Tag Archives: search engine optimization
Google SideWiki SEO
Google Come Between Me & My Loved Ones
PageRank Sculpting Isn’t Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank
Google Double or Indented Listings
- Get one page indexed and ranking
- Write a second post linking to the first (which will also then trackback to the second page)
- Use the same primary keyword in both posts
- My post with the highest number of links on a topic will most likely rank well
- My tag page which leads to further posts on the topic will form the secondary listing
Players With Money – Devastating The SERPS
What follows is an example of the Google search results being devastated by techniques taught by Alex Goad in his Players With Money membership site.
In the run up to the initial launch, and some time afterwards, I was ranking extremely well, with only the primary domain ranking better.
Now things are a little different…
That is an exact match search - the SERPs are a little noisy without quotes, with many sporting references regarding players and money, so in this case I thought an exact match is a better demonstration.
Relative search positions for a broad match are the same, though the
SEO Tool – Site Seer – Coming Soon
I mentioned in my second poll post that the Stompernet guys would be coming out with a new tool soon, and that also they would be limiting availability of some of their goodies to those that subscribe. That will include this new SEO tool.
First off, I have worked out how to get their videos to syndicated correctly, so click through to watch the video showing off this new tool.
The bad news is that the first piece of totally new content, a video on keyword research by Dan Thies.
Now Dan is known by professional SEOs as "The Keyword Guru" - he
Wide Circles = Blog Comment Spam
New WordPress SEO Blogging Software
What a difference 24 hours make.
A few days ago I was honestly prepared to rip a product to shreds. It wasn't that it was a bad product, but it wasn't as well prepared as it should have been, and from what I can tell it was due to an honest communication error between a well respected online marketer and his programming team.
But before I talk about the product itself, I am going to give you a little history lesson.
Wordpress Elite
A few years ago I purchased a script called WordPress Elite. It was pretty useful, and allowed you to point the
Linking Abuse Or Linking Awareness
Blogcatalog Members today are collectively blogging about abuse.
I thought of blogging about all kinds of abuse that affect real people day in, day out, but decided that ultimately that doesn't fit in with my audience, or really add any authority to the words I would be writing.
As it happens, today part of a 2 hour interview with me was published in the Guardian (Digg Story you know you want to). I honestly didn't expect any more words in print from the article, because it was so wide ranging, and such
Blogcatalog – Does Onclick Pass PageRank?
When Blogcatalog was relaunched, the links from the directory were nofollow.
In my initial review I suggested that it would be a popular decision to remove the nofollow from the links, and also use a different method of tracking clicks - Blogcatalog have to track clicks because it is part of their blog rating system, and might also help with advertising sales for premium positioning.
Most blog directories do not provide direct linking.
For better or for worse, Blogcatalog decided to use javascript and "onclick" for their tracking. There is a lot of confusion in the SEO community as to whether "onclick" passes
MyBlogLog With Yahoo Logins & Mosaic Of My Community
Lets start with the mosaic, as writing about it has been on my "to do" list for a few days.
Maurizo is a regular reader and talented programmer has come up with a great idea for community appreciation, a community mosaic.
I know this has taken him a great deal of time to accomplish, because he first of all asked me for a high resolution photo over a month ago.
First of all here is a baby version of his amazing mosaic
If you want to see the full size version you will have to click through to see the full community
Keyword & Link Tools (& How To Confuse The Google Bot)
This could have been a paid review through ReviewMe, it was ordered a few days ago and I just haven't had time to write something that warrants being paid for it, but I decided to write something for free. If any of the Google Spam Team are reading this article, it was not paid for in any way and your bots can't tell the difference because keyword analysis would pick up the specific words suggesting that there is some kind of disclosure for paid links.
My paid reviews are not cheap, but they are often worth it - people are paying me
Sphinn Greatest Hits – Could The #1 Be Some Useful Content?
John Andrews currently has the top rated article on Sphinn with a truly brilliant display of link baiting and social media awareness.
