From the monthly archives:

August 2007

Why You Still Need to Be concerned with Bandwidth and Download Speeds

August 31, 2007

So after coming back from a vacation after SES I was reminded bandwidth and download speeds are still very much an issue.

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SES Paid Link Presentation

August 23, 2007

Since I’ve had so many requests here’s the presentation from the SES Paid Links Panel
mgray-paidlinks-ses2007 (powerpoint)

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SES San Jose Interview with Bryan Eisenberg and Lee Odden

August 21, 2007

I was chatting with Lee Odden and Bryan Eisenberg yesterday in the speaker ready room. Lee pulled out his video camera for bit of an impromtu on the spot video interview.

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Wiki Jacking

August 18, 2007

Rand’s got an interesting video up about wiki-jacking watch it and then read my commentary

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Digg.com Poison URL’s and Poison Accounts

August 17, 2007

Recently I’ve been doing some testing and experimentation and have come to the conclusion that not only are there poison URL’s in the digg system but poison accounts as well.

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Webmaster Central has Problems with 301’s to a New Domain

August 16, 2007

So one of the reasons I’ve been light on the blogging is I’ve got a lot of projects going on. One of which involved rebranding a domain from a crappy hyphenated domain to a brandable/purchasable one. So I had my XML sitemap ready to go. I had my htaccess ready to go with redirects in [...]

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It’s Not Just SEO’s who Have Issues with the Wiki

August 10, 2007

Think it’s just whiney SEO’s who have issues with accuracy on the wiki? Not so my friend, for example Morgan Webb of Webb Alert has a problem with people who keep editing her wiki profile and perpetuating the inaccuracy that she was born in Canada.

Again a resource who’s standard is citability not truth should not [...]

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New Google Adwords Formula = Just Pay Us More

August 10, 2007

The lunacy that is the Google adwords formula is actually really amusing lately, let’s take a look and dissect it line by line shall we …

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Universal Local Search and Direct Navigation

August 9, 2007

So here’s an interesting little discovery, type the following into your FF address bar
Museum of Modern Art
You should be directed to http://moma.org/

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Reinstating Your Google AdWords Account

August 6, 2007

That was the exact subject of an email I got from Google Adwords today. Um hey Google maybe you might want to chose a slightly less alarming message next time. Just because I’ve paused 99% of the ads in my adwords account doesn’t mean it’s been closed or needs to be “reinstated”.

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Google Blog Crawl … Yeah Right

August 6, 2007

I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason why Google includes data from adsense crawls into the index right away, but not data from blog ping crawls. I mean the reason they do it with adsense is to “reduce bandwidth”, so not applying the same logic to blog crawls is completely logical isn’t it.
Really just think [...]

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Google Trusts Global Village Idiots More than the US Government

August 4, 2007

Go ahead just look at this SERP for the [mississippi river]

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How Wordpress Makes Comments SEO Unfriendly

August 2, 2007

I love wordpress I really do it makes it really easy to publish, however the wordpress developers really need some help sometimes. It seems when there is a choice to make things SE friendly more often than not they make worst choice possible.

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