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My Reconsideration Request: A Prayer To the Google Gods

November 15, 2010 Google

Over the years since I launched this site, there have been periods of highs (when I was highly motivated) and lows (when I was just too busy), but overall, I’ve been committed to sharing my thoughts, insight, ideas, and some tips with all of you. I never paid too much attention to the traffic or [...]

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Keyword Meta Tags Are NOT Used By Google – Matt Cutts

September 23, 2009 Google

I just learned about a new video from Matt Cutts, thanks to Darren Monroe, that confirms once and for all that Google is NOT using the META KEYWORDS tag in their main search results. Check it out and keep it in mind as you move forward with your website development and SEO efforts.

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Google BitchSlap Update

October 27, 2007 Google

Well it seems that Google isn’t finished handing out the pain. After another update in the past day or so, we got kicked to the ground and curbed! I had forgotten what the days of PR2 felt like, but after getting knocked from a PR5 to a PR3 in recent days, it seems like Google [...]

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Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

October 26, 2007 Google

There is a Buzz in the air, and it isn’t very good . . . It seems that in the past few days, Google has changed their PR algorithm, affecting major corporations, webmasters and bloggers alike. In this case, size just doesn’t matter . . . everyone from The Washington Post to Problogger to Engadget [...]

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Flying Tips, Cool Online Trends, and Google Gets Scary! Are We In a Brave New World?

May 23, 2007 Blogging

I’d like to thanks CNN for sharing with me the incredible AvoidDelays, which is brought to all of us from our nation’s air controllers. This site is chock full of awesome data about flying in the US, including airports to avoid, worst time to fly to certain cities, and much more. If you travel at [...]

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Where are All the Free OSCommerce Templates?

May 4, 2007 eCommerce

Non-Existent Free Templates As many of you now know, I’ve been working on getting an ecommerce website up and running. I decided to use OScommerce for my shopping cart, but now I’m beginning to have second thoughts. I’ve been looking for a few days now and have not been able to find any even half-decent [...]

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Google Blogsearch Revealed: Learn the Secrets Behind Google’s Blogging Search Engine

April 18, 2007 Blog Design

In a guest assignment for Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger, Alister Cameron writes an incredible post detailing how Google Blogsearch ranks your blog posts. Using the Google Blogsearch patent application, Alister reveals some incredible information about the data Google uses to determine the quality of a blog or blog post. He mentions how it looks like Big [...]

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How Linkbait is Diluting the Accuracy of Search Engine Results

April 16, 2007 Building Traffic

Looking to increase traffic for your website? For a little over a year, the use of linkbait has exploded across the net. People have figured out little tricks for building traffic. some of which are very clever, but at some point, doesn’t it dilute the quality of ranking results? Gaming the Search Engines is Too [...]

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How to Protect Your Website’s Copyright When Someone Steals Your Content

December 10, 2006 Google

There is nothing worse for a webmaster than finding out that your site has been copied. Every time I find out that someone has stolen my intellectual property my blood boils! Instead of just getting angry, there are steps you can take to stop the violations of your Copyright, which I’ve outlined in this article. [...]

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My Dog Brooklyn Herding Some Pigs

November 23, 2006 Google

I shot a video of my dog Brooklyn this afternoon at the farm, hanging out with some pigs. You have to see the video. It is hysterical! I’ve got a few more and will post them online soon!

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Make Sure You Ping Google

October 5, 2006 Blogging

I just found out from Google Blogoscoped that you can now ping Google with blog updates. Of course, this is to update the new Google Blog Search.

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Google Blogger Matt Cutts’ 21 SEO Tips

September 18, 2006 Google

I just learned about a great post from the SEO Black Hat Blog written by Jaimie at SEO Egghead, 21 Great SEO Tips From Google’s Matt Cutts. The post organizes 21 pearls of wisdom from Google SEO blogger, Matt Cutts. Topics include: – Using dashes instead of underscores in URLs – Avoiding hidden text OR [...]