I am not sure I am going to be able to knock him off the top spot, and this very post will probably gain him a few more votes, but I would like to think that one of my older articles could at least be a contender.
If This Content Is So Good, Why Hasn't It Been Submitted Before?
There are a number of reasons why my old post on Wordpress SEO and Dynamic Linking might not have
WordPress Plugin – Custom Query String – UTW Edition
This is the first release of this modified "classic" WordPress plugin and is based upon the original Custom Query String by Matt Read which has been looking for a permanent home for a while.
It contains some simple modifications extending the operation to include the UTW is_tag() function. The changes made are not unique, as they are the same as have been described on a number of Non-english language blogs such as 082Net - a little hard to find if you don't speak Korean, and as I have found in the past, if hacks are not provided as a
Wordpress Plugin: Nofollow Those Dupes (Wordpress SEO Masterclass Continued)
Sphinn – SEM Attention Wars
Having just come back from a week in Florida, striving to improve not only my own powers of concentration and focus, but how to grab and maintain the attention of readers and customers, for the last few days I have been thinking a little about Sphinn… some of those thoughts haven’t been pleasant, and to be perfectly honest, the good thoughts had very selfish motives.
Wordpress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches
Video Roundup | SMX Seattle | Duplicate Content | Jason Calacanis
I thought I would mix things up with a few interesting videos I have been watching
First of all a short video from SMX Seattle on various things regarding duplicate content and paid links. I am not sure if there is anything new, but it certainly emphasises how you should handle syndication of your content with links back to the original.
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Portal Feeder vs StomperNet
This page will finish loading eventually and is certainly killing my bandwidth…
I am sure people’s mailboxes are full of emails with various people promoting these two communities, which are going head-to-head with their launches. Feature wise they are probably only similar in the fact that both provide a backend community for advice and training, but I am not going to compare feature sets.
Do Google Hate Paid Links, Duplicate Content and Cruft?
Eric Enge Interviews Adam Lasnik about paid links, duplicate content and crufty pages (lots of code, little content)
Takeaways
I am sorry to say not a lot, it reinforces Google’s position not to really say a lot, though apparently there is no real penalty for duplicate content, and not to worry about how pagerank flows in your site.
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Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)
A month or so back I was attempting to arrange some kind of head-to-head comparison between Portal Feeder 2.0, one of their competitors, and what you can do with Wordpress and some free or relatively cheap plugins.
The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?
For those that don’t know, “supplemental results” are the bane of search engine optimization specialists.
Here is a great explanation of supplemental results from Rockyfied
Google Supplemental Results: Google supplemental results take pages on your site that have been indexed and put them into a sub database in Google. Supplemental results do not rank well but rather Google uses its supplemental DB to populate its results when they don’t have enough results to show in a given query. This means pages on your site in Google’s supplemental DB will not help you in the serps.
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The Ultimate Wordpress Htaccess File?
Canonicalization is a serious problem for webmasters, just read this latest entry by Matt Cutts or this great post from John Andrews. However telling webmasters that they should fix these issues isn't enough, webmasters & bloggers need solutions.
In Search of the Ultimate Htaccess file
A couple of months ago Alister Cameron posted a simple solution to .htaccess such that you didn't need to use a plugin to convert URLs using www to URLs without.
At the time I suggested a couple of improvements, and also mentioned I would post about it here on my blog, hopefully to help
In Depth: Google BlogSearch | Ranking Blog Documents Patent

For a long time my blogs have performed amazingly well with Google Blog Search. I always appear in the relevant results quickly, and the results I obtain have some reasonable longevity, even when I am not the original source of a story.
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Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins
I benefit from being a top commenter on a number of blogs simply because I am consistently active on those sites, and I have gained the benefit without changing my commenting habits.
Some of my blogging friends are aware of the problems, but have opted to use such a plugin anyway – I fully respect that decision, but many make that decision “blindly” without being aware of the possible consequences.
