What made 2010 an interesting SEO year

Filed under: Facebook, Google, News, SEO, Search Engines, Social Media, Twitter, Updates, YouTube — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Chris @ Monday, January 10th, 2011

2010 has been a busy year for search engines, and it is becoming more and more important for them to provide the most relevant results, as the search volumes has been regularly increasing year on year.

Each year, there have been an increasing number of searches, more searchers, and those searchers do more searches themselves, so one thing is for sure: ranking well for key search terms is more important than ever.

Let’s have a look at the top changes search engines brought in 2010, in order for them to provide more relevant results and drive searchers to their site:

#1 Google drinks too much coffee and brings out the “caffeine” update

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Viral Videos and The SEO Payoff

Filed under: SEO, YouTube — Tags: , , , , , — David Boyd @ Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

The internet is coming down with video content. To give you some idea of the scale, in January 2009 YouTube alone had six billion videos viewed.

Of those six billions views you might have already seen the home grown videos such as the “Charlie bit my finger” 109 million views, “Battle at Kruger” 45 million views, “David After Dentist” 25 million views , “Star Wars Kid” 13.5 million views, “Beached as” nearly 5 millions views. And, who could forget the entertaining Sparta the Mean Kitty who’s video has been viewed 25 million views and counting. (more…)