Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Google remains a bit of a "black box" when it comes to understanding how it ranks websites. But over the years many people have managed to devise certain principles that will help a page rank high in their SERPS. These principles aren't hard and fast rules, but following ...
Posted in Google Optimization Series | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Google has a remarkable aspect to its algo these days. That's the phenomena where a website either ranks for terms or it doesn't. And we're not talking about hardcore competitive terms, either. For lack of a better term, it looks like "Trustrank" comes into play when a ...
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Do a search in Google. Notice anything strange? I did for my results. Next to every single result is the ominous message "This site may harm your computer."
This is happening on every page for every result.
Even the word "Help" turns up the ...
Posted in Google | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Adsense earnings for me have remained fairly steady in the last 3 or 4 months. In order to keep the money moving, I've had to work a bit harder and smarter then I used to in the past, but overall the efforts have kept me from going down too ...
Posted in Google Adsense | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
I feel like I can finally put a nail in the coffin of cross-linking websites. Let me be specific, cross-linked, thematically unrelated links appear to push little or no value to other websites. In fact, it's fair to say excessive cross-linking surely hurts in Yahoo and is very ...
Posted in Google | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Google has been running the SearchWiki experiment for a few weeks now, and I haven't been using it. There's something about the idea of voting SERPs up and down that is quite sitting right with me. I also don't see the purpose of commenting on SERPs.
I'm sure ...
Posted in Google | 2 Comments »
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Whenever Google updates their rankings, it seems inevitable that some websites will drop in rankings. To the afflicted webmaster, the news couldn't be more devastating. These drops in Google are becoming much more commonplace, especially for low PageRank websites. Let's take a look at what could be ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Nofollow was a stupid idea from the beginning, and I'm sure most webmasters would agree with that. It was intended to put a bandage on a gaping wound. Nofollow was invented in order to tell search engines "this link was probably spammed so don't trust it." It ...
Posted in Google | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
After seeing how much attention Cuil.com got for the launch of their basically shitty search engine, you realize just how much interest there would be in an alternative. I'm not sure what the numbers would translate into, but the target audience would be huge. People have been dealing ...
Posted in Google | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Google has done a bit of a "Google Dance" in the last 48 hours. A few of my websites which have been basically greatly reduced in traffic made a rip-snorting comeback. I've also noticed a few strange errors in Google Webmaster Tools that haven't been there before. ...
Posted in Google | 3 Comments »
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