Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Yes, SEO is getting tougher for everyone as personalization catches on. If you're logged into a "Google Account" you'll start noticing more and more of the personalization features being used. The amount of data Google can collect with their user's logged in is quite high, so personalizing search ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
For a period of time I've suspected that Google was interested in using data about your website's traffic in order to help with scoring, and it appears they're definitely able to do it. A recent patent application (number 20070088693), filed on April 19th., 2007 goes heavily into the nuts ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
All the time you hear the phrase "get natural links", but nobody ever really explains what a natural link is. Natural links occur all the time. I've been managing a network for four years and I get all kinds of natural links from all over the world, all ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Making a small change to my blog template has made the page views go up more than I would have thought. Changing from a three-column design to a two-column design has made the page views, and the number of people commenting go up.
I also made the fonts larger, ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Blog search has been around for awhile, and the whole time I've been hearing how it's supposed to be getting better. So far I haven't seen any indication of this. The search has a primitive algo. I'm not sure if Google even uses their own search algo, ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
One of the greatest innovations in web development, for my money, has to be the introduction of CSS. Learning CSS is not terribly difficult, and it makes designing any type of website an extremely easy process for almost anyone. The best part about CSS is that how such ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Lately I've adopted a hit'em quick staccato method of blog posting. Sure, not all of my posts are likely to be works of art if I'm shooting them out like a Tommy Gun, but at least I'm likely to get visitors. As long as you can see progress ...
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Friday, April 6th, 2007
SEOs tend to be selfish louts. I say this after years of experience dealing with the crowd. They often try and hang on to their links, even though they'd be better off being generous. Why? Because outgoing links have a number of benefits, like these:
Outgoing links ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
For spring cleaning I'm upgrading WordPresses and implementing design changes. So far, the upgrades have gone remarkable well. What's the quickest way to upgrade a WordPress blog?
After you untar it, type "rsync -rv /newblog /oldblog"
Voila! That will overwrite the files with the updated files. Log in ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
I've noticed recently that Google seems to have really speeded up the rate at which the add fresh pages to their index. This is the case, at least, with pages on a domain that already has developed some "trust". On blogs that I update frequently the speed of ...
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