I just read over at Clickz that search engine spammers now have a home. The organization is called, the Association of Search Engine Spammers. Of course, this is not a real organization, but a group whose intent is to shame black hat SEOs and spammers into submission by shaming them for using certain “unacceptable” tactics. […]
Well, I guess it was just a matter of time before the ‘marketers’ of the world decided that blog marketing needed a course for $297. Not to mention any names becuase, to be honest, I am sure there are people that are gullible enough to buy this program. Quotes like, “…who has the time […]
A couple of days ago I noticed that two sites I have started to exhibit some abnormal behavior. One site was redirected to another site via a 301 redirect about a year ago because the two sites had many pages that were very similar and were essentially selling the same products. The 301 redirect cleared […]
Just read an article about what some might call Host Rank. In a nutshell, the author is proposing that the old Page Rank system is dead and that a new system which calculates a “Rank” for the host/domain and an internal page rank for each domain called Local Rank. This is used to help […]
Looks like there is more to come with the latest Google update. I hate following this stuff and to be honest I have not really followed this one that much. When I started to frequent many of the SEO forums about 2 years ago, I used to wonder why some of the senior members would […]
Many people, like me, who spend a good portion of their time working on getting their websites to rank well in Google, feel that Google is really starting to get a little crazy. Nothing that they do these days seems to make any sense. Looking past the SEO world and their efforts, it seems to […]
I have a pretty good regimen worked out that appears to work very well getting things to rank in Yahoo! and MSN, I like to call it the Blog and Ping. Basically, I will blog using Blogger.com’s interface or one of the WordPad blogs we have, then use Pingomatic’s service to “ping” many of […]
In an effort to acquire new customers, AOL has launched a free, web-based, email service. The company has been losing customers each year since it’s high of 27MM customers in 2002. AOL hopes to attract as many as 20MM additional users to their new, ad-supported, web email system in the next few years. I am […]
Yahoo announced today that they are launching a new version of Yahoo! Music. For a limited time you can sign up for unlimited access to over one million songs on Yahoo! for $60 a year. I guess that is a pretty good deal, but I am not sure what the “one million” songs are exactly. […]
Blogging is great. Most blogging platforms provide an easy to use and access system where people can publish thoughts, ideas and just about anything else, to the web in a matter of minutes. The SEO community has been embracing this technology lately, which may or may not be a blessing, but only time will tell. […]