From the monthly archives:

May 2006

Hare Brained Link Building Ideas for Link Monkeys

May 31, 2006

I’m a big fan of outside of the box thinking especially where link building is concerned. If you’re looking for some link building ideas be sure to check out Brainstorm On How To Get One Way I.B. Links on WMW in the supporters section. In particular pay attention to what Martinibuster has to say, that [...]

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How to Create Duplicate Content on Someone Else’s Wordpress Blog

May 31, 2006

Recently on this blog I went through the process of moving from a dynamic URL structure to static looking URL structure (ie example.com?p=100 to example.com/foo/). Along the way I learned a little bit more about how wordpress works and discovered a way to use this to create duplicate content on someone else’s wordpress blog.

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SEO Scrapers over at cocoonworks.com

May 30, 2006

If you’re going to be a scraper news aggregator, I don’t know that I’d start with the high profile people who could make things difficult for you:

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Graywolf’s SEO blog back online

May 30, 2006

OK so things should be working here again and I’ll be getting back on a regular posting schedule. I revised the template going for something much simpler than the web2.0 stuff everyone else is doing. I’ve gone from dynamic looking URL’s to SE friendly ones. If you want to make that change yourself without mucking [...]

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Hello world

May 26, 2006

Ignore this is a test post to see if everything is working.

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Posting Light

May 25, 2006

Posting will be light over the next 1-2 weeks I’ve got some house cleaning to do here.

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Three Amigos and Advice on Choosing Your Niches

May 25, 2006

Ned Niederlander: This is not a town of weaklings! You can use your strengths against El Guapo. Now, what is it that this town really does well?
Mama Sanchez: We can sew!
Hopefully you recognized that quote from the missunderstood cult comedy classic Three Amigos. If you didn’t it’s ok, what is important is that you [...]

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Understanding Adsense Patent Review

May 24, 2006

Eric GiguÃ¨re of Make Easy Money With Google Adsense published an Adsense Patent Review and sent me a copy to review. Now I’m not a big fan of overly technical documents or patents but they are something we have to deal with in this industry, so you’ve either got to learn to read them and [...]

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Htaccess %3F Rewrite

May 23, 2006

All right I’ve looked around can’t seem to find the answer, so hopefully one of my nice readers knows the answer and will share. I’m getting a bunch of inbound links that look like this
http://www.wolf-howl.com/%3Fp=324
http://www.wolf-howl.com/%3Fp=325
http://www.wolf-howl.com/%3Fp=326
%3F is the URLencoded character for a [?]. I could do something manual but I’m looking for a slicker more programatic [...]

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A Look at Coste.net

May 23, 2006

There’s a thread over at Digg.com where Steve of Coste.net is complaining Google is Broken because they don’t rank for [privacy service]. While there may some problems with Google in this case the problems are really with Coste.net. This is by no mean a full on total analysis, it took me about 15 minutes to [...]

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Inline Linking Bad for Usability

May 23, 2006

As SEO’s we’ve all been “trained” to think that “inline links” (those within the normal flow of sentences and paragraphs) are the best kind of links to have. Inline links clearly provide a wider variety of surrounding text, and they are more “natural looking” (whatever that means) to search engines. However are inline links really [...]

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Text Link Ads Calculator

May 22, 2006

So my buddy Patrick over at text link ads has put out a new tool to help you figure out how much you could get selling ads on your website. I’ve tried a few different websites and it’s pretty cool. However they were clearly having a little fun putting in an Easter Egg when you [...]

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More Google Crawling Oddities

May 22, 2006

I recently mentioned I was having some problems with light crawling and old cache dates, well I got to work cleaning up my pages and changing from example.com/foo.html to example.com/foo/ . I’ve done the right thing redirecting with htaccess and since the site is legit I entered it into Google sitemaps. Now shortly after entering [...]

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Shoemoney

May 22, 2006

Can you outrank Shoemoney?
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Shoemoney on Typekey: click here
Shoemoney on MSN Spaces: click here
Shoemoney on Pimp my Blog: click here
Shoemoney Media Group: click here
Shoemoney doing Google Video: click here
Shoemoney on Digg: click here
Shoemoney on Threadwatch: click here
Shoemoney on V7N: [...]

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MSN Easy Lover

May 19, 2006

So I did a little test of some domain spamming reputation management for a friends company. I used the MSN URL submission tool and in less than 30 days I “owned” the 9 of the top 10 spots. There are only 250,000 other pages listed so it’s not really competitive by any measurement, but man [...]

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Gone Supplemental and Really Old Cache Dates

May 18, 2006

Went to look into breathing new life into a site I haven’t worked on in a while. The main page and two other pages were recently crawled and are in the cache with date less than 30 days ago. The other 40 or so pages are supplemental with cache dates of June through August of [...]

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How to Annotate Google Maps

May 17, 2006

There are a few ways and tools that alow to build and annotate google maps. For those of you interested in learning how to do it yourself, we’re going to do a quick walkthrough to get you started, and show you some examples.

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