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09 Mar This post is from from my other blog here A little over a year ago I created this post, calling out anyone using Web CEO, SEOmoz’s Rank Checker, or SpyFu as being dishonest. My intent wasn’t to make anyone feel guilty or really call anyone out, my intent was that hopefully someone could convince me I was wrong, and that violating Google’s terms of service is, in fact, not dishonest. Some people have submitted interesting arguments, but so far the best one is that while any website can put up a terms of service agreement, this does not actually mean anyone using the website is dishonest if they violate ...
03 Mar This post is from from my other blog here How ironic that after writing this post about automatic queries, I should be the one to get penalized for supposedly sending automatic queries. All I was doing was manually typing in some keyword searches, and bam! I got the screenshot you see below. The restriction lasted for about 20 minutes and now it works again, but not after seriously interrupting my work and making me wonder if it was going to take hours, days, or weeks to sort out. I guess the way I was typing in my searches must have coincided perfectly with some algorithm they have for detecting automatic ...
15 Dec This post is from from my other blog here As the owner of an SEO firm I get a lot of people who want work sending me resumes, emails, etc. I probably get 10-15 of them per day, and most don’t catch my eye and are promptly deleted or filed away. But every once in a while something special comes across my inbox, and this email was one of them. hiee dis is [name withheld to protect the silly] n i hav got over 4 years of experience in Internet mktg n in overall SEO n SEM operations? n wud like to serve u people with my efforts? M luking ...
12 Aug This post is from from my other blog here Ever done something stupid? Well, read this post on Google penalties, and then come back and finish reading here. Oh, and read the 3rd and 4th comments. Yeah, stupid. I’ve found when you make a mistake the best thing to do is to own up to it, and then find something interesting you can learn from it. Aside from learning to check the stats on my blog more than once every three months, I’ve also learned that the robots.txt file actually works. Yeah, in fact it works really, really well. This graphic says it all:
That’s what happens when your robots.txt settings ...
06 Jul This post is from from my other blog here Or perhaps I should say “What is sedat yüksel?” In the analytics stats for my SEO firm I see that my firm’s site has received 14 visits in the past 30 days from people who searched for the keywords “sedat yüksel”. The thing is that the word “sedat yüksel” do not appear anywhere on my site. And if I do a search on Google for “sedat yüksel” I cannot find my site anywhere in the search results. So who or what is “sedat yüksel” and why is this happening? The first thought that occurred to me is that perhaps it’s some ...
05 May This post is from from my other blog here PPC in the news on NPR. A decent piece on the basics of using Google Adwords. Hopefully this will drive more and more advertisers to PPC and SEO. Maybe this is why some SEOs are seeing the growth of their businesses while traditional advertisers are hurting?
10 Apr This post is from from my other blog here If you do a search for “301 redirect seo” you’ll find all sorts of how-to guides on how to create 301 redirects, the right way to create them, and you’ll learn a lot about the value they provide to the site you’re redirecting to. What I can’t find is what a 301 redirect does to the old site, or the domain that is being redirected. Does it lose all its PR? Is its value destroyed? Does it lose all its juice? Will it be hurt, but then return quickly? Or will it be like a spanking-new, shiny domain you just ...
27 Mar This post is from from my other blog here I don’t know about you (please chime in), but since the beginning of the year my SEO firm’s business has been picking up. Maybe it’s just a fluke, but the same factors that make search engine optimization a good marketing tool in any economy make it especially good in a down economy. That is, SEO is relatively inexpensive compared to other forms of marketing and advertising, and you can track results better. Take billboards, for example. Prices vary, but in a decent urban area you’ll pay anywhere from $2K to $5K per month or more for a billboard. That’s about the ...
07 Mar This post is from from my other blog here Just added the DoFollow plugin to the site here, so your comment profile links are no dofollow instead of nofollow. The funny thing is I actually thought they were dofollow to begin with. Enjoy!
05 Dec This post is from from my other blog here Warning: If you’re the type of person who would rather remain in ignorance because you think that makes you innocent of any crime because you don’t know if you’re committing one or not, then you probably won’t want to continue reading. Of course now that you’ve read this it’s too late. Disclaimer: I’m not really calling you a liar, cheat, or dishonest person. But I had to get your attention somehow because I want answers to this question, and apparently the post title worked. And if you use one of the tools mentioned in the post title, there’s at least a ...
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