Archive for July, 2007
« Previous EntriesSubmissions: Snake Oil
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007People persist in believing submissions are necessary for the top 4 search engines.
Mythology of Sponsored WordPress Templates
Friday, July 20th, 2007I really don’t believe most WordPress sponsored templates are ranking rockets for the sponsors.
Poetical Spam Subject Lines
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Spam subject lines are poetic.
New Webmaster Central Feature
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Google’s Webmaster Central added a feature allowing secured communication between the search giant and webmasters. Neato.
Evolving Signals Amidst Noise
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007A frequent theme among SEO bloggers is the need to create many positive signals to search engines and their users — preferably as many of these signals as possible.
Every Snowflake is Unique. Are You?
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Embrace your unique selling proposition.
Black Hat SEO vs. Dunce Cap SEO
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007‘Black hat SEO’ is a label often erroneously applied to what are really ‘dunce cap’ online marketing tactics.
Minneapolis Locals: SEO Event 7/11
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007MIMA’s hosting a search event in Minneapolis. Let’s all go.
Flash: It’s Not Just Search
Thursday, July 5th, 2007The Google Webmaster Blog has a post about uses of Flash in Web pages. Naturally, as one might expect from Google, they focus on the ability of Googlebot or other spiders to ’see’ Flash.
Nothing’s wrong with this, mind you. Flash navigation is bad and needs to not exist.
But there are plenty of good reasons to [...]
Jumbo Shrimp
Thursday, July 5th, 2007Another comment on ‘directories:’
If all your title tags and meta-descriptions include how you’re ‘SEO friendly!’ and all that fluff, and your main means of promotion seems to be spammy footer tags in WordPress themes released under Creative Commons (meaning that someone’s not supposed to remove them), you probably pass about as much link value as [...]
