From the monthly archives:

October 2006

GoogleDashboard.com the Truth Behind the Speculation

October 31, 2006

Part of the fun and danger of the blogosphere and things moving at the speed of the internet, is quite often things get misinterpreted. Many times I intentionally leave questions unanswered, hoping to generate a little buzz with speculation to fill in th gaps. In this case however I’m goingto do the opposite, I’m actually [...]

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Matt Cutts and Heather Graham Conspiracy

October 29, 2006

Is Matt Cutts involved in a top secret project with Heather Graham? After reading a recent Threadwatch comment where Matt had this to say
if they want to assert that I have deep and close ties to, I dunno, Heather Graham, I would definitely throw my weight behind that one.
I thought hmm maybe Matt’s trying [...]

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Bidding on Matt Cutts as a Keyword

October 26, 2006

A few weeks ago Matt Cuts noticed someone was bidding on his name. Being the snarky wise-ass fun loving jovial type I decided to have a little fun. While it wasn’t an especially nice thing to do hopefully I can make up for that by turning this into a learning experience and showing some stats.

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About.com Nothing but MFA Spam

October 25, 2006

Whenever someone asks me to to define an MFA site I point them to about.com. Last night I was looking up [history of coins china] and came across a perfect example of some About.com MFA Spam on this page. Which also ranks for [chinese coin history] and I’m sure a whole bunch of other related [...]

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Is Googlebot Getting Lazy

October 24, 2006

I’ve been watching some of my pages to see when they get into Google and am getting pretty frustrated by the lack of progress so I did a little checking, and think Googlebot is getting pretty lazy …

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Social Bookmark Scripts and Widgets

October 24, 2006

Everyone who’s looking to bring traffic to thier website is pretty focused on social bookmarking right now. However one of the things a lot people miss is making it easy for their readers to do this. So here a tutorial on how to implement some social bookmarking into your site just like the picture below.

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Contextual Ads and Pictures

October 23, 2006

I’ve lost track of what’s the current feeling on this issue. Last I remember YPN didn’t like it Adsense wanted a line separating the pics and the adverts. If I’m way off base could some one point me in the direction of a forum thread from a reliable person I’d appreciate it.

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Mashup Testing Results

October 23, 2006

So last week I put out a call for mashup beta testers and got some overwhelming response, thanks to everyone who offered even if you weren’t picked.

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Thanks to all Beta Testers

October 23, 2006

Last week I requested for some mashup testers, and I’d to say thanks to everyone who participated.
Natasha Robinson – That Girl From Marketing
Aaron Pratt – Seo Buzz Box
Markus – AU Interactive
Tony Rocks – Niche Web Marketing
Mike Empuria – Empuriabrava Online
Joost De Valk – Joost de Valk
Ben Flux – Affiliate Marketing Blog
George Zlatin
Jordan Glasner

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Googlebot Keep Out and Sitemaps Errors

October 22, 2006

When I first saw this I totally freaked out but after checking into it it’s really not as bad as it looks ….

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Crawling Difficulties and Error Pages

October 21, 2006

I like to put my error pages in a subdirectory usually named “error”. So any 401, 403, 404 or other errors will end up in http://www.example.com/error/404/ . I also use this for other thing like database failures or things so I end up with http://www.example.com/error/database-error/ with a hopefully human friendly explanation of what happened. [...]

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Is My Website Banned in Google?

October 19, 2006

One of the more difficult problems to diagnose is has your website been banned or is there something else wrong? I have the unfortunate task of trying to diagnose the problem for one of my sites and I thought it might be educational to let you in on the process.

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Azoogle 2.0 Interface

October 18, 2006

Sorry I’m totally not liking the new Azoogle 2.0 interface. Eye candy for the sake of eye candy. Much slower IMHO. Links aren’t underlined by default, so I have to guess where to put my mouse and hope it’s a link. I get some bizarre firefox warning error message when I try to copy [...]

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1and1.com Internet Web Hosting Sucks

October 17, 2006

They are by far the worst hosting company. They make it impossible cancel and account, and if you don’t do it correctly they will keep billing you. Think you’ll be ok when your credit card expires don’t worry they will keep billing you and eventually refer you to collections. When you call to speak to [...]

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Google Sitemaps for Large Scale Sites

October 17, 2006

If you’ve got a any first hand experience working with and submitting sitemaps for sites with over 50K pages drop me an email I’d like to talk with you.

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Social Media – The Power of the Title

October 17, 2006

Rand made an interesting observation about a post that got “dugg” (I think he’s nailed it too). However the real gem of wisdom comes from Rob Stevens who makes this observation

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Looking for Mashup Testers

October 13, 2006

Allrighty so I’m getting ready to push out my ultimate mashup. I combined some news feeds, youtube, flickr, amazon, AOL, and technorati API and data all together into one site. The result is about 150,000 pages of web 2.0 mashup good-ness. I’m looking for a handful of people to take a look at it next [...]

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Good Karma Podcasts SEO Mistakes

October 11, 2006

I’ve got my head down working on the mashup to end all mashups. However if you’re looking for some Graywolf goodness, you can listen to a podacast I did with Greg Niland on 9/28/2006, where we talk about SEO mistakes we’ve made and how to learn from them and not repeat them.
Good Karma Podcast

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Why the MySpace User Interface is Horrible

October 9, 2006

One of the most common complaints I hear from people who don’t get myspace is, it looks like my teenagers room. It’s a disjointed illogical layout bombarded with pictures and music. Recently I was working on a project and I think I gained some insight into why MySpace looks the way it does.

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Flickr API Help

October 8, 2006

Does anyone know of resource that shows you how to use flickr’s API that’s written in english so that actual people can understand it. Something with examples is always helpful. This from Flickr is about the most god awful thing I have ever tried to read in my enitire life.

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