Archive for December, 2006

Not All Blog Posts Have To Be Long - Blog Tip #1

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

In fact, many blog posts that I happen along are quite short. The main key is: does the blog post convey a message of deeper significance? If it does, and the user and the blogger connect, than the blogger can be forgiven their brevity. All in all, though, it's ...

Alternative Group Emerges To Challenge Google’s Book Scanning Effort

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Google is always controversial, and nowhere more than with their decision to index "all of the world's information" and to put the content of ALL BOOKS online. That certainly is an ambitious project, and Google is known for being ambitious. But not everyone is happy with their vision, ...

Ding Dong, Dmoz Is Dead

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

DMOZ may finally be dead, according to an early founder. It comes as no suprise to anyone who has had to deal with the behemoth. Now the old dinosaur is down, and nearly out. Let's face fact, it's a different web than it used to be, and ...

Some SEO Posts Of Note

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Here's a few SEO posts of note. There have been some decent posts this week that are worth pointing out, and giving a bit of "link love" to. Not surprisingly, a couple are my own. First, check out SEO Theory by Michael Martinez. A number of his ...

Calculating The Percentage Of Deeplinks To A Website

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Here's a tool that will help you calculate Deep Links to any website. The concept of "Deep Links" to SEO is that the more of them you have, the higher quality your website probably is. It makes sense. Most links to content will go directly to the interior page. ...

Adding a Sitemap To Google Sitemaps

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Google has made it very easy to add a sitemap to their Google Sitemaps program. All you need to know is a few basics about their XML protocol which is laid out here. I was able to setup some rather minimalist Sitemaps which seem to have done the ...