Pretty funny post over on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog about Google copying Yahoo. I can understand it if some 13 year old kid copy’s some website’s design, but a company with a $147 billion market cap is copying a one pager ad for IE7 from their competition? What stoner web dev guy/girl at Google thought […]

Looks like Google is trying out a new lime green adsense background on their search results page for the top sponsored links. I actually like it quite a bit. It stands out, but is not too in your face. I am sure they are going to see a pretty nice bump in click throughs for […]

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 […]

Well, I am not sure that paradox is the right word to use, but I was just looking at some rankings in the DP Keyword Tool and had to laugh. You see, I have not really worked at getting anything to rank for anything in the past 3 to 6 months. Well, I mean to […]

Ok, so I rely heavily on email…shocker. Just about every industry does these days. Email is fast, efficient and something you can send and receive just about anywhere if you are enough of a geek. So, what happens when you use Gmail to relay your email, clean up your spam and provide web based access […]

Well, thanks for all of the people that have been checking in with me via email, IM and the like. Obviously, I have not been posting here much recently and talking about all of the geekery and SEO nonsense. This is not to say thta I am not still working on some SEO stuff, it […]

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. […]

Well, since J-Money has been getting everyone and their mothers excited about spending money via CPC companies to generate traffic. I decided to share something that will probably make the biggest difference in how Google places your ads. I know that most people are probably using some kind of ad generation tools to create […]

I was going to put something like this together for myself and then dump some adsense into it, but I have too much on my plate right now. Plus, I am realizing that I need to do some serious hacking on this Wordpress install to speed things up around here. Anyway, if you want […]

Well, I am not much of a hacker or for the super l33ty folks, h4×0r. But, I was thinking about hitting up the upcoming Yahoo! Hack Day which is coming up at the end of the month. I am just starting to get into putting some decent little applications together using the Yahoo […]

Sometimes I feel like a total retard (to use the 100% politically incorrect term). I have been using Google Analytics, aka Urchin, since they announced it at last year’s PubCon…where I scored a t-shirt…woooot…anyone want it? Anyway, I have noticed a few bugs since they have upgraded everyone’s accounts to 10 sites. I […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tracking UPS packages is easier on Google than it is on the UPS website. If I go to the UPS website, I have to check a box stating that I agree to the terms and conditions, whatever they are, after I type in a tracking number and before I click “Track.” On Google, I […]

Not that I really care about all of the BS “Google Doesn’t Care About Click Fraud!” posts that have been circulating over the past month or so, but I did just read a response to Google’s click fraud report filed by the independent 3rd party who investigated Google’s efforts to prevent click fraud in the […]

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 […]

Yippeeee! I just got a message from Tiffany! Who is Tiffany? Well, I don’t know, but she is making me a sweet offer. In exchange for a link to her site, I will get a link from their site on a page that, “…is awaiting a Google PR update of a PR 3-4.” Oh, […]

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.

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Ok, so I am getting back into the swing of things this week. Been studying to re-establish my California real estate license for the past couple of weeks…more on that later. I was just poking around Google Sitemaps a bit (hey Google, how about an easier URL for the damn thing…maybe sitemaps.google.com?) and noticed […]