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With respect to DaveN, this is the kind of post that really shouldn't be sitting on the front page. It's not SEO news or information, it's personal. Folks that care about DaveN closing his blog can read about it on his blog. Nobody else cares.
If there was information that we all need to see, it should get a post here. But this isn't information, it's gossip. daveN closing his blog is as informational to the rest of us as the news that my blog is closed would do for him.
Of course, it's pretty clear that I'm wrong and that in fact enquirer type news is what goes around here. So have at it.
If the post was focused on indexing problems and there was some technical information about what's going on and some steps that had been taken, then this would have been front page news because it would be informative.
A cursory glance of the original post shows that instead it's focused on the frustration of the blog owner and that they're quitting blogging. As has been noted, that news is best suited for the blog, not sphinn.
Of course the fact that this did rocket to the top of sphinn shows the level of posting that folks find acceptable here, and brings into question as always who's spinning what, and on what basis.
Sphinn would do well to implement a TOS that includes something that the post must either be really noteworthy on it's own or be informative, and get rid of the gossip level posts that still inundate the front page here.
Oh bullshit brian. Expressing one's opinion doesn't make one ignorant. What's ignorant is trying to portray that post as some sort of technical miracle. It was a rant, nothing else. Nobody's saying DaveN doesn't post great posts worth noting. Folks are suggesting that this sure wasn't one of them. If you had even read the original post, there wasn't any mention of russian hackers. I don't think there was even any mention of scrapers. Whatever, it wasn't focussed on whatever you think you read into it. If the post actually HAD been about whatever the hell you're talking about, then folks here would be reading it with interest.
As for Ibrian's comments about people's opinions being ignorant, my rebuttal of his opinion doesn't meet the rigourous standards of this site so you'll have to use your imagination.
Young fella's these days, I swear. It's a sad commentary on the state of today's youth when they use the internet more for talking to other people than they do for looking at pictures of naked people.
Not sure I like the idea conceptually, makes me a bit uncomfortable. But if anyone's going to take it over, BOTW folks are the ones to do it.
Of course, they're buying it to monetize it - so the question is how are they going to monetize it? Probably paid listings. And then what happens to all the unpaid editors? Fired? Expected to work for free for a for-profit org?
You can also use MSN (sorry - turns out MSN is actually good for something after all) to check IP addresses by searching:
IP:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
If that doesn't get it, try adding one to the ip address, adding two, subtracting one, and so on. Many servers will have a range of IP addresses, maybe a block of 3 or 4. When you hit an IP with nothing, that's probably the start of the block (since the first IP in the range is used for other networky-type stuff).
Then type in the IP address directly into the browser. That will serve up the first site listed in apache for that IP address. The first site in the first IP of a block is generally the main site of whoever runs the server.
For example, the site has an IP of 198.1.1.8. Check 198.1.1.7. Then check 198.1.1.6. and 198.1.1.5. If there's nothing at 198.1.1.5, then 198.1.1.6 is the start of the server's block of IP's. Type in 198.1.1.6 into your browser and see who you get.
Story: Why NOFOLLOW My Comments?
Good for you. My blog also allows dofollow on all links as well. However, unlike you I'm not about to broadcast that fact in front of a bunch of SEO types :).
Considering I've been playing around with repurposing some sites, this is great news for me.
Perhaps it also explains why things like kim-and-bills-kiddie-horse-ranch.com are ranking on things like 'car insurance rates' :).
Buy the fricking thing already. And buy the developer's license so you can use it across all your blogs. I also looked at this based on Sugarrae's reference, and bought it as a result - hopefully she got an affiliate payout for that :).
Yes the theme is customizable, and easily so. yes the admin panel rocks. yes, support for the theme rocks. It's all that.
But the reason I bought it is much more straightforward. He's got a great big money shot of pictures in the top right of the blog - and that block is super easy to change in the control panel. In sugarrae's blog it contains her link to seobook. In my blog it's got my conversion form.
All you have to do is go to the admin panel and change the attributes of that block from 'rotating images' to 'custom code'. Then paste your html code for whatever you do to convert, then save. Done, instant conversion facility on every page in the site.
Normally to do all that I have to frig around with the template code and the css. A right pain in the butt. The 3 second setup to do that - and across a bunch of different blogs - that alone is worth the price of admissions.
In terms of individual posts, you can upload a pic and it'll thumbnail it and put it in the top right corner of the post automatically. Wonderful...and easy.... way to get images into all your posts. I never bothered with that stuff prior to this theme.
I didn't measure this specifically, but a rough judge of my conversions pre and post install of this theme says it's already well paid for itself in increased conversions.
Since sugarrae's responsible for breaking this theme here, if you buy it I'd suggest you do so through her affiliate link on her blog.
And by the way, I already referenced this theme two weeks ago. But I don't have any friends so nobody spunn it:
http://sphinn.com/story/64365
This ain't so hard to define. Link building is about getting links from trusted and relevant websites. What's a trusted and relevant website? A site that has trusted and relevant backlinks.
What's relevant? Links from a page that has backlinks from relevant sites, within content that is relevant.
What's trusted? A site that has links from trusted sites. What makes a site trusted? Assume that Google dictated a list of 'these sites are trusted' and all that trust flows down through links kinda like pagerank does. We don't know what sites Google deemed trusted, but we can guess pretty well what sites are collecting trust just by a gut check. A lot of .edu's, .gov's, authority sites, sites with really old backlinks, and so on.
that's it. Check the backlinks. Are the backlinks relevant? Do they look trusted? Yes, get a link. No, move along.
