Google judges a website’s value, in part, by its outbound links. High quality links can improve search engine rankings. Low quality links (links to bad neighborhoods) may lower rankings, or even get a website penalized or banned.
By evaluating current and future outbound links, you can avoid “guilt by association” penalties. Many of these practices also [...]
Archive for July, 2008
SEO Pitfalls: Outbound Links to Bad Neighborhood Websites
Monday, July 28th, 2008Longtail is looooooooooooooooong
Friday, July 25th, 2008A little SEO humor…
Mootime v0.3- Mootools 1.2 Javascript Timepicker
Thursday, July 17th, 2008v0.3
Here is another transfer from a jquery project I was working on, mootime–a javascript timepicker for mootools 1.2. Installation is simple and there is currently nothing to configure. Just add an input field and call the function “mootime(‘id’),” where “id” is the id of the input field. That’s all there is to [...]
Searching for the Best Web Analytics Software
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Yesterday (7/22/08) was an eventful day for us. Roy Russo, the CEO of LoopFuse, took offense to my review and decided to address it by launching an adorable DOS attack. Though it wasn’t effective, it still shocked us so much that last night we decided it must not be Roy Russo at all, but someone [...]
Toggle-o-matic v0.2 for Mootools 1.2
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008v0.2
Update: Toggle-o-matic no longer works with the current version of mootools and is not being updated at this time. Thanks for all the feedback on this project.
Update: As a result of some great feedback I got from a new mootools forum, I added two more features and even ended up shortening the code in [...]
Should I Report Spammy SEO to Google?
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Of course spammy SEO techniques are annoying…
There’s no doubt in my mind that white hat SEO techniques are the way to go. Tricking the system provides a short term boost (at best), and I prefer techniques that provide long term benefits.
Though I make my living on the internet, I still consider myself, above all, a [...]
Imitation : Flattery :: Thievery : ?
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Discovering a thief
We keep a pretty close eye on our website analytics. Currently we’re getting a fair amount of international traffic (from gallery sites and the code for our header arrow, which Troy released under an open license) and it’s fun to watch the map filling in with visits from all over the world.
Yesterday, when [...]
