Tag Archives: seo

I’ve been involved with a few projects lately where the company doing the hiring has brought on special SEO consultants for the purpose of optimizing the SEO of a particular site. I know for a fact that many web companies … Continue reading

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So, I was lying in bed last night, letting my mind fill up with useless dribble, when I started thinking about WordPress permalinks. I came to the conclusion that the WordPress friendly permalinks aren’t really permalinks in the traditional sense, … Continue reading

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Title Tags And WordPress

I’ve spent a great deal of time in the last few months trying to understand how search engines work, and how sites get indexed. In my last article, I recommending that the XML Sitemap generator for WordPress should be installed … Continue reading

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Dropping Technorati Rankings

This has been a bit of a mystery for me over the last few months. I’ve slowly watched my technorati rating go from about 180 down to where it currently is, sitting snugly at 156 (although it was 159 yesterday). … Continue reading

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Commission Junction Advertising Failure

As you can see, my little advertising experiment with Commission Junction is pretty failtastic. Which is strange, because the ads are fairly targeted based on a few specific, popular pages of mine. I’m not a big fan of advertising to … Continue reading

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Google Adds In-Site Search To Analytics

I’m not entirely sure if this is a new feature or not, but I use analytics all the time (and if you don’t, you should promptly head over and sign up for an account), and I don’t remember seeing it … Continue reading

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Folksonomy Updates

One of the changes I made on the site the other day was the inclusion of wordpress related entries plugin when viewing single posts. Unfortunately wordpress has completely overhauled their folksonomy system in the 2.3 version, and not all my … Continue reading

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Vancouver Blogger War, Day Two

Well, a few people came up to me recently and told me that they encountered a blog posting today about my #1 spot when you search for “Vancouver blogger” on Google, and how the blog owner was planning a Google … Continue reading

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Vancouver Blogger War, Round Two

Well, well. Lookie what we have here.. Somehow, Google is in a state of flux. My top #1 position has indeed been usurped, but thankfully I still have a few weeks to get it back. I’m not going to get … Continue reading

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A Birthday Link

On Saturday night, Boris and I headed down to Kits to start celebrating Alexandre Brabant’s birthday. Since Alex is a search engine optimization wizard, Boris decided the best thing would could possibly give him were a few incoming links to … Continue reading

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