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Rankmaniac

who is a rankmaniac

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Using Google Sitemaps for Competitive Intelligence

I’m a big fan of the Google Webmaster Central Program and using sitemaps. I agree that you should build your website so that it is crawlable and not rely on sitemaps to compensate for poor site architecture, but hands down there is no better tool when you are migrating or cleaning up after a site [...]

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Primate Spheres in the Blue Grass State

Sometimes things need to be tested and checked, answers need to be sought, friends need the assist, even if it is for Monkey Balls In Louisville Kentucky

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Nicest Bloke in SEO

Nicest Bloke in SEO

Nicest Bloke in SEO

Nicest Bloke in SEO

Nicest Bloke in SEO

Nicest Bloke in SEO

Nicest Bloke in SEO

Nicest Bloke in SEO

Nicest Bloke in SEO

 

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Compete Still a Bit Wet Behind the Ears

I actually like Compete I think it’s quite a bit more accurate than Alexa or other competing services, however when I see comments like this on their blog it makes me question some of their conclusions:

Every search query we see in our data is a query performed by an actual person.

via compete blog

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Speaker
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Amazon
PC Magazine
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Logitech
Z-2300 Speaker System
$78.94 – $149.99
Highly Rated
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Top Rated
Highly Rated

Klipsch
ProMedia Ultra 2.0
$78.00 – $100.00
Highly Rated
Editors Choice
100 Best Products of 2005
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Highly Rated

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MyMac Melbourne Threatens Blogger

It’s amazing in this day and age that companies really don’t know how harness the power of the internet for good. It’s so much easier to try and solve problems and create evangelists instead of threatening legal action. However MyMac Melbourne did the opposite they took a bad situation and made it worse threatening to [...]

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Understanding Confrontational and Controversial Marketing

Controversial and confrontational marketing are time tested methods for bringing traffic, attention and links to your company, product or website, however there’s more to it than just picking a fight.

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

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

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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2007 Tour de France Winner – Wikipedia

The Tour de France is scheduled to begin tomorrow, so I was doing some research for another site and was really amazed at the favoritism Google shows Wikipedia. So I decided to break it down and show bad it really is. Below is a list of all the stops on this years Tour de France, [...]

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Wikipedia I’m in Ur Index Rulin’ Ur Serpz

Go ahead type in any single letter of the alphabet into a google search box. Think it highlights an algorithmic bias that wikipedia is listed top 10 for every one. Sure no one really searches for the “a” but when you play on the fringe you learn things about how an algo works. Still not [...]

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What Can You Learn From the iPhone

So you’re sitting around wishing you could have some of that iPhone traffic, but your never going to get your pages to rank in time. Well friend how about you make this a learning experience. Go to the Google trends page for June 29th. Take a look at all iPhone related searches people are doing. [...]

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Reputation Management for Image Search

So I was doing an image search and came across something interesting. Looking for [Jet Blue] showed some interesting results. What caught my eye was the pictures of the failed landing gear incident. Not what I would consider an ideal image SERP. What does your an image SERP for your company, your product or your [...]

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Lets Have Fun With Anchor Text Part III

Lets Have fun with Anchor text Part III
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constigratitude click here

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Having Fun With Anchor Text Part I

Let’s have some fun and experiment with Anchor text part I
 
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click here Snergilitude

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Things That Make you Go Hmm – Mahalo and Elective Genitoplasty

The recently updated page from Mahalo is pretty interesting

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THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES

Maybe you’ve been lucky enough to actually see one of these billboards

 
or perhaps you’ve seen one of the following mentioned somewhere on the web
THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY
To the advertising company who’s running the campaign I have to say please get a clue!

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Ichthyosaur Didgeridoo Asterism Velutinous

ef yer wunderin whet dees es ebout cleek heer

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Linkbait if it’s Good Enough for Forbes it’s Good Enough for Me

I’ve made no secret of my Disney fan status, in fact I have several news feeds set up to catch Disney items. Catching up in the feed reader this morning I came across the following: Top 10 luxury attractions at Disney World

Top 10 luxury attractions at Disney World How to have a five-star vacation at [...]

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