What could be better than SEO cartoons?
January 12, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Gotta love SEOrefugee’s newest blog post, The Rep Whore, the first in a series of seo related cartoons. Every industry has its funny quirks, and SEO abounds with them. Hope to see SEOrefugee take advantage of all of seo’s hilarity by offering up new cartoons on a regular basis.
Creative for sure, but kinda dumb
January 11, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 5 Comments
Yesterday, I was talking about getting creative and using some original ideas to get traffic to your site in order to deal with the sandbox. So today, I lead you to an original idea from Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld. He now has a blog – get this – in his robots.txt file!
Dealing with the sandbox
January 10, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 7 Comments
Let’s forget about the whole debate over whether or not the sandbox exists. Only a few people would say it doesn’t, so let’s move on and talk about what to do if your site is stuck in the box. There are several ways to deal with the situation, and which ones you choose depends upon your individual situation.
Search engines reacting as expected to site changes
January 7, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
I love it when the search engines do exactly what you would expect them to do. As expected, Google and Yahoo are dropping some old urls from the site, but have not yet picked up any new urls. Good old MSN is quickly starting to index the new urls. So many things about SEO are uncertain. It sure is nice when the predictable happens. I would have predicted this exact scenario to happen, and it is happening. Of course, it would have been more interesting to report the unpredictable, but sometimes the predictable is worth noting.
Boring boring boring
January 6, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
Can anything possibly be more boring than the possibilty of Google Pack – a few old products (trillian, adobe reader, etc) bundled with google? I mean, c’mon, how un-newsworthy or boring can you get? And yet the newshounds are jumping all over it as though it were the next great invention. I don’t get it. Are they so in love with Google that it’s news when Google farts? If Google Pack ends up being something more newsworthy than what it appears to be, then cool. Otherwise, shut up about it. Who cares?
New Directory Submission Tool
January 6, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
Wanted to point out a new tool on the market. It’s a directory submission package which enables you to quickly submit a website to hundreds of web directories extremely quickly. You can work through the list of web directories (it currently lists 100 free directories) and using the auto complete tool you can quickly enter your link details. I haven’t tested it much, but it seems to do the job. You can download a trial version at Submiteaze.
My last word on 302 redirect hijacking?
January 5, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Oh so long ago, I started ranting about 302 redirects / 302 hijacking problems. Before I started ranting, others had been ranting for quite a while. If you want to refresh your memory, you can read my posts that date back to November, 2004 (shown below).
RSS Feed url is different so…
January 4, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 4 Comments
Ok, I figured out why my Bloglines subscription to my own feed was not updating since the move. The RSS Feed URL is now different, so I had to unsubscribe from the feed and resubscribe to the new feed, which is http://www.seo-scoop.com/feed/
Some notes on the site move
January 4, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
In case anyone ever needs to do what I just did, I thought I’d share some of the process, and some of the problems.
Surprise!
January 3, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 24 Comments
Ok, yesterday, I may have lied but unintentionally. As you can see, the change has already taken place. I found that it wasn’t as difficult as I expected. I can’t guarantee everything will be working perfectly yet, but whatever bugs crop up will get fixed asap. Hope you enjoy the new site.
New Year Brings New Changes
January 2, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Over the next month, I will be working on making some major changes to SEO Scoop. I have decided to change from the ColdFusion blog script I have been using, to a more standard one – WordPress to be exact. This will be a somewhat major undertaking. Importing the old posts into the new system will be a little tricky, but even more tricky will be 301 redirecting all the old urls over to the new ones.
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Happy New Year! May your rankings be top 10, your conversions be 90%, your ROI be over the top, and your coffers be full. May your life be easy, your family and friends be healthy, your time be unlimited, and your heart be at peace.
