SEO – Brain surgery? Perhaps not, but its not so far off!

Reading this blog here from oilman got me thinking about SEO and how people value their worth in terms of what they charge for their services and how some of what he is saying about others and their denigrating what we do can impact upon us negatively.
Putting to one side all those [...]

Watch your CMS – it could be getting you into trouble

Graywolf blogged about some Disney Blog getting  de-indexed for hidden text.
Seems that some blogging platforms/cms’s have issues that could get your site removed  for web spamming by inserting text  that is hidden.
One commenter there had this to say:
Some freely available WordPress templates (specifically from blogthemes.com)contain hidden links from the designer linking to certain [...]

Say no to splogging and yes to blogging

Say yes to Blogging
So, Ive blogged now for a little over a week. Ok, so Ive blogged in the past on other topics, but not as consitently or comprehensively; at least in the sense of making posts longer than 20 or 30 words and posting everyday writing unique and semi compelling stuff!
Why [...]

Google is Beta-Testing Keyword-based Ad Filtering

This could be kinda cool for publishers. Caydel reports that Google is beta testing keyword based ad filtering. Publishers will be able to input negative keywords so that low priced cpm or cpc ads won’t show…
Hmmn, interesting eh? How many times have you seen ads that made you think what’s all that about then, a [...]

Affiliate thoughts for 2007 – keeping ahead of the chop

Easy come easy go… 
It’s no news to say that the days of easy rankings with easy commissions are long gone. With some search engines, it just no longer works. Anyone, and lots are, can whack up a DB or add a feed from some central source. It’s child play, and from a search engine viewpoint its just [...]

Google and People and 007

I was just over at Matt Cutts’s blog reading his thoughts on some of the challenges that he sees  Google generally facing through 007. He talked about Googlers in general almost suggesting that they were of the same pod, well not directly perhaps, but it was a thought that occured to me; and kinda got me [...]