Archive for the 'seo' Category

01
Mar

Top keywords at amdsoft.com

By amd 0 Comments
Categories: geek and seo

A friend was asking me why I was still posting about WoW after I quit :) If you make money from this come back and let me know.

druid 479 12.4 %
wow 309 8 %
feral 306 7.9 %
gear 300 7.7 %
tanking 136 3.5 %
tribute 103 2.6 %
tank 98 2.5 %
warcraft 74 1.9 %
of 57 1.4 %
run 54 1.3 %
dm 51 1.3 %
maul 46 1.1 %
dire 45 1.1 %
to 45 1.1 %
list 41 1 %
world 41 1 %
how 40 1 %
baron 39 1 %
bear 38 0.9 %
mats 36 0.9 %
agi 30 0.7 %
cat 29 0.7 %
for 28 0.7 %
cappuccino 28 0.7 %
a 26 0.6 %
45 26 0.6 %
make 26 0.6 %
equipment 25 0.6 %
dps 24 0.6 %
best 23 0.5 %
armor 20 0.5 %
strategy 20 0.5 %
enchant 19 0.4 %
str 18 0.4 %
paypal 18 0.4 %
weapon 17 0.4 %
15 16 0.4 %
pvp 15 0.3 %
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25
Jan

Andy demonstrates the power of social media

By amd 0 Comments
Categories: blogging and seo

Andy Hagan wrote a fantastic post called The Lazy SEO Manifesto and it’s hit the social media sites like crazy. Just look at that spike!

Nice one, Andy! btw, personally I’d enable trackbacks and comments for that post.

The Lazy SEO Manifesto traffic

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

07
Jan

The power of an early link

By amd 3 Comments
Categories: seo

Igor over at bizmord.com posted about deeplinking to your own site early in your posts. It makes a lot of sense from an SEO point of view for couple of reasons:

Whenever your “content” is republished somewhere … many times you’ll notice that the website will show a brief intro to content (usually your first paragraph) and then offer a link to read further. Well, isn’t it nice when your deep links are right there on top, closer to the index page, visible not only to people who read the article but also to search engine’s spiders?

Of course as I discovered writing the first paragraph of this post, sometimes it’s fairly difficult to fit it in naturally!

P.S. Saw your syndicate post on WebPro getting all the link love, thought you should get some of the google juice you deserved, Igor ;)

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22
Nov

Learning some more about SEO

By amd 0 Comments
Categories: seo

I’ want to learn more about SEO. I have a strong understanding of all the basic principles, in the same way that a graduate knows the basics of their specialist topic, but taking it profession will take a lot of effort.

There are some great resources online, and there’s one that I keep getting pointed back at, everytime I look up something on SEO, This is either very ominous or a ringing endorsement. The resourse is “SEO book” which is a PDF ebook from Aaron Wall, an SEO expert.

The book sounds interesting, and I have yet to find a negative review. On the flip side, it seems a lot of the reviews are from paid affliates, which isn’t always a bad thing, but many don’t declare the fact that they’re on sales commission and all are very positive. One review on seobookreview.com is so enthusiastic in the extreme, and tied in very slickly with the SEO Book site that it’s actually off-putting. Aaron/Brendan, if you read this, be wary of the gush-effect, it’s not always positive. Tempered enthusiasm and cautious positiveness can be more effective. Maybe it’s a social or psychological thing.

The PDF ebook is $79 which seems pricey, especially when you’re not getting a nicely bound hard copy, but the great bonus of having updates constantly available when stuff like ranking algorithms change. I’m old skool, I like to have a dead tree in my hands… a good laser printer would do an acceptable job.

I’d love to find a negative review somewhere. There’s some crazy psychology going on there, I’m sure, but haven’t you heard the adage “too good to be true”? It’s a tough one to set aside on today’s web.

Update:
I followed Aaron’s “One question” request, and asked him “Where can I find a negative review of your book?”. He replied in a couple of hours, maybe even sooner with “here is a negative review of me: http://www.google-watch.org/gaming.html“. Fair play Aaron.

Update 2:
Aaron posted “Roast Me, Please!” on the basis of my feedback - cheers :)

18
Jul

ambatchdotcom seocontest: pointless or educational?

By amd 3 Comments
Categories: seo

I’m wondering if the ambatchdotcom seocontest is as pointless as it appears. From looking at the google search results for “ambatchdotcom seocontest” it’s obviously that all the well known SEO tactics are out in force.

  • the keywords ambatchdotcom seocontest are spammed all throughout the headings, body and links for relevance bonus. Ok, not quite spammed, but borderline
  • many of the sites are blogs for the frequently updated bonus
  • urls, particularly domainnames, contain the keywords for relevance bonus (like the guy with his blog at http://ambatchdotcom- seocontest.com/ambatchdotcom-seocontest with a wordpress userid of ambatchdotcom-seocontest)
  • domainnames registered years ago are being used to avoid the sandbox effect
  • many backlinks within the site increase pageranking
  • what many believe is the real winner: external links, hundreds of them, from well ranked sites
  • meta tags
  • … and finally, I believe there’s even a semantic html site in there. I’ll be watching that one.

So, is it really a worthwhile educational contest as ambatchdotcom would have us believe? Well, I’m not convinced. Most of the above is well known, white hat, good seo practice. I believe that once you have the basics covered that there’s not much more you can do. Unless, of course, you’re morally flexible, and willing to go the black-hat route.

Is this an ambatchdotcom seocontest entry?

So, you ask, what about this post? No, I am not entering the seocontest. However, for a mere 5 euro donation to my paypal account I will give you a live external link to your ambatchdotcom seocontest page from this blog entry with the relevant keywords. What a great deal! For a larger amount I will also be happy to link to you from elsewhere - post a comment below.