Archive for October, 2006

Strange Google Update - Sites Missing

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Another strange Google update/whatever. This time I see a perfectly great blog of mine get completely wiped out. All backlinks to Blog Republic have been wiped out in Google, despite the fact that Yahoo shows 66,000 of them. The site has also been reduced to a PR ...

The Benefits Of Building One Website Versus Many

Monday, October 16th, 2006

Many people mention the idea of diversification online. Their idea is that you can spread the risk among a number of websites in a portfolio. This is true, but it offers a few disadvantages over building and concentrating on one website. I know I've tried both ways, ...

VBulletin Websites And Google Supplemental Results

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

I've noticed for quite some time that Google is placing tons of forums posts made on Vbulletin software into their supplemantal search index. Undoubtedly Vbulletin does create a lot of duplicate content, by default, but even on websites where they use robots.txt exclusions to limit Google's crawling, the trouble ...

Google Update Has Finally Settled In

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

It's been a few weeks in the making, but it looks like the most recent Google backlink and PR update has settled in. This one took a few weeks to run its' course, and it has show itself to make quite a few changes in SERPS. I'd say the index ...

Just Who Uses Social Websites?

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Recent reports concerning the demographics of social websites like Myspace have been showing different results than many people expected. In fact, the people were older than most would have expected. Myspace has a great number of people over the age of 35. As top social networking sites mature and ...

Design Your Website For The Users And Usability

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

That's always the cry these days, and it's no wonder. People login to the internet in order to streamline some of the processes in life, and to hopefully find information quickly. If your website is hard to navigate, or people can't figure out what to do quickly, they ...

Edit And Share Video With Jumpcut

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

If you've found yourself knees deep in Web 2.0 fun, here's another website that looks very promising. Jumpcut.com has just teamed up with search engine giant Yahoo! to make videos more available to users. Not one to be left behind I figured I'd register an account to see what ...

Google PageRank Still Holds Fascination For Most

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

It's true, despite the number of times that people "in the know" have said "PR doesn't matter anymore", it doesn't really stop anyone's fascination with the Little Green Bar. PageRank has been one of the greatest accomplishments in another form of PR (Public Relations) in the last 10 years. ...

Google Has Put Google.com In The Supplemental Index

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

The Supplemental Index is enough to drive any webmaster nuts, even one who was partially sane when she started. And now Google's own webmasters needs to figure their way out of Supplemental Hell. A view from the Google site command shows Google having a huge number of ...

Announcing The SEM 6 Question Interview Series

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Search engine marketing (SEM), is a great field, filled with plenty of interesting personalities. The new SEM Interview Series is intended to shine the spotlight on leaders in the field. The format is a unique one I use on several of my blogs. I love to call ...