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Darren Rouse on Yahoo – Tags Tags Tags
Darren Rouse gets talked about a lot in the blogosphere, and for good reason. He writes quality articles and is a nice helpful guy.
Darren Rouse Logs
Someone was checking results for Darren on Yahoo. How do I know? I spotted it in my MyBlogLog stats that they had clicked through.
Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin? WikiDigg?
The news today seems to be that Wikipedia have added nofollow to external links.
I have seen a lot of sites mention that all the search engines respect nofollow. Actually they don’t. Anlaysis has shown that Yahoo certainly follow and index pages despite the nofollow tag.
SEO Blog A List
I am now on the A list of SEO related blogs.
Ok I should really qualify that statement… I am listed under “A” on the TopRank Online Marketing list of SEO related blogs.
Matt Cutts | Pagerank | Supplemental Results
Matt Cutts has mentioned there is a pagerank export in progress.
Pagerank reflected on your toolbar has no effect of your search engine traffic, as the pagerank used by the various data centers is different to that used for your Google Toolbar. Toolbar OageRank is just historical data, often up to 3 months out of date.
25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines
Jennifer Slegg has written a great post on blog optimization, though it is not highly technical.
What a SEO Blunder though. Do you see that URL? Now read point 24 on the list “24) Use a Good URL Structure“.
I think Search Engine Land made a major mistake launching their new blog on Typepad instead of Wordpress.
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Going Viral to Build Defensible Traffic
There is a really informative post on Wolf-Howl today on the results of viral marketing. More importantly, Michael discusses how to retain that traffic long-term.
I have noticed the effect of surges in RSS feed subscriptions in the past, followed by a slow decline in readership after a few days or weeks. Some readers stick around long-term thankfully. Brian at Copyblogger has also been talking about RSS.
Moving to or Launching a New Domain
I previously wrote about this subject in my post “How to move your blog or start a new one“, but I didn’t go into it with as much details as Rand Fishkin dies in this post. Rand goes into the technical aspects of moving a domain in great depth.
Paid Links | Hindsight gives perspective
Paid Links
It is five years, almost to the day that Yahoo started charging $299 per year for a listing in their directory as this article on Pandia clearly illustrates.
The main benefit of being in the Yahoo directory isn’t traffic, it is pagerank / trustrank. Who actually uses the Yahoo directory for anything other than listing their own sites?
It is many years since I went to Yahoo to lookup an entry for anything other than a competitor in a niche.
Search Engine Glossary (a victim)
In a previous post I stated the following:-
Would I Do Paid Posts?
Yes – but not for the reasons most people would do them.
I value my time, and the $30 I would currently get from ReviewMe to do any justice to a review just wouldn’t cover my time.
Adsense Blackhat Edition
I just received an email about Adsense Blackhat Edition.
I haven’t read the ebook fully yet, but it is actually worth signing up for just to see the new twist that has been added on the sales process.
Nofollow | Preserving Google Juice
When I did my round up of readers taking action of various kinds with seo, I missed out on one very active reader. I hadn’t been by his blog in a few days, and there has been quite a significant change.
Jason Calacanis SEO Keynote
What is the best way to get every person interested in SEO talk about you?
How about Jason Calacanis stating that “Seo is bullshit†in a keynote at an SEO conference with Danny Sullivan.
The best way to listen to the keynote with Jason Calcanis is this podcast.
Daily SearchCast, Dec 5, 2006: Special Edition, Conversation With Jason Calacanis
So what are SEOs doing?
Well Greywolf decided to put together this little post, and encourages people to reprint it.
Duplicate Content
Lee Odden has a great overview on duplicate content issues.
He is blogging various sessions from the Chicago Search Engine Strategies conference.
Here are the bullet points from just one of the speakers on the session (Shari Thurow), and I bolded one of them
Blog SEO | Evaluation | Taking action
One of the most rewarding things about blogging, at least for me, is when you see people taking action based on something you have suggested.
