Have you ever felt stupid about wasting money?
I have — many times; but to make us all feel better, I'm going to do a case-study of Cingular Wireless.
They boldly claim that they have the fewest dropped calls of any wireless network. That's wonderful. But with one of their competitors, T-mobile, paying for text links, I […]
Posted on November 28th, 2006 by Green Guy
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I said I would release this if enough people asked. Enough people asked, and I'm pretty sure this is OK to do under the GPL license. I've highlighted the parts that have changed. Peter Harkins declined to add the features for reasons I respectfully do not agree with. In any case, I've […]
Posted on November 27th, 2006 by Green Guy
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Do you blog about SEO or Making Money Online?
If so, here is your chance to get more links and more readers. Submit the best article you wrote this year in the comment section in the Format of:
[Hyperlinked title] [0-200 character description].
Comments not in this format imply that you have poor reading comprehension skills […]
Posted on November 25th, 2006 by Green Guy
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It’s not just adult. This past weekend represented a huge shift in Google. This Disruption has created opportunity in the marketplace.
Learn what has changed, figure out what is happening and adapt. These disruptions may seem bad at first, but if you’re ahead of the curve you should be able to ride these changes […]
Posted on November 23rd, 2006 by Green Guy
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“We’re a search engine . . . no wait we’re a portal . . . and Gootube!”
It’s scary: Google can decide at any time to steal the top spot for itself . . . like it did for finance, travel and most recently for movie searches:
“Sorry IMDB but we’d rather just have all those […]
Posted on November 21st, 2006 by Green Guy
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A few weeks ago, Yahoo announced its support of wildcards in robots.txt. This week, Google, Yahoo, and MSN all agreed on a standard for sitemaps. I don't think this a coincidence of events. Rather, I believe it is an indication of a trend — that search engine vendors see a value in collaborating on certain […]
Posted on November 17th, 2006 by Green Guy
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The web site for the September SEO site clinic has been selected! I will be reviewing the site www.pixellogo.com, a design firm that offers various other template design material. This time, there are some architectural issues. Some are interesting and along the theme of my upcoming book, http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Search-Engine-Optimization-PHP/dp/0470100923/. This will be in addition to my […]
Posted on November 16th, 2006 by Green Guy
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No Links For You!
I wrote the Wikipedia page on Link bait a few months ago — only to have it mercilessly edited and destroyed by a bunch of editors who naively see every blog as unfit to be quoted. Let's see. Which group actually understands the concept of link bait best? Could it be bloggers? […]
Posted on November 16th, 2006 by Green Guy
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Your default WordPress installation has a problem. Your posts slowly get pushed into "pagination death" as they age; your older trusty content gets buried deeper and deeper internally. Furthermore, duplicate content issues plague your category and main listing pages.
Slowly, but surely, every old post in your WordPress blog gets buried under 50 pages of […]
Posted on November 15th, 2006 by Green Guy
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Dear Microsoft (cc: black hatters),
If you don't fix this problem, I promise to make a sport out of getting people I don't like delisted from your index. It's just plain irresponsible. And the problem is compounded in scope by another defect in your product — the failure to handle redirects properly. This one is quite […]
Posted on November 14th, 2006 by Green Guy
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