The importance of each one of different factors influencing the SERPs in Google seems to vary across different markets nowadays – e.g. I constantly see SERPs where PR6 pages go way lower than PR0 or PR 2 pages (old news …
Age Factor in Google Hurting the SERPs
What Happens When You Ping Google
Ever wondered what happens once you send that ping over, be it for a blog or otherwise? Here’s what: * /2007 Http Code: 404 Date: Feb 07 22:57:56 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: – Referer: – Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; …
Google AdSense Gets It Right? – Too Late I Think
Disclaimer: I do not even know if this is old news or new news and can’t be arsed to dig into it. I just noticed it and thought I’d post about it. If you have something to say go ahead …
Free Keyword Source for 30 Days
Just noticed that WordZe is offering a free 30-day trial which will be valid still for the next 5 days – if you’re a red blooded blackhat and your keyword lists are a few thousand entries long this is a …
Subdomains, Subfolders and Matt Cutts
No it’s not your general advice on using subdomains vs sunfolders. Notably, Matt manages not to say anything meaningful and up to the point till half into his post – and the real juice comes in comments: Google will be …
Relaunching the Other (Consulting) SEO Blog
I have decided to relaunch my other blog over at IrishWonder’s SEO Consulting. There I list the reasons that lead me to this decision – and one of the reasons is me wanting to get back to the consulting scene. …
Selling Links and Conspiracy Theories
I do like a bit of conspiracy theories every now and then. Was doing a search in Google today for something related to .edu domains – and my attention got drawn to a bunch of Google ads that came up …
I Doubt I Would Ever Use Compete
That is, I will surely use it to spy on others. I will never use it on any of my own sites. No matter what amount of popularity it gains. No matter what they tell Guy Kawasaki. It’s worse than …
Google Kicks Some Bloggers in the Arse with PR Update
You wanted the PR update – you got it, or at least something like it. Many folks, however, are not happy with it. What’s interesting tho is that everything I see (after a quick scan) mentioned everywhere about sites affected …
Google PageRank Speculations
Lately, there has appeared a number of articles speculating about whether or not Google is about to drop PR (we’re of course talking of toolbar Page Rank here). Of course we all know PR is just one of a huge …