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A Drop in PageRank

November 10, 2006

I just pulled up this blog on my browser, and see that I have lost PageRank. Yes, I am now down to a 4. I decided to scoot backwards in time and check some of my older posts, and some... Read

101 Web Marketing Ideas, Tips and Best Practices

October 27, 2006

SEOPedia has a list of 101 Web Marketing Ideas and Tips, and there is something there for everyone. My favorites (and they go to show you where my mind's at these days) Advertising and Affiliate Marketing No. 17: Effectively lead... Read

I'm Not Doing Something Right Here

September 21, 2006

I've been looking over my stats, and I think I'm missing a piece in the SEO puzzle. Most of my visitors come to all of my sites (except one) via Google. A few of my sites show not even a... Read

Watching My Indexed Pages

June 02, 2006

So lately I've added another time waster to my daily schedule. I'm finding it's right up there with checking stats, checking stats, checking Adsense, checking affiliate networks, checking stats, checking Adsense, checking stats ... did I mention checking stats? Anyway,... Read

It's June, and Thinking About Adding Value

June 01, 2006

At the risk of stating the obvious - well, okay, yes, I AM stating the obvious - it's June already. I'm looking at my May, and wondering where on earth did it all go? I've got one site out of... Read

Tag and Ping

May 27, 2006

Sean Wu definitely knows his stuff. He's the author of Tag and Ping: The Next Generation of Blog and Ping. The subtitle actually made me cringe a bit, because I've never liked the way Internet marketers misused the whole blog... Read

Google's Indexing Timeline

May 18, 2006

Matt Cutts on Google's indexing timeline: it's a long read, especially if you go through all the comments, but you definitely should check it out if you're having trouble either getting a site indexed, or have too many pages coming... Read

Thought I Was Out of the Sandbox For a Moment There ...

May 11, 2006

I was just checking my stats (you know, that thing that I don't do very often *cough cough*) and I noticed that one of my sandboxed sites was getting a ton of hits. My first thought - YES! I'm out... Read

Folder Sites

May 04, 2006

In the comments on my initial post about the 50 Affiliate Sites Challenge, Knox asked, "I have a question about your statement in your post "...standalone sites, as well as self-contained sites in folders and subdomains (making things much easier... Read

Yahoo Update

April 22, 2006

Looks like there was a Yahoo update. I haven't seen any differences in the stats for any of my sites, though. Ah well. No movement is better than negative movement! Read

Sandboxed Again

April 03, 2006

Well, I've been sandboxed yet again. I've got so many of my little darlings playing in Google's sandbox these days, I could start a daycare of them, I think. Each time I've launched a site this year, my new sites... Read

151 SEO Tools

March 13, 2006

If you've got SEO on the mind these days, check out 151 SEO Tools from SEOCompany. The list is headed by the Tool of the Month, Year & Most Improved Awards category, which is useful. I haven't gone through most... Read

Live Pagerank Firefox Extension

March 09, 2006

I've just come across a fun pagerank extension for Firefox: Live Pagerank. Rather than show you toolbar PR, it shows a prediction of future PR. There's an explanation of how it works here. I have no idea how exact this... Read

PR Update

February 19, 2006

As everyone likes to point out, it's not a true reflection of things, but Toolbar PR seems to be on the move again. It's definitely fun to watch, though. See the talk over at WebmasterWorld forums. Read

Yahoo Update Tonight

November 02, 2005

Yahoo has posted in its search blog that it's updating its index right now. I hope it really will be "mild and quick", compared to the last one. Actually, maybe a more heavy-duty shuffle would be okay, too - one... Read

Tagging

I have to admit, I am very lax about tagging. I have a lot of different blogs, and half the time, I forget to tag my posts, even though I'm blogging with a blogging tool called ecto, which makes creating... Read

Google Dances the Jagger

October 20, 2005

I'm a bit late posting about this - you all probably know the latest Google dance, Jagger, started yesterday and has continued into today. According to Matt Cutts, this particular dance will actually continue through the next few weeks or... Read

Shortest Time in the Sandbox ...

