Archive for July, 2008
List of 100 CommentLuv Wordpress Blogs
If you’re not familiar with the CommentLuv Wordpress plugin by now, you’re really falling behind. This plugin allows you to easily gain a back link to your blog by commenting on a different blog. The link back is the title of your most recent blog post at that point and many of these are actually dofollow blogs as well. While they don’t give it up easily, most of these sites only require 10 comments before you gain the dofollow benefit of the link. Take a look at the list below.
The Dangers of Google Knol
Taking a look back, shortly after YouTube was purchased by Google, their results seemed to instantly flood the search engine results page. Makes it kind of suspicious as it looks like Google is giving more weight to their in house material.
Is Yahoo! Site Directory Worth It?
You’re building up a reputable site and you’re looking for new places to gain authoritative links from when you come across the Yahoo! Site Directory. Sounds perfect. Yahoo! host it so clearly it’s got to have some pull, and it definitely does. But what bites you is the cost. $299 to SUBMIT a site to their directory. That doesn’t mean that they’ll actually accept your site. If your site is of adult content, then double that price. Plus, it’s an annually reoccurring price to boot!
Top Three Black Hat SEO Techniques To Avoid
At some point or another, we’ve all considered using Black Hat techniques. Hell, we probably still use some of the lesser known or more easily hidden ones. But when it comes down to it, the ones that are most readily available to those who are just stepping into the SEO business are usually the worst ones you can even consider trying. So while this may seem kind of obvious to many of you, consider this a warning for those new in the industry.
Top Five SEO Tips From Matt Cutts
Google Guy Matt Cutts had a chance to sit down earlier this month with USA Today and discuss with them a little bit about SEO. In the interview, Cutts referenced five tricks that everyone should follow when it comes to performing SEO on a website. A word of caution from the man himself, don’t over do any of these techniques as you may actually find yourself penalized or banned from the search engines for doings so. Without further ado:
Unique Article Wizard - A Honest Review
It sounds amazing, doesn’t it? The concept of spinning one article by combining paragraphs from two other articles written to match up content wise, into several thousand “unique” articles. The sales page for Unique Article Wizard swears up and down that search engines won’t find this content to be duplicate entries, and that you’ll receive hundreds to thousands of links from the “article” directories that it will submit to. Sadly, it really is too good to be true.
Blog Commenting: Achieving Links Through Participation
On a daily basis, we clear out dozens of spam comments that are caught by our very basic WordPress spam filter. these comments are either so blatantly obvious due to the lack of English written, or they’re peppered with links. Every comment that doesn’t get caught in that spam filter, we read through, and if it adds anything useful to the post or is asking something we can feed off of and respond to or better yet, make another post out of, then we approve it. Regardless of whether they’re using the name category to provide anchor text for their link.
When Should You Start SEO?
One of the most common questions asked by those new to the search engine optimization field is “when should I start to SEO my site?”. While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, there is only one correct answer that will allow you to develop your site to it’s maximum potential.
What Is PageRank Sculpting?
Call it whatever you like: PageRank Hording, PageRank Siloing, or it’s latest name, PageRank Sculpting. The truth of the matter is, it’s all the same thing. The idea behind it is that, instead of allowing all your site links and outbound links to be dofollow, you cut off the unnecessary ones by using a nofollow tag.
Should You Teach SEO To Your Clients?
To the average person, SEO is like Voodoo. You have no idea how it works, it doesn’t always work, but you know a friend who knows a friend who got results from hiring an SEO firm/freelancer.
