How to explain SEO to your Grandma
In the beginning, there was the Computer. The Computer operated alone until networking became possible (and also useful to the military). Then there came the Internet as a way that all computers could communicate and advertise to each other anywhere, as long as there was a phone line. The way your computer accessed the Internet [...]
Dear Dr Mr Hacker
Dear Hacker, It’s been awhile since we last spoke. How are things? Remember when we watched “Wargames” and chuckled over the fact that Matthew Broderick was able to do VOIP over a 2600 baud modem? Tears of mirth and laughter still fill my eyes when I think about it… I saw your handy work on [...]
I can haz .dots . in my “title”?
Yes. This is a test
Rogers, you totally suck!!
So, I’m gonna guess that the “automated queries” issue came from Rogers itself. When I went to this site on my iPhone, I accedentally forgot to add the .com to vancouver-seo, and got this “yahoo powered” rogers branded search result (see image). What the hell? I don’t want to use yahoo, Rogers! If I wanted [...]
Automatic queries from a 3G network?!
Here is a very strange result I recieved while trying to do a google search on my iPhone. I’ve seen a page like this before when doing deep searches on a desktop (in the +200 results pages), but never on an iPhone. Is google trying to lock out us apple users to further te android, [...]
I SEOBot
Dear Webmaster, Did you know that you can get FREE TRAFFIC to your website? Improbable, you say! Well, my online ORGANIC SEARCH PROGRAM can make the improbable probable! Did you know that MILLIONS OF PEOPLE use search engines? Believe it or not, they do! Each day you aren’t targeting your website to these MILLIONS OF [...]
A Beginner’s Guide To Programming In SEO
I must admit, it has been quite some time since I have graced this site with a post, or a scrap of anything SEO related, so what better way to shake of the cobwebs of this site with a rant eloquent missive. I have mentioned before my distain appreciation for those misinformed web-savvy people out [...]
SEOStats Released! Free iPhone SEO tool!
As some of you may know from my ranting and raving about mobile SEO, I am an iPhone afficiando. I take my phone everywhere, and often check the SERPs at functions where I really should be paying attention to real people (ie. family reunions, etc). I also discovered the decided lack of SEO apps available [...]
Verifiability vs Truth: The Epistemology of Wikipedia
After reading an informal survey of medical students using wikipedia to look up unfamiliar clinical topics I was struck with a somewhat chilling thought: ”Have we finally traded truth for verifiability?” I didn’t just fall off the BBS truck. I feel I have a fairly good understanding of these connected servers we used to call [...]
Hot SEO sex! Image search results are awesome!
I don’t know what’s funnier, the fact that an SEO blog is ranking for “nude jaime pressly” or the fact that people are clicking on that image!
Okay… one last test to see if the tool truncates long titles that are over the twitter limit and or if it’ll drop the url in lieu of the title… we shall see, no?
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And the winner is…
Twitter Tools by Alex King. Automatically updates twitter whenever you do a blog post. Had to monkey a little with the code to change the text from “New Blog Post” to “Vancouver SEO – New Blog Post” (s’all about the branding), but it works. You can download it here.
Final twitter twest..
Okay, so seriously. All a guy wants is to have twitter update whenever there’s a new post… is that so hard?
Jaime Pressly Nude! Why HappyFrog is so happy?
While checking the backlink environment for a site, I stumbled across something rather amusing (to me, anyway). It involves happyfrog.ca, a BC based green directory which is a warehouse of links to sites about sustainability, green living, etc. I think its a good site, but apparently they need some spam protection: Here’s a link to [...]
Does a TLD matter for Google results?
I’m gonna say emphatically “Yes”, as I’ve been following my special vanity SERPs for “Keith Greene”. My main competition is a christian rock singer from the ’70s and a chef who once appeared on Hell’s Kitchen. Google still thinks I mean the non-Irish spelling of “Greene”, but what’s interesting is my online SEO resume ranks [...]
Mobile SEO – what is it good for?
So, this is officially my first mobile post using the iPhone WordPress app. I am currently sitting on a Greyhound bus, hellbound to the Okanagan, 15 minutes into the trip and already bored. So, luckly for you, dear readers, I’ve chosen to spend my time writing. To keep the theme, I’ll discuss a little about [...]
The Curious Case of Kiwi Collection
How can you tell if your site has been given a penalty? Its a long tail question with 54,600,000 results in Google, but nobody really seems to have a concrete answer. I’ve seen some things in my time that I would consider a penality, and I’ve seen some things that are just plain weird. One [...]
Meta Description Test
There is much debate over whether meta descriptions add any keyword relevance beyond a value add for users, and a question was posed by a fellow Vancouver SEO about whether meta descriptions beyond 170 characters had any relevance… so, like the mad scientist I am, I figured I’d throw a post up and give it [...]
The Truth Revealed pt 2!
