Archive for the ‘ SEO ’ Category

Free automated pinging for your pligg site

  • November 26th, 2007
  • Posted in SEO

We all have learned by now that having the ability to ping is doing miracles for our sites. So having a ping feature for a pligg based website is a must. Due to the fact that this is not a built in feature, we have the following options: Buy a custom module. For this there is [ READ MORE ]

Buy Blog Comments

  • October 31st, 2007
  • Posted in SEO

I was writing last time about a new form of intelligent blog comment spam commenting. This new form implies that instead of mass, automated, crappy comments on low value blogs you get some medium quality comments made by humans, with links that are going to stay for a while. Jon Waraas  has just started a business [ READ MORE ]

Google Indexing Speed

  • June 23rd, 2007
  • Posted in SEO

Google got pretty fast lately. A few examples on 2 of my sites: A post was created indexed and ranked in 24h. Now is #2 for its target (low&local competition though). The result is still there after 1 week A post created 3h ago has been indexed and ranked (on the second page though and on a [ READ MORE ]

SEO hypocrisy

  • February 15th, 2007
  • Posted in SEO

Loren Baker has a nice (even though common sense) link/digg bait list about how bad nofollow tag sucks. And they conclude that sucks. And it sucks very bad. And it sucks even in blog comments (imagine the horror): 1. NoFollow = NoWorky. Using NoFollow in blog comments, the original intent of the tag, does nothing to [ READ MORE ]

Yahoo goes spamming

  • January 31st, 2007
  • Posted in SEO

From Techcrunch:  Yahoo’s brand-centric sites, announced in November 2006 and dubbed “Brand Universe”, have started to go live. These sites each revolve around a single popular brand – like this one on the Nintendo Wii – and have almost no original content. Instead, Yahoo is taking content from Flickr, Del.icio.us, Yahoo Answers and other Yahoo properties, [ READ MORE ]