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WebMythWorld Strikes Again!

I know it may seem like I rant on this issue a lot, but it frustrates me so much.
Brett Tabke is the founder of WebmasterWorld, better known as WebMythWorld. A really crappy webmaster forum that has been riding the first mover advantage for years. It was the first major webmaster forum, and that head start [...]

Site-Wide Links

Site Wide Links
For whatever reason I’ve noticed a lot of forum discussion recently on site wide links, cross linking multiple sites together, and or links from the same IP address. All of which are fairly overlapping issues.
So I thought, why not blog about it?
I also thought I would share a golden rule of link building.

It [...]

Another Two Excellent Google Blog Posts

There was another excellent post at Google Webmaster Central today that tells all about duplicate content. It is so uncommon to get such straightforward information from Google that this is definitely worth a read.
Additionally they answer the question about what TLD to use when targeting a specific country for search, I always intuitively [...]

Google Talks about Link Building

No sooner had I posted my last post then I caught this blog post at Google Webmaster Central. Basically they go into slight depth as to what kinds of links you should be getting and how you should be getting them. I mention it only in that it echoes what myself and others [...]

SEO Article Updates

As part of my process of redesigning & rewriting this site I’ve updated two SEO articles today, and since updated articles don’t get front page billing I thought I’d mention them here.
The first is Search Engine Optimization Fundamentals and is set to be the main launching point for all my other SEO articles. Most of [...]

Why .edu links shouldn’t (and aren’t) be given bonuses

Many people believe .edu links should give special bonuses, less people believe it now that Google has flat out said they don’t, but still some do.
Check out these google results (though hurry, I did fill out a spam report so they may be removed). Notice that 4 of the top 5 results are spam, [...]

Top 5 Worst SEO Mistakes

SitePoint published a pretty crappy article yesterday about the worst SEO mistakes. Not only does it mention some things that will not hurt you, it also fails to mention the most common and most hurtful SEO mistakes people regularly make. I wonder how many months the author has actually been doing SEO.
So here is [...]

PageRank: An Essay

It is my firm belief that most people, even many who would call themselves Search Engine Optimizers, do not “get” PageRank. They know that it is about your incoming links, but they do not understand what made it so revolutionary, or why it is so useful. It is my opinion that this lack of understanding [...]

Links for your Homepage or Subpage?

In reading forums today I came across a topic I do not often see discussed and I thought it would make a good blog post.
When doing link building do you work on links for your homepage alone, or your subpages? If you can get a link from one source, how do you decide which page [...]

Help! My Website is Gone from Google!

I sometimes am amazed at how easy some articles can be to write. I was reading a forum thread about yet another webmaster being dropped from Google and as I started responding I thought to myself that there was so much information I could say, I might as well write an article. So I [...]

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