Mommas, Don’t Let Your Bloggers Grow Up To Be SEOs

Probably half of the people around the world who know my name think of me as an SEO. The other half probably think of me as a blogger. I tend to think of myself as a “solo enterpreneur / web developer / ebusiness owner / seo / blogger”. Despite the many hats I wear, I certainly do have a strong background in SEO, and as most know, I definitely have some strong opinions that I share from time... read more

Visual Look At The Smaller Sites That Google’s Panda Farmer Update Hit

We’ve all seen the lists of the top big sites that lost rankings in Google’s Panda Farmer update on February 24, 2011. A good summary can be found here. It wasn’t long before we started hearing small site owners trying to be heard as they said that they too had been hit. Of course, the list of those sites might be huge, but we’ll rarely get a chance to hear about them, because... read more

I Like You But I Won’t Help You Pat Your Misguided Back

Oh, where to start. First of all, if you only read my blog to get tips and pointers on how to make money online, then this little rant probably won’t be of any interest to you. But if you remember my SEO rants of the past, then perhaps you’ll want to continue reading. A Virtual Smack Upside The Head I have a lot of friends and acquaintances in the SEO industry, some that I’ve been happy... read more

A FamousBloggers ComLuv Contest Sponsor That I’m Already Familiar With

I was happy to see that a familiar face is a sponsor of the FamousBloggers ComLuv Contest. Since this guy is a long-time industry acquaintance of mine, I thought it would be a good idea to let you know a little more about him, and maybe help you become a future long-time acquaintance with him as well. So it’s all about… Gettin’ Happy With The Happy Guy Marketing Service I’ve been... read more

Ever Wondered How Google Works?

PPCBlog has done an outstanding job of explaining the process (as much as can really be explained by anyone outside of the Google inner circle), using an easy-to-understand infographic. I love infographics anyway, but this is one of the best I’ve seen in a long while. Kudos. Check it out (click to enlarge). Study. Learn. Implement. Infographic by PPC... read more

Search Geek Challenges – Google, Mayday, and Sniffing Google IP Addresses

This is one of those posts that will only interest a subset of my normal readers. UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, Matt Cutts of Google admitted that Mayday was an algo change targeted at serving up better long-tail results. It’s been implied that this was aimed at dealing with content farms such as Mahalo that rank well for autogenerated and scraped pages. For a different viewpoint and links to some... read more

Coupon Code for SEO Dojo Community

This post is for those of you who who are interested in SEO. I’ve been a pre-member of Huomah’s SEO Dojo community for a while now and it is opening up to new members as of today. What is the SEO Dojo? It is a closed door, gated community which gives search professionals and those wanting to learn more about search engines a safe haven to study and collaborate. There’s some serious... read more

22 (+) SEO and Social Media Guest Posts

Over time, I’ve written guest posts or contributory posts on several sites across the web. It occurred to me today that some of you might benefit from those postings, because they focus on topics that I don’t tend to delve into very much here on this blog. So I’ve rounded them up and hopefully I’ve included them all, but I can’t promise that I didn’t forget about one... read more

I cannot control myself

When an idea strikes, I can’t seem to say no to myself. Heck, sometimes I don’t even have an actual idea, and I still can’t control it. What am I talking about? Well, let’s take last night as an example. I was chatting with a friend of mine who was looking for a good domain name for an idea he had. So, I was running some possibilities through Godaddy* to come up with a creative... read more