I wasn’t going to post about Google’s recent toolbar pagerank update because there are about a million other posts about it already. But I just noticed that while all of my pages, other than the index page, went to a N/A, the about page on DennisEdell.com has a page rank of three. Don’t misunderstand, I’m not jealous, I just want more than...

The do-follow issue has been discussed to death lately. It also seems to be driving a wedge between a few bloggers in our community. And the fact is: We are all just guessing unless we are on Google’s payroll. Even so, bloggers can be a passionate group and we can get pretty vocal. Because of this, I am reluctant to post this but, in the traditional blogger...

Back in February I posted ‘Flickr Follows‘ excited to find we could add do-follow one way links back to our sites. I started adding photos to my Flickr account from my personal photo blog including a link back with each one. Today I was adding a few pictures and noticed I had a Google Page Rank of 03/10. Not bad considering I wasn’t ranked at all...

I was working on my personal photo blog recently and I decided to start copying photos over to my Flickr account. I setup a separate set (group) called ‘Passionate Photo‘ hoping to drive a little Flicker traffic to the site. I made sure I had a good title, description and tags. I also added the following terms in the description of each photo: “Feel...

What does the term Search Engine Optimization (SEO) mean to you? More importantly, what does the term do to you? If it makes you uneasy and just a little confused you are not alone. Between Google’s obsession with secrecy and extremely unqualified marketers pretending to be SEO experts saying whatever it takes to turn a profit it’s a wonder that anyone...