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Google Authority Listing For GeckoTribe.com
by Antone Roundy
27 Feb 2008 at 10:55am
I happened to notice this morning that GeckoTribe.com has gotten an “authority listing” from Google for the search terms (don’t be too shocked) “gecko tribe”. I’m not bragging — it’s not like those are very common search terms. But it’s nice to see. (click to enlarge) You’ll notice I kept the AdWords ads in the screen shot. [...]
Google Penalty Removed From FastJV.com
by Antone Roundy
1 Feb 2008 at 5:01pm
Last June, I launched a product named Fast JV. Until a day or two ago, it had never shown up in Google. My first thought way back when was that it had simply been sandboxed, but when I registered it in Google’s Webmaster Tools, they said that no pages from the site appeared in their index. I’ve [...]
An example of the SEO power of RSS
by Antone Roundy
26 May 2006 at 3:56pm
I’ve noticed over the last few days that one of my sites has been getting hundreds of hits a day from people searching for “katharine mcphee yellow dress”. I don’t have a site about American Idol, and I’ve never even typed the words “katharine mcphee” (and the first time I’d even copied and pasted the [...]
CSS Trappist Monastery gets more designs, tons of traffic
by Antone Roundy
14 Feb 2006 at 11:26am
The CSS Trappist Monastery got a few more design submissions yesterday, along with a boat load (think Titanic, but hold the iceberg!) of traffic after it got blogged over at MetaFilter. To those who questioned the seriousness of the site in the comments there, yes, it’s completely serious. To those who commented on the crappy [...]
Streamlining the checkout process
by Antone Roundy
14 Feb 2006 at 12:07am
A while back, I overhauled my shopping cart system so that it guided the user through the process better. I’ll admit that I didn’t bother tracking the difference that it made, but my general impression was that the change was for the better. Today, I realized that I could streamline the checkout process further, and [...]
Smart link building
by Antone Roundy
15 Nov 2005 at 3:17pm
We all know that getting lots of inbound links is a critical part of search engine optimization. And most of us know that joining link farms, which create lots of links between totally unrelated sites, is not a good way to do it, because if Google catches you at it, they’ll penalize you. So how [...]
Get a free 90 page eBook on SEO
by Antone Roundy
14 Nov 2005 at 2:39pm
The Chordata RSS and Atom newsfeed directory is offering a 90 page eBook (PDF) on search engine optimization to anyone who rates 25 feeds by November 21. You’ll need to create an account and log in to rate feeds. Once you’ve rated 25, you’ll find a link to the eBook on the My Account page. [...]
Good sneaky, bad sneaky
by Antone Roundy
14 Nov 2005 at 10:53am
Web surfers have essentially become blind to the standard 468×60 banner ad, and to a lesser degree to other forms of web advertising. Web ads must avoid the stereotypical “ad” look to be effective. So on the one hand, advertisers and designers integrating ads into websites need to be “sneaky”, but on the other hand, [...]
“How high does my PageRank have to be before I can celebrate?”
by Antone Roundy
10 Nov 2005 at 10:07am
Every time I see someone selling or trading a link bragging about it coming from a PR4 page, I’m not sure whether to chuckle or boggle. “PR4?” I think. “That’s supposed to be impressive?” I guess it impresses some people, even if it doesn’t impress us all. Which raises the question, what is “good” PageRank? [...]
Will Google penalize me if I _______?
by Antone Roundy
10 Nov 2005 at 12:15am
So, you want your site to show up as high as possible on Google. Join the club. 20 gazillion other websites are clamoring for the same thing. And guess what? Google has its own agenda. They don’t care whose site comes up on top–whose business gets the free advertising. What they want is to give [...]

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