AuthorityLabs Blog

March 2009

Will Using AuthorityLabs Penalize Your Domain?

by Chase Granberry on March 25, 2009

I’ve noticed that a few people are googling ‘authority labs penalised.’ Evidently some are concerned that checking your rankings with us will penalize your positioning within search results. I guarantee that it will not.

IP addresses will get penalized by search engines when they detect an abnormal amount of searches coming from a single IP. When this happens Google, for instance, throws up a CAPTCHA to make sure that humans are actually using their service and not automated rank checking software like WebPosition. A lot of the time poor quality rank checking software can poll search engines too often. They don’t like this because it takes up valuable bandwidth.

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Headed to SXSW

by Chase Granberry on March 10, 2009

Wanted to let you all know we’re headed to SXSW this year and are extremely excited about it. It’ll be my first time there and I can’t wait to meet so many new people and hang out with all the Phoenix folk who’ll be there. Austin is a fantastic town with tons of energy. The music scene is second to none, the tech scene is vibrant and the people there are amazing.

I’m not quite sure what to expect with this. I think I’ll just play it by ear. The people I’m traveling, and have arranged to stay with all seem to be ‘in the know’ somewhat and I know if I try and plan anything it’s just gonna get thrown out the minute I get there. Besides … that’s what Twitter’s for.

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Click Rate for Organic Rank Positions

by Chase Granberry on March 3, 2009

I was curious as to how much more traffic a site could get if it was #1 vs. #2 and ran across this post from Jim Boykin’s blog. Evidently the data is from AOL from around 2006, which is a old but still relevant. This is why the SEO industry is getting larger every year compared to other marketing outlets given the current economic conditions we’re in.

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Search is Social

by Chase Granberry on March 2, 2009

Search Is Social‘Social media’ is the new craze because of how large sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are getting. The web has been social since it’s existence, it’s all about communication and getting information from one place to another. Forums were around way before MySpace. These concepts aren’t new they’ve just been implemented in a way that makes it easier for people to connect.

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