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SEO

Do You Want Your Ancillary Pages in Googles Index

October 22, 2007

Since I did a less than stellar job explaning what I meant by keeping your ancillary pages out of Googles index when I reviewed Mahalo last week, I thought I’d try and correct that error.

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Jason Calacanis Please Stop Bad Mouthing SEO’s Because You Won’t Take the Time to Work With Good One’s

October 19, 2007

Ok so Jason Calacanis is talking smack about bad SEO’s again and I think it’s time to clear the air. First of all if you want to talk to SEO’s and good one’s go to an SEO conference not a web 2.0 conference. I don’t know who spoke there and really don’t care, but if [...]

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Why Website Grader is a Bad Idea

October 5, 2007

I came across Website Grader via Guy Kawasaki’s website today and I have to say this is one of the worst ideas I have ever seen, worse than that it’s downright dangerous in the wrong hands!

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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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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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Matt this is not an Update Cutts

June 19, 2007

C’mon Matt do we really have to have this semantics debate every time something gets changed? The this is an update, that was a data push, the other thing was a xoogler sneaking into the building, get tiring after a while. I know you don’t like calling it an update, even when it is, and [...]

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Having Fun with Anchor Text Part II

June 13, 2007

Let’s have some fun with anchor text part II
monstigaligation click here
click here monstigaligation

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SEO Class and Pubcon Team Up

June 7, 2007

It’s official SEO Class has teamed up with WebmasterWorld here’s the official press release

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Can You Make a Living Blogging

May 30, 2007

Today’s question comes from Joe Tao who asks:
“Is it a truth, based on your experience, that anyone can make a living blogging if they understand how SEO works”

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Client Work and SEO Blogging

May 18, 2007

Client work has it’s own set of problems and when you’re publishing a blog where people expect regular updates things sometimes get “icky”.

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Why Should You Experiment With New Things

May 18, 2007

Changes with Google SERPS give some interesting results
make wordpress search engine friendly
any questions …

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Wildcard Subdomains

May 12, 2007

Yesterday I stumbled across a curious subdomain, after poking around I discovered it was actually a wildcard subdomain implementation. So I had a bit of fun playing with Jason Calacanis but then discovered it’s really a bug that’s present in all of the weblogs inc blogs.

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Personalized Search Looking at Weblogs

May 9, 2007

So I’m looking through my stats in log programs and I’m seeing strange things. Hundreds and in one case nearly a thousand people coming from keywords that I can’t place anywhere in SERP’s. I’ve tried the MCDar data center tool and still not finding anything. I’m still looking but at this point, but my most [...]

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Does W3C compliance and accessibility impact your Search Engine Optimization

May 4, 2007

Douglas Karr sent me a question that I get asked pretty often so I thought I’d share it with you here:
Can W3C compliance and accessibility impact your Search Engine Optimization?

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Bruce Clay Charity SEO Contest

May 3, 2007

Over on the Bruce Clay Blog, Susan posts about a cool SEO Charity Contest they announced today.

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Linkbait, Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exagerated

April 27, 2007

Recently I’ve come across an increasing number of ‘link bait is dying’, ‘link bait is dead’, and ‘linkbait is so 2006′ blog posts. To those people I say, please remove your head from ass quickly, because you look ridiculous.

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Reasons Not to Use Keywords in Your URL’s

April 26, 2007

Generally speaking it’s a good idea to include keywords in your url structure whenever possible, however there are some instances when using an alternative method is more desirable.

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SEOClass Shameless Self Promotion

April 25, 2007

One of the reasons for my light blogging this week is we’ve been putting some finishing touches on our upcoming two day SEO Workshop over at SEO Class.
We’ve got a special offer we’re offering $500 off the registration price for anyone who registers between now and May 4th. What do you have to do to [...]

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A Technical SEO’s Look at Endless.com

April 21, 2007

Over the past few months I’ve had more than one client ask me my opinion about Endless.com Amazon’s new shoe shopping site. Since Rae talked about Endless and Danielle gave an Endless review I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to share some of what I saw, what I liked and what I [...]

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