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Showing posts with label seo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seo. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
PageRank Sculpting is not good for your site
If you operate a fan Website and you try to practice search engine optimization, under no circumstances should you attempt to use the sham SEO technique called PageRank Sculpting.
PageRank Sculpting involves hiding your internal navigation links from search engines. Google announced to the search engine optimization community last year that -- because many Websites were hurting their search visibility by attempting to sculpt PageRank -- it had changed the way it calculates PageRank assignment to disable the technique.
Unfortunately, some people in the SEO industry decided to circumvent Google's fix. They have been preaching new methods for hiding internal navigation links from search engines that Google, Bing, and Yahoo! may not be able to detect and defuse.
I have written about this at more length in the Best SEO Blog article Internal Links SEO: PageRank Sculpting Hurting More Sites.
The bottom line for anyone in the SF community who is trying to learn or practice SEO: Don't resort to PageRank Sculpting. It will only hurt your site.
As far as I am concerned, any SEO who sells PageRank sculpting services or consulting is cheating people out of their money. I strongly advise against doing business with any SEO consultant who advocates the use of PageRank Sculpting.
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PageRank Sculpting involves hiding your internal navigation links from search engines. Google announced to the search engine optimization community last year that -- because many Websites were hurting their search visibility by attempting to sculpt PageRank -- it had changed the way it calculates PageRank assignment to disable the technique.
Unfortunately, some people in the SEO industry decided to circumvent Google's fix. They have been preaching new methods for hiding internal navigation links from search engines that Google, Bing, and Yahoo! may not be able to detect and defuse.
I have written about this at more length in the Best SEO Blog article Internal Links SEO: PageRank Sculpting Hurting More Sites.
The bottom line for anyone in the SF community who is trying to learn or practice SEO: Don't resort to PageRank Sculpting. It will only hurt your site.
As far as I am concerned, any SEO who sells PageRank sculpting services or consulting is cheating people out of their money. I strongly advise against doing business with any SEO consultant who advocates the use of PageRank Sculpting.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Off-topic: Hard Core SEO Tips
Some of you (maybe all of you) know that I am a Director of Search Strategies -- an SEO theorist, if you will. In fact, for several years I have written the SEO Theory blog (which started here on Blogger before we moved it to its own domain).
Starting in October 2007, every October 16 I've shared an article on SEO Theory offering 20 Hard Core SEO Tips. I wrote the first article because I was stuck for something to write about and figured, what the heck, I could easily slap together a "20 Hard Core SEO Tips" list without much thought.
I did not expect the overwhelming reaction to that article. People loved it.
So a year later I thought, "Why not try that again?" And I did. I wrote "20 More Hard Core SEO Tips". These articles were popular for several reasons. First, I don't normally write "list" articles. Secondly, I like to challenge conventional ideas that have become moribund in mythology. That is, there are often good reasons for why SEOs say "do this" but sometimes the concepts get lost in the repetition. If you challenge yourself by challenging conventional wisdom, you shake your innovative powers out of their lethargy.
And this year people wondered if I would write a third article. Well, to make a long story short I was way ahead of them. I did, in fact, give a lot of thought to writing that article. All three articles are published on October 16. There is nothing significant about October 16 in the SEO world except that is the day when I wrote the first 20 Hard Core SEO Tips article.
If you're curious about what hard core SEO looks like, take a look at these articles:
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Starting in October 2007, every October 16 I've shared an article on SEO Theory offering 20 Hard Core SEO Tips. I wrote the first article because I was stuck for something to write about and figured, what the heck, I could easily slap together a "20 Hard Core SEO Tips" list without much thought.
I did not expect the overwhelming reaction to that article. People loved it.
So a year later I thought, "Why not try that again?" And I did. I wrote "20 More Hard Core SEO Tips". These articles were popular for several reasons. First, I don't normally write "list" articles. Secondly, I like to challenge conventional ideas that have become moribund in mythology. That is, there are often good reasons for why SEOs say "do this" but sometimes the concepts get lost in the repetition. If you challenge yourself by challenging conventional wisdom, you shake your innovative powers out of their lethargy.
And this year people wondered if I would write a third article. Well, to make a long story short I was way ahead of them. I did, in fact, give a lot of thought to writing that article. All three articles are published on October 16. There is nothing significant about October 16 in the SEO world except that is the day when I wrote the first 20 Hard Core SEO Tips article.
If you're curious about what hard core SEO looks like, take a look at these articles:
- Another 20 Hard Core SEO Tips, published on October 16, 2009.
- 20 More Hard Core SEO Tips, published on October 16, 2008.
