From the monthly archives:

March 2005

Stupid Spammer

March 31, 2005

Some people’s level of stupidity is really amazing. Someone came to this blog posting and made this comment:
I have learned about this at school today!
with a link back to the website (perfect use of no-follow)
Follow through and you’ll see some auto generated jibberish with some links to some wordtracker keyword generated sites. Hey not that [...]

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Google Sandbox Patent?

March 31, 2005

I picked this up from Rustybrick who got it from SearchEngineWatch. Looks interesting the whole thing is here.
[0077] The dates that links appear can also be used to detect “spam,” where owners of documents or their colleagues create links to their own document for the [...]

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Yahoo! 360° – My Page

March 31, 2005

Ok so I got my Yahoo 360 invite. I’m playing around, go ahead and add me as friend if ya like.
Graywolf Yahoo 360

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Speeding Ticket

March 31, 2005

So I drive less than 30 miles a week, but managed to get a speeding ticket for doing 38 in a 30, while returning a video so I wouldn’t have to pay the $2 late fee … sigh

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Just Business

March 31, 2005

After 4 months I still get close to 500 page views a month from yahoo for “Tara Reid Wardrobe Malfunction” so I’ve gone back and edited the post so all of those people find what they are looking for. It’s one time change and made strictly as a business decision. It’s not something I plan [...]

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Landing Pages Teleseminar

March 30, 2005

So I listened to a teleseminar today from Kowabunga about landing pages. It was about an hour and had companion PDF to go along with it. The first 15 minutes or so were a little slow but after that it got moving. The program talked about landing page elements, what should be there, what shouldn’t, [...]

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The Keyword Density and Dr. E. Garcia.

March 30, 2005

In this article The Keyword Density of Non-Sense, Dr. Garcia says that keyword density is a non-issue as far as SEO is concerned. Now I’m not willing to drive a steak through it’s heart yet, but I don’t think it’s that important a factor anymore. So I’m pretty much in agreement with the article. What [...]

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Quote of the day

March 30, 2005

It would seem ridiculous that just because someone has a site with lots of content they can automatically get so many backlinks.
Well … err … umm … oh forget it
WebmasterWorld.com

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Google and Site Searches

March 30, 2005

As DaveN noted earlier today, when you search for a website address like www.whitehouse.gov you’ll see a new line:
Find web pages from the site whitehouse.gov
Now if you were to click on that search you’d be given a listing of all of the pages from whitehouse.gov. When you do that you see some pretty strange results. [...]

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Rot-13 and Google

March 30, 2005

You know one of the things that really gets my feathers all ruffled is people only giving half of the story. For example take this line from google’s latest blog entry
The answers are in an old computer-geek code called ROT-13.
Umm … sorry you left out the really interesting stuff that came thousands of years before [...]

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Surrender to the DVD Side

March 30, 2005

Ok I finally broke down and bought the Star Wars boxed DVD set at Walmart this weekend (DAMN YOU GEORGE LUCAS). Yeah I know it’s not like I needed them, I mean I already own all of them on tape. And since nobody got me a that 80″ plasma screen TV I’ve been lusting after, [...]

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MSN and CSS-P

March 29, 2005

For those of you that don’t know what CSS-P is, it’s using CSS to determine the positioning of page elements, irrespective of their location on the code. Well what does that mean? Look at this page it has a banner up top, some navigation on the left, the main body, some right hand navigation, and [...]

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Webmaster Radio

March 29, 2005

Dear Webmaster Radio,
I’d really like to listen to some of your shows, I really would, but the majority of them are in that 4pm to 8pm EST time range. See that’s a bad time for me, because that’s when the other living, breathing people in my house start come home and want to talk and [...]

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Mr Ploppy and Other Tools

March 29, 2005

That rapscallion of SEO Mr. Ploppy is at again with a list cool tools. My favorite is the Class C Backlinks Analyzer from the guys at WeBuildPages. Now I’d never suggest that you use it with Hub Finder or Google Touch Graph Browser, especially on your competitors …
While I’m thinking about it, I’m really [...]

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Easter Dinner

March 27, 2005

A selection of New York Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Swiss and Brie cheeses served with crackers.

An assortment of sliced carrots, cucumbers and peppers.

A Tzatziki Dip served in a freshly baked loaf of pumpernickel bread.

Mushroom and spinach phyllo dough kisses.

Crispy chicken strips served on skewers with a sweet & sour dipping sauce.

Ham with a Dijon mustard, bourbon, [...]

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Email, and RSS Marketing

March 27, 2005

Like many SEO’s sometimes I think Seth Godin is a little wonky from time to time, but others he knows what he’s talking about. I originally came across his work with Permission Marketing. The concept is pretty simple, you ask someone’s permission to market to them, earn their trust, and in exchange you’re marketing [...]

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Disney Blogger Jim Hill

March 27, 2005

While my own Disney project seems stuck in a quagmire I’m still watching the space to see what’s going on. So I picked up this story about blogger Jim Hill getting ejected from the park for giving tours. Seems he was charging $25 a pop for walking tours, and Disney was less than enthused, and [...]

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Link Requests

March 25, 2005

Mesothelioma & Asbestosis News Blog … you’re kidding right?

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I See … Rankings

March 23, 2005

41 days after this post, I have gone from +1000 to #49 in Google, for a very competitve term, on website that was created in January of 2004.
Interesting … very interesting …
Thanks DigitalGhost

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GoogleGuy MIA

March 23, 2005

It seems all the fiasco over the 302 hijacking caught the attention of GoogleGuy who posted over at slashdot. Many of us have noticed a decidedly different change in GoogleGuys tone recently and Nick at threadwatch lays it all on the table:

This is not the IP we normally associate with the usually friendly and courtious [...]

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