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User Agent Strings – Free List of HTTP User Agent Strings

Jason — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:05:44 +0000

Original post from User Agent Strings – Free List of HTTP User Agent Strings.

User Agent String List (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Mobile Browsers)

Building a bot?

Want to see if someone is cloaking a page and serving different versions based on different http user agents?

Maybe you are trying to serve different versions of your web pages based on a user agent…here is a list of many of the most recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and AOL web browsers.

Enjoy!

User Agent Strings – PDF File

This is just a little SEO test…

Jason — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:01:20 +0000

Original post from This is just a little SEO test….

SEO Test for Google

Will Google Crawl This Link

Google runs around and indexes (or catalogs) things it finds on the web. It stands to reason that at this point that they are smart enough to know when a URL is mentioned on a page, but not made into a hyperlink. One would think that they might actually go out and see what is on the page if they find a non-hyperlinked link on a page. So…

Does this get seen as a link to another website? Let’s find out [url="http://www.jaygeeproductions.com"]JayGee Productions[/url] to the rescue

Google PR Stuff, My Take

Jason — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:33:31 +0000

Original post from Google PR Stuff, My Take.

Well, people are freaking out. People are bitching and moaning. People are talking about suing Google. Nothing has changed. I hope that the peeps down at the G-plex get together with some cold beers and laugh at everyone freaking out and talking out of their asses whenever they do something “dramatic.”

From what it sounds like, people who have lost considerable TOOLBAR PageRank have not lost anything in the SERPs. What they have lost is the ability to sell links based on PR. Time to get your Guerilla Selling books out team.

Here is my prediction. Some people on the selling side are going to freak out and remove all of the links that they are selling to people…good news for people who are not changing what they are doing. Some people on the buying side are going to freak out and have the links they have been buying removed…good news for people who are not changing what they are doing. Google gets some of what they want (people to stop buying and selling links) and people who have patience and some sack get better SERPs.

[tags]Google, Page Rank, Toolbar, Freak Out, Update[/tags]

Good .com Domains Still Available

Jason — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:00:32 +0000

Original post from Good .com Domains Still Available.

One of the easiest ways to get your top SERP positions is to have a domain name that helps you out. Typically this means having some or at least part of your main keyword(s) included in the domain name itself. A year or two ago, it became a no-no to use mega hyphenated domain names in order to get your keywords included in the domain. At that point, I think a lot of people thought that it was pretty much impossible to find a .com domain name that was good for branding and SEO. However, there are still great domain names out there that have never been registered. I just reg’d 4 .com domain names that a lot of people would pay some good money for today if I were to put them up on the blocks…but, I am going to use them for a little project I have in mind. The point is, do some leg work and you may find that there are still great .com names available.

[tags]Domain Names, TLDs[/tags]

Low Payout Affiliate Offers

Jason — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:41:33 +0000

Original post from Low Payout Affiliate Offers.

In the past, I have always focused on the mid to high paying affiliate offers. I was never a high volume guy I guess from my experiences with online retail sites I have owned and operated. No matter what you sell, you always have to deal with customer service, so why not make 5 times as much on the product you are selling if you are going to have to deal with stupid people? Well, that is and was the mindset, but recently I have realized that there is probably some money to be made using the “freebie” offers that every affiliate network has available. The “freebie” offers are called that because the offeree does not have to shell out any money to get a chance to win something or get some “free” software. Nevermind that the company offering the “free” software is probably going to sell your information to 200 other affiliate networks. Anyway, the point is, I am going to be testing out some of these freebie offers on some organic search sites as well as via some PPC arbitrage sites to see how they perform. The nice thing about offers like this is that they are designed to appeal to a wide audience and there is a ton of traffic that you can throw the offers at. This is good for testing as you will find out quickly if your offer works and it is good for scalability as there is a hellovalotta traffic to put your offer in front of, if and when you create one that works. More to come on Project Low Buck.