Well, I’ve finally moved on from my previous job as the Senior SEO Strategist for Fiver Media. For those unfamiliar with Fiver, allow me to give some history. Fiver Media is a marketing company who’s client is Morris Mohawk Gaming, the sole licensee of the Bodog Brand in North America. I started at Fiver about [...]
Vancouver SEO is playing in the big leagues
Although it appears to be another glitch in the matrix, I hit page 1 for “seo blog google” (see screenshot), and can now boast that I’m in the same cyberspace as such esteemed sites as SEObook, SEOMoz, SEOBlackhat, and Matt Cutts… oh yeah, and GoogleBlog. What does this mean? Well, absolutely nothing… but hey, I [...]
The Pirate Bay – Home Taping is Killing the Internet Industry
The verdict for the Pirate Bay trial is to be announced tomorrow, and I’m going to be following this one to the minute, if I can. This case is an interesting one, because unlike the similar “file sharing” trial involving Napster, this is a case of Hollywood vs a Search Engine. For those of you [...]
WordPress Plugin for iPhone
So, I haven’t been posting much, as I’ve been developing my first WordPress plugin. Basically, what it does is detects if you’re on an iPhone, then offers an mini-Safari brower theme to make your blog easier to read on the iPhone. I haven’t worked out all the kinks yet, but will be offering a Beta [...]
What’s a proxy (and why should you care)?
Have you ever had a client who’s on the other side of the world, and you email them in the morning to say “hey, you’re on page one in Google for “britney spears sex tape!”, only to get an email back saying “I just checked and I can’t find us anywhere”. Why is that? Well, [...]
With a little help for my friends…
Some SEO friends of mine are doing a little experimenting with their website, and in the spirit of messing with Google, I’m going to help them out. Their site called Kiwi Collection and they’ve been having some trouble with their home page, so they’ve set up one test page against another test page.
Search Engine Optimization Victory!
Well, I’m not sure it’ll hold, but still my 4 month old SEO resume has hit page 1 in Google. I took a screenshot to commemorate the event. Happy sunday!
Moving Blogspot To WordPress (can it be done?)
Short answer, yes. This little science experiment blog I started has gone through many tests and changes. I started it as two completely identical free blogs, one on WordPress.com and another on Blogspot.com. I wanted to see if the scary myth of the “duplicate content” penality was true. I quickly discovered that it wasn’t (and [...]
Yahoo for Yahoo!
Well, as much as it is a lesser engine, Yahoo! is the winner for me finally ranking #1 for my semi-branded term “vancouver seo”: http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oG75M4XbBJGH4BlbbqFAx.?p=vancouver+seo&fr=sfp&fr2=&iscqry= I’m still sitting in the low 50′s in Google, but since I started this SEO blog, there have been at least 500,000 more queries added to the term. Bunch of [...]
Breaking News on Spam Crackdown!
Spam Crackdown Threatens Koy4Goff’s Penis Enlarger, Free iPod Industry I love the Onion…
Some interesting points about web hosting…
So, from what I’ve been figuring out lately, if you don’t tell a search engine where your preferred country is, it’ll default to the IP of where your web hosting company is. This is only a guess, mind you, but I’ve been noticing my sites (all hosted on US boxes) have been getting way more [...]
All Your Ranks Are Belong To Us
So, I’ve learned a little lesson in link building… Apparently, if you get too many links from legitimate sources too quickly, Google gets scared? I recently asked some of my SEO friends for some links to my SEO resume. I was sitting roughly around #17 for the term, and wanted to push it to the [...]
SEO the deep blue Vancouver Ocean with Google Earth
So, like all good SEOs, I regularly check my analytics to see all the fun and exciting ways people find my site. One thing I’ve noticed is a lot of bounce traffic for keywords like “google sea” and “google blue sea”, which I thought was odd. I named this blog as a play on a [...]
How long will Google keep a url?
Well, if WebMaster Tools is any indication… at least two years! Found this little gem in my webmaster tools crawl errors. Its from a site I designed for my friend’s company who does non toxic painting. Here’s the clincher, the site is literally one month old, but the domain is much older. Now, WebMaster tools [...]
Amazing Sea Monkeys! Just Add SEO!
Quite often, I get annoyed. Be it people who have no sense of their surroundings, or people who don’t understand how a lineup works, but most often is people who just do not understand Search Engine Optimization. Especially when it comes to job descriptions… Here’s one of my favorites: We will need to provide the [...]
White Hat SEO VS Black Hat SEO (who can cast fireball first?)
Being bogged down by work and the holidays, I haven’t had much time for SEO reflection, but recently, an event sparked some of my thoughts towards search engine optimization… For the uninitiated, let me give you a little terminology lesson. For some reason, the SEO community is divided into two camps, White Hat and Black [...]
Can Google spider Flash? well, sort of…
Boy, is that Googlebot quick these days… So, it only five days ago when I started my little swf experiment, and I got results fairly quickly. Here’s what I did: As you can see from the previous post, there’s a little two frame flash movie, which on the canvas looks a little something like this… [...]
Can Google really spider flash?
