Will Google penalize me if I _______?
So, you want your site to show up as high as possible on Google. Join the club. 20 gazillion other websites are clamoring for the same thing. And guess what? Google has its own agenda. They don't care...
View Article“How high does my PageRank have to be before I can celebrate?”
Every time I see someone selling or trading a link bragging about it coming from a PR4 page, I'm not sure whether to chuckle or boggle. "PR4?" I think. "That's supposed to be impressive?" I guess it...
View ArticleGet a free 90 page eBook on SEO
The Chordata RSS and Atom newsfeed directory is offering a 90 page eBook (PDF) on search engine optimization to anyone who rates 25 feeds by November 21. You'll need to create an account and log in to...
View ArticleSmart link building
We all know that getting lots of inbound links is a critical part of search engine optimization. And most of us know that joining link farms, which create lots of links between totally unrelated sites,...
View ArticleAn example of the SEO power of RSS
I've noticed over the last few days that one of my sites has been getting hundreds of hits a day from people searching for "katharine mcphee yellow dress". I don't have a site about American Idol, and...
View ArticleGoogle Penalty Removed From FastJV.com
Last June, I launched a product named Fast JV. Until a day or two ago, it had never shown up in Google. My first thought way back when was that it had simply been sandboxed, but when I registered it in...
View ArticleGoogle Authority Listing For GeckoTribe.com
I happened to notice this morning that GeckoTribe.com has gotten an "authority listing" from Google for the search terms (don't be too shocked) "gecko tribe". I'm not bragging -- it's not like those...
View ArticleMy Uber-Optimized Domain And Blog Names
Yesterday I started a new blog on a domain I'd been using mostly to redirect traffic to other sites. The domain name is "ToSeeMore.info". The blog directory is "about". It's on a subdomain named...
View ArticleLinContEx.com was going to be “BlogRush done right”…
A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought "oh, c**p," (that word isn't "CaRP" :-) "one of the big boys beat me to my idea." At the time, I'd begun...
View ArticleSEO Tip for Apache + WordPress: Use Lowercase Domain Names
A few days ago, I was surprised to see that, according to Google Webmaster Tools, a lot of the pages on several of my sites were marked as "Not Selected" for indexing. Usually, that would indicate...
View Article