Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Last week, there were reports of the Google AdWords API not functioning properly. In particular, the "quota units used" counter was not changing, nor were usage counters retrieved via API. When this was reported (7/21), Jeff Posnick (AdWords API Advisor)...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Recently, I have been hearing a lot of buzz on the topic of links from blogs. Some are suggesting that blog links don't have the 'oomph' they once had. Now, I suspect when these people are classifying "blogs," they mean...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
When a search engine spider, bot, crawler visits your site, they should all be capable of passing what is known as a reverse DNS test. I have details on how this works over at this article. A WebmasterWorld thread reports...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Google announced that they have updated Google Maps with a new design. They made the top cleaner and bluer. But with that, they removed some features that really make Google Maps users upset. Last night, I saw the new Google...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
An interview with me on Imedia....
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
I try to teach my mom SEO stuff from time to time, and often do so through the use of analogies. Some analogies perhaps oversimplify the SEO process, but are good for helping get the basic concepts across.
On Page Content
fish and a fishing pole - when explaining how text heavy ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Google's SMTP server, smtp.gmail.com, has just expired a couple minutes ago. Here is the SSL certificate expiration notice: It appears Google has forgotten to renew the certificate, even thought a Google Groups post had a warning to Google that it...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Shimon Sandler wrote a controversial post about the options available to sites who cannot actually make code changes to optimize their site. He explains that you can build links, and that's perfectly legitimate as it's called "off site optimization." The...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Using the Google Keyword Tool, since search volume numbers are now available, you can estimate (with a degree of success) the kind of traffic you'd get for key phrases that you optimize for. In a particular webmaster's experiment, he ranks...
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