Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 31st, 2007 in SEO Tips
Like the title of the post says, I often wish I could hide this blog from prying eyes so that I could be more open about things. Unfortunately, we are all forced to live with some restraint. I am going to share a tip in a rather vague way here, but I will be happy to share the details if I know and trust you. And if I know and trust you, then you know how to get in touch with me. 
So…
I acquired a certain type of link earlier this year, and noticed that having just a couple of…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 29th, 2007 in General
Just a quick note:
I’ve got bytchin.com for sale - auction listed here and here.
(Only the domain name is for sale)
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 29th, 2007 in SEO Tips
The following is a guest post from Dan Zarrella. Thanks, Dan!
- Never Submit your Homepage
Most social sites will allow you to submit each URL only once. So create a unique subpage URL for every social media linkbaiting campaign you do. You’ll only be able to submit your homepage once and if it doesn’t get popular you can’t try again. We’ll show you a few tricks later to maximize the effect of the new linkjuice from a subpage story.
- Put your Keywords in the Title and Description
The title you or your viewers provide to the social sites for your pages is the most…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 28th, 2007 in General
It is that time of year again when the new year means our sites need new copyright dates. If you still manually change the dates, this is your reminder to do so once the new year rolls around. If you’d rather not have to remember each year, you should probably switch over to some sort of dynamic method. I’m going to make an assumption here that your site uses PHP, and give you some PHP code that will automatically supply the current year in your copyright date. To output the current date using PHP, simply use the following line of code in place of your current copyright year:
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 26th, 2007 in SEO Tools
Those of you who know me, even a little, have probably gathered by now that I’m an idea gal. It can be frustrating to be an idea kind of person, however, because you often don’t have anyone around to bounce all your ideas off of. Family tends to roll their eyes when you say (for the millionth time), “I have an idea”, and while they may feign interest, they’d really rather you’d shut up so they can finish watching their favorite tv reality show.
So what’s an idea gal to do? How about joining a social network of other idea people?…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 23rd, 2007 in SEO Theories
It’s not often that I can truly compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges when looking at search engine stats. It’s also not often that I rank #1 for a major keyword phrase for all 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, Live). I’ve got quite a few major phrases that aren’t #1 across the board, but are scattered about at #2, #3, etc. But even one ranking down means you are no longer comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges. And sure, I’ve got lots of long-tail phrases that are #1 across all three - everyone has that. But…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 20th, 2007 in General
Congratulations to rmccarley who is the 1st place winner of the Search Wish List contest and SpostareDuro who is the 2nd place winner!
As a reminder, the prizes are:
- The First Place Winner gets a free 30 days Wordze Account and a copy of Aaron Wall’s famous SEO Book. ($115 value)
- The Second Place Winner gets a free 30 day Wordze account. ($35 value, but just using the tool is priceless).
I will send your name and email address to Wordze so your accounts can be set up. Congratulations to both of you!
And many thanks to Wordze for making this contest possible.
Random.org was used to select the winners
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Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 19th, 2007 in SEO Tools
I was reading an article in the latest AMA Marketing News publication in which they were discussing reputation management and how the online posts should be tracked. I took the information they gave and turned it into a simple spreadsheet. It’s nothing fancy, but hopefully, it will help you get started on the tracking process.
Of course, not everyone needs to track reputation management this closely, but if you want to track reputation trends or create rep “scores” based on positive/negative reviews, you’ll need to do more than just Google yourself now and then. I am sure there are SEOs out there…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 17th, 2007 in Search Engine News
What’s on your search wish list this holiday season? Is there something you want from Santa Baby? (er, Santa Google or Santa Yahoo or … you get the idea). To celebrate the holiday season and the coming new year, it’s contest time! And of course, the prizes are on everyone’s wish list all the time, but we’ll get to the prizes momentarily. (No peeking).
First, what do you have to do to win the 2007 Holiday Wish List / 2008 Predictions List contest? It’s simple. Just comment on this post! Include at least one item to be placed on the Search Wish…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 14th, 2007 in General
Google Knol. OMG. Don’t even get me started on what I think of that. Talk about handing the keys to the kingdom right on over to the dictator. Here, you’ve already got 99% of the control anyway, please, take the rest. When does Google “become” the Internet? When we allow them to control it all, that’s when. Knol is one step closer to that reality.
So, since I really hate thinking about negative things, I’d rather concentrate on something positive. Be sure to stop by on Monday because there’s a contest involved and some nifty prizes. Have a great weekend, don’t…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 13th, 2007 in Search Engine News
John Battelle has listed an exhaustive list of questions that a House Representative is asking Google to answer. This representative is “the senior Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has Internet regulation as one of its responsibilities.” I won’t list all of the questions (see Mr. Battelle’s post for that), but here’s an example (after asking a bunch of privacy-related questions about the data Google obtains:
2. Please explain how Google uses the information or data described in Question 1(a) - (l), including, but not limited to, the following uses: perfecting Google’s search algorithm; operating Google’s advertising programs such…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 12th, 2007 in General
Eric Cho of semhints.com has a meme going in which we each link to a search-related site with no expectations of getting anything in return (which means I don’t need to link to Eric and you won’t link to me). Instead, I will link to someone - and I choose Alliance Link as my “pay it forward” link - and hopefully, Debra will then pay that link forward to another search-related site, and on and on. Feel free to go dig up Eric’s original post, but in the spirit of paying it forward with no expectations, I haven’t linked to it,…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on December 11th, 2007 in SEO Tips
As a little girl, I waited anxiously each year for the annual showing of The Wizard of Oz on TV. That magical movie is a classic. Although the definition of classic is generally ‘first rate’, it also usually implies something with some history behind it - something that has stood the test of time. Some works, however, are so good that they should become instant classics. I just finished watching Sci Fi’s Tin Man, and I’d put that movie into the instant classic category. It was a fascinating take on the story of OZ. I won’t go into details, but…
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