If you have ever used AdWords from Google you know that the results can be hit or miss based on how great the creative you upload is. (unless you have me do it then it will rock)  If you are one of the "lucky" few to be part of iAds you have a very different [...]

Filed under : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Using the .htaccess file on Apache you can easily force users to the www. version of your domain rather than the root domain.  In this example I force XyHD.tv users to the www.xyhd.tv version of pages instead. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^xyhd\.tv$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.xyhd.tv/$1 [R=301,L] This is good for SEO in that it [...]

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This is mostly a post so that I can link to the pictures in my forum post on webmasters tools.  But it might help some one else later, so I thought I’d share. As a result of this, I can’t set my preference for Crawl Rate, or domain to display in search results.

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Demand Media has created a formula for writing articles that very closely matches the ideal keyword, and related term densities that Google thinks are ideal for a page.  This results in a whole lot of mediocre content.  Much like Mahalo has a few gems, but is mostly crappy content optimized for Search, Demand Media doesn’t [...]

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It is interesting to me what people view as the test of an SEO.  “Really Smart People” is the Google Search that prompted Robert Scoble recently tweated was how he pick his “SEO of the Year”. Really Smart People for me isn’t an ideal test because while the words appear in articles quite often people [...]

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Snap On tools hired a Scumbag SEO firm to send C&D’s to sites who included Snap-On in the title of posts. The SEO Firm ( here to referred to as SCUMBAGs ) is attempting to get sites to remove pages that compete with Snap-on In search. The SCUMBAGs convince companies that the easiest way to [...]

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Today Google’s doodle entitled Unexplained Phenomenon is creating some strange trends in search.  The image links to a search for “Unexplained Phenomenon” and features a UFO beaming up an O from the Google Name.  Being the top hit for the most searched term on Google is bouncing from Site to Site as the day tracks [...]

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Remember the good old days when search was about mastering Boolean expressions so you could find what you want?  You could say you wanted “((bing OR kumo)) AND search) NOT crosby NOT bada” and get exactly the result you were looking for.  Yeah those were the days.  Then we decided the Internet was too large [...]

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Microsoft is soon to announce/release Kumo/Bing.com a rebranding of Live.com Search.  While Microsoft has been trying to consolidate brands in to a single “Live.com” in order to get away from preconceptions it is rebranding at Microsoft Bing. Bing is really just Live.com with an easier “Modify my search” function.  Basically Google Suggests for Live.com.  The [...]

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DuckDuckGo.com appears to be a Yahoo powered search engine that has just a few modifiers, such as the addition of FavIcons and a Cutesy UI. Duck Duck Go is clearly looking to capitalize on the Popularity of WolfRam.com in the press. Everyone wants to see Google Fail, and with Search being a Multi-Billion Dollar business [...]

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Godaddy.com Promo Codes get you $7.49 (plus icann fee) for the first year you have a Domain.  But at 749fora.com you get the $7.49 price for as many years as you want to register, and when you renew you will get the best price available as well.  You just can’t beat this offer.  Even the [...]

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And One Ring to Rule them All!  With Ping.fm, and Onlywire.com and Friend Feed, and Face book, I think I may have more Social Networks than I have friends.  Actually it is pretty close.  I have about 500 “Friends” fewer than that followers, and I have logins for 146 social networks, that is before you [...]

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I have posted on BlackwaterOps.com How to know be the greatest SEO on the planet.  Well that may be a bit too far, but certainly I tell you everything you would need to read to be better at SEO than I am.

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Search Engine Land is talking up a Twitter Search, John Battelle is explaining why Google doesn’t have one. Well I have had a pretty decent Twitter Powered Search Engine for the last 6 months. The thing about twitter is that it only works because people aren’t trying to game it.  Yet.  Google was an Amazing [...]

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Radio has a higher penetration of reach than any other medium on the planet.  Nearly 100% of Americans will hear radio at least once each week.  This may just be in the elevator, or on the bus, but it is hard to argue with the amount of reach which is possible with radio. Google being [...]

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Getting the most out of Google Adsense doesn’t involve anything dirty or deceptive.  It involves implementing Adsense the way Google intended.  These “hacks” will help you get the most money out of your content, and will do so with in the TOS of Adsense. Google Adsense Hack #1:  Write Good Content This would seem like [...]

Filed under : Money, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

So I really liked the concept of Eli’s PingCrawl plugin over at BlueHat SEO.  But it conflicts with some of my other plugins, and it requires you to tag your posts, which I don’t 90% of the time.  SO… Since I had planned to build something similar anyway I was inspired to get off my [...]

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Check this out.  I am on results 230-235 of about 1.  This is what happens when you get indexed quickly.  Most sites work pretty hard to get 200 pages a day indexed.  Yes, My SEO God status is maintained.  If I can convince Google to index all 6.5 Million products in my store I’ll be [...]

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So Stage 1 was making the thing work at all, but Stage 2 is doing SEO to improve how it scores in search engines.  So I replaced all the Query based Category links with nicely formatted Search Friendly Human Readable ones.  Doing the copy and paste to put these in this list was a good [...]

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I’m announcing a project I put together in a few hours, that will get some revisions in the near future, but is a good first start. The Digerat.com everything you could ever want to buy store. Yes right now it is just powered by Amazon, but I’m working on some ways to make it a [...]

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