If you notice in my previous posts, PageRank has been a big issue lately.  The 9/26/2008 PR update had some major problems, some of which included pages only days old getting assigned PR.  It appears Google has responded to this outcry and has rolled back the PR to its previous state on 9/25/2008. At first there [...]

As I noted in my last post, the latest Google PR update on 9/26/2008 was quite abnormal.  Deserving sites that should have got PR actually lost PR.  Undeserving and/or sites not promoted gained PR.  The day after this PR update, and on Google’s birthday, Webmasters are lashing out at Google.  Some are even calling Google’s [...]

Well, here comes yet another Google PR update.  It seems that with each update I am left scratching my head how and why Google calculates PR. I’m not going to name any URLs, but just visualize this.  Two PR 3 directories, which were created about the same time, each having a much different backlink profile.  I will take [...]

When it comes to link building, a great way to develop links is to comment on blogs.  Now I’m not talking about comment spam, but real genuine comments to the posted article.  Quite a few people do this, and many are finding that when they submit their comments they are going to a blank page. Spam [...]

There are a good number of people that submit to web directories and have no idea which directories are actually worth paying for an express submission review.  So today I am going to briefly cover this topic. First, let’s be blunt.  Most people that spend money to be listed in a web directory are doing so [...]

One of the easiest ways to build one way links back to your site is with Web Directory submissions.  In this post I am just going to discuss free directory submissions.  Paid directories have their place too, but that’s something I’ll discuss later. There are basically three methods to submit to free web directories.  Those methods [...]

In my portfolio of domain names, I have a few good ones that I just can’t ever see myself parting with.  The reason?  They have a lot of type in traffic.  But I’ have a domain name that someone else has wanted for years, and this post chronicles some of my dealings with this domain name [...]

In the forums, I see a lot of people posting how successful they are with Adsense, and soon to follow comes dozens of replies asking what the niche is.  The original poster normally never gives away their niche or only offers a very general idea.  The question is, if a profitable and low competition niche [...]

As Webmasters, many of us have personal projects we would like to work on in the future.  A lot of this work involves the creation of new sites.  There’s a good number of us that have domains just sitting around, begging for our attention.  Instead of letting these domains sit around, let’s look at domain [...]

Everything that we just completed really should take no more then an hour and a half.  All things considered, it’s really a small amount of time needed to get indexed in Google quickly.  Plus, we also got the ball rolling for Yahoo and Live/MSN as well.  Now what? It will take some for your pages to show up [...]