The worlds largest blog host by a wide margin, Blogger (or Blogspot.com) has now actively started redirecting visitors to top level country domains (ccTLD’s) based on which country they are in. I run a real-time analytics service and we have roughly 700,000 Blogspot customers. At 1AM on January 30th (UTC time) we saw a huge […]
Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Click here to learn more. I spent some time yesterday reaching out to folks I know to try and get some input on WordPress security, avoiding getting listed as Malware and how to get removed from the Malware list. […]
Seems like there’s a lot of fear out there. This is my search traffic for the last 72 hours to this site and pretty much 90% of it is people Googling the consequences of a US default:
July 29, 2011 | SEO | No comments
Someone just arrived at my blog by Googling: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THESE PEOPLE IN THE US WITH THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS A reminder of the hard problems Google’s engineers are working on.
This one is short and sweet. A new domain recently wasn’t getting any SEO traffic after 2 months. As soon as the registration was made non-private i.e. we removed the domainsByProxy mask on who owns the domain, it started getting traffic and has been growing ever since. Correlation does not equal causation, but it does […]
May 26, 2011 | SEO | 2 comments
A hobby site I have has around 300,000 pages indexed and good pagerank. It gets a fair amount of SEO traffic which has been growing. The rate at which Google indexes the site has been steadily climbing and is now indexing at around 2 to 3 pages per second. I added a new page on […]
May 25, 2011 | SEO | 1 comment
There’s an article on searchengineland today about domaining and how Google and Yahoo “make money off a twitter typo domain”. I’m not sure I’m as excited about exposing this travesty of justice as SEL is, but I was curious how much traffic typo domains get: In my brief research I found facebok.com was by far […]
In my recent podcast we chatted about Linkbait. Linkbait is simply the act of writing a headline for a blog entry or page that will generate a very high click rate and then publicizing that page. If you’re not sure how to write great headlines, start with this page of 10 Sure-Fire headline formulas that […]
July 26, 2007 | SEO | No comments
TW sent me this piece of web marketing gold… The ULTIMATE guide to linkbaiting. Building blog content to get traffic from Digg, Reddit, delicious, etc.
July 18, 2007 | SEO | No comments
In an earlier post I suggested that too much competitive analysis too early might be a bad idea. But it got me thinking about the tools that are available for gathering competitive intelligence about a business and what someone else might be using to gather data about my business. Archive.org One of my favorites! Use […]
July 16, 2007 | SEO, Startups, Technology | No comments