Posted in Articles, rotate on September 27th, 2007 14 Comments »
After whining about wikis for far to long I thought I’d create my own clone.
This one is completely free to list your site on and has do-follow links, like the premium priced wiki’s.
Its really aimed a newbie bloggers who want to get their site indexed and introduce themselves… there again anyone can list their site, […]
Posted in Articles on September 25th, 2007 10 Comments »
Bart, the maverick Polish SEO just pointed out that although Million Dollar Wiki has sold over 900 pages Google has indexed just 269 of which 268 are supplemental meaning they have one page in the Google main index.
Add to that the fact that the site does not rank for its own name, and the Million […]
Posted in Articles on September 25th, 2007 31 Comments »
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I am really tired of the endless stream of cheap scams being promoted by blogs I once considered reputable, the latest of these being the Million Euro Wiki.
Even as the Million Dollar Wiki loses its momentum a feeble clone is launched.
This is to be expected as the Million Dollar Homepage had hundreds of feeble clones, […]
Posted in Articles, rotate on September 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
As an update to my last post on Alexa I thought I would mention that I have run a packet sniffer on my machine to get a better idea of what the search status plugin for Firefox is doing.
The packet sniffer I used (darkStat) does not allow you to view the contents of packets, I […]
Posted in Articles, rotate on September 20th, 2007 13 Comments »
I am a bit late with this post as Blog Rush Fever has already grippedthe blogsphere, but time is money… and I do not have much time for Blog Rush.
I have described Blog Rush as a Pyramid scheme, because of the way it is structured.
Referrals pass credit back 10 levels:
10 to the power of 5 […]
Posted in Articles, SEO on August 20th, 2007 10 Comments »
The myth of the Alexa re-direct seems to be on the rise again with a number of blogs writing on the subject and various people runing experiments and even writing Alexa Wordpress Plugins:
The reason I think this is a myth is that I have seen many people try permutations of this trick and none […]
Posted in Development Software, Articles on August 4th, 2007 5 Comments »
Load time is an important feature of any website, many users will not hang around waiting for your page to load, particularly if they are new to your site.
Adding plugin’s, affiliate links, graphics etc. all take their toll and it is worth keeping an eye on your load speeds.
First up are a couple of useful […]
Posted in Articles, SEO on August 3rd, 2007 4 Comments »
After reviewing a number of freebies available from CleverStat.com I was given an evaluation of one of the paid products to have a look at.
Accurate Monitor for Search Engines is a SERP’s analysis tool, i.e. it checks your position in search engines for given terms.
This tool will check your SERP’s in pretty well every search […]
Posted in Articles on August 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
On July 8th Mr Gary Lee ran a competition giving away an iPhone.
That was pretty smart as the iPhone was the gadget to have at the time, and they were in limited supply.
Almost three months later, amid concerns that the iPhone mk II would be released before the competition ended Gary has finally announced […]
Posted in Articles, SEO on August 1st, 2007 8 Comments »
Today I was checking a new site which I have been trying to optimise.
Almost all of the pages for this site are still in the supplemental index, and I have been trying to get more links to these pages to get some search engine traffic.
To my delight I now see that none of the pages […]