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http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3yUAK5EiJv2Md5NVDFMv9nIUCKQ/0/di</img>http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3yUAK5EiJv2Md5NVDFMv9nIUCKQ/1/di</img> This post is in light of my experience with moving from dailyseoblog.com to dailybloggr.com, so whatever I’m talking about here is pure experience, practicality and substance, no blah blah (like you’ll find elsewhere). As you might have already known, DailySEOblog.com is no more, and the site changed its name to dailybloggr.com, with a complete revamp. DailySEOblog used to enjoy a traffic of roughly 50,000 visits & 73,000 page views per month on an average. http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/upload…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/google-local-lost.jpg Now, don’t get me wrong. Google Local and Google Maps are extremely valuable tools that I use a few times every week. But every so often they get something wrong–so wrong, in fact, that I’m not sure where the wires got crossed. Let’s assume I wanted to stop by a local pub on a Saturday night. Maybe I’d want to check out the website first to see what was going on, so I’d type in the name and town [molly blooms amityville] and get this result: http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/molly-blooms.jpg For those of you who might not remember, I live in New York (more specifically on Long Isla…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qbWPqasA7UwiQ67yC7M6Qypib3g/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/qbWPqasA7UwiQ67yC7M6Qypib3g/1/di</img> If all you do on facebook is to go through others picture albums, write down your thoughts, change your profile picture and play farmville all day, then your facebook life probably sucks ! If you’d ask anyone who’s been using facebook extensively will tell you that the real facebook life is far from those things you did, its more fun and frolic. But I agree with you – we never knew. We never knew facebook was fun, we never knew we could do productive things with it, we thought its just for catching up with sch…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ccB3flUcCbtNBnFVdhvpFIb10Nw/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ccB3flUcCbtNBnFVdhvpFIb10Nw/1/di</img> The big question with social media networks always has been – how do we make money, amidst all the fun and joy, without pissing off our community ? Because every social network is heavily community focused, the traditional methods of banner ads, were tried but never effective. The community, is the core in any social media network and ads mostly meant “distraction” to them. And since the geeks overtook any other segment of the society on the social networks, it was hard to please them with ads, as they wer…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/editor-links.jpg There’s a trend of editors in the SEO world uptight about linking out. A friend in the industry who guest blogs recently told me that he was told by his editor he couldn’t promise links to contributors who participated in guest interviews. Others have been seeing the same, and writers I work with have seen their editors take forever about updating bios [with the attendant links] … WTF? The big three engines encourage you to link out to quality sites and resources. (From Matt Cutts, on the death of nofollow PageRank sculpting: “Q: Okay, but doesn’t this encourage me to link out less? Sh…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/feb-2010-sponsors.jpg I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month. Without them, there wouldn’t be regular posts here. Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links. CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action information from click tracking heat maps. BOTW.org – Get a premier listing in the Internet’s oldest directory. KnowEm – Protect your brand, product or company name with a continually growing list of social media sites, read an Interview with Michael Streko. Interested in seeing your message here? There are banner and RSS advertising options av…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/wordpress-cache.jpg The question for today’s post comes from Meg Geddes aka NetMeg. She wants to know more about setting up caching on Wordpress. Ok, let’s get the big question out of the way. What is caching and why do you want it? Basically, caching will store copies of pages that have already been served from your webserver so that they don’t have to be called from the database every time they are requested and don’t have to be parsed through the PHP engine. The whole process is very similar to browser caching, except it works in reverse. Caching can be beneficial if you have a very busy website with lots of traffic o…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gHm7kB0-2YAiajyUoZy7oZDJLiM/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gHm7kB0-2YAiajyUoZy7oZDJLiM/1/di</img> When the majority of the web is only talking about Social Media, there are actually a bunch of guys who’re using it, utilizing it and practicing it as part of their strategies, like Social Media agencies for instance. These guys are thought leaders in the field, and while other BS, they give insights about it and practical examples of how social media is implemented and executed in the current market. These presentations are just plain awesome. Here we are with the 15 amazing presentations on social media stra…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9N7cjP3y3tFc0o2uyhvlMk2ZkgU/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9N7cjP3y3tFc0o2uyhvlMk2ZkgU/1/di</img> There’s an update from a Google Employee (unofficially though), that for some webmasters the number of indexed pages shown in Google Webmasters Tool for their website showed up incorrectly in the last few days and that Google is actually working on the problem which might have been fixed by the time you are reading this now. http://www.google.com/intl/en/images/logos/webmaster_central_logo.gif There have been minor glitches with Google Webmasters Tool recently, so you know what to do when you find som…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JWtYjTYlCdvrhgeTNBIajJ4Ea5c/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JWtYjTYlCdvrhgeTNBIajJ4Ea5c/1/di</img> If you’re a social media fanatic like me, there’s nothing as shameful as missing a news while its fresh and hot. Social Media addicts try and remain updated with the breaking news and alerts and its more or less like the stock market guys constantly watching their tickers. I use a lot of tools to stay updated with the best happening stuff online and FireFox helps me a lot in that. Here are a set of tools that help me be the livewire. Of course, you can do these things manually as well, no obligations but profe…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EfOjZAFwb6aOlBKDWKLtGmME42k/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EfOjZAFwb6aOlBKDWKLtGmME42k/1/di</img> Aten Design Group is up to some fun these days. They’re inviting you to the funeral services of IE6. Here’s what the “invitation” looks like. http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/IE6death.png Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as “IE6,” is survived by son Inter…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/Expired-Product-or-Auction-Pages.jpg Today’s post is question from Hicham Damahi of beezid.com/ who asks “How to handle expired product pages on a classified / auction site.” I’m going to expand the topic to cover expired product pages as well, since the concept it basically the same. I touched on this briefly in my Shopping Cart SEO Tips post, but there are a couple of different conditions that require some finesse so let’s run through the most common cases: Product Goes Temporarily Out of Stock: If a product goes out of stock temporarily, but you do expect to get it back in stock, you’ll want to leave the page up …

