A forum thread at WebmasterWorld discusses the potential for article links expiring after seeing a drop in backlinks from articles. I noticed the same thing this week - but what I saw was *not* article links being "absent" from the backlink query but rather articles from crap and "out of the box" article directory sites being "absent". All the articles on quality sites and in … [Read more...] about Link Building Through Article Marketing
Cool Google PageRank Tool
While PageRank is not as important as it used to be, it does play a minor role in establishing a site's rankings - especially if you want to rank well on Google. PageRank does affect spider crawl frequency. An interesting PageRank tool at www.webmastereyes.com lets a user enter a URL and returns graphical PR bars on all the links on that page. With this tool, users can … [Read more...] about Cool Google PageRank Tool
Domain Name Availability Research
Dennis Forbes conducted some fascinating research on domain availability recently. It reveals just how "difficult" it is to obtain a really good, short, meaningful domain name. As the graph below indicates, 2 and 3-letter domain names are unavailable with four letter domains almost 80% snapped up. Whatever's left are usually a sequence of letters and numbers put together … [Read more...] about Domain Name Availability Research
Fresh Relevant Content with Google Related
As a webmaster, one of the major aspects of web publishing that bring spiders back to visit a site is fresh, dynamic, regularly updated content. For some webmasters, this can be a challenge, some consider it a chore. Now there's an easy alternative... Big G released it's Google Related service. Google Related Links use the power of Google to automatically bring … [Read more...] about Fresh Relevant Content with Google Related
Search Engines Don’t Rule the Web!
As a webmaster and SEO, one of the major focuses I have is on getting a site indexed and ranked. The focus will, undoubtedly, turn to what algorithms search engines use to rank sites and developing unique and powerful strategies to boost link popularity and PageRank. Matt Cutts, known as the Google guy, recently answered a question at his blog about the nofollow tag: if … [Read more...] about Search Engines Don’t Rule the Web!