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.
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, […]
Now that we’ve tried to make it easier for people to add content, it seems like the spammers have taken to adding a ton of links that just don’t belong. It’s been a real battle to keep up with the mess that they are making. There are a bunch of add-ins and extensions that we’ve […]
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 […]
The link that I put a few posts ago was short lived. Although Pekingese is no longer in the search results, the number of links went up from 7 to 11. Most of those links are pages for other links, but some of them have real content. That’s new. For pages on Chesapeake Bay Retriever I can […]
Just to give a quick update, the link that I put in my last post about the Pekingese has now been indexed by Google. I have no idea how long it will stay, and I also have no idea how to keep the rest of the animals in there. I think that we are going […]
For some reason, all the pages that were indexed are no longer indexed. I have no idea what happened. I’m down to having only 7 pages spidered. Basically, I’m down to the links on the homepage. As another test for this blog, I’m going link Pekingese in this blog to see what happens. I thought that […]