From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Can You Get a Website Indexed with No Links and XML Sitemaps?

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This weekend I was doing a little housekeeping on some of my domains and hosting accounts and decided to test and see if it was possible to get a website indexed using XML Sitemaps and no external links.

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Thanks to this Months Sponsors – June 2009

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I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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How to Invalidate Wikipedia Articles

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Recently Google announced they are experimenting with including Wikipedia in Google News. Personally I’m not a fan of Wikipedia, so I think this is the perfect opportunity to share some tactics on how to make Wikipedia a whole lot more fun.

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How to Practice Kamikaze SEO

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One of the key aspects of any SEO strategy is knowing the risks of the tactics you use. As those tactics approach or break Google’s guidelines the more likely they to get you penalized or banned. Knowing where you are on the risk scale helps you know when it is imperative that you take precautions [...]

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The Big Fat RSS Lie

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Anytime a social media consultant starts talking to prospective clients and they bring up blogging, they talk about how RSS can be used to help them directly connect with their customers … the truth is in most cases it’s a BIG FAT LIE!

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SMX Advanced Pagerank Sculpting and Javascript Linking

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Probably the biggest kerfuffle at SMX advanced this past week was Google’s reversal on how they crawl javascript links, and how they are handling pagerank scuplting.

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Does Your Publishing Schedule Match Your Readers Habits

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In old days newspapers and magazine figured out there where optimal times for publishing certain types of stories, example Tuesday was traditionally “Science Times Tuesday”. As old world publishers transitioned to online publishers those rules probably don’t apply anymore and just might be working against them.

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How Google Profiles SEO’s

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At SMX one of the more contentious subjects was the debate over Google’s Android Phone giveaway, and demonstration that they are in practice profiling SEO’s.

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SMX Advanced 2009 Wrap Up

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Last week I attended SMX Advanced in Seattle and thought I’d share my thoughts about it.

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Wikipedia Invades Google News

June 6, 2009

The following screen shot has to be seen to be believed 7 wikipedia articles listed as news sources in google news (picture after the jump click to enlarge)(link if you can’t see it)

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