SEOmoz 93 ranking factors
I don’t want my blog to ever turn into a regurgitated news blog, but today I came accross such a good article on factors which effect search engine rankings that I just have to post a link to it here too. 93 factors which effect search engine rankings from Rand Fishkin with the help of some […]
Yahoo Email Broke?
I used to get about 100 emails a day in my Yahoo Bulk Email Folder. I now get about 5 a day in my bulk folder. The other 95 are going right in my inbox. What’s up with that Yahoo? Are your bulk email filters broken? I mean like how does stuff like this get […]
Picture of Link Neighborhoods
What’s the best order in the Chaos of Linking? I’m often asked these questions: How does Google order websites? How do Yahoo, and MSN order websites. Why don’t they give the same results? What does it take to be #1? Why did my rankings change? I’m going to attempt to answer all these questions with […]
I’ve got SEM.Jobs
I played around some today looking at the new .job domain name extentions. These domains are still available www.jim.jobs www.internetmarketing.jobs www.searchengineoptimization.jobs www.411.jobs I passed on the above…but I ended up buying www.sem.jobs for $160.15 ($119.95/year + $39.95 application fee (yea, don’t ask me why math doesn’t add up)) from Godaddy. PS. Darn….I see searchengineoptimization.eu is available….but I don’t […]
Before I got to #1
Today I ran a search in Google for "what time zone is ohio" It answered my question…but it gave me a few new questions. Before I got to the #1 Result, I see 2 areas Google’s put on top. 1. how did this page:http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/o/oh/ohio.htmlget above the "Book results"? (and hey…another www.wikipedia.org type site!) I see in the […]
Pass that joint over here!
I just got an email lead for services. I’m not sure what this guy is smoking, but I’d appreciate if he’d pass some over here. Here’s some of his email: "….What we would like to do of course is achieve number one positions on all search engines for those words which are: Horse, Horses, Sports, Software, […]
New Age of Website SEO Tools
2 new SEO Tools by We Build Pages – Age and Links Analysis Tools Every day I get calls with people saying "I want to be #1 for "Green Widgets""My first question to them is "How old is your site?"Followed by my quickly running Yahoo’s linkdomain searches for the top sites to get an idea […]
I like ’em old.
When Leads come in, I review them, and either trash them, send them to Todd, or handle myself. Often when I send them to todd, I attach a small note like: "Since 1999 (potential)" or "since 2003 – maybe"….today I sent one to Todd which said "since 1997" Note, that these little notes don’t say […]
Pay Yahoo to remove your title tag??
Hello Yahoo! Why can’t you change this? When filling out the form for submitting your site to the Yahoo, it is required that: (according to this page) "If your site is commercial, the title submitted must be the company name. Any request to change a business name to something other than its actual name will not be […]
Scraping Whole Pages is not Cool.
I shouldn’t be one to throw stones in glass houses.I guilty of experimenting with lots of methods of trying to get traffic to websites – some methods have been blacker than others, so I’m in no way saying I’m "Mr. Clean". I am however going to toss a small stone to those who steal content (like […]