Guerilla Keyword Research Tip #2: Hunt for ‘recent searches’ or ‘top searches’ pages that give you an inside look of a particular site’s keyword profile.
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I went to probably the newest Starbucks branch in the metro with Berch boy Glen yesterday. It’s the one on the ground floor of Lee Gardens along Shaw. I was showing off the Visibility, he was showing off his tablet PC (what good is that without net access? I still win biatch!). The discussion went to search and he was asking for tips on how to be found in Google for the keywords that are relevant to him, i.e. his trophy keywords.
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You know you’ve made it, when you’ve finally become a keyword :P

An early Christmas gift for every SEO, from dirty white to light black :)

AOL must have missed the uproar over the DOJ’s demand for “anonymized” search data last year that caused all sorts of pain for Microsoft and Google. That’s the only way to explain their release of data that includes 20 million web queries from 650,000 AOL users.

The data includes all searches from those users for a three month period this year, as well as whether they clicked on a result, what that result was and where it appeared on the result page. It’s a 439 MB compressed download, expanded to just over 2 gigs. The data is available here (this link is directly to the file) and the output is in ten text files, tab delineated.

This is one monumental blunder. I don’t even think we’ve seen the worst of the fallout yet.
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Aaron Wall’s What Does Write Naturally Mean for SEO post provides a working framework for researching keywords that search engines see as semantically linked to your main keyword. Writing persuasive copy sprinkled with your keywords and other semantically related keywords sounds like a valid ranking factor, and it’s good for both humans and bots.

Let’s apply that to the shoemoney experiment.

Go to MSNSearchandWin. Do a view source on the contest homepage which is done in Flash. Check out the stuffed keywords in the header and in the body.
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In part 1 of the DrToy Story, we looked at some of the site’s basic search engine profile. This time around, we tackle keyword research.

Every serious SEO campaign should start with a thorough keyword selection process. Oftentimes client perceive this phase as just another high traffic keyword hunt in Overture, Keyword Discovery and Wordtracker. In a saturated and extremely competitive market like toys, keyword research actually means discovering profitable keyword niches your competition hasn’t discovered or exploited to the fullest.
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The earliest references I could find about link bait / link baiting are Aaron’s Link Bait (08/20/2005) and Nick’s The Art of Link Baiting classic (11/09/2005).

How then did the Linkbait.com domain get registered so early (created on 04/24/2005)? Who really coined the term? Who popularized it? Who’s the grand daddy of link baiting?