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Long time between Google backlinks

Administrator — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:44:14 +0000

It’s been a very long time between Google backdates. So long, in fact, that I’ve grown a long beard and am much older than the last time. Kids have graduadted college, and elderly people have gone to the great beyond.

Damn, Google. Hustle up. I don’t have all day to sit around and wait. You’re making me crazy, and that’s not good.

Now I need to upgrade my Wordpress. This version is way old.

Has Google lost it?

Administrator — Wed, 10 May 2006 05:52:00 +0000

The rumors are circulating: Google is out of disk space, or is broken in some way. It’s easy to discount such talk without doing a thorough investigation, but it would be short-sighted to do so. The number of pages missing from sites are HUGE. You’re talking about much of the world’s information is missing, if you believe the Google site: command.

Fortunately I don’t believe the site: command. The data centers have changed so much in the last few weeks that it’s doubtful the info we’re looking at is accurate. There appears to be a heavy crawl in the last few weeks, so maybe things will improve.

Strange Google problem - many pages missing

Administrator — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:34:14 +0000

I’m seeing a problem that’s being reported by many people lately. There are a great number of pages missing in the Google index from several of my sites.

Everyone has been complaining about how bad “Big Daddy” has been, and it’s hard to argue. The problems with Google seem to be ongoing and widespread. We’ll keep an eye out, but I’m not expecting to see the missing pages anytime soon.

Comment spam

Administrator — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:43:45 +0000

The comment spam is thick today, and these guys are the worst. They don’t even know you’re supposed to put your anchor text in the spams. If you don’t have anchor text, how can your referral log spam help you rank?

Back to spamming school for the clowns.

Pagerank updated 2/22/2006

Administrator — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:21:43 +0000

We’ve had a PR update it appears. Looks like many new pages have PR.

A couple of Blogs have very nice PR this time out, and SEO’d sites rank just a bit lower than you’d thing. I’m sure this update will be a bit controversial for awhile.

Promoting your website with articles submissions

Administrator — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:56:29 +0000

Make sure to check out this high quality offering of an article directory. Expect fast turnaround times at this new article resource website.

How long can an update go?

Administrator — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:56:08 +0000

Apparently a search engine update can go for as long as it wants to. The Google Jagger update has gone on since 9/22/2005, and affected tons of website to boot. Undoubtedly many sites went up in rankings, but many others suffered.

The biggest problem with this update has been the sheer amount of time it’s taken. With an update taking 60 days, that doesn’t leave much of the year for those who lost traffic. Of course this iis of no concern for Google, but people who make a living online are aware now more than ever of the need to diversify their traffic streams. Only a diverse traffic stream can ensure a website of success.

Article Submission - Can it help a website grow?

Administrator — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:37:26 +0000

After a long period of time of thinking about it, I guess I’ll go ahead and give article submission a try. It probably can’t hurt you, as long as you write a specific bit of content that allows you to that is devoted to the site you submit to.

In particular this method will work if you truly are on expert on a subject, or at least appear to be so. It’s a bit easier on the internet to appear to be an expert, but like anything else in life, it takes effort. I actually am an expert on certain subjects, but my normal modesty prevents me from talking about myself….usually. I guess I’ll give it a go and report back in this space.

Mis-information and SEO Forums

Administrator — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:46:40 +0000

I’m not sure how much of what I read on SEO Forums is intentional mis-information, but there seems to be more than the usual amount of balderdash being spouted these days. The conversations are almost the same and links are now considered to be Public Enemy Eumber One when SEO’ing websites.

This contrasts greatly with what was being said in the recent past about links. For a long time, links were promoted as a cure-all for a website’s ills. “My website is number 99 in the rankings, what does it need to improve in rankings?”. The answer, without the responder ever having visited the site in question, would come almost immediatedly: “More links!”.

More links? Certainly it’s a simple answer, but it doesn’t take into account the other possibilities on why a website might not rank first for its’ category. One reason I can think of is because certain websites just suck in terms of content, usability, and design, and they won’t rank first unless you get “more links”. Recently, it seems, the cocksure cry of “More Links” is being silenced across the forum landscape.

Why the change of heart? Because it “appears” that Google has gotten much smarter (and a whole lot richer) about how it treats “links”. And now, more than ever, a “link is not just a link”. Backlinks themselves must now be of a higher value than in prior years. Or at least this is the prevailing wisdom in the SEO circuit. Is this the right answer? The only right answer with Google is, only Google knows for sure: and they aren’t talking.

Allowing comments in your weblog

Administrator — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:30:13 +0000

I think I’m supposed to allow comments in my weblog, in order to facilitate communications between the outside world and me. The trouble is, whenever I’ve allowed comments on, the amount of bogus referal spam is incredibile. The Texas Hold’em boys and the Viagra Salesman must probe each IP address continously so that they can find any opening, for however long, post their “Nice site, you should see my site at: ” style messages.

I guess I could use the pre-moderation option, but I wonder if there is truly any advantage to this at all.