Archive for November, 2006

Google Supplemental Index Engulfing Web

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

At the rate things are going, almost every page on the internet may soon spend time in "Google's Supplemental Index", which is, frankly, not a place any right-minded individual wants to spend even a moment in. Lately, it seems as if Google's reasons for placing pages into their supplemental ...

For Maximum Online Profits Think About The Surfer’s Intent

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

When you logon to the internet, what do you intend to do? Pretty tough question, when you get right down to it. People logon multiple times daily, and often for different reasons. Sometimes the words people search for will help indicate what their intent is. ...

Increasing Google Crawl Rate Frequency

Monday, November 27th, 2006

The newest thing I've been into lately is getting Google to increase the frequency of the Crawl Rate. I think this is key to getting new pages in faster, and to get any changes you've made to pages noticed faster. What are some of the ways you can ...

Let’s Talk About Google Penalties

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

I've had the unfortunate "pleasure" of being hit with Google penalties a few times. I've reached some conclusions, that others may not agree with. Google penalties are something unfortunate, but you can recover from both Google penalties, and even complete domain bans (as long as Google adds you ...

Potential Pitfalls Of Adsense Arbitrage

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

I've never done Google Adsense Arbitrage, so I'll disclose that information right up front. The main reason I never did is because I've almost always had a decent amount of organic search traffic. For that reason the subject never interested me too much. Lately I've been seeing ...

Google Is The Only Search Engine Gaining Market Share

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

That is the sad but true case as revealed by InformationWeek. They took a look at historical data released by Comscore and found out the startling fact that Google is gaining marketshare, while Yahoo and MSN aren't. This certainly correlates with what I see in my log files, ...

What Do You Tell SEO Clients Who Want High Rankings Right Now?

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Ohad mentioned in a comment that many people are impatient, and expect almost instant or very quick results in Google rankings. I've never SEO'd sites for a client, but I think if I had customers like this, I'd want to warn them right upfront that they need to display ...

SEO Efforts Still Pay Highest For Me

Friday, November 17th, 2006

I've tried it all since 2004 to make money online. I've sold my own products, blogged, did affiliate work, and built a hefty Adsense revenue stream. I've tried almost every form of internet marketing I could think of to generate traffic. And I end up coming back ...

Choosing The Best Keywords

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Let's talk about choosing keywords today. Many people will point you to the Overture Inventory Tool to look up keywords, and it's okay, but there's a few things you need to keep in mind when using it. For one thing, the keywords aren't always in order. That's right, people ...

Fresh Content Keeps The Robots Coming

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

This is a subject I've touched on before, because I think it's so important. If you're trying to make a living online from a content website, you really have to expect to add content endlessly. How far would a magazine that never or rarely updates make it? ...