Fair Isaac? Who is that? Well, let’s try it this way. Do you know what a FICO score is? FICO stands for Fair Isaac Corporation. They are the people behind the biggest scam in the US economy today. I call it a scam because nobody outside of the company knows exactly how the scores [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

In case you were wondering, Google’s Adsense web site is apparently down right now. I went over there to tidy up a couple of things and check on some others and apparently they give you this message when the Adsense site is down. Glad to know they are covering every language on the face [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Okay, so it is not really legit to put images next to your Adsense ads anymore…at least that is what Google says. But, we know that what people say and what people do are usually two different things, right? So, I was trying to figure out what the best MCE MPEG-2 decoder setup was, [...]

Well, I am sure this is going to get the award for CYA in 2006. Google has decided to state publicly that lining up images with your Adsense ads is a no-no. Well, hardy har har. I am sure they are going to run out and ban people all over the place…because I [...]