Archive for November, 2005

BOTW Blog Directory

November 28th, 2005

I don’t normally blog about specific link opportunities, but when I find something that I think is an A+ opportunity I’ll try to give you guys a heads up. Dear BOTW Members, We are proud to announce the launch of…

Linked Out Of Google By Got Links?

November 25th, 2005

Greg Boser has an interesting post over at Web Guerrilla Web Marketing Blog called The Truth About Reciprocal Link Networks. He tells about a ex-client that emailed him when he dropped out of the SERP’s in the middle of Google’s Jagger 1-2-3 update.

Ends up Greg’s ex-client had picked up …

Any One Been GoogleBowling

November 24th, 2005

Terry_SA a member at Threadwatch.org coined the term GoogleBowling back in April of this year in a discussion on Current Thinking on Linking for Google.

GoogleBowling is where a large number of run of site (ROS) links are pointed at a site and Google’s ranking algorithm gives that site a penalty …

My *definitive* guide to what exactly the sandbox is, how it works, and how to beat it

November 21st, 2005

Now, before you read any further, I should tell you that I’m not interested in hearing any arguments. If you disagree with my opinion of what the sandbox is, well, that’s your God given right. And you’re wrong. First, what…

SEOChat Forum Problems

November 18th, 2005

Rand Fishkin a moderator at the SEOChat Forum blogged today about how the Changes to SEOChat caused him to fly the coup and that there is a mass exodus of members and moderators happening over there.

This is all over SEOChat applying nofollow tags to the SIGs, and then deleted …

Searching For Pages With Cache Or Allinurl

November 18th, 2005

I just an incident where a webmaster took me to task for not knowing what I was talking about. It was concerning the best way to find out if a Web page is in the Google index or not. He claimed that the cache: command was the …

Thoughts on Jagger: Recips Got Hammered, Trust Trumps All

November 9th, 2005

*Disclaimer: the following is based on empirical observations only. Well it appears that Jagger (1, 2, and 3) has sung its last song, and Google has settled down. Everyone and their brother (and their brother’s pet gerbil) will give you…

Kim Krause Berg on the Hyperlink Hot Seat

November 3rd, 2005

You may know Kim Krause Berg as the mind behind a variety of sites: Cre8asite Forums, Cre8pc Usability, SEO and Web Design blog, or The Usability Effect, where she offers her highly valuable consulting services. 1. Jakob Nielson: Over-hyped pundit…

Conversion: The Feng Shui of Home Pages

November 2nd, 2005

Feng Shui is an old Chinese pseudo-science, which deals with the layout of cities, buildings, and other things. How things are arranged is supposed to have an impact on many other things.

I don’t know if the whole thing is literally true, but I do know that my wife and I rearranged our bedroom furniture a couple months ago, and for whatever reason, we are actually sleeping better these days. Gina