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New SEO Guide

I’ve been slowly going through my successful website guide and rewriting all the articles to update them to 2007. They were first written in 2002 mostly and so many were outdated. I have just completed the rewrite of the SEO section and have decided to break that out into a separate guide all it’s own. […]

The Human Factor: SEO for People

There is a pervasive myth or misconception in the SEO world that has to do with how your site is constructed. Many believe that your site needs to be strict xhtml with a table-less CSS markup or the search engine is going to vomit when it tries to crawl your site. They correctly recognize that […]

Various Google Updates

The Googleplex has been buzzing with lots of little busy bees so far this week. Adwords advertisers now can see performance data for individual sites in the content network (Adsense) and then exclude the bad ones and or do site targetted ads on the good ones. This should, hopefully, benefit quality Adsense advertisers (most of […]

One Product Ecommerce Update

This is an update to my previous post on the topic. My compost tumbler site is now profitable. My total development costs were $1000 almost on the nose, and my marketing costs were around $800. With a profit of $40-$60 per sale depending on specific product model I needed 36 sales to pass my original […]

Perception IS Reality

In this blog post I kinda touched on this topic, but I have a better example for you now. My gardening blog (recognize the design) isn’t large, isn’t popular, and isn’t anything special. Around 16 months old I’ve got less than 40 posts in total. Although, I am starting to post more. I’ve been gathering […]

New Google Sitemaps Developments

Well, I suppose it is no longer “Google” sitemaps. While Google pioneered the protocol it has been adopted by the other major search engines as well. Just announced is the ability to finally allow search engines to auto-discover your sitemaps, ie you don’t have to submit it to them, just place a line in your […]

Is SEO Science or Marketing?

More or less everyone who practices SEO today used to do something else. Maybe they went from programming to SEO, design to SEO, marketing to SEO, business to SEO, or some other shift. It is simply too new of a field for someone to just start with it. It may be the previous life experience […]

Link Building Methodologies

New article published today, Link Building Methodologies. This is quite an opus on many different methods of building incoming links. In total it is around 5000 words and over 10 pages printed. This is yet another big SEO article, I’ve written a few recently. I have a few more to write and then I plan […]

An Experiment in One-Product Ecommerce

I just finished a new ecommerce site, Organic Compost Tumbler, that sells just one product. This type of ecommerce site has unique concerns not found in other ecommerce sites, but just because you are only selling one product does not mean you can’t be successful. The biggest factor in one-product ecommerce I believe is item […]

The Digg Effect

My literature site made it to the frontpages of both Digg and Del.icio.us this weekend. I know there is always a lot of speculation about what that kind of exposure that can give you so I thought I’d sum things up for everyone. Let me say that I never actually saw my site on those […]

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