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Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And how can you spot it–and solve it–before it derails you project and causes you to [...]
This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
Developers VS Users
- World Wide Web Now Serving Over 1 Billion Users According to Usability Guru Jakob Nielsen the internet now has...
- Is Wordpress Good or Bad for SEO Earlier this week there was a post on SEOBullsh*t...
- Pimping Skype Recently I was having some technical problems with a hosting...
When your blog or website becomes successful and starts to get traffic, if you don’t make direct sales yourself or commissions via affiliate traffic, you almost always look for other revenue streams. The most common revenue stream is CPM based advertising or something like adsense. However, once many publishers start down that path, they almost [...]
This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
Are You Chasing Off Topic Traffic
- Experimentation and Off Topic Posts My buddy Nick has a golden rule of blogging, it’s...
- Off Topic Advertising If you are involved in selling text links or “know...
- What are You Doing With Your Social Media Traffic? While I may have some level of notoriety within...
I love competition. I compete against just about anyone, at just about anything. For the last few years, competitive webmastering has been my focus. I like to start a site in a small to medium sized niche, and outrank everyone. There are two niches that I hold the top 5 spots [...]
This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
Outrank Your Competition By Taking One More Step
- Link Bait Competition So maybe you think the whole “v7ndotcom elursrebmem“, contest...
- After Taking 3500 Point Olympic Dive, Web Says: “Follow My Lead!” The economy is in a rut because of Big...
- One Small Step for SES NY One Giant Leap Towards Irrelevance So lots of people have been emailing or IM’ing me...
Now, don’t get me wrong. Google Local and Google Maps are extremely valuable tools that I use a few times every week. But every so often they get something wrong–so wrong, in fact, that I’m not sure where the wires got crossed.
Let’s assume I wanted to stop by a local pub on a Saturday night. Maybe [...]
This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
When Google Local Gets it Wrong
- Suggestions For Improving Google Local So one of the girls got a flat tire on...
- When Google Gets Duplicate Content Wrong There’s lots of hand wringing among publishers about duplicate content,...
- What if Google Was Wrong Earlier this week Danny Sullivan and many others noted that...
There’s a trend of editors in the SEO world uptight about linking out.
A friend in the industry who guest blogs recently told me that he was told by his editor he couldn’t promise links to contributors who participated in guest interviews. Others have been seeing the same, and writers I work with have seen [...]
This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
Hey! Editors! Leave Them Links Alone!
- Hey Matt Cutts Be Fair if You Are Going After Paid Links Really I wasn’t going to post this but since Matt...
- Hey Google Going to Drop the Paid Links Hammer on Coke Hey Google Going to Drop the Paid Links Hammer on...
- Wordpress SEO: How to Use RSS and Scrapers to Build Links When you run wordpress or any other blog for...
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This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors – February 2010
- Thanks to this Months Sponsors – February 2009 I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored...
- Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors – January 2010 I’d like to say thanks to the people who...
- Thanks to this Months Sponsors – September 2009 I’d like to say thanks to the people who...
The question for today’s post comes from Meg Geddes aka NetMeg. She wants to know more about setting up caching on Wordpress.
Ok, let’s get the big question out of the way. What is caching and why do you want it? Basically, caching will store copies of pages that have already been served from your webserver [...]
This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
How to Set up Caching on Your Blog
- Blog News Reporter: Promotion and Growing your Blog In part two we talked about your your blogging approach...
- Graywolf’s SEO blog back online OK so things should be working here again and I’ll...
- Promote Your Blog, Part II – Blog Directories Web directories are a funny thing. If they are industry...
Today’s post is question from Hicham Damahi of beezid.com/ who asks “How to handle expired product pages on a classified / auction site.” I’m going to expand the topic to cover expired product pages as well, since the concept it basically the same.
I touched on this briefly in my Shopping Cart SEO Tips post, but [...]
This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
How to Deal with Expired Product or Auction Pages
- SEO for Product Reviews, Part I If you do any SEO work on branded or named...
- SEO for Product Reviews, Part II In SEO for Product Reviews, Part I we talked about...
- Product Blogs One of the types of blogs I like to use...
Over the past two weeks we’ve taken a look at different aspects of copywriting, including aspects such as the value of good copy, outsourcing your content, and tools to make your content better. To round out the series I thought I’d touch on auto-generated content and how to make it better.
To be clear, using auto-generated [...]
This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
Creating Better Auto-Generated Text
- Creating the Ultimate Digg Post Recently I got to thinking, what would it take to...
- New Products at Review Me and Text Link Ads ReviewMe just launched a new service that allows advertisers to...
- Is Web 2.0 Creating An Ad Trend Towards Promoting Content? If you pay attention to the ads that monetize...
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to craft the 460,000-word War and Peace. A cheap copywriting service could churn out as many words for your website for just $9,200 (at 2 cents a word) over the course of a few weeks.
Added to this, standards of literacy and attention spans on the web are plummeting.
We’re all [...]
This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.
When To Pay Top Dollar for Copy
- New Google Adwords Formula = Just Pay Us More The lunacy that is the Google adwords formula is actually...
- Duplicate Copy in Action Think Google is a good as they would have you...
- Pay-Per-Click Placement Tips In my opinion part of any good pay-per-click campaign consists...