http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:59:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Veteran SEO scientist and SEO2g, Michael Martinez announced that he will no longer be writing for the SEO Theory Blog. To anyone seriously interested in the nuts n bolts of practical scientific SEO; I would highly recommend taking the time to peruse Michael's blog. You will find wisdom therein. http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/a-titan-goes-forth/ I read a H-Y-S-T-E-R-I-C-A-L post over at Search Engine Journal by some short-sighted SEO who was claiming to "debunk" the "myth" that there are secret methodologies in search optimization. Holy shit this post had me rolling. My favorite "Myth" : There is some mystical secret formula that SEOs use to calculate, analyze ... http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/seo-fairy-tales/ Just read a great post over at Science for SEO about one of my favorite subjects: PHI.  PHI (also known as the Golden Ratio) is approximately 1.6180339. There are many mysterious and beautiful properties to this ratio which can be found throughout all of man's crafts and nature itself. Here ... http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/phi/ Would you take on a new client if they were currently employing a Black Hat SEO campaign to promote their website? How might you approach such a campaign? Poll your answer. Leave a comment. <a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1425534/" >Would you take on a client who wanted move from Black Hat SEO to ... http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/black-hat-seo-client/ Google's announcement that they have (along with Yahoo! and Microsoft) adopted the canonical attribute for link tags is great news for SEO's. This special attribute is great tool for resolving duplicate content issues within a given website.In the last 24hrs. I have seen several plugins and code snippets appear which ... http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/canonical-url-links-for-zen-cart/ Fantomaster has published some insightful and entertaining predictions for SEO in '09.  I am very pleased to see a fellow search ninja reporting on the industry's favorite pastime. Please read Fantomaster's Prediction for SEO in 2009  For those who missed it: my initial expose on SEO Circle Jerking   http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/more-seo-circle-jerking-predicted/ In my last post I briefly discussed the SEO industry's love of coming up with clever terms and jargon; i.e. SEO Wordsmithery. My general disdain for SEO industry vocabulary/jargon has nothing to do with the jargon itself (for the most part). Rather it is the application thereof that I find annoying: ... http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/top-hat-seo/ The other day I received (via email) the latest exciting information for the upcoming SMX (Search Marketing Expo). I've pasted a little screenshot of this gem below. Notice anything "funny"? Hint: I'm not talking about "ha ha" funny. I thought; "Could this be the latest and greatest example of fancy ... http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/seo-wordsmithery-search-masturbation-expo-and-other-wonders-of-the-seo-world/ A primary obstacle faced by search engines is poorly formed searches. Poorly formed queries fall under the auspices of the Three I's; which describe (problematic) features of a query that will hinder any search engine. They are: Imprecision Incompleteness Inaccuracy Imprecise queries are inexact or ill-defined searches in that they do not ... http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/searching-ugly/ Yesterday, I was scanning my spam folder to see if anything useful was unfairly filed as such. This was an exceedingly wise decision (aren't they all though?) as my invitation to test drive PageOnce (Beta) was in there. After completing a simple registration process and adding some personal data I ... http://www.jasonjgreen.com/blog/pageonce-beta-review/