Man I was cocky when I entered the scholarship contest. I though I’d beat everybody easily. The amounts of traffic that other articles were getting weren’t very impressive, I thought, and I was sure to be able to get much more traffic. After all, I knew from experience what a few blog posts and news [...]
Yoast tweaking websites
SEO, the acronym for Search Engine Optimization, is my job and my hobby. I write a LOT about SEO, mainly talking about WordPress SEO, linkbuilding and linkbaiting. SEO is a rapidly growing business on the internet, which shows by the amount of people writing about it. My SEO posts here will mostly be technical in nature, and talk about optimizing specific platforms.
Technorati Greasemonkey script
Want to see the Technorati rank and the number of inbound links for a page? I wrote a Greasemonkey script that shows you just that, it does that by opening the search page for the current URL on Technorati and finding those values on it.
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Helping DaveN and Matt Cutts test MSN
By simply linking to Matt Cutt’s .co.uk domain. For more details, check DaveN’s post.
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Spammers using social media
Spammers don’t just linkspam Wikipedia, they use various methods to gather the links they need to get their sites on top of the organic search results. One of the new methods in the last months has been spamming the social bookmarking networks like Digg and del.icio.us.
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Wikipedia Link Nazi’s
Jaimie of SEO Egghead has a wonderful post on Wikipedia editor being link nazi’s, with a wonderful picture to illustrate just what he means with the term “nazi” as well. His experiences with the editorial team of Wikipedia: he wrote the article on link-bait and quoted Rand Fishkin, Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, and linked to [...]
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Marketing-Pilgrim SEO Contest
Boys and Girls, please help me out by reading this article, and giving me your comments on it :)
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Why you should check Google suggest
In the new Firefox 2, Google suggest is incorporated into the search block in the top right of your browser. This new box CAN have quite an important effect on the way you should optimize your site. I’ll show you why with an example.
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Launching a new blog? Get it right in one turn
My friends over at Aviva Directory have written another excellent piece of content: a list of 21 tips to launch your blog. Now I’m not saying I’m doing it all right, but I should be, and so should you. The list they made consists of 6 parts: The First Impression RSS & Subscriptions Social Bookmarking [...]
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‘Show me the money!’
“Show me the money!�, that’s what a client said to me the other day. If I could make a good business case for the changes I proposed to his website, he would find the money, never mind what the investment had to be. How often I’ve wished we had more clients like him, I guess [...]
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Why PageRank says nothing about rankings
Sometimes you’ll get clients who say “my PageRank is x, yet I don’t get any visitors from Google�. Understandable, I think. If you were graded 6 out of 10, by the biggest search engine out there, it’s only fair to expect some traffic, or isn’t it?
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