October 12, 2005

It looks like one of my sites has just popped out of the sandbox - and it was in for the shortest time I've ever experienced - roughtly three and a half weeks. I may be wrong about this, of... Read

Google License Plate Frame: Is It On Your Wish List?

I had to laugh when I saw the Google License Plate Frame. If you're feeling lucky, let your fellow motorists know where things stand. (We can't guarantee they won't tailgate, though.) (I'm sticking this post under SEO because that's where... Read

Getting Dropped From Google SERPs: It Can Happen To Anyone

October 10, 2005

I was doing more catch-up reading of all the feeds I'm subscribed to, and came across this post from Jon Gales' blog Jon Gales runs MobileTracker, and would fit anyone's list of successful bloggers. It turns out that he experienced... Read

That Little Thing I Did Last Week

Last week I wrote about how Google is finally sending search visitors to a site that I've had up for a while. I mentioned that two days previously, I had done a little tweak, and odd as it seemed, I... Read

I Can't Quite Figure This Out

October 09, 2005

Here's something that's puzzling me a bit. Does anyone know the answer to this? I have a Wordpress blog with a PR of 5. When I go to the admin panel, though - you know, that password protected admin panel... Read

Google Finally Found Me!

October 06, 2005

Okay, my title isn't really accurate. The site I'm talking about has been in Google's index for a while. But while I get a lot of Yahoo and MSN traffic, I've never gotten a single visitor via a Google search.... Read

Had an SEO-Lapse For a Moment

October 04, 2005

It's back to the drawing board with my "Recommended Products" box. I realized this morning that it was a major SEO-lapse. Now I need to figure out a way to position the box where I want it but have it... Read

Sandboxed!

October 01, 2005

I'm not sure why I always do this - you'd think I'd know better by now. But I'll put up a new site and get a bit on the ecstatic side when Google starts sending me visitors for the keywords... Read

Revealing Your Sites

September 23, 2005

I've been playing around recently with the idea of linking to some of my sites from this blog. Most of you know that I blog at Adventures in Net Marketing mostly for the fun of it. I do make some... Read

Okay, Fine ... I Got Yahoo'd

July 25, 2005

I don't know about all of you, but I got seriously Yahoo'd by the latest Yahoo algo changes. That's Yahoo'd for the worse, not for the better, unfortunately. It's been like this for quite a few days now, but I... Read

PR Update ... Fun and Games Again!

July 15, 2005

There's another toolbar PR update going on. I always find these things fun to watch, but never really let it get me either elated or down - even my meagre experience has shown that toolbar PR doesn't mean much when... Read

More Hidden Links

June 10, 2005

I just received my Linking Matters newsletter from Ken McGaffin, and he has something very interesting to report. In doing competitive linking analysis for a client, he discovered that the Financial Times is, for some reason, using hidden links on... Read

Google Sitemap: Wendy's Experiment in Progress

June 03, 2005

The latest Google news is the Google Sitemap: Help people discover more of your web pages. Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It's a collaborative crawling system that enables... Read

So Much For the "Holiday Weekend" Idea

May 30, 2005

I’ve been away from the computer all day because of “family stuff” (my sister comes over every other Monday afternoon. She’s a gourmet cook – she cooks and we chat and then we feast …can’t say I regret the time... Read

PageRank at the Forums

May 29, 2005

The SEO world is still buzzing about the disappearance of Google PageRank from the toolbar. Long discussions are being held at various SEO forums – for a list of links to various threads, see End of Toolbar Pagerank? There’s definitely... Read

PageRank appears to be down

May 28, 2005

Here's something interesting. I just checked a bunch of sites (started with my own), including major ones like Google, ZDNet and About.com. PageRank appears to be down. In both Firefox and Internet Explorer, I am getting either "No PageRank Information... Read

