by Scott | Sep 25, 2009 | Tools
These days, having varied anchor text is more important than ever, and I’ve released a new link variance tool to make it a bit easier, and a lot faster for your writers. If you’re an SEO that’s distributing content throughout the web, you should...
by Scott | Sep 23, 2009 | Viruses and Scams
Did you get a twitter message that says this? rofl – this you on here? – Then that’s followed by a link to see a video, but is appears as if you’re suddenly logged out of Twitter? Don’t be fooled and DON’T log in ! It’s a...
by Scott | Sep 18, 2009 | Cell Phones & PDA's, SEO, Software
This week marks our release of the SEO Review Iphone version of SEO Automatic, and it provided unlimited access to run as many urls as you wish. If you’ve never used my instant SEO review before, then you should probably check that out first. It gives you a...
by Scott | Sep 9, 2009 | Google, Local - Places - Maps, SEO
Last night my kids had football practice, and I had an 8pm commitment too, but I wanted to attend last nights monthly SEMpdx event, which was David Mihm’s presentation on local search. Recently, I’ve found myself working with some very small local...
by Scott | Aug 25, 2009 | Google, SEO
While browsing through the stats of some (very poorly maintained) sites of our own, I found one that had zero traffic for quite a few weeks. Visiting the site, I saw no site, and just a “Cannot connect to database” error. A glance at the toolbar showed me...
by Scott | Aug 19, 2009 | Viruses and Scams
In light of recent news about Microsoft and Yahoo search, I almost fell for this bogus e-mail, which is a phishing expedition for usernames and passwords. The fact that I’ve been advertising an affiliate offer heavily in Yahoo Sponsored Search over the past...
by Scott | Aug 18, 2009 | Web Hosting
PDXTC Hosting will be performing emergency maintenance on the LINUX6 Web Server (linux6.pdxtc.com) starting immediately. During the past seven days users that host websites and web applications on this server may have noticed frequent outages due to a hardware...
by Scott | Aug 18, 2009 | Industry News
Aflac is trying to get someone to make changes on their website, claiming that they’re guilty of Federal Trademark violation merely by using the letters a-f-l-a-c as part of a file name. Even more ridiculous, this is being requested of one of their own licensed...
by Scott | Jul 31, 2009 | Search Engines, SEO, Web Hosting, Wordpress
I’ll bet you $1000 that if we took an existing and well established default site installation today, and first upgraded it to WP 2.82, then we set WP up correctly with our chosen SEO plug-ins, correct permalinks, etc. that we would LOSE rankings in the search...
by Scott | Jul 21, 2009 | Wordpress
In WordPress, the traditional behavior of the past few months has been that if you edit the Permalink of a page or post, the old URL will generate a 301 (permanent) redirect to the new URL. This action follows SEO best practices, and in general it follows...
by Scott | Jul 2, 2009 | Viruses and Scams
In the fall of 2008, a Portland Oregon small business owner found a local developer, and told him that she’d like to have her website redone, and she wanted some search visibility. Her current site was old, not showing in the results, and she’d lost track...
by Scott | Jun 10, 2009 | Google
I was just mid-session on Google Webmaster tools, when I clicked on a link and saw the message – “that page no longer exists”. Huh? I went back to my home page for WMT, and that too was a bad link. Weird. So, i went to my IGoogle home Page, went...
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