

How Does Google Search Work?

I promised months ago that I was going to start blogging and as yet...no posts. It's not that I don't have anything to say. It's more that I have trouble finding the time to say it. Well this first post may be a bit of a "cheat" but I found the graphic below to be a really cool and easy to understand way to picture how Google works as to rating a given page and returning results for a given query. Oh yeah, and I promise to actually post here at least every week or two. Now that I've given a public commitment to do so it'll hold my feet to the fire to take the time to write. If you're an advanced SEO the things I talk about here may not be for you...if you are just starting out in SEO, hopefully I can impart some useful tips and I'll try to focus on stuff that's actually actionable rather than the more esoteric and theoretical stuff. Infographic by PPC Blog … [Read more...]

My First (Real) Blog Post

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Hi all, I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Rob Woods, currently Director of Marketing for BuildDirect,  and Dan has graciously offered to share his blog with me. I'll keep this post pretty short and sweet... I'll be blogging periodically on my experiences in SEO, PPC, link building, and other online marketing topics. I may also throw in the occasional personal post on some of my interests and I'll be sending updates from the few SEO shows I go to (this year probably SMX West and Pubcon). I hope everyone can be patient with me as I'm brand new to blogging and indeed to this kind of writing in any format. You can also follow me on my Twitter account where I generally offer a mix of smart-ass comments and links to useful content. If you have comments, suggestions, etc. please feel free to send them along. You may also see this blog looking odd from time to time...I use this one to test out new WordPress features and design elements before I mess with BuildDirect's main blogs. … [Read more...]