Well, I noticed that a bot named MSRBot was grabbing a lot of pages from one of my sites just now and since I have not really frequented any search engine forums lately I didn’t know what it was. Turns out it is Microsoft’s Research Bot. Upon further inspection I noticed that the information page ...…
Seems to me that things have returned to a bit more “normal” level in the past few months with regards to inbound links. I mentioned to a friend that I thought things like the DP coop network might actually becoming viable again, even though Google mentioned that they updated some things to prevent some of ...…
In case you live in a hole in the wall or just don’t care, Yahoo! has apparently made some kind of index update or algo change that has caused a reshuffling of the SERPs. Since I really don’t pay much attention to my traffic on a daily basis anymore, I was not aware of the ...…
Well, this is not going to be much of a case study, but I did just notice something kinda funny. Jeremy named his retreat on December 18th, the Elite Retreat. So, remembering it was coming up, I did a little reading tonight on the Shoemoney site and figured I would see how they are ranking ...…
Well, if you read this junk pile every so often, you know I have been messing around with Craig’s List lately. At this point, I want to buy Craig’s List. I am pretty shocked at how quickly and how well some of my postings are ranking in the SERPs. It is pretty ridiculous. Clearly Google ...…
To follow up on my Google trusted host idea, it looks like that it is not necessary to have “at least one link pointing to your site” as it used to be, to get a website into the Google index. I launched a new subdomain on the golod.com domain that has a WordPress blog on ...…
Well, I am not sure what any of this means, but I put up a new subdomain on golod.com over the weekend…actually on Friday afternoon around 5pm. The new site was indexed in Google after I posted one blog post and later put a link on the golod.com blogroll. I checked to see if it ...…
I have been working on a couple of projects lately and they have been taking up all of my time…which is a good thing. However, something that I have wanted to do for a while is to create a few, topic-based blogs, that have a number of knowledgeable contributors providing the content. I know a ...…
It is no secret that Blogger, by Google, is a spammer’s dream. I have been pretty amazed that Google has not done anything to try and prevent these splogs from being created and/or becoming much more proactive in defeating existing ones. I wanted to see what the procedure was a few weeks ago to report ...…
Okay, if anyone out there wants to wager a guess, I am all ears. How much would you pay for a site with a PR8 .gov link on the US Department of State website? I *may* know someone who has one.…