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Wordpress SEO: How to Create Living URL’s

If you watched any of the congressional hearings about the newspaper industry where Marissa Mayer testified one of the concepts she brought up is Living URL's. The basic concept is a story lives at a single URL and gets added to/edited/updated over time.

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Wordpress SEO: How to Choose a Permalink Structure

For this post we're going to be taking look at the optimal permalink and URL structures for wordpress. There are a lot of different options, and there isn't a one size fits all answer, however there are definitely better and worse choices you can make.

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Wordpress SEO: Wordpress Security Why it Matters to SEO

From a security standpoint wordpress has always been a piece of swiss cheese, not very secure and with lots of holes in it. In this post I'll explain why, and look at some things you can do to protect yourself and mitigate the damage.

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Wordpress SEO: How to Maximize Your Internal Link Strategy

Like a red headed step child no one pays much attention to internal links. In this post we'll take a look at some tools that help you link internally more effectively.

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Is Google Pushing Universal Results

September 28, 2008

Doing a vanity search for myself I noticed something interesting, here’s a screen shot when you list the top 20 results, notice the double videos in the middle

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Google Says Screw Accuracy as Long As You’re An Authority

September 28, 2008

I’ve often chided google for trusting wikipedia so much when Wikipedia says we don’t care about accuracy or truth, just verifiability. It now looks like they’ve taken it a step further and pitched truth out the window with the dodgeball development team. Here’s a screen shot from Sunday afternoon where according to the Google SERP’s [...]

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Looking for a Chumby Calendar Widget

September 27, 2008

One of the things that’s really missing from my chumby is a simple calendar widget. I’m just looking for simple month view and the ability to flip back and forth through months.The widget exists in German but not in english. I even tried pulling up the Google Calender widget and attaching it to blank calendar, [...]

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Domain Diversity in Google SERP’s For Breaking News

September 26, 2008

One of my favorite things about Google is how the show a wide variety of domains for search results, especially for breaking news terms like [Washington Mutual]. It’s not like the top 20 results have 6 listings from Washington Mutual (shown in red) or 4 from the New York Times (shown in blue). Nothing like [...]

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FeedProxy.Google.com What The Heck is That

September 23, 2008

So What the heck is feedproxy.google.com why is it out there, what’s it being used for, why is google letting it be indexed, why are 164,000 pages in the index [site:feedproxy.google.com] and why is it ranking?

it’s not like google places to much value on domain authority or anything …

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Google Doubling up On YouTube in Universal Search

September 23, 2008

interesting

oh and BTW can I mention what complete PIA it is to have celebrities muddying up SERP

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How To Get the Google Reader Tag Folder View on Your iPhone

September 22, 2008

I’ve never been a fan of the “river of news” style of reading rss feeds, prefer to organize and prioritize my feeds using the tag/folder functionality. When I was using a Samsung Blackjack there was a “tag view” option. However when I switched over to an iPhone, I got the new graphic rich version but [...]

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Google Adwords Crossing The Streams

September 18, 2008

So I was looking up a hosting KW in my logs, then reputation defender, however Google adwords showed me an ad related to my previous search. Reputation Defender has zero to do with with website hosting, and there’s no way they would have bought that KWD … hmm …

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Wondering Why I see So Many Dates in The SERPS

September 18, 2008

Here’s a screen shot of a Google search I did earlier today, made me wonder why Google thought it was important to include the date so many times

It’s even more odd considering the issues they’ve been having with getting dates right in Google news

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Talking Social Media With Loren Feldman of 1938 Media

September 17, 2008

I had the pleasure of hanging with Loren Feldman of 1938 Media about 2 weeks ago, here’s the first of three interviews

Oh and if you aren’t already subscribed to the 1938 Media email list I’d recommend getting on it …

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Apology to Guy Kawasaki

September 17, 2008

Earlier this week I made a post about Guy Kawasaki, and in retrospect it wasn’t the best course to take, and I’d like to apologize. My intent wasn’t to damage his reputation, because he is an author and speaker I like and respect. My intent for the post was to put Google on the spot [...]

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Google News is Getting the Date Wrong on Old News Stories

September 16, 2008

Last week there was a bit of a brouhaha over Google news incorrectly giving the wrong date for a news story. In that particular incident Google news picked up a 6 year old story about United Airlines filing bankruptcy which upset the stock market for that particular stock. I’ve seen things like that happen before [...]

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Yes Virginia You Can Hurt Yourself With Duplicate Content

September 16, 2008

So last week google had a blog post entitled Demystifying the “duplicate content penalty” and if you haven’t read it I’d recommend doing so. However I’m going to disagree with some parts of the post, because IMHO you really can hurt yourself with duplicate content.

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Link Payola in the A-List Blog World

September 15, 2008

Added: The following comment is from Guy Kawasaki about this incident, I moved them to the top since it is relevant to the issue – mg
I was given the camera because I am doing a big favor for a photo conference. Arguably, the camera cost me $15,000. I didn’t have to review it. – Guy [...]

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Loren Feldman of 1938 Media at IZEA Fest

September 14, 2008

Here’s a video of my friend Loren Feldman of 1938 Media at Izea Fest. It’s kinda long but if you are serious about using web video it’s worth watching.

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FlyClear Discount Code

September 13, 2008

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How To Figure Out What Parts of Your Website Aren’t Being Crawled

September 10, 2008

When Google took away the supplemental index last year, they killed one of the key diagnostic tools in the SEO’s toolbox, the ability to identify which parts of a site were unimportant (and being infrequently crawled) in a search engines eyes. However with the use of some structured text and clever searches I’m going to [...]

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Still Think You Can Ignore Social Media, Blogs, YouTube and Blended Search

September 7, 2008

Still think this whole social media, blog, youtube, universal search business isn’t here to stay or doesn’t effect you. I suggest you look at the SERP’s for Vice Presidential Candidate [Sarah Palin]. Not only will you see lots of blended and social media results but take note of the fact that a squidoo page for [...]

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Using Google Checkout Buttons Doesn’t Increase Adwords CTR

September 4, 2008

If you don’t believe that using that button from Google Checkout gives you a higher CTR and an advantage over your competition give me a call I’ve got some beach front property in Vegas I’d like to sell you

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Looking for a “Recently Updated” Wordpress Plugin

August 29, 2008

So after coming back from SES I had some interesting conversations, looked at some interesting things and came up with a few ideas. One of the things I’d like to try but have never seen is a recently updated function/plugin. How would a recently updated plugin differ from a recently published function … well I’m [...]

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