I’ve been working on SEO this past week. The Pet Wiki is a pretty new site, and needs a lot of work to increase the page rank so that it will show up higher in search engine results. One of the best ways to do that is to have others link to the site. Search […]
If SEO is part of your life and you missed Rand Fishkin’s session at SMX Advanced a few weeks ago, you now have their must read Updated SEO Policies Based on Correlation Data (where Rand says the comments section is now also filled with important info) and a video where Rand essentially interviews one of […]
SMX Advanced was fantastic. Here’s the best of the best … Best lines: Christine Churchill: “Anybody in this room not on Twitter? One person? Wow, let’s all applaud the last holdout.” Matt Cutts when asked “how do I know if I’m getting penalized?” : “If you disappear from Google. That’s what we call a leading […]
SMX Advanced 2008 took a darker turn than many people expected, and an implicit challenge came out of that: can you do an Advanced conference that’s mostly white hat? The SMX Advanced 2009 agenda gives the impression that the organizers accepted this challenge.
Information Week called it Yahoo Aims To Redefine What It Means To Search. Yahoo! called their press briefing Yahoo’s “End of the 10 Blue Links” Talk. Color me underwhelmed. Prabhakar Raghavan, their head of search strategy announced that Yahoo! will be “divining user intent.” Where did I hear that before? Oh yeah, it was in […]
I’m looking forward to SMX Advanced in Seattle next month. Last year’s conference went a bit off course, IMO, with an over-focus on “Black Hat” SEO. I’m not an expert, but I nonetheless need to attack two myths: Myth 1: There’s No Room for Morality in SEO SEO expert Todd Mallicoat wrote the following post: […]
I was at a talk on SEO recently where I was told that you need to do sitemaps. Google will be able to index your site 4x’s faster if you put them up. Unfortunately I have not seen this yet on The Pet Wiki. I put up a site map a couple of weeks ago, […]
I still haven’t been able to find anything about redirects since we got the Simple URLs up on The Pet Wiki. Most of the links to the site (that I know of) come from this blog. I’ve gone through my old blog posts and modified the urls. I hope that what I did didn’t kill […]
It took a bit of doing, but we finally got the site to use Simple URLs instead of that ugly title=[Page Name] on our MediaWiki (The Pet Wiki) based site. It wasn’t that difficult after we found the solution, but it took a ton of time to find it. Since the site is on GoDaddy, we […]
It’s a lot of fun to see how the site is progressing. For a while now, looking up “pet wiki” or “wiki pet” has done well and brings up The Pet Wiki homepage, but now we are showing up in the top ten on Google for American Stratfordshire Terrier. It is even going to the […]