Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 31st, 2005 in SEO Tips
One of the bonuses of attending the WMW Pubcon is that they mail attendees a cd of all of the PowerPoint presentations that were used in the sessions. One of the presentations was by a company called TrueLocal, where they discussed using mod rewrite for various things. Now, I do not claim to have much knowledge about mod rewrite, so I cannot explain any of the code they showed us. But, I thought you might like to have the code in case you need it. So, without further explanation, here it is.
Folder move (redirect) - moving a folder from an…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 29th, 2005 in Search Engine News
As of yesterday, Google has targetted and banned some scraper sites and directories that are a copy of ODP with no value added. Of course, as with all things Google, there are reports that many innocent sites have been caught up in the net. Apparently, if you have a site that fits some of the characteristics of these types of sites, you might be a victim as well. In this WMW thread, (messages 4 and 16), Googleguy confirms that they are weeding these sites out of the index. Obviously, as happens every time Google casts a wide net, the algo…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 29th, 2005 in SEO Theories
Ok, so since I am not a young teenager, I find it difficult to imagine doing much in the way of using the Internet via a cell phone. I mean, the screen is so tiny! But, I keep getting hit over the head with the idea that this is going to be a big thing, so I guess I had better start listening. Now, at this point, being unable to even comprehend using a cell phone for surfing the web, it is equally difficult for me to imagine optimizing a site for it. However, I guess I’d better start thinking…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 27th, 2005 in SEO Tips
A few days ago, I read a forum post where someone was offering to help kickstart new forums. I have a new forum and it is a lonely place! I wanted to have some activity in the forum before submitting to directories, but getting posts is not an easy thing with a new forum. So when I saw the following offer, I knew this new forum starter kit might be just what I needed. The offer was:
- 100 directory submissions
- 100 forum posts
- 20 new threads
- 1 original article 500-600 words (including submission to article sites)
I decided to give it a try, and true…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 26th, 2005 in SEO Theories
Two days ago, I mentioned that a new site was no longer showing up with a site: command and lost its rankings. Today, the site: command is again showing the home page, although the rankings did not come back. Still, I’m happy to see it is indexed again. These are the kinds of technical issues that I just cannot seem to wrap my head around. I’ve programmed a lot of apps and used databases extensively, and I just cannot understand how data is “lost” and then found again. Of course, there’s the standard crashes and accidental deletions of data, but…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 25th, 2005 in General
Ok, about 5 minutes ago, I was getting miffed because when I went to Bloglines all my RSS feed subscriptions had disappeared! Since I also use them here on SEO Scoop in my navigation, it meant they also disappeared from there as well. I don’t know that I could ever remember all of them to be able to add them back in again, so I was starting to get a bit ticked. Then, I went back to the Bloglines site and saw the following in the spot where my feed subscriptions used to be listed. What else could I do…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 25th, 2005 in General
I am a little late in discovering this humorous Google news page, but if you have not yet seen it, then that does not matter, right? Anyway, I thought a chuckle or two about the omnipresent Google would be a good way to start off the week. Check out Google Announces Search Engine Entering Beta and enjoy.
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 24th, 2005 in SEO Theories
Interesting thing I noticed today, interesting but disturbing. I created a brand new site a couple of weeks ago, which was a simple forum. Pure white hat. Out of the box forum. Got a couple of links from relevant niche directories. I am talking about a site that could be considered to have no SEO done on it whatsoever yet. Three days ago, the site showed up in Google at the number 3 position, with just the home page indexed using the site: command. Keep in mind that the keyword has almost no competition at all, and is considered to…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 22nd, 2005 in SEO Tools
I have seen the question asked many times on SEO forums. How do I create my own RSS feeds for my site? The best way is to have a programmer create a script that automatically generates the feed for you on a periodic basis. This may involve pulling information from a database and updating the feed page. However, this method may not be available to everyone, so let’s discuss some other ways you can accomplish the goal without the use of a custom script.
The first way is to simply open up Notepad or your favorite text editor and write the…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 21st, 2005 in SEO Tips
I have been looking back at some of my old sites to decide whether to ramp up the work on them, or send them to the website scrapheap. I’m in reorganizing mode and have decided to pare down to just a few productive sites. (A few, by my standards, is 15-20).
So today, I looked at the very first website I built (other than my personal site). I haven’t paid any attention at all to the site in over 2 years. So, the first thing I did was run a site: command in Google to see what it showed, and I…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 20th, 2005 in General
I am in an interesting position in that a client of mine is trying out another SEO company - a very very large one - but the client is keeping me on in a double-check capacity. In other words, I get to see all correspondence between the company and the client, and have access to everything to see what is being done, so that I can report back to the client if I see anything amiss. I must say that it is a weird, but enlightening experience. I have just seen the first set of recommendations made. Some were decent…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 19th, 2005 in SEO Tips
I have added a link to a new, free SEO ebook that is quite good to the list of SEO Scoop tools that you see in the navigation to the right of this page. Brad Callen wrote the ebook, and it is 90 pages of good solid information. It is especially helpful to newbies, but even an experienced SEO might pick up a tip that he or she hadn’t thought of. It’s totally free, so it’s worth taking a look at.
One thing I noticed is that some people will get an error when clicking on the link that says “Error…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 18th, 2005 in SEO Tips
I have been adding forums to some of my sites recently, and I almost overlooked something that could have been a big problem for me. The forum software I am using points to the www.domain.com/index.php url as the home page link. With a forum of any size, you could easily end up with thousands of these internal links to the home page pointing at index.php instead of the domain itself (www.domain.com/). Pointing links this way (unless you ALWAYS point the links to the page, even with all external backlinks) will split your PR and end up hurting you in the…
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