[quote]Personally, I get very effective results using straight on-page SEO with absolutely no effort put into link building whatsoever. If you guys cannot, then you have my condolences.[/quote]
Christ, I hope you're not selling your SEO services to victims...errrr 'clients'. Because that's just about the most clueless statement I've seen in a while.
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I also read "Gah! Must resist talking with troll-boy", which seems very relevant in this case.
Yeah, well you need to remind of that BEFORE I post next time :).
Here you go Geezer Man, some advice from the colonies. You want top SEO consultants, call the folks at www.ayima.com. That'll end your days of dealing with mediocre SEO folks.
>>>>Maybe now that will be the wake up call that certain people in this industry needed to hear - to finally realise that certain branches of SEO and certain SEO firms are seen by many other businesses in other sectors as shoddy operators and that it tars the whole industry with the same tainted brush.
Hardly tarring the whole industry. Or at least, justifiably. Fully 95% or more of the people who claim to do SEO are either shysters or useless amateurs. THAT's why the industry has a bad name. How many people doing SEO are still advertising 'we submit to 1000 search engines'? C'mon - it's not a small minority of the industry. There's a LOT of people still doing that.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this warrants an articlee. It's absolutely true - I send all my emails to a specific person and address the message to them. It's dear ralph, not dear contactus. Thankfully for me my competitors mostly don't get beyond dear webmaster.
I skimmed the article and don't think I saw this - but sometimes a whois lookup will provide answers as well. Or whois lookups of other domains that they own. Or googling their name. Or doing a whois to get their phone number then googling the phone number to find another site where they are which can lead to them (and an address that nobody else has....meaning your link request sticks out).
It's not extra work - it's part of surfing around the site and reading it a bit so you've got a very targetted email to send them. Like you know so much about them it's like you've been buddies for years.
Good idea Gab, except all you've done is basically spun the old 'sponsor a wordpress theme'. In fact you could shortcut all that work, have a real estate wp theme created (or a mortgage calculator plugin) and you'll have the same result with less work.
Looks like you're using google.ca for the results. In all seriousness, ranking for that term in google.ca isn't anywhere near like ranking in google.com. What your describing will work in google.ca (I've seen wordpress theme sponsorship rank on similiar terms in google.ca) but probably won't be near enough to get you ranked in google.com.
What would probably be a better idea is calling real estate folks that already have a site and offering them something like a calculator, or a free seo book, or something of interest - in exchange for a link from their site or a page on their site. Then you're getting links from established sites. Or if you must, offer your theme for free not to agents without a site, but to agents that already have a site that's online but where there theme is outdated or butt ugly. Again, links from already established sites with some backlinks.
In your case though, since you're in Canada, I'd go looking for agents that have a US mortgage calculator on their site. Some of these folks aren't aware that US mortgage calculations are not the same as Canadian - educate them. (in fact, years ago one of the banks that rank for your term was actually using US mortgage numbers.)
>>>Wow ... I just got totally schooled. Does anyone else feel like a newb? Cuz I do..
Not a newb post at all. The idea of taking something a bit new, and actually picking up the phone and promoting it, offering stuff to people, talking to them and helping them out - that's advanced stuff. It's that kind of attitude that will get you the results to get you ranked in competitive fields.
Yeah Darkmatter, I'm moving to drupal as well. Less plugins and templates, more technically competent from what I see. More tech users, less mortgage brokers :).
Wordpress is teetering on the edge of a php-nuke. Really heavy penetration, then not listening to users, producing whacked out buggy code, and eventually people fork far enough that you become obsolete.
This might be better talking about 'SEO consultants', not ethical SEO'ers. I do SEO, consider myself ethical, and could care less about all those douchebag tactics others are using. The article applies to those selling their SEO services. The rest of us don't really care what others are doing.
Here's two easy password generators:
1) your computer's serial number. Pretty random and not easy to remember the first time, but you always know where it is.
2) use a combination of year, your car, and something about the car like 04fordmustang2dr or 98pathfinder4wd, 2006hcivic5spd, and so on.
I'm not so sure I trust the 'maths' these folks are doing. I'd have to hit the textbooks again to confirm, but some of it sounds wrong.
For example, most political polls use a sample size of 1000 people, which gives something like (assuming a normal distribution and random sampling of the population) results accurate + or - 2.5%, 95 percent of the time. in other words, almost all the time with a 1000 samples your results will very closely resemble the entire population.
Yet they discuss a sample size of 2000 like they're unsure if that's big enough statistically. And then they drop in some mention of 'if you get one more click shortly then that would take you from profitable to unprofitable.' Which leads me to question whether or not they should be using a normal distribution to model that data set. Gosh, I've forgotten the distribution for that...what's the one where they used it to model the deaths from kicks to the head by horses in the French Army? Not the normal. Pareto? No, that's not it either.
I've seen companies who had software where you put up nine ads with slight variations and they would statistically analyze which ad combination would work the best - and that stuff was bang on. So stats is a good thing with PPC. But either the folks writing this don't know as much statistics as they want to portray, or they've written a poor article (or, I've forgotten so much of my stats that I'm full of crap. That's possible too).
Story: Closing Down the Blog.. (DaveN goes all Calcanis)