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Month: July, 2008

The Top 10 SEO’s in the World

I always wanted to find out who the best SEO’s thought the Best SEO’s were, I’ve asked around and made a list of the top ten. If you don’t agree with any of the list, please contact the people on it directly:
10. Seth Godin - He may not call himself an SEO but he sure [...]

Understanding The Main Social Networks

I’ve written this post as many people don’t really understand in great detail as to how each social network works. This post should hopefully give you some insight into how many votes you need to make the “popular” page of a network, how much traffic to expect, and what the result of negative votes are [...]

99% of Links Don’t Work on Google

If you consider yourself an SEO, then you must know that links = ranking on the search engines. When I first started out, virtually any old crappy link would do. Even FFA links worked okay and got your website ranking well.
However, times have changed, and since 2003 and it has become much harder to rank [...]

Need Social Media Success? Don’t Start With Digg

Digg is seen as the “Grand Daddy” or the “Big Kahuna” of Social Media Networks. It has the ability to send an enormous amount of traffic in a given direction.
However, since the major algorithmic update in January, it’s been much harder to get your Digg submissions to the front page. Also, it’s not unusual to [...]

Google Rankings Highly Unstable

I’ve noticed recently that Google’s rankings are particularly unstable. This has happened before. Previously the rankings went through a period of changing up to twenty times in a single day.
Alas, this volatile period seems to have returned with even more fury. We’re seeing some of our sites on the first page and then another search shows them [...]

Quality Content is Not Enough

Want success on the social networks? Everyone tells you to write compelling, quality pieces that will appear to like-minded social users. “Digg Bait” is writing so that it appeals exactly to the “Digg mind” and by doing that you will have massive success on the social networks, including Digg. This statement is only about half [...]

WP Super Cache - An Essential Plugin for Your Blog

I’ve always tried to keep my hosting costs low as possible as it’s a bit of a necessary evil. Hosting costs vary wildly, from $1 a month to several hundred for a small blog like this. Obviously, huge sites can spend millions.
I’ve been through my fair share of hosts and thought I had found the [...]

10 Google Easter Eggs

An Easter Egg is best described as a message or feature which is hidden in a piece of software, be it a DVD, CD, program, or video game. Below I’ve listed 10 Google-related Easter Eggs in no particular order, they are:
1. It’s been fixed now, but it used to be possible to ask Google Maps [...]