There are actually 2 distinct stages in taking action
Nofollow | SEO & Dynamic Linking | Disclosure
Here are some more links discussing the use of NoFollow for SEO purposes.
Seo Blog has a solid overview of how each search engine treats nofollow.
I am not sure the final conclusion regarding Yahoo and treating nofollow for ranking purposes is correct. I know many people who have done well with blog comments with Yahoo search, even on blogs using nofollow. I haven’t got any recent data.
NoFollow and Pink Boxes
- It is nice to share that with the people who visit your website, post comments, or trackback
- It is a good idea to share as much as possible with your own internal pages
- When you link to people in your posts who provide good information, that is what the web and linking are all about.
It is a good idea to have 50 links on your page pointing to social network sites
Tagging and traffic analysis
It is Friday, but I am still going to nag people about SEO and tagging.
It seems in the last 24 hrs that Alexa have caught up a little with their statistics
International Article Syndication
I use Google Alerts to track a lot of my article syndication, and sometimes it comes up with some absolute diamonds of ways content can be presented to an international audience.
Stealing Pagerank?
I just noticed a wierd or misinformed post over on ZDNet.
Apparently, this spyware outfit is using ZDNet’s page rank on Google (also known Googjuice) to find some victims in a variation of splogging.
Ultimate Tag Warrior SEO Tricks (pt 1)
On my blogs, I prefer not to use nofollow for comments and trackback.
It is my belief that if someone adds to the conversation on my blogs, the least I can do is offer them a backlink for their trouble.
I prefer people to write a post about me than to add me to their blogroll. I know a blogroll link theoretically gives me more Google Juice, but if they give 200 people a blogroll link, suddenly the value of that link from every page is greatly deminished.
Google Banquet and Google Feast
Whilst working on an elevator speech suitable for non-technical potential seed investors, I was chucking loads of word combinations around and came up with two very unique definitions that describe what I am trying to achieve with my startup projects (I am looking for a CTO partner).
Stomper Network – getting the right customers
I am sure I am not the only one taking an interest in the Stomper Network.
Andy and Brad have certainly done their homework, maybe influenced by The Product Launch Formula.
Portal Feeder – 9 months on
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)
I cancelled my subscription to Portal Feeder fairly early, and probably a good thing in hindsight as not long after that my internet marketing career took a 9 month hiatus.
Forget Dripping, the Content is going to Flow
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)
I have been a little quiet for the last week, mainly cobbling lots of things together, and brainstorming a load of projects for my newly out-sourced programmers.
Portal Feeder – I generated a site, but…
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)
No I am not lying, I just managed to generate a site with Portal Feeder.
I had a couple of problems though:-
Portal Feeder… sleeping
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)
Yes I got some sleep after my marathon session. Switching over to a clean XP installation has also been time consuming. I still have over 100 apps to install, but I will get up and running over the weekend.
Portal Feeder vs …
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)
I just lost a very long post, going into extreme detail the differences between Article Miner and Portal Feeder.
Portal Feeder – more interface thoughts
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)
Whilst still clearing up a HD for a fresh XP installation, I have been struggling along with the web interface… trying to at least create one small site with it.
Portal Feeder – Web Interface
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)
I am giving up with the web interface.
Now regular readers of this blog, and some of my posts on forums might understand that quite frequently I can be quite harsh describing products I am absolutely delighted to own, such as Blog Auto Publisher.
I am in… well sort of
Portal Feeder 2.0 Example Site (Not a Review)
I know my Win98SE installation is severely messed up, so Portal Feeder (desktop) not working on it is no great shock. Maybe it is fixable.
I was honestly wondering when someone would come up with a service like 

Anchor Sitelinks – WordPress Table Of Contents (Part 1)
With Google now providing convenient anchor links as sitelinks within search results for long structured documents I thought it would be prudent to examine current solutions for WordPress and see which of them is most likely to help you obtain anchor links.
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