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Archive for March, 2010


SEO: Do .pdf Files Pass Page Rank?

I just finished reading an interview with Matt Cutts at Stone Temple Consulting’s RSS feed (You can read the whole thing at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/STC-Articles .) , where he talks about lots of different SEO topics like page rank sculpting (Google doesn’t like it.) to using iframes, javascript, and so on. It’s a good interview, if you [...]

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WordPress: Make Your Blog Load Faster

Google is very interested in how fast your pages load, and we talked about that in another post, “Google, Caffeine, and What It Means for Webmasters.” So, if you haven’t read that, it might be helpful to understand why I love what I just learned from John Chow. In his post from March 21 entitled, [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-21 #theSEONewsBlog

How To Use A Content Delivery Network (CDN) To Make Your Blog Load Much Faster:  John Chow : Last week, I put my b… http://bit.ly/9bw8E2 # Cat Breeds: Abyssinian Cats: http://wp.me/pdSMb-P # Ben Folds Plays Chatroulette Live in Concert [VIDEO]: Singer-songwriter Ben Folds visited the random video chat si… http://bit.ly/cM0Roe # @dennycoates I know, right? [...]

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Affiliate Marketing Rocks, If You Think First

When I started out six and a half years ago, I wanted to sell my books. I’ve written 10 of them that as you may or may not know, were published traditionally. I got an advance from my publishers, wrote the books, and then, waited for the royalty checks that never arrived. I thought that [...]

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SEO: Google and AdSense Scraper Sites

Finally… Google is doing something to discourage AdSense scraper sites. I hate them, too. They deliver no value, they steal other people’s content to populate their blogs, and they expect we legitimate bloggers to sit still for it. I get “comments” from scraper sites all the time… Nuked! Never seen here… Don’t waste your time. [...]

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Google Replaces Search Wiki with Stars

I’m guessing that Google Search Wiki never caught on. You have to be using the Google Toolbar, and I don’t. I don’t use Internet Explorer, and as apps go for monitoring SEO, I prefer to use the Firefox add-ons Search Status and SEO Quake. They just give more information. In case you were never acquainted [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14 #theSEONewsBlog

Frank Roche at the Audience Conference 2009:  Shawn Collins : Download audio file (Frank_Roche.mp3)Frank Roche, wh… http://bit.ly/bZdFHb # Underground Online Seminar Wrap Up:  Failing at Success is a Great Hobby : The past 2 days I have attended the Und… http://bit.ly/bBthcZ # Google stars for bookmarking:  Matt Cutts : Google is replacing SearchWiki with stars [...]

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