Joining Google’s PageRank N/A Club

Apr 04

Joining Google’s PageRank N/A Club

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...

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Google Alert Shows Blog Comments Are Indexed

Mar 28

Google Alert Shows Blog Comments Are Indexed

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...

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Zero To Three In 90 Days – Thanks Flickr!

Apr 12

Zero To Three In 90 Days – Thanks Flickr!

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...

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Flickr Follows

Feb 15

Flickr Follows

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...

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Clearing Up SEO Lies

Dec 06

Clearing Up SEO Lies

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...

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