[tags]Project Low Buck, Affiliate, CPC, Arbitrage, PPC, How To, Make Money[/tags]

See All Inbound Links on Google

Jason — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:00:27 +0000

Original post from See All Inbound Links on Google.

Looks like Google has updated their webmaster tools section (I still don’t know why they don’t have a standard naming convention ie: webmastertools.google.com for their products) and you can now see a much larger sample, if not all, of the external inbound links to your site. For instance, Google shows 1,440 links if I do a link:www.golod.com, but inside the webmaster tools deal, I see almost 40k links. Now, this really isn’t a big deal, because we have all been going to Yahoo! for years to do this, but it is nice to finally see something different from Google.

[tags]SEO, Google, Webmaster, Tools, Marketing[/tags]

Why Do We Link to Technorati?

Jason — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:29:46 +0000

Original post from Why Do We Link to Technorati?.

I think I am late in the game on this one, but why have we (read: I) been linking to Technorati for so long? Back in the day, I believe they at least started linking out to other sites. I am sure they got gamed, well, I know they got gamed but, what is the deal with the no link love? I have even tried to use their site before to get a feel for what people are talking about, but I really find it non-intuitive and really useless. The only thing I do like that they have done is rank blogs and categorize them based on what people have tagged their own blogs. Time to stop linking to them already. Sponges.

[tags]Tecnhorati, Sponges, Useless, Web 2.0[/tags]

Google Working it Out

Jason — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:39:40 +0000

Original post from Google Working it Out.

As always, when Google performs one of their periodic updates, people (aka webmasters) see some pretty scary things happen. A couple of sites that I actively monitor and tweak ever so slightly, fell off the map. These are not sites that receive thousands of visitors a day, well actually that is not true…one was this very site. This blog as well as another site that is WordPress based fell off of the map a few weeks ago. This site receives anywhere from 3,500 to 5,000 unique visitors a day. I know that may be hard for some of you to fathom, but it is true. A few weeks ago, about a week or so after the toolbar update, this thing fell out of the Google index. While it was a bit out of the ordinary, I didn’t freak out too much as I had seen things like this happen before. Then I noticed that another site, one used for my day job, went MIA as well. It actually had a pretty big impact as we receive 5 or so email leads and probably 5 to 10 phone calls a day from it. Well, they both are back to normal as of yesterday with regards to their positioning in the G SERPs before the update started.

One interesting thing to note is that one of my newer sites just saw a number of smaller terms “pop” this morning/yesterday. So, it will be interesting to see if they hold there or if there is still some metering going on at the G-plex.

[tags]Google, Index, Toolbar, Update, SERPs[/tags]

What’s in a Domain Name

Jason — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:35:11 +0000

Original post from What’s in a Domain Name.

Now that the dust has settled from the Google infrastructure update of last year (I don’t like to use the stupid names people give these things), it certainly appears that the TLD (Top Level Domain) name that you are using may play more of an important role than ever. I have seen a lot of different things happen over the past 6 months with old domains and new and what seems to be one of the biggest factors in finding top rankings on Google is the domain name. This comes as no surprise to anyone who knows the search game, but I am sure that many of them don’t really get it, because there are still many great names out there in the .com TLD. I have seen brand new sites go to the top and stay there for over a year now with the right TLD and a few links (not bought and nothing super special). FYI, I am not talking about some BS term with 6 keywords in it. I am talking about some of, what are believed to be, the most difficult areas to work in when it comes to rankings. So, if you are trying to figure out how to get to the top for a set of related terms, make sure you are using the right domain name (no hyphens please).

[tags]Domain Name, SERPs, Rankings, Google[/tags]

Google Page Rank Updated

Jason — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:38:19 +0000

Original post from Google Page Rank Updated.

In case you live in a cave, Google updated the Page Rank they show in the toolbar last week. More green for me. If you are looking for domains that have page rank and are “seasoned” you should drop me a line. I have a few that I am looking to get rid of. They have very old links and many have links from .edu domains.