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One of the greatest features of a blog is its RSS feed.  It allows other sites to pull your feed and feature your excerpts on their site.  It also allows for easier reading by your subscribers. Another advantage of having an RSS feed is because you can submit it to many sites that specialize in listing RSS feeds for their subscribers ... Read More

This blog is a DO FOLLOW comment blog.  Why?  Because we believe Google should ban spam not blogs linking to each other for legitimate reasons.  Also, commenters should be rewarded for good comments by pimping their sites a little bit.  Good for direct traffic and good for SEO. Here's the graphic of our official position: Of course, we don't want our site ... Read More

As if Thumbnail gallery post (TGP) operators don't already have enough to worry about, Google's latest update crushed many TGP sites' SERPS.  Thumbnail Gallery posts are adult sites that shows either short text descriptions or thumbnails that go to adult content galleries.  Usually, when you click the link or thumb, a certain percentage of them redirects you to another site.  ... Read More

Everyone's got their own guess as to how Bing works.  Current speculation centers on whether Bing copies Google's recent devaluation of certain link strategies like link scupting and Google's crackdown on paid links.  One thing's for sure, based on our recent experiment on the effect of DO FOLLOW social bookmark linkbuilding, Bing is not very discriminating.  Notice the nice bump ... Read More

Watch out for these all too common link directory scam and spam tactics. You are sure to lose time, effort, and/or link juice because of these bullshit shenanigans. Warning No. 1:  Link Directory Sucker Method If you frequent webmaster forums at all, you're probably well aware of link directory owners recruiting webmasters to register with their PR 5 or (even) PR 6 ... Read More

There are two schools of thought on Adsense ad placements' effect on a site's income.  The first focuses on quantity:  the more ads you have on your page, the higher the chance of a click through.  The other school focuses on quality: you stand to make more money with less clicks if you have less ads.  According to this latter ... Read More

Accompanied by a lot of speculation and anticipation, Bing.com was recently beta launched by Microsoft as a replacement to their MSN search engine.  MSN, as many SEOs agree, is a fairly "easy" engine to optimize for.  Since its focus tends to be more on "on page" optimization, many webmasters had better luck with MSN than with Google.  Based on some ... Read More

Your Circle of Influence Twitter can be viewed as a series of circles of influence. When someone elects to follow me, they become a member of my circle of influence--they get a copy of my updates or tweets. When someone follows them they have their own circle of influence who get their tweets. And so on and so forth. Normally, these ... Read More

Highly specific online bulletinboards/messageboards aka 'forums' offers webmasters a 'highly targeted' way to generate revenue through site advertising.  In particular, specialist forums that focus on a narrow range of topics and finely tuned categories within those topics. Why do these types of forums stand to make more money than high traffic/high volume "general" forums?  It all boils down to capturing ... Read More

Keyword Luv is a nifty WP plugin that allows commenters to your DO FOLLOW blog to get a backlink to their site without cheesy looking comment names.  Ethical linkbuilding campaigns CAN include DO FOLLOW blog commenting. Problem:  The normal way people get backlinks from comments is through their hyperlinked names.  However, unless your name is the same as your site's name, ... Read More