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?
Coupons and promotional offers continue moving to the web
Coupons and shoppers are headed online in a quest to find the best deals available. Since the economy is slow, more and more people are making purchase decisions based on price.
Is Adsense Lag Affecting Click-Through Rates?
Can a tiny moment of lag drastically reduce click through rates? It seems so at the moment.
Digg Goes Nofollow – Keeps Pushing Framed URLs
Digg is trying to fight spam the laziest way ever invented – by slapping a nofollow attribute on all upcoming stories, profile pages, and comment links. In the meantime, they will continue to frame your content and encourage users to link toward the framed version of your website.
Bluehost CPU Solution – Throttling Attempts Unlimited CPU in Shared Hosting
Bluehost takes a novel approach to CPU limitations in a shared hosting environment. Instead of cutting off the resource hogs, they’ll just have to wait their turn in line.
A New Look – Trust Analytics, Not Your Gut
Although I was personally a big fan of the last theme here at WebsiteBuilding.biz, sometimes you have to trust the data more than your own opinions.
Fixing the WordPress 302 Blues
The use of 302 redirects by Wordpress can lead to undesirable search indexing consequences. Luckily, there’s an easy to use plugin that will immediately convert all redirects to 301 http header codes.
Does Google Hate Affiliate Marketing?
Does Google hate affiliate marketing, as some search writers claim? It may look that way, but it seems like what Google really dislikes are websites that act as middle-men without adding any value to the transactions they profit from.
The anonymous internet is long gone
Think your blog is anonymous? Think again. The era of internet privacy is long over, and revealing an online identity may be a simple cost-benefit analysis.