Occassionally I allow guest bloggers to share their knowledge with my readers. These posts are not sponsored and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of this blog. However, I take pains to make sure that only informative content appears on this blog. As always, I appreciate your feedback. If you are interested in submitting a [...]
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Everyone wonders about 301 redirects. How many is too many? What raises a red flag with Google? How do they relate to 302s? Which is better for specific situations? How many hops are ideal? Matt explains all of this and the general thought behind how the google bot reacts to a redirect. via (Jared Smith)
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Know what you want… Seems simple right? In my experience, dealing with hundreds of clients over the last 12 years, very few can actually quantify what they want. Some tell me they want marketing help (far too vague), but when I ask about success metrics, they almost invariably cite traffic as their primary success measure. [...]
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When I talk SEO, most people new to internet marketing want to know what keywords are and how to use them. Many still think that appropriate keyword usage is just keyword stuffing at it’s best. ::sigh:: There is never a reason to ‘fool’ the search engines with keyword stuffing, unless you are a Tool. And, [...]
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Update: Contest is open to all. This contest is not US only. Yay! A few months ago I decided that I wanted to do something special this Christmas for my readers and for some kids. While I’ve still been pondering what to do, I got a cool email from a friend over at one of [...]
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Since I cleaned up my RSS feeds a few weeks ago, ie I deleted every last one of them, I had to go back and add my friends this week. Two are very upset with Google, although Liz seems a bit melancholy about the whole thing and Wendy sounds more on the ‘pissed off’ side [...]
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John Pozadzides is one of my favorite people because every time he sends me an email or shows me a post it’s something concrete and useful (and because he founded our MyBlogLog User Group). Over the past few days he’s sent me a few ideas for improving my site that are golden. Again this week [...]
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Update: Brian, from the Search Quality Team, just gave me a bit more info. You probably have a compromised .htacess file, and maybe a .php script dropped in your cgi-bin/ directory, based on cases I’ve seen in the past. I can’t be sure without access. These hacking spammers tend to change and adapt. On our [...]
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