Archive for April, 2006
Monday, April 17th, 2006
Being thoughtful is great. Without deep thinkers, humanity would never advance. However, with search engine optimization, I would tend to warn one about thinking too much. Recently, I witnessed a discussion on the popular WebmasterWorld forum which blew my mind. Word was out that Google had recently purchased new search ...
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
It was Kenny Rogers who said: "You got to know when to hold him and know when to fold'em". He was undoubtedly paraphrasing ageless warrior-philospher Sun Tzu:
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
This timeless advice holds true to this day, and is especially fitting ...
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
Incoming links are the lifeblood for an SEO. For this reason, SEOs tend to view link-building as a life-or-death proposition, and for certain people in certain industries, it is. Different types of link-building personalities emerge after any time in the field:
Sammy the Slut
The first type of link builder is promiscuous. ...
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
The discussion is appearing more often lately: are search engines tracking user's movements in order to help determine search engine rankings? The answer, for the most part, seems to be "maybe". No one has a hard time understanding why search engines would want to analyze surfer's habits: it's a great ...
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
SEO is one of those very interesting fields where you'll see a wide disparity between rates charged by individuals and companies offering services. It's not hard to think of some of the reasons this may be true. The field is new and unregulated. There is no tradition of service associations ...
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
And they're not all based in the US. Sure, superstar optimizers like Mike Gutner are stateside, but there's a whole new breed of optimiser out there, and some of them even come from the land of my forefathers - Eire.
I enjoy reading these Adsense profiles, I'll admit it. But after ...
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
It's an obvious thing to do, but some people still aren't doing it. Adding a blog to your main website can have some beneficial effects on your main website also, as well as enhancing your reputation in business.
Blogs are read by millions of people worldwide, and some of the most ...
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
In an effort to communicate better with publishers, YPN has now started their new YPN Blog. YPN is still in Beta, but the new blog gives us an idea that most likely YPN is planning on extending the blog to an international beta or an open release.
I personally have been ...
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
There's no question that the advent of context sensitive advertising has wrought a lot of change in the last few years. People who were unable to monetize websites previously suddenly found a way. Others who would have no chance of competing online in prior years were suddenly able to buy ...
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
No one likes being tied down to their computers. Sure, some people will tolerate it, but only if there is no other option. For this reason, use of mobile devices is exploding. With the emergence of WiFi, more people than ever are accessing the internet while leading active lives. In ...
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