Now is the time to have a business plan for your websites
The First Age of The Internet is fast coming to a close, and with that comes the removal of early opportunities and low-hanging fruit.
That means if you have a serious plan for a website, you need to push on getting it out now, and fast.
If you have a website without a business plan, you need […]
British Telecom just doesn’t get it
I received bills from BT to pay my business line and business broadband services.
Telephone support warned of long delays in answering the phone, but mentioned paying online.
Ok, so I signed up at BT’s website to pay both online, set up a user account, set up my billing accounts for both services, then went to pay.
Oops. […]
Complacency: the bane of competitive webmasters
It’s really annoying to suddenly remember I have a few domains of 2-3 years of age, that I actually set up links for - but never had any real content on.
Reason being: complacency.
I bought the domains for an early client, with the aim of setting up a small network for link benefits for them.
However, early […]
Some hot free authority links you may like to look at…
A couple of interesting stories via Threadwatch:
1. Google: We Said Take More Notes
Look at the story again - it’s telling you the Google Notes are publically viewable on Google.
The links in Notes are *not* nofollowed, and are not blocked in robots.txt…
So - free Google.com links from Google Notes? :)
Expect this loophole to get closed […]
When a hacked site isn’t a hacked site
Google News can experience problems with news items if their titles only appear as links. So my news sites always have a h1 header with a separate permalink to the article.
So when developing one news site today, I was shocked to find a couple of posts had links in them to a third party […]
Blogger hit by autogenerating account bot?
Has Blogger been hit by an autogenerating account bot?
Over the past few days I’ve been receiving a wave of blog spam from SEO lab - all of it to blogspot accounts - and all built around hyphenated money keywords ending in a seemingly random 2 or 3 alphanumeric characters.
For example:
college-loans-zet.blogspot.com
free-slots-lol.blogspot.com
flexeril-huf.blogspot.com
All of them are running a […]
Buying links for mindshare, not search engines
After Aaron gave notice that ReviewMe was going to be offering half-price posts this month, I figured I should give the service a closer look.
We already know Google wants to devalue paid links, and for once I’m not looking at buying ReviewMe posts for direct ranking benefits - instead, I’m looking to buy mindshare.
One of […]
Google Adsense testing new link title formats?
Interesting - just visited one of my news sites in development, and noticed something different with Adsense.
Normally, the keyword titles are simply bold text.
However, I’m now seeing both italicised bolded and italicised unbolded keyword titles - here’s two screenshots, side by side, of the same page after refreshing - notice the normal ad highlighted at […]
ArmA: Armed Assault
UPDATE: Okay, played the multiplayer demo. It *is* Operation Flashpoint 2 - more precisely, Resistance 2.
The graphics are better but not by a huge margin, and improving textures does not a new game make.
Playability actually seems reduced - menus are a little different from OFP, but so far it’s neither felt intuitive nor […]
Pros and cons of working for clients vs working for yourself
When I’ve chatted with more experienced SEO’s, the one thing that becomes clear is that SEO’s start working with clients, but many drop these to work for themselves.
The argument goes that if you’re good at making someone else money, you should be good at making that money for yourself - and much more than you’re […]
Link buying tips for link development
I’ve recently been on a particularly aggressive link buying spree.
Although as a SEO I know buying links means buying some degree of placement on search engines, and Google is the main target.
However, I’m buying for informational sites - communities and blogs - with no real revenue streams.
So instead of trying to link bomb for money […]
How I’ve increased Adsense earnings by 50%
I’m not a huge Adsense earner, but at the beginning of this month I decided to more aggressively try to increase my revenues.
I’ve now seen a 50+% increase in my Adsense earnings since I began.
What does that mean in real terms? It means my earnings would now comfortably pay off the monthly mortgage repayments […]
SEO for vbulletin - simple how to and tips
When I first bought vbulletin it was because it was the most search-friendly forum platform out there. It’s also very powerful and is the most effective at handling spam.
But as a SEO the optimisation of vbulletin for search engines has always been my primary concern.
Heck, it was how I learned SEO - how do you […]
