April 2005

Thanks to Jenstar for doing whatever had to be done behind the scenes to get Google to release the Adsense heat map onto the Adsense optimization tips page. I’ll admit when I first saw it, I mentally was trying to combine it with the most comparable heat map of the eyetrack studies. I finally decided [...]

If you are involved in selling text links or “know a guy” who is, you’ve probably had to wrestle with the issue of selling off topic links. The question of how it affects your websites ranking is a separate issue for another time. The primary issue is do you go for the money or turn [...]

Since the kids are off from school this week it’s time to take advantage of the opportunity, and turn it into a “real” educational experience by going to a museum with Dad. The Liberty Science Center is one of the newer “touchy-feely” museum’s that actually encourage you to interact with the exhibits, instead of looking [...]

Seems you can’t swing a dead cat nowadays without hitting someone talking about blogging. The latest player to the game is Business Week. They had a cover story about it last week, and have launched a blog about business blogging. While there is the business week cover story curse to contend with, I think Business [...]

Monday April 25 is the 15th anniversary of the Hubble telescopes launch. Yes it had some problems with the lenses after it was launched, but they fixed that and we got some beautiful pictures from it. Currently they plan to let Hubble burn up in the atmosphere rather than save it (news) which doesn’t make [...]

I talked about Google’s Search History yesterday. Well in the interest of research I signed up. Once you do you’ll notice something a little different starting with the google home page: (note shots have been sanitized)

After logging in this is what you’ll see, looks like they are making serious steps in the portal direction to [...]

No doubt you’ve heard of Google Bombing, or using anchor text to manipulate search engine results to cause a page to rank for words that aren’t on the page. Well it’s taken it’s next step and evolved into something darker and potentially more dangerous, GoogleBowling. While I’d like to take credit for coining the phrase [...]

Fire up your podcast software, Paris Hilton has a Podcast for her upcoming movie House of Wax. Be afraid … be very afraid …
Paris Hilton podcast link (warning link has audio)
tags: podcast | paris hilton.

Don’t think there’s a sandbox and that your anchor text can’t be over-optimized, try these searches:
Google: Webmaster Radio
Yahoo: Webmaster Radio
MSN: Webmaster Radio
Google: allinanchor Webmaster Radio
Yahoo and MSN on the money, Google pretty much useless. Just in case they do a hand tweak as has happened a few times in the past here’s a screen [...]