Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
WordTracker is probably the best-known name in the "keyword pickin'" business. They have remained experts in the field for some time, pulling results from a number of meta-searches. Now, they've released a new Free Keyword Suggestion Tool, that is likely to catch your interest.
The tool works well and ...
Posted in SEO | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
This is a question, that unfortunately, more and more people ask themselves each day in these tumultous Google times. Let's take a look at this issue in a balanced way.
This chart should explain your position in relation to Google's.
Google has what webmasters want. To whit, Google ...
Posted in Google | No Comments »
Monday, January 29th, 2007
I confess to attempting to use the site: command in Google, despite the fact it barely functions. I've learned to try and take the results with a grain of salt, but I was very surprised when I saw a sub-domain come up for the site: search for the www ...
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
For years "Googlebombs" excited SEOs to no end. GoogleBombs were the ultimate proof of how easily Google's algo could be gamed. Obviously, this must have been a source of some discomfort to Google's employees, who have tweaked their algo to eliminate this phenomena from their results.
People have asked ...
Posted in Google | 1 Comment »
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Google has been innovating early and often in 2007, and today is no exception as they announce enhanced Ad Placement for their Adsense publishing program. Google explains the new enhanced ads:
Think of ad placements as 'enhanced' custom channels. To create an ad placement, you create and implement a custom ...
Posted in Google Adsense | No Comments »
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
When Google plunked down serious cash for YouTube, you knew they'd have to come up with a lot of innovative ways to monetize the service and you could also surmise that video would be one of them. Well, Google has integrated YouTube and now appears to be expanding the ...
Posted in Google Adsense | 1 Comment »
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
In the last few years there have been a proliferation of Google PageRank tools that purport to show you the values of PageRank at "all the data centers". It's an exciting interface for extremely bored and loserish SEOs. You input your URL you hit "Submit" and you wait ...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Google theories are opinions...that's why everyone has one. Unless you actually work for Google, all you can do is guess what's happening in their index. I've watched their index in amazement in January, as I've seen many old pages come and go, seemingly at random. Every time ...
Posted in Google | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
I've written a few times before about what to do when your Google rankings drop, so let's take a look at some of the things you shouldn't do.
1) Don't take the loss personally
Now this is never easy to do, especially when you lose money. It's easy to attribute a ...
Posted in Google | 6 Comments »
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Google has been extremely volatile in January of 2007, especially depending on which terms you monitor. Whenever this happens, tons of theories abound. The idea of "filters" and "penalties" always come to mind, but they shouldn't necessarily. If you aren't using any tricks to build your website, ...
Posted in Google | 2 Comments »
