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This was originally a reply in another thread regarding rankings but I though it would be a good topic of its own. NOTE: Please take this with a grain of salt... SEO and business are arts not sciences. This is just my OCD perspective on the issues. The original question: How to check...

This isn't new information, but it is recent evidence that re-confirms older understandings and for myself it revives some old ideas to look at again. The history: I set up an in-house click logging system for some traffic generation projects I have going on. I decided to manually submit...

A Couple Proxy Switching Hazzards To Be Aware Of This information is from my posts on proxy switching for Macs, but these hazards apply to ALL platforms including Linux and PCs. Web Browser's auto-filling saved Logins and Passwords Be sure to disable/reset this everytime. I know it is a pain...

Mac OS X Proxy Testing & Switching I recently did some work with some PVAs from XGC Media. The list of 200 accounts they sent me only had 16 working accounts in it. Within a day they had a new list of 200 for me that was perfect. I'm impressed. But the real reason for this post is that to...

I have been running my own custom browser piloting software that controls IE9 using mouse moves and clicks and sendKeys with human like delays to search and click specific links in the results to measure if improved CTR or bounce rate will effect rankings. (I currently use a pool of 95 dedicated...

OLD SCHOOL LINK BUILDING not new... but some good details on how to do it right... Try forum profile links. I used to get killer backlinks looking for forums that allowed profile links. I had links from mtv.com, cnn.com, etc... real big sites. it was years ago but probably still work. Fill...

My Results So Far In Trying to Buy Links In Dmoz Thought I'd share. For over a year now in various channels (forums,freelance,services) I have been offering $1000 for each of my 15 legitimate websites to get a listing in their most appropriate legitimate category. So $15K in total. To...

Coping with Google Instant: Tactics & Data What we started with: What we did: We migrated the stores into the content sites. A.com became 1.com/shop/ B.com became 2.com/shop/ C.com became 3.com/shop/ D.com became 4.com/shop/ E.com became 5.com/shop/ F.com became 6.com/shop/ We...

Sure... Do all your reporting in gross profit. Link build to at least PR3. Use canonical tags on every page. Use google webmaster tools. Give part of the revenue to charity. Make a facebook fanpage for the charity you pick. Buy bulk invites and market to you fans in moderation with good products...

There have been a lot of generic post asking what are the best practices. The truth is that so much has changed recently that your guess is as good as mine. (Well, unless you know how good my guesses are. ;) ) I haven't posted in a while and it is time I earned my keep around here and at least...

Safe Sex with a Keyword Tool The Problem with JavaScript Logging Systems Nothing beats "exact actuals" like your own web server logs. (In my experience Google Analytics is always 25% low on actuals and Omniture is always 40-60% low... nothing beats having your own log files and a dependable...

Many people believe "on page" position matters. I'm not a believer , but I do like to randomize content order to make google think it is different or in many cases unique. I'm not going to go into detail on my "Spoofing Uniqueness" techniques in this post, but I will give you a small piece of...

I like the bling bling gold coin logo. When you mouse over it should flip over and reveal a weekly easter egg link... like a killer post that upsells the VIP area or something.

New Hypothesis: SEO Honeypots Ok... this is one of my more "out there" thoughts. I am seeing a pattern in radical on-page content changes. About 3-4 days after a visit from googlebot to the changed paged there is a massive "negative hit" in rankings that lasts about 3-4 days and then returns...

As requested: July 2010 Tag Rankings java -cp . decodeTags -h -d 20100602.txt 20100710.txt RANK CHANGE TEST 1 u + 5 title 2 u + 11 samp 3 u + 7 cite 4 u + 4 pre 5 textarea 6 d - 2 table > caption 7 u + 21 bdo 8 u + 1 sub 9 u + 28 abbr 10 d - 3 h3 11 d - 9 dl...

Thanks for the reminder! I did promise a number of weeks ago to share my MayDay methods and to provide data on the effects. Once again it is time to make good on a promise. What are other people doing in response to Caffeine/MayDay? No cloaking or blatant stuffing ... Google will punish that...

The Google Psych-Out! Ok... sharing some history I was reluctant to share last month because I didn't know enough to share... which despite my fans' comments is usually the case. The experiment: (First, note that this is the 2nd time I've done this. The first time Google asked me to stop...

I promised to extract and share the source code used in making my Tag reports. This will make sense if you've been following these threads: June 2010 Tag Rankings SEO Lab: Tag Ranking - HTML source for test cases The source is in Java... I'm hoping some kind soul has the bandwidth...

For those who have been following my threads... ;) (This is really interesting to me because its my first "post Google MayDay Update" look at the data. I find it quite shocking AND it parallels some of what I think I am seeing in my keyword space. ) It also supports a new theory I have...

This caffeine shakeup is really making me consider changing my default browser to bing (I hate MS but their search is just better currently)... Google serps are largely off topic half the time now... Example: Top 2 results for "buy pink socks" are about anal sex! Good work on the adult context...