Incoming Links Guide

May 05, 2005

After posting a book and a half yesterday, I've decided to be kinder today. Short post, I promise. I came across this great site: Incoming Links Guide. In addition to providing a primer on building your incoming links (the title... Read

Toolbar PR Update Time

April 22, 2005

Not, of course, that toolbar PR really says that much. I personally think that Google has a grand time playing games with us using that little green bar. The only way to get a good guestimate as to what your... Read

Submissions to Directories

March 03, 2005

I just spent the morning submitting sites to different directories. It's been a few months since I did this maintenance/upkeep type of work, and I'd forgotten just how long it takes! I started at 10:00 and decided to call it... Read

The Cross-Linking Conundrum

February 08, 2005

Well, I'm throwing my hands up in frustration. What's a white-hat SEO supposed to do? Our main business site has a separate blog, and since we draw over 75% of our leads from our site, I worry about the cross-linking... Read

Google Update - Win Some, Lose Some

Google's been going through an algorithm update for the past week, and so far, we've won some and loss some on our main business site. We moved up one position on one of our competitive keywords, but dropped from the... Read

MSN Search Results!

February 02, 2005

I'm one happy camper right now. I've finished dancing and waving my arms around, so you're all safe for now. But every time I think about it, I have to grin from ear to ear (can't help it - I'm... Read

Google Index Notification (GIN) Tool

January 29, 2005

I was just a little too quick on my posting trigger finger. Here's info on the Google Index Notification (GIN) tool - I just found it courtesy of Robin Good's site. It's a free tool - all you do is... Read

When Did Google Come By Last?

December 07, 2004

If you're a Firefox user, here's a quick way to check when Google last cached your page. Download and install the Google cache extension, and you can check the last date your page was cached by simply right clicking your... Read

What About Word-of-Mouth Linking?

November 09, 2004

I just read an interesting article at WebProNews called "Are Links Hurting Search Relevance"? From an end user point of view, I think that all the emphasis in SEO these days on linking in order to boost Pagerank and search... Read

SEO Article

October 13, 2004

Just came across an article on 10 Steps To Higher Search Engine Positioning. Good description of a step-by-step process for optimizing your site. I liked the third important tool he lists in the section on choosing your keywords. I think... Read

Check Your PRs!

October 07, 2004

Looks like Google's finally doing a PR update. If you have any new sites or any new pages on an old site, check your PRs. We changed over to SSI on one of our sites, and had to put up... Read

Has My Site Been Indexed?

October 06, 2004

Just a quick post (really! I promise). I just ran across this great tip on checking to see if your site has been indexed (courtesy of High Rankings Adviser, another newsletter that gets its own special mailbox in my Eudora).... Read

Free Resources: Linking Strategies

September 24, 2004

I recently came across a couple of free resources on linking strategies. Linking Matters Report is a report that outlines Ken McGaffin's linking strategy. You can download the report in pdf format, and a set of worksheets in Word format.... Read

Submitting to Blog Directories

September 18, 2004

I've submitted this blog to a few blog directories - just whenever I get a moment, basically. Whenever I submit to a new directory, I'll be checking out the site to see if it gives a direct link out (or,... Read

Interesting Search Patterns

September 16, 2004

I am pretty addicted to checking the stats on my husband's web site, although I finally figured out that the stats only get updated once a day, at the end of the day - their time, not ours. (The stats... Read

Opportunities Come from Everywhere ...

September 03, 2004

I'm always astounded (and very grateful) by the happy little quirky twists of the universe that land little nuggets of opportunity on my lap every now and then. I'm a big believer in the law of attraction (the Abraham-Hicks materials)... Read

SEO Success

August 28, 2004

We've had some excitement around here recently. My husband runs a small local business, and things have been okay in the past year, but not spectacular. This spring, a competitor moved into a prime location, on the main strip in... Read