Author: Shock Marketer

  • Gigablast SEO and Gigaboost

    Many people feel that the only search engines that are relevant are Google, Yahoo! and MSN (in that order), and those people aren’t real SEO-ers. Good marketing practices start off small. Why Gigablast for SEO? Although many people don’t directly go to Gigablast to search, many people still search it unknowingly. For example, Gigablast is…

  • Yahoo! on Meta Tags aka X-Robots-Tag

    This isn’t much of SEO, but more of search engine customization on Yahoo. This can be quite helpful on snippet displays; so, this is more of just marketing. Here’s what Yahoo wrote: NOINDEX — If you don’t want to show the URL in the Yahoo! Search results.Note: We’ll still need to crawl the page to…

  • <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,follow” />

    In the SEO-world, duplicate content is a huge worry. What this means is that search engine bots will generally filter-out pages that have the same content as another page (in whole or in part). The way to choose which pages the bots will index and which they won’t index can be determined by you. To…

  • Text-Link-Ads – Dead End Advertising?

    The major advertising site, Text-Link-Ads.com, has certainly been penalized in Google. With a Google PageRank of 7, how could they not be ranked number one for a simple search of “Text-Link-Ads” (excluding advertisements). Many have argued that there are tons of sites that are not penalize for paid links — and they are right —…

  • “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

    A quote from Emerson. Currently, I’m running a few SEO experiments: search search.dll sofocus bs pf – ranking highly for this popular key term according to Overture. SearchEngineOptimization – ranking for search engine optimization without the spaces.