20 ,February, 2008 From Ophir Cohen
When I first read about the “NoFollow” link attribute, I was quite impressed. “why not?” I thought… it certainly makes a lot of sense in the fight against keyword spamming and artificial linking.
Over time, however, and especially these last few months, many things changed in the industry, especially regarding the “link buying” issue.
After carefully examining numerous cases, I have come to the conclusion that “NoFollow” will not stand.
Here are my top 5 reasons why…
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Titles: General, SEO, Web Marketing | 6 Comments »
6 ,February, 2008 From Ophir Cohen
Well it’s now 23:09 and I just got back home… It has been a really long and exciting day for me.
SphinnCon Israel was an exciting event. I am not familiar with the final number of guests, but for my eyes it seemed very similar to ~200 SE’ enthusiasts mingling, networking, debating, eating, drinking etc.
In a way, it reminded me my first SES event I attended in Munich back in 2002 – Small, cozy – and most important – Getting the local industry together in one place, for the first time ever.
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Titles: General, History, SEO, SMO, Web Marketing | 4 Comments »
5 ,February, 2008 From Olivier
Hi everyone!
We’ve officially arrived at Sphinncon Israel 2008. Lots of great people, the buffet looks great. Barry Schwartz from
Rustybrick and
SearchengineLand is here as well. Check out the picture of us together.
The SEO panel is going to start soon so I’ll try and keep you updated as much as I can. I’m on the panel so I’ll have someone post updates as they come in.
*Update 1
2:30 - Okay we’re finally sitting down to start the SEO panel discussion. Everyone is ready to go! From left to right (sitting down): Barry Schwartz (RustyBrick), Branko Rihtman (
Tens Technology), Sam Michelson (
Five Blocks), Myself and Gilad Sasson (
Nekuda)
*Update 12:50 - Barry is giving his keynote. He discusses the SphinnCon Israel 2008 and plans for a full blown SMX in January 2009. We’re going to focus on the controversy surrounding paid links and how it’s affecting us.
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4 ,February, 2008 From Ophir Cohen
Google released the latest version of Urchin (the “mother” of Google Analytics) to the public yesterday, so I couldn’t help myself - but to try the urchin software download, use it and review.
Below you will find my preliminary findings and conclusions.
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Titles: General, Web Analytics, Web Marketing | 5 Comments »
