Archive for October, 2006
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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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