Why I Give Full Articles in My Feed
With apologies to those who come here only for the ranting… I have a plan to do a whole series of articles on search engine optimization (SEO) for bloggers. While the topic of full vs. partial feeds may not be directly related to SEO at first glance, I feel that it is in a round [...]
Yahoo! With a Huge Web Hosting Announcement
The other day I mentioned Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo! Today, Yahoo! made a pretty interesting announcement…Yahoo! Web Hosting now provides UNLIMITED disk space and UNLIMITED bandwidth for less than $12. That means that those videos you’ve been uploading to YouTube (owned by Google) because they are big and take up bandwidth can now be [...]
Hell Yeah I Follow!
For quite a while I’ve been meaning to install the DoFollow plugin, and today I actually took the 30 seconds to do it. The whole idea behind this plugin is that it causes search engines to consider the link created in comments as a “real” link. What does that mean to you? When you leave [...]
Ask Not What Google Can Do For You
I’d wager that most of this blog’s regular readers fall into two main categories. The first group is those who know me IRL and like to see me make an ass of myself. Lately that has been happening online with a keyboard much more frequently than late at night with a debit card. Probably not [...]
Anchor Text Matters!
Sending out the 411 to the other bloggers who read this–yes, the anchor text you use when linking to other bloggers matters, technically. Michael Silence says: In my more than five years of following blogs and my three years of blogging, it’s always been clear linking to the source is proper attribution. It’s also concise. [...]
Part II (of many) on SEO, Google, and Content–Technology Moves, Build For Change
First of all, I can’t take credit for all of these ideas. Lot’s of them have been borrowed from guys like Steve Pavlina who are basically saying the same thing I am. One of the more important points Steve makes is that your content should be timeless. What he means by this is that if [...]
Part I (of many) on SEO, Google, and Content
I’ve been reading up a lot lately on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), marketing, monetizing a blog, sandboxes, traffic generation, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. From what I’ve read, what I feel in my gut, and what everything else I’ve done in life has taught me, I’ve come to a pretty simple conclusion–you gotta work [...]



