SEO – The Reality is Staggering
How do we learn what really works in SEO, and can we handle the reality of the situation when its staring us in the face? Its time to get busy building links like you’ve never done before…
Month: September 2009
Forum Registration is Temporarily Disabled
If you’re trying to sign up for the forum, don’t sit around waiting for a confirmation email. The current server set up won’t ever actually send it 🙁 For now, you’ll just have to wait and participate on the blog!
How to Earn a Trip to Akismet’s Spam Land
I try to be patient with comments and even reward valuable ones, but when the line gets crossed, Akismet is there to spare myself AND other legit bloggers from the annoyance of awful comments.
New Anhosting Coupon – 25% off in Fall 2009
A quick update to the Anhosting Coupon page – a new coupon is available for fall of 2009 to provide 25% off any new hosting purchase.
Musicians vs Industry in UK Sharing Debate (and some free music too)
The file sharing debate is heating up in the UK, with musicians lining up on both sides of the controversial plan to restrict internet access for those caught downloading and sharing unauthorized music files. In response, I’m giving away some of the songs my own band recorded “Back in the day.”
Update – Removing One Comment Results in 20 Page SERP Boost
Sometimes fixing a Google penalty is easy, and sometimes you can’t even find a clue to help you rank higher. My experience with page twenty just keeps getting worse and worse.
My Template Ate Your Link Love – What to Do when WordPress Dofollow Plugins Don’t Work
Theme options and functions can over-ride your site’s plugins. If it so happens that your dofollow plugin doesn’t work, these steps may help fix the blog comments to include or exclude the attributes you want to edit.
Reported Dreamhost Coupon Problem – Can’t Change Promo Codes at Signup
If you’re trying to sign up for hosting with Dreamhost, be aware of this potential problem with using a coupon or promo code – and how to fix it.
Plagiarized Blog Comments as Negative SEO
Comment factors other than external links can still hurt the search engine status of your popular blog posts.
Avoid Bad Links in Blog Comments
Bloggers need to keep a close eye on the comment links they allow to be published. Bad links can reflect poorly on your sites, for both surfers and search engine bots alike.
Follow-up rant: Digg nofollow ignores site’s problems
Digg’s latest move to make upcoming story links set to “nofollow” won’t do much to address the problems with the site. It certainly hasn’t done anything to improve the quality of upcoming links… Instead, the front page is controlled by a few users and a few domains – and if you happen to become popular with submissions from outside of the white listed sites you may be at risk for a ban.
Chegg gets a bump on CNBC – Textbook rental with affiliate program makes some buzz
Seeing the CEO of an affiliate partner suddenly reminds me how important media saturation is – even offline marketing for a primarily online service.
Does your ad really make the sale?
What is the intent of your advertising campaign? Do your ads make the sale, or bring in questions from potential customers, or does the point of the message just get lost in the delivery?