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SEO

Borrowed Laptop

January 9, 2007

Working on a borrowed laptop, for the next few days. Looking at a tablet pc as a replacement, if you have any first hand insight or experience let me know by email or comments, thanks.

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Going Viral to Build Defensible Traffic

January 9, 2007

Late last year Darren Rowse on Problogger had a post about How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog. The post discuses how going viral can increase your reader/subscribers over time which build in long term defensible traffic. The graphs he used were hypothetical but accurate. Last week I created the situation so thought [...]

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Blue Widgets – Google and CSS Files

January 8, 2007

With all this talk about Google Crawling CSS files I thought it might be nice to get an idea what’s within guidelines and what’s not.

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Laptop Dead

January 8, 2007

Heat buildup, power coupling melted, no explosions but messy plastic goop on motherboard. No data loss, however outlook backups are incompatible do to version mismatch. Email may have been lost during redirection. some scheduled blog posts will publish, will return soon.

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Webmasterradio Shameless Self Promotion

January 6, 2007

I was on Greg Niland’s GoodKarma Radioshow earlier this week talking about a whole bunch of things and dropping some hints, tips and tricks. Sorry about not letting you know before hand but it was all very last minute. Listen to or download the podcast from WebmasterRadio

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Netscape.com Clearly Not a Democracy

January 6, 2007

Trying to offer an alternative to Digg Netscape.com is doing everything in it’s power to squelch the input of it users, even it’s most active users, instead opting for some draconian leadership that is pretty intolerant of differing opinions.

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TheDisneyBlog.com Delisted in Google

January 6, 2007

Not my site, not my client, not affiliated with me in any way, however I do read it regularly. Seems he’s having a bit of a problem with Google losing his site. Maybe someone in Google can give him a heads up. There I did my good deed for the day.

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Google Reader – The Borg is Watching

January 5, 2007

The blogosphere is buzzing today about the new stats being published by the Google reader, however I’d like to take a slightly more cynical look at things.

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SoloSEO Project Management Software Review

January 5, 2007

I was asked to review SoloSEO project management software. I had heard of the software but to be honest didn’t really know much about it before starting this review so here’s a look at what I saw and thought.

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Ghost Riding the Whip – Insurance Linkbait

January 4, 2007

One of the things I hear a lot is how do I do link bait for a boring industry like <insert industry here> . All you really need to do is think out of the box and go with a trend.

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Graywolf on Southpark

January 4, 2007

I am so looking to stir up some trouble and get into mischief …

Trose and DG now go create yer own

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SEO – Something I Learned Today

January 4, 2007

Today I learned the SEO not only stands for Search Engine Optimization, but it also stands for Sewage Enforcement Officers http://seotraining.com/ . All I can say is good luck ever trying to rank for that …

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Allure.com – How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with No Follow

January 1, 2007

So I was doing a bit of research today and came across a story that lead me to Allure Magazine and I saw a textbook example of how using nofollow the wrong way can work against you.

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Picture Bait

December 30, 2006

Ok I am so getting out ahead of the pack on this one and am taking full credit for coining the term and of picture bait. Sure people have been doing, maybe even in very deliberate and manipulative ways, but gosh darn it I’m giving it a name, and if science has taught us anything [...]

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MyBlogLog Widget

December 28, 2006

Ok I got the MyBlogLog widget thing going on so you can join my community.

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Graywolf’s SEO Blog the Year in Review 2006

December 27, 2006

Since it’s the last week in the year I thought I’d share some stats from this blog with.

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Oddities From the Latest Google Update

December 22, 2006

Man the latest update on Google is clearly showing some odd stuff. For example on one domain I own it says the site isn’t in google at all. If I do a site: search on the domain I get 300+ pages but everything except one is in supplemental. If I look back at the page [...]

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SFX Motor Sports Podcast

December 22, 2006

SFX Motor Sports Podcast
For the curious visit CNet, for the legally minded take note that the link goes to google and google is the one doing the redirecting.
Hat tip to my non-analog spectral friend.

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Web Based Email For More than One Address

December 21, 2006

In addition to playing with my feedreader I’ve also been playing with my email lately and I’m equally frustrated at not being able to do what I want.

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Viral Marketing for Long Term Sales

December 21, 2006

Over on threadwatch I recently made a comment that social media should not be used for meeting short term sales goals (link). I read an article today from Reuters that showed how giving something away to generate an early buzz resulted in more long term sales Disney learns lessons from “High School”
In print and [...]

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