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 […]
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 […]
Youtube Vs. Self-hosting Debate
There is an interesting debate going on at highrankings.com about whether it’s better to host your own video’s or use Youtube and embed the video into your page. I have always recommended to my customers that they use YouTube or Google Video to host their videos and embed them into their pages. There are a […]
Can Google’s New People Profile Help You?
Earlier this week Google started “profiles” as a way for people to provide their personal information to Google that will be displayed on search results pages for their names. Google had this to say about the new feature “a way to give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name.” […]
New Android Update Almost Ready
Looks link the new update for my Android G1 phone is almost ready. There are going to be lots of improvements that I’ll use, plus it promises to make almost everything on the phone run faster. The best things for me so far are copy and paste from the web and stereo bluetooth for charging […]
Browser Wars, Part Whatever
Not too long ago I wrote about how it would be nice if we could get rid of IE6 on the web. Recently the more I’m reading about browsers the more I think that IE in general is losing the war. Several years ago when Microsoft pushed Netscape off of everyone’s computer it was declared […]
Design Your Site For Todays User
Back in the good old days (mid 90’s) you didn’t even have to consider what a visitor were using to view your site. You viewed everything in Internet Explorer and made it look good in that. My friends used to think I was nuts for wasting my time looking at my site with Netscape. Today […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Real World Racer
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) One of the things that I like most about Google is that they will let almost anyone play with their toys and they have some great toys. Tom Scott has created Real World Racer: A Google Maps […]
How To Get Inbound Links For SEO
One of the best ways to move your site up the search engine results page for your keywords is to have incoming links from outside websites. The higher ranking and more authoritative these sites are the better it is for you. The problem that people and companies with new sites run into is how to […]
