Archive for April, 2006

A clean website is a happy website

Friday, April 7th, 2006

If you've been on the internet for any period of time, you begin to realize that a lot of data can accumulate on your website, and much of it can go out of date. As a matter of fact, keeping your website lean and clean ends up becoming a major ...

Controlling the flow of outbound links on a forum

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

In modern times, if you're a forum owner, you don't have a choice but to consider policies to limit outbound links from your website. Forum link spam is on the rise, and any mis-configuration of your website will get you in a world of hurt fast by the automata of ...

SEO Link Spam Alert: forum signatures

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

One of the oldest link building myths concerns using forums to garner "one-way incoming links" and to gather them in great quantities. For an old-fashioned person, this would mean joining forums and playing along with the crowd. You know, dropping in a "LOL" every now and again to show you ...

SEO experiment: using robots.txt to ban spider access to duplicate content

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

I've heard a lot of conversations over the years centering around duplicate content, and based on my observations, very little of it is accurate. Take for instance the popular VBulletin forum software which is run by nearly everyone, including me. Vbulletin, by default, gives off a lot of duplicate content. Most ...

What works in Google these days? Post Big Daddy

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

We've all had tons of theories about what works and what doesn't when it comes to Google rankings. With the rollout of Big Daddy I've had the chance to observe some phenomena that others have reported. The one killer link method of linking Link popularity is King, but not all links ...

Google takes a long time to rank new pages

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

I'll give Google a ton of credit for finding new pages very quickly. They'll generally at least grab a "url-only" version of your website in no time flat. Although these pages are indexed, they generally are very lifeless, at least at the start. As the weeks and months go on, ...