You Can Buy Page Rank
It looks like the CircuitCity.com name has been sold for $14M. I just read about it on the SEOBook website. Here’s the thing, if I were to sell recommendations on my blog posts here and provide links to my sponsors products (and not use nofollow) Google wouldn’t like it very much and would probably penalize […]
How To Get Unexpected Customers
A little while ago I noticed on Twitter a post by a local SEO company that was trying to get Pittsburgh to #1 on Google for the term “best city in the world”. I realized that this was more about them than Pittsburgh, but I was a hometown boy who likes his city and thought […]
Social Media Is Not For Everyone
I recently read a blog post that talked about how long it took for a customer to tune out the message that they should have a blog on their site. The writer then gave some very important reasons why it’s good for any business owner to have a relevant blog on their site. There comments […]
Good Tips For New Webmasters
I was reading a blog called Internet Marketing for the Newbie and one of their posts called Website Marketing For New Webmasters They offered some pretty good advice for any webmaster, not just the new ones. One of my favorite tips was that you should write your site thinking about what your human visitors are […]
Why I Want Comments
It never fails. Yesterday I wrote about removing the nofollow attribute from my WordPress comments and then last night there was an update that put it back. I also found out that the nofollow goes back further than I thought so I was just not paying attention.The update was broken by the way (it’s a […]
WordPress Is Nofollow By Default
I was tweaking my WordPress theme a bit today. Whenever I look at my blog and see something that I don’t like or think could look better I change the stylesheet for the custom theme that I made. While I was working on that today I noticed the links from the commenters on my blog […]
Things Are Sure Not Like They Used To Be
This morning I’m sitting in the car dealer’s waiting room as I wait for my car. I’m driving to the beach in a couple of weeks and I want to make sure that we get there and back safely. As I type this post using the dealers Wi-Fi connection (I could have also tethered my […]
Pittsburgh Is The Best City In The World
Eyeflow Internet Marketing is attempting to rank Pittsburgh #1 for “best city in the world.” Pittsburgh is my hometown and I really like living here so I thought I would help out. The way to do this is by getting high ranking sites to link to your site, in this case the City of Pittsburgh’s […]
Organic Search or Paid Links?
I was at a networking lunch yesterday with the Business Leads Exchange Group, it’s a wonderful group that I recommend that you check out if you are near The ‘Burgh. I’ve been going every month for quite a while now and much of my time is spent catching up with members that I know and […]
Commenting On Other Blogs The Right Way
Yesterday I wrote about getting links to your site. One of the ways to do that is by commenting on other blogs. The only problem with that is if your comments are off the topic or completely self serving they will probably be deleted and never see the light of day. Worse yet, they can […]
