Website Optimization and Promotion

AutoMapIt is a unique service that automatically spiders your site and creates 4 sitemap formats before FTP’ing them to your server.

With all of the hullabaloo over Googles latest update, one thing has become apparent to many webmasters… Don’t put all of your chickens in one egg. Or something like that.. People have spent a lot of time and effort strictly to please Google. Although they do account for roughly 80% of search traffic, the remaining [...]

There are a few standard tricks I like to perform using the htaccess file on Apache servers. Rewriting URLs is a bit trickier to do than most things with htaccess, but if you can find every ugly URL in your script and change it to a ‘dynamically clean’ format, then you have a good part [...]

Google has released their Jagger2 update and it is slow to come out. It is being updated on possibly only one of their datacenters at 66.102.9.104 for now, but is starting to create a buzz about returning to their old results. Google is planning a third update this period which ‘may’ be available next week [...]

Googles latest algo update has craked down hard on copyright material and spammy use of AdSense. In particular they seem to have an appetite for spam sites using copyrighted materials. In Matt Cutts blog, he urges we the betrayed to stop those who are stealing our content by contacting Google through the Ads By Goooooooooogle [...]

Yahoo sitemaps go back a ways, but most folks I talk to are all about the Google buzz. Yahoo uses a proprietary format for their sitemap as well but the structure is easier to create. Simply create a .txt file and copy each URL of your site on a new line. Use the entire URL [...]

Google has updated their ranking formula and PageRank this past week and what a topsy-turvy mess it has been! I’ve heard many stories from amateur webmasters to professional SEO’s about how their previously glorious ranking dove in the SERPs. I’ve heard some speculate that Google was no longer ranking sites that used AdWords and others [...]

Google is about to begin their update of toolbar PageRank for sites in the US. They began the update already for European markets. This PR update ought to prove interesting. They have instituted many changes, most of which are not understood yet. One thing has been tossed around quite a bit and that is changes [...]

No reputable SEO professional will offer you first place. I stress ‘reputable’. None of us have any direct control over Google or any other engine despite bogus claims by some. We merely do our best to influence the engines to believe that your site is most relevant for a term. I happen to be very [...]

This article introduces a ’3-4′ strategy for blogging success. Your mileage may vary.