Archive for October, 2005

PRWeb - is it a farce?

Monday, October 31st, 2005

It might be when you check out releases like this one. This is clearly satire, yet the article was released in its' entirety. The best part, other than the ending is: Experiments for the week included an attempt to determine the efficacy of the use of search engine submission ...

Methods of obtaining one-way links

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Joe Walsh of Uptown market content has written a nice summary of the various methods of obtaining one way links. As expected, he mentions article submissions as the number one free method. After you've done internet marketing for a few years, you start to realize that link-building methods are few ...

Want out of DMOZ? Too bad

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Almost all webmasters know how tough it is to get a DMOZ listing, but I'm sure very few know how hard it is to be de-listed! Brian Turner of Britecorp fought a recent battle which is outlined in the Abacus journal, just to end up having his listing kept ...

Promoting your weblog

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Recently Pinyo, the GreatNexus man, has written an article concerning promoting your weblog, which is worth a read. In it, he details the various methods you can use a blog to promote your website. I agree with the basic premise. I've recently become a regular blogging man and I ...

PageRank formula loves blogs

Friday, October 28th, 2005

An interesting note about the patented Google PageRank formula is how much the toolbar seems to favor blogs. I suppose it makes sense, because blogs are social networking-style sites which have natural linking patterns, but blogs seem to be at odds with several popular SEO theories, namely: Don't crosslink websites ...

Update Jagger - I can’t get no Satisfaction

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

But I try. Well, actually the 2nd phase of the Jagger Update (Ja), are passing and it looks like I'll both win some and lose some. But one thing I won't lose is my cool. I see rampant speculation each and every day passing as fact in ...

SEO 2005

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Nice article by Jim Boykin that talks about the changes in SEO since 1999. It's hard to disagree with his analysis of what it takes to rank this year. Lots of diverse links with diverse anchor text seems to be doing the job for most people. But the question ...

Bacon Polenta update grinds on

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Google is at it again: another atrocious update that has the webmaster community up in arms. The so-called Bacon Polenta Update (named by Reseller at WMW) has shown a number of twisted knobs and overly sensitive spam filters that have left many webmaster's spirits broken, if not completely ...