Reading Time: 2 minWhat happens when you search Google for [your name]? Do you like what you see? Part of that depends on your name. If your name is common (Joe Smith) or owned by a celebrity (if your name is Michael Phelps and you’re not a swimmer, good luck) you might be in trouble. For the rest […]
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Need help getting more traffic to your blog?
Reading Time: 2 minI apologize for not posting very much lately. I’ve been working with a handful of bloggers to try to get their traffic (and revenue) beefed up, and I’ve not had much time for this site lately. The techniques I’m using are really working quite well, and now I’m opening it up to other people. I […]
Google takes a shot at Cuil — shows how they customize results
Reading Time: < 1 minWhen Cuil launched a few days ago, one of the features they promoted is that they don’t store ANY info about searches performed on the site. Now Google has shot back by making their “customized results” a bit more transparent. When you search, you might start to see a box in the top right corner […]
Formidable Google competitor launches — Cuil
Reading Time: < 1 minCuil (pronounced “cool”) has just launched today, and looks like it might be the first search engine in a while to give Google some competition. The main thing Cuil promotes is the size of it’s index — 120 billion pages, compared to the estimated 40 billion pages in Google’s index. However, we’re not sure what […]
Big search engine news coming next week?
Reading Time: < 1 minTechCrunch has just hinted at a major search engine announcement next week. In this post, we read the following: Google also says “But we’re proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine.” That may be true today, but it probably won’t be true next week (check back here then). Google knows that […]
Over a trillion pages on the web — how many are yours?
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle has just announced that they are watching over a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) pages on the web now, which is more than double the number of stars in our galaxy! The Official Google Blog has details and some history. Any way you look at it, that’s quite an impressive number. That leads to the next question […]
Google to start indexing Flash content
Reading Time: < 1 minAs reported on the Official Google Blog, Google has just launched their “Flash indexing algorithm”, which means that data buried in Flash applications on your site can now be seen by Google! In terms of SEO, you’ll still be far better off using normal, well-written HTML instead of Flash, but this will certainly help. Google […]
Get notified if your site gets hacked
Reading Time: < 1 minBlogStorm has an excellent post today about something very simple you can do to help protect your site. The problem, as they see it: Every month thousands of websites get hacked into and have hidden links inserted into the pages by people wanting their spam sites to rank highly in the search engines. I agree […]
Don’t believe the hype — PageRank isn’t completely worthless
Reading Time: 2 minThe hot thing for the last year or so is to proclaim “PageRank is useless! Ignore it!“. Some of the dumbest things I hear are statements like “A PR2 site can outrank a PR7 site, therefore PageRank is meaningless.” Duh! If a higher PR site always ranked better, then Google.com (PR10) would rank first for […]
People might want to print your directions page
Reading Time: 2 minI need to go to Dunwoody UMC tomorrow for a seminar, so I went to their site to pull up directions. My GPS is dead, so I’m having to do it the “old-fashioned” way by looking up directions on-line. 🙂 When they changed to their new design a few years ago, I told them it […]