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- Blog Optimization Checklist
In working on the seo for bloggers book and dealing with blogging clients, I’ve come up with a handful of things you (or your blog software) should definitely do if you want to rank well in the search engines.
These are the absolute necessities of blog optimzation.- Automatically send and receive trackbacks
- Automatically ping blog services when new post is made
- Maintain a blogroll
- Single-post page title tags contain the post’s…
- Pat Buchanan Bemoans The Long Tail of Culture
I was reading Time magazine on the train (I accidentally subscribed) and I came across this gem in an interview with Pat Buchanan
You liken the immigrant wave to the Visigoths who sacked Rome. Is that fair?
I’m predicting that America will no longer be one nation but more like the Roman Empire–a conglomerate of races and cultures held together by a regime. The country I grew up in was culturally united, even if it was racially divided. We…
- The Manuscript
I’ve got this packet of printed out chapters from the book.
And they’re cover’d in small ink scribbles (my handwriting), ready for me to decypher and make digital.
I gotta say, I think this is where it gets a tad tedious.Wish me luck.
- Harmonic Series And Niche Search Volume Estimation
Building on my post from last night, I went to work trying to figure out a formula to estimate the total number of searches in a niche based on the number of searches for its most popular term. Applying the rules of power law curves means that I should be able to get a pretty good estimate fairly easily.
In practice, developing this formula was not easy however. As I mentioned yesterday, power laws are generally a series of values that look…
- How To Guestimate Keyword List Size Using Power Laws
Here’s a crazy one.
Wordtracker only shows keywords with at least 2 searches in a 90 period on Metacrawler, which can be more or less equated to the total searches each day on all engines.
I’ve found most targetted keyword niches exhibit more or less normal power-law curves (as opposed to Nielson’s drooping tail, when graphed double logarithmically against a true power law trendline, keyword lists often have slightly drooping heads). So,…
- Comments and Links: Friends or Foes?
You have a modestly popular blog with a regular readership. Would you have a comment system on your blog, with lots of your fellow bloggers commenting in your posts, or would you rather shut off your comments to force links and trackbacks?
The question arose as I read How to spice up your comments area. Nektros.com has an extremely active comment system in relation to its feedburner-reported subscribers so yeah, Yvonne knows how to get a…
- My Duplicate Content Tool for Detection
Following my own advice (which some seem to have liked) I went and created a Duplicate Content Detector tool. Its still very beta (like all the other tools I’ve posted) but its simple and it works.
Enter your domain name, select which version is your primary domain (with the WWW or without it) and submit. The tool will compare the number of pages indexed for a set of searches in Google to check common duplicate content problem areas. If it…
- Teaching Gets You Links
Copyblogger has piece on links and the sandbox for new blogs in Google.
The sandbox is often misconstrued (I’m sure Brian understands this correctly however) as a delay on newly registered domains. Its not, its a delay on the power of links to a site. That’s why its so important for new bloggers to get links before they can rank well in the search engines and garner traffic independant of its upstream sites. For SEO purposes a link is a…
- Protected: Open Letter to David Krug
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
- Parasite SEO and Search Activism
One greyhat SEO technique that has been given new life with the inflation of web2.0 is parasite SEO. The idea is simple, you post an optimized message on an open web site that already ranks well, eventually your content can rank for specific terms. Wikipedia, Craigslist, Digg, Delicious and various blogs’ comments immediately come to mind as potential hosts.
The problem is that it can be difficult to include links to some monetization…
