Yearly Archives: 2004

How obvious is your topic?

Try this little on-page SEO experiment. Go to a page on your website that you are actively promoting but are having trouble ranking. Have your mother or grandmother or some non-techy friend look at the page. Give them only about [...]

By |2004-12-28T18:42:00-05:00December 28th, 2004|SEO|

Search engines, bugs, and ethics

You will often see the argument that [insert search engine here] owes webmasters nothing, and that they can do whatever they want with their results. Therefore, webmasters should not complain about bugs that prevent their websites from ranking. I suppose [...]

By |2004-12-22T23:04:00-05:00December 22nd, 2004|SEO|

Backlink analyzer AKA Tool Number 9

We Build Pages has created a very nice free tool that analyzes backlinks, showing unique domains linking to the site, the IP addresses of those domains (great for analyzine Class C IP structure), and the age of the domains linking [...]

By |2004-12-20T16:33:00-05:00December 20th, 2004|SEO|

Google SERPs jumble, tumble, rattle, and shake

Reminiscent of the Florida shakeup last year, the Google SERPs are again going through a major update. The shakeup started yesterday, and has not yet settled across all datacenters. Like last year's Florida algo change, webmasters are reporting massive changes [...]

By |2004-12-17T19:16:00-05:00December 17th, 2004|SEO|

Bombardment of search engine news

There has been a literal barrage of news coming from the various search engine lately, so I will attempt to summarize the latest here. Everybody and his brother has announced a new Desktop Search application (either in beta or coming [...]

By |2004-12-16T17:53:00-05:00December 16th, 2004|SEO|

More SEO bookmarklets

Here are a few more handy bookmarklets that may save you a little time in your SEO work. Just drag the links to your browsers Bookmarks Toolbar or Links Bar, to have a quick easy way to see the cache, [...]

By |2004-12-14T22:59:00-05:00December 14th, 2004|SEO|
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