Tag Archives: Google

Blog Spamming: How To & Why You Should Stop

credit: vagrantant
This morning I sat down to coffee and blog administration when I saw this:

Monte Dyer | kzix@eezxu.com | josephite.com | IP: 200.63.42.136

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Consolidated Press (http://www.consolidatedpress.net/)
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/08/25/inner.city.film.school/
Lucan Basketball Club (http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Elucanbasketball)
http://www.contrinex.com/
Don Bender - Bender and Associates Realty (http://www.benderrealestate.com/)
http://www.zadokco.co.il/
Static Electricity Projects (http://www.amasci.com/emotor/statelec.html)
http://www.musicfanclubs.org/davematthews/

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Always Be Testing: A Cookbook For Web Optimizer

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Last week when a copy of Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer showed up at my door I was excited and intrigued. What exactly do Bryan, Lisa and John have in store for the reader?
After reading both Call to Action and Waiting for Your Cat to Bark I was surprised [...]

How Do .Gov Sites Use Robots.txt

photo credit: ph0t0 {is on the move}
Looking back at some older post I revisited the SEOmoz post on government susceptibility to cross site scripting. The results of their test over 2 years ago make me curious how government sites interact with the search engines today.
So I went to Google and searched: “robots.txt” “disallow:” filetype:txt [...]

Does Nielsen NetRatings Get SEO?

You should search Nielsen NetRatings. You will notice that they own the first 4 spots in Google.
Guess which one is their current site:

All three sites have the same content. Why would Nielsen NetRatings create three duplicate sites? Why would they maintain 3 different domains but not different content?
Your gut reaction is that they have made [...]

Do You Have A Complete Strategy?

photo credit: SuperFantastic
Search Marketing is more than just search engines. One of the most amusing things to me is when people boast that they get the vast majority of their traffic from Google — sometimes as high as 80%. It is difficult not to laugh at that. Having a business that is entirely contingent [...]

Old-fashion Thinking Is Killing The Web

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Does a combined Yahoo! Microsoft make sense? No probably not. Both have structural issues that make integration likely to compromise both of them. Neither company is particularly search motivated these days. They make money from advertising through their portal aspects, news, mail, etc. and search is just one of the channels. If [...]

Are You a Sellout?

According to a young woman I met this weekend you are, or will be. Everyone eventually gives up the long hard road to their dreams for the comfort of immediate reward. The real question is how much have you sold?
Search has 3 major players makers, rankers, and searchers

Makers build content: Bloggers, web designers, game makers, [...]

Does Context Affect Quality?

An excerpt from comments at Cornwall SEO March 7 - 11, 2008:
Carlos Del Rio:
The major weight of links and references are to things that are accessible, not exceptional. Pages that amass large amounts of links are often remarkable (comment worthy) content that is not on the high end of the value spectrum.
Lyndoman:
Carlos if something is [...]

Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Dupre Teach You About Search

How do search queries come into existence?
For anyone following Eliot Spitzer a new phrase appeared this morning Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Ms. Dupre is the second most searched term for March 13th on Google. She is the intended result of 6 out of the top twenty searches. Think about that for a minute, a significant portion [...]

Advancing SEO: Change the way you think

Michael Martinez paints an admittedly arrogant picture of Advanced SEO tactics. Certainly he has gotten his hands dirty in the search optimization business, but his advice is more like Zen gardening than in the trenches warfare.
Mr. Martinez’s guide to Advanced SEO:

Advanced SEO plans for a minimum of 12 months (or 4 seasons)
No problem there [...]