So, if you’ve been hanging around these parts for awhile, you’ll remember that this blog was down for about a month. Down, down, not just not being updated, but server down. It’s been back up for about two weeks and things have mostly shaken out - and I’m seeing what SEO effects occurred because of [...]

Categories: analytics · navel gazing · rss · seo

I’ve been using Enquisite for about a year now and really liking it. It’s an analytics service that you can add to your website that tracks in great detail how you’re doing as far as the myriad search engines are concerned. Now, post electropacolypse, I just logged back in after a few weeks of not [...]

Categories: analytics · seo

Huh. Google. So. I spend some amount of time thinking about Google and Pagerank and what not, I am not by any stretch of the imagination an SEO expert, but I know some little tidbits about it. This very blog was created partially as a means of learning more about such things. I’ve experimented a [...]

Categories: google · seo

… people listen. And recently he’s been talking! I came across this Stone Temple interview with him (no, not those stone temples) where he talks at length about NoFollow and NoIndex and why you might want to use them.
As with most anything he writes, it is well worth a read - this interview was particularly [...]

Categories: seo

Matt Cutts posted the other day his video on the anatomy of a search snippet, where a snippet is one search result section. Most of it I found mildly interesting but what I became most intrigued by was his discussion of site links - those extra links that sometimes show up on search returns. He [...]

Categories: google · seo · yahoo

The other day Google Webmaster Tools got a bit of an update and a facelift. Mostly it’s the same, but a slightly cleaner look (although still not consistent with any of the other Google apps) and a little more functionality.
The cleaner look is nice, I must admit - previously it was really kind of [...]

Categories: google · seo

So this blog does ok, it does better than I thought it would when I started out. Which is good because I need lots of encouragement to keep doing things, otherwise my various obsessions tend to peter out. I’ve noticed, from very early on that Google delivers a significant portion of my traffic, certainly at [...]

Categories: google · navel gazing · seo

So everyone knows that Alexa rankings are not necessarily the most reliable, especially when they’re large. It’s not controversial, Alexa itself admits it on it’s traffic page. It has a large selection bias and non-random distribution - so that unlike Nielsen which does all manner of statistical randomization fanciness so that it can sort of [...]

Categories: amazon · seo

I just read this remarkably insightful post on how you can think about optimizing your SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) efforts. It starts out with a lot of how-to analysis of your head (that part of the curve where there’s a small number of search terms resulting in a large proportion [...]

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