From the monthly archives:

October 2005

Bacon Polenta, Second Helping

October 26, 2005

So after Matt Cutts made his infamous Bacon Polenta posting it was discovered that his Bacon Polenta was Google Washed by the DarkSeoLabs team over at Threadwatch. I made note of it here on my blog (Matt Cutts and Bacon Polenta). Now it seems that Google has decided that my post should rank #2 for [...]

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Google, Get Your Act Together

October 26, 2005

It’s been a while since I’ve given someone a dressing down here, and Google since you’re most deserving, brace for impact.
New Product ReleasesOk according to your investor relations update as of September 30th 2005 you have just under 5,000 employees. That’s an awful lot of Googlers out there who have to find something to do [...]

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Client Work

October 25, 2005

It’s not that I don’t love y’all it’s just there’s client work to be done. Seeing how Novembers going to be a be busy month I have to get it finished, so expect things to be slow for the next 2 weeks. After that we’ll be back to the bloggy goodness on a more regular [...]

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Google Update Jagger and SEO Forums Down

October 19, 2005

So I was looking through my logs here last night and noticed massive amounts of spider traffic, was going to post something, but it was 2am and I went to bed. This morning I woke up and Threadwatch was down, but Nick was doing some stuff. I popped over to WebmasterWorld they seemed to be [...]

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How to Create a Splog

October 18, 2005

With all this talk of splogs and spam blogs and even people selling spam blogging machines, I thought I’d give you a nice little tutorial. Any competent PHP programmer should be able to crank one out before lunch time and you should have it debugged by the time you go home.
1. Sign up for a [...]

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Eureka Moments!

October 18, 2005

Have you ever been skimming through forums or blogs and you see someone’s sig file and it has a site name that just piques your curiosity. You look around and the moon and stars align and it ties in with this whole other blob of data in your brain that’s just doing nothing, and you [...]

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WebGuerilla on Podcasting

October 17, 2005

Listening to SEGuru and WebGuerilla talking about podcasting on Webmaster Radio, here’s the quote of the show
“I think if a lot of these bloggers had to listen to themselves talk, they might actually shut up“

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Blog News Reporter: Promotion and Growing your Blog

October 17, 2005

In part two we talked about your your blogging approach and voice (Blog News Reporter: Approaches and the News), so we’ll talk about what to do once your blog is up and running and you don’t have too many readers.

Syndicate Content: Syndicating your content has a few different aspects. The first and easiet method is [...]

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Rulebreaker Creative Problem Solver?

October 17, 2005

This is a personal post, so if you’re only looking for search related stuff feel free to pass by. This weekend was my oldest daughters birthday. The school she attends lets you bring in cupcakes and juice for the class to celebrate. So last night we made 24 cupcakes and frosted them, put them in [...]

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Casestudy Zugzwang Post 4

October 16, 2005

More Zugzwang pay no attention to this file.
Case Study File 15 Case Study File 16 Case Study File 17

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Chitika Mini Malls and Meta Tags

October 16, 2005

I’ve been working with Chitika’s mini malls and very happy with the results. However I’ve looking for a way to insert the keywords programatically and not go through javascript randomizers or tortourous levels of programming. If you’re using Wordpress here’s an easy-peezy way to make it happen. First you’ll need the meta-keyword plugin for worpress. [...]

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Casestudy Zugzwang Post 3

October 16, 2005

The results from zugzwang post #1 are yielding some interesting but inconclusive results, so we’ll have to throw a few more files out there and watch what happens.
Case Study File 11 Case Study File 12 Case Study File 13 Case Study File 14

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Blog News Reporter: Approaches and the News

October 11, 2005

In part one of this series we talked about the tools for being a blog news reporter (Blog News Reporter: The Tools). In part II we are going to focus on the actual blog itself.

Determine a Goal: When you are getting ready to start a blog try to think where you want this blog to [...]

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Blog News Reporter: The Tools

October 10, 2005

I’ve been working on some blog news sites for several months now and I’ve come up with an modus operandi, and some time saving tips. This is an approach that works for me, feel free to copy it, massage it and integrate it into your schedule as you see fit.

Blog Software: There’s a lot of [...]

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How To Be a Blog News Reporter

October 10, 2005

I’m training people who’ve never blogged before how to be a blog news reporter. I’ve been using writeboard as a tool to develop notes, and in the effort of community spirit I’m sharing my approach. I’ve broken it down into the subjects listed below:
Blog News Reporter: The ToolsBlog News Reporter: Approaches and the NewsBlog News [...]

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Casestudy Zugzwang Post 2

October 8, 2005

More SEO Case Study Files. This is a Zugzwang post get more information.
Case Study File 7Case Study file 8Case Study File 9Case Study File 10

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Matt Cutts and Bacon Polenta

October 4, 2005

I’ve been trying to keep away from the regurg’d news but clearly this is one of the more important SEO threads of the year Matt Cutts Blog Google Washed.

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Wikipedia Eats Google Part II

October 4, 2005

I was tipped off to Wikipedia Eats Google, through Steve Rubel’s Wikipedia all over Google. One his main proving points is this special query over at Google [* *] which is intresting, and this is the authors line of reasoning:
Google is becoming increasingly prone to Wikipedia. This is because Google’s PageRanktm algorithm, the method by [...]

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Writeboard, Backpack, and Basecamp Review

October 3, 2005

I saw the buzz yesterday about the new product Writeboard. When I started playing with it I ended up looking at the whole suite of products.
Writeboard (no aff) is a virtual white board that allows people to have a collaborative whiteboard across the internet. It’s password protected so only people you “invite” can see and [...]

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