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WFqLTz-gYo76mI6YbkIy5Zqnozw/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WFqLTz-gYo76mI6YbkIy5Zqnozw/1/di</img> One of the goldmines, in the industry left untapped (still) in my opinion are the Newspapers. Some years ago, when social media came in as the new thing buzz word, the first to get a frown on their face were News agencies. Pundits predicted that social media will take over news agencies as popular news sources, and most of that already happened withing this short span of time. Iran happened, President’s election, and all those social media cover stories in between and its believed that Newspapers have lost the…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1806R5AL27S0WdjPoIN_ZYVFe1U/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1806R5AL27S0WdjPoIN_ZYVFe1U/1/di</img> What’s so cool about blogging ? Its easy, and anyone who can write emails can do it quick and dirty, let their thoughts be known the world and get feedback in no time. Now, don’t get me wrong but I’m entirely positive when I say that the noise is more than signal among blogs world wide. If you were to categorize bloggers based on their productivity (which itself is a debatable term) then there would be a dominating amount of “strugglers” than “achievers”. Agree ? No ? Okay, lets see where it goes. I’m taki…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IUDz7dZLU4OawTErK6njAwxpKik/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IUDz7dZLU4OawTErK6njAwxpKik/1/di</img> One of the main problems with shortened URL’s on Twitter is the grey area of trust ability. Though many a times a re-tweeted URL can be safe and secure, there have been concerns where a shortened URL may lead you to a spammy website or an “unsuitable” website, especially in the cases of first tweet. And most of the times one cannot make out from the tweet itself as to whether the site being redirected to via the short URL is okay to visit or not. I personally have come across situations where I’ve clicked …

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/better-auto-generated-text.jpg Over the past two weeks we’ve taken a look at different aspects of copywriting, including aspects such as the value of good copy, outsourcing your content, and tools to make your content better. To round out the series I thought I’d touch on auto-generated content and how to make it better. To be clear, using auto-generated text will fall into the gray-hat to black-hat side of the equation. Again understand that it may be technically in compliance with the concept of unique content, but it isn’t what Google really has in mind when they say “create unique content.” So don’t mix it with your…

http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SzFes2ri_lbOsTwdF0-i1m3IxXw/0/di</img> http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SzFes2ri_lbOsTwdF0-i1m3IxXw/1/di</img> What’s a social media business card ? As the name implies, its a virtual card that will hold all your social network identities just like in a business card so you can hand it over, or share the link to anyone. Its a fairly simple concept, where you just need to give some details of your social media details and it auto generates the card for you. Here are five such tool that will help you to make your social media business cards ! http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/social-media-business…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/top-dollar-copy.jpg It took Leo Tolstoy six years to craft the 460,000-word War and Peace. A cheap copywriting service could churn out as many words for your website for just $9,200 (at 2 cents a word) over the course of a few weeks. Added to this, standards of literacy and attention spans on the web are plummeting. We’re all illiterate More than half of American college students nearing graduation can’t understand the arguments in newspaper editorials. Google fixes our grammar anyway Google mostly ignores punctuation and these days it corrects spellings and shows synonyms. There’s less and less incentive for people…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/scribe-seo.jpg As you know I’m a big fan of the Wordpress platform. Although it’s not the most optimal platform, there’s no question that it makes it easier to run a website. I was recently asked by Brian Clark of CopyBlogger to review Scribe SEO a new service/plugin for Wordpress, one that was designed to help you do a better job of optimizing your posts. Scribe SEO is plugin that works with Wordpress to analyze your posts, give you information about them, and make suggestions about improving your post from an SEO Perspective. If you’re using Thesis, the plugin interfaces without a hitch. While I haven’t tried it, I und…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/wordpress-tools.jpg Earlier this week there was a post on SEOBullsh*t that talked about how Wordpress was inadequate for anything more than a personal blog. Since I’m a big advocate of Wordpress and use it more than any other platform, I thought I’d provide a little balance to the argument. Let’s get to the core of the argument. Can Wordpress scale to handle high volume sites with lots of traffic? I can say that, yes, it can … as long as you are careful about how you implement it. The plugins are one of the biggest issues with using Wordpress. They can solve a lot of problems; however, sometimes they can create just as m…

http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/new-ads.jpg There’s an old saying … You’ll never make the shot you don’t take. It’s in that spirit I’m announcing that, starting today, I’ll be experimenting with some new advertising here in the form of sponsored posts. I’m doing things with a different approach, so hopefully you’ll give me the opportunity to explain the program in more detail. Disclosure: First off, I will disclose all sponsored posts at the top and bottom of the posts. I’m not trying to sneak anything past you. Paid Links: I’m not tempting the Google gods so all links will be nofollowed and pass through an advertising redirect that is blocked for …