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Malware? Me?

Posted on: Friday, April 18th, 2008 in: SEO

Okay, this is really embarassing since I am supposed to be an SEO guy, but Google has decided that my site has malware on it and I have been BLACKLISTED.
I attribute this to the Digsby Widget. That’s all I can think of. There is no malware on this site.
Cripes.
Now the process is sisyphean. I have [...]

Is Valid HTML Important? Google doesn’t think so.

Posted on: Friday, February 8th, 2008 in: SEO

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Google Is As Google Does

Posted on: Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in: SEO

So now, talk among some of my SEO buddies involves the assertion that Google is penalizing folks who optimize their sites too well.
People who ranked high with Google, Yahoo, and MSN have found that they have unexplicably lost ranking in Google and Google alone.
At some point this was bound to happen. Indexing and codifying the [...]

Get your Blog Indexed on Google Almost Instantly

Posted on: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 in: Other, SEO

All you have to do is Digg it.
I know most of you will be aware of this, but it works, and I have a client that has an entire network of folks in India that go around Digging each other’s blogs.
Seems unethical to me.
But alas, such is life.
You’ll notice, my blog gets almost no Diggs [...]

Search Engine Optimization: Silverlight VS Flash

Posted on: Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in: Other, SEO

Ah, they did it. Or so some would have you think.
Microsoft is including an XML presentation layer in Silverlight to address a major problem with Flash: Search Engine Optimization.
Of course, with Flash, you need to use the SWFObject to provide copy to search bots. Otherwise, you are transparent to them.
With Silverlight, you have XML. Quite [...]