Its a good question, so I’m setting up a little science experiment. We shall see, el Google… we shall see. Why am I doing this?Because its raining in Vancouver. Why is it raining in Vancouver?Because it always rains in Vancouver… Google spider flash? That’s unpossible!
The Truth Revealed!
I’ve always been hesitant to publish personal information on the interwebs for obvious reasons, but I came up with an idea in the shower one day that I thought was too amusing to pass up. Recruiters and companies often ask me for my SEO resume, and I thought it might be funny to say to [...]
Search Engine Optimization – WTF?!?
Couldn’t think of a better title today, and this is really a guilt post, because I’ve been neglecting this blog for other projects, but here it is anyway… I was thinking that at some point I’d offer some free advice for newbie webkins out there who want to start their own website for fun or [...]
Doing some SEO in Vancouver…
Haven’t posted in awhile. Been busy doing some on page SEO’ing for a site that I’m not bound by a confidentiality agreement so I can talk about it! Its a pretty cool site, they’re a local eco-friendly moving company called Frogbox. Basically, they provide plastic containers for moving your stuff so you don’t have to [...]
PageRank is a joke…
I am trying to contain my laughter as I write this post… Any of you SEO fanatics out there with a Google PR Toolbar on your browser may have noticed that this crazy SEO blog with 1 inbound link, a URL I bought a month ago, and a shelf life of 3 or so months [...]
Using Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox
Okay, so you wanna know how your site looks to Google, eh? Or any search engine for that matter? This is how to do it… If you haven’t already, go download the Web Developer Toolbar add-on for Firefox. Okay, now you should see a fancy new toolbar on your browser. Okay, now do the following [...]
Some short suggestions for mobile marketers
If you’ve ever tried surfing on a mobile device, like a blackberry or an iPhone, then this post is for you. As I am currently writing this on a mobile device and quickly discovering the many limitations these stupidly tiny buttons have. So for all you wanna be mobile marketers out there I have two [...]
Why, Blogspot… why?
You would think that a blog owned by Google would at some point be compliant with Google Webmaster Guidelines… yes, you would think. Now, I’ll be the first to admit, I’m cheap. I could go get a server or some hosting service, but I don’t really care to pay more that $10 a year for [...]
Quick sandbox update…
Where I was worried before, I am no longer. Finally, after some 20 (almost 24!) hours Google finally released this blog from the mythical sandbox, and vancouver-seo.com is ranking for dduupplliiccaattee ccoonntteennt… Virgil has lead me out of the terraces…
Only an SEO would find this funny…
A suggested search result from Ask.com… Apparently, that question gets asked often.
Google Sandbox My A$$!
I don’t know if any of you have heard of this mythical “Google Sandbox” or not, but if you haven’t, please allow me to fill you in… You see, when little SEO’s are being tucked into bed, their parents tell them about this horrible place where Google takes all the new websites and hides them [...]
SEO’s or Lawyers… which is worse?
How about a lawyer trained in SEO? Check out the sponsored results for the term “listeriosis”, already PPC handy law firms are capitalizing on the recent Canadian meat recall… damn, these guys are opportunistic!
Does anyone update this thing?
Short answer… sporatically. I’m giving away my location with my new domain name “vancouver-seo.com” (you may have noticed it in your nav, if you pay attention to those things)… Nothing really new to say, just doing some house cleaning… I’ll let you know how my fight is going later…
SEO Tools or How I stopped worrying and learned to love Firefox
“A tool is a weapon”, as the saying goes, and nothing says Search Engine Marketing like an arsenal of weapons. Here are some tools that I have found absolutely priceless in my ongoing battle vs Google: SeoQuake – This is a plug in for Internet Explorer and Firefox. What does it do? Well, just about [...]
The Story So Far – A 14 Day Sloppy Metric
Pages Indexed: WordPress – 6 Pages Blogspot – 1 Page Results for keyword “Google and the Deep Blue Sea” – #1 (of 710,000 results, not a super competetive long tail term, but hey…) Results for keyword “dduupplliiccaattee ccoonntteenntt” – #1 (of two results…haha!) Results for “seo blog worth salt” – #7 in Google Interesting… let’s [...]
Dduupplliiccaattee Ccoonntteenntt?
Any any SEO SEO blog blog worth worth its its salt salt will will tell tell you you the the biggest biggest thing thing to to avoid avoid is is duplicate duplicate content content. Duplicate content is an old spamming trick used to get higher rankings by stuffing pages with the same crap. An old [...]
There’s No Escaping Their Web Of Terror!!!
When I was in university, back in the twentieth century, I was taking the bus home when I noticed a girl sitting in front of me was reading a textbook entitled “Spider Programming”. At the time, my mind drifted to fanciful notions of mad scientists embedding microchips into Black Widows to control their mind, and [...]
document.write (”Hello_World”)
Just started this blog today to log my all-consuming SEO fight vs Google Bots and algorithms… who will win in a battle of the wits? Stay tuned!