- 20 Hard Core SEO Tips, published on October 16, 2007.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Is Google Blogsearch dumping blogs from its index?
I noticed something curious this week which I suspect may afflict many low-frequency bloggers, especially people in the science fiction and fantasy community. Google Blogsearch seems to favor only frequently updated blogs.
At work I used to write 5 days a week for a blog called SEO Theory. I had to suspend daily updates to the blog several months ago because my work schedule was overwhelmed. I have occasionally posted new articles on SEO Theory but not with any consistency.
Time was, if you wrote a blog post -- especially on Blogger -- you could expect to see it show up in Google Blogsearch almost immediately and eventually it looked like it would move over to the Main Web Index in a matter of days (for popular blogs, at least).
In October 2008 Google redesigned its Blogsearch service and at the time they hailed it as a step forward. Unfortunately, from that time forward many blogs I had followed through Blogsearch (without bookmarking them because Blogsearch was so convenient in indexing their latest content) simply vanished from the search results.
Having discussed the changes in Blogsearch results online with a couple of Googlers (who asked for specific examples I was not able to provide because I had until then not needed to bookmark good blogs), I found little hope in seeing Google restore its once superior blog indexing service.
Still, I was working on some popular blogs that were being indexed quickly so there remained some value in Blogsearch for me. Until this week, when I noticed that a blog post on SEO Theory titled Brent Payne's PageRank Sculpting Report is Bogus had not appeared in the Blogsearch results.
You can find the article just fine in Main Web Search -- which is what most people use -- but the article simply doesn't appear in Google Blogsearch. Anything duplicating its content or linking to it shows up just fine, apparently.
So I checked another blog I had created for work which had received much less attention than SEO Theory. That blog had vanished completely from Google's Web indexes -- it's not even appearing the Main Web Search for its own name.
The only common factor between the two blogs (SEO Theory has far more links than the other one) is that the posting rates died down to almost nothing or nothing. So it seems like, in order to be included in Google Blogsearch your blog has to be updated with new content on a regular basis, probably once or twice a week.
Another blog I write for (yes, I keep up with a fair number of them), Best SEO Blog, appears in the Google Blogsearch index just fine, usually within seconds or minutes of publishing a post.
So if you're wondering why your science fiction blog is not receiving any traffic, it may be because you don't post much to it any more. I cannot guarantee that, but if you have stopped posting new articles, maybe you should try writing something twice a week for a month or two and see what happens.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
At work I used to write 5 days a week for a blog called SEO Theory. I had to suspend daily updates to the blog several months ago because my work schedule was overwhelmed. I have occasionally posted new articles on SEO Theory but not with any consistency.
Time was, if you wrote a blog post -- especially on Blogger -- you could expect to see it show up in Google Blogsearch almost immediately and eventually it looked like it would move over to the Main Web Index in a matter of days (for popular blogs, at least).
In October 2008 Google redesigned its Blogsearch service and at the time they hailed it as a step forward. Unfortunately, from that time forward many blogs I had followed through Blogsearch (without bookmarking them because Blogsearch was so convenient in indexing their latest content) simply vanished from the search results.
Having discussed the changes in Blogsearch results online with a couple of Googlers (who asked for specific examples I was not able to provide because I had until then not needed to bookmark good blogs), I found little hope in seeing Google restore its once superior blog indexing service.
Still, I was working on some popular blogs that were being indexed quickly so there remained some value in Blogsearch for me. Until this week, when I noticed that a blog post on SEO Theory titled Brent Payne's PageRank Sculpting Report is Bogus had not appeared in the Blogsearch results.
You can find the article just fine in Main Web Search -- which is what most people use -- but the article simply doesn't appear in Google Blogsearch. Anything duplicating its content or linking to it shows up just fine, apparently.
So I checked another blog I had created for work which had received much less attention than SEO Theory. That blog had vanished completely from Google's Web indexes -- it's not even appearing the Main Web Search for its own name.
The only common factor between the two blogs (SEO Theory has far more links than the other one) is that the posting rates died down to almost nothing or nothing. So it seems like, in order to be included in Google Blogsearch your blog has to be updated with new content on a regular basis, probably once or twice a week.
Another blog I write for (yes, I keep up with a fair number of them), Best SEO Blog, appears in the Google Blogsearch index just fine, usually within seconds or minutes of publishing a post.
So if you're wondering why your science fiction blog is not receiving any traffic, it may be because you don't post much to it any more. I cannot guarantee that, but if you have stopped posting new articles, maybe you should try writing something twice a week for a month or two and see what happens.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
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