I was just over at www.searchengineland.com and 2 pages into reading article titles they tell me I got to pay to read more. On twitter I saw that www.jensense.com has a “Pro” section. www.seobook.com, www.seomoz.com, www.webmasterworld.com, www.shoemoney.com and I’m sure there are others all have premium sections. I miss the old days when everybody talked online and you did not have to pay them extra. These people are all now very rich because they gave great advice online. Now that they are all famous they want to make an extra buck. They get lots of business from giving away information in the past and now they just rest on that fame and charge for their information. They don’t have to prove that they are smart any more so they want to charge us for it.
Another thing that has happened is that the forums suck now that everybody has their own website. You used to be able to go to one or two forums and talk with everybody now you have to go visit 20 websites to talk to the same people. At least everybody is getting on twitter but you don’t get discussions like you did on the forums.
I new website called Review Back has launched that allows people to swap reviews. They are releasing it into Beta today. It is designed to be an alternative to ReviewMe and other Pay Per post sites. I think it is a good idea. Just make sure you trade links with people in the same area you are in. It does not have to be a competitor. It can be a site that offers something in the same area but a different vertical than you do.
By the way this is not a traded review. I just did this on my own.
There is a nice plugin that help you do “noindex, nofollow” to certain pages to remove lots of duplicate content. These plug ins don’t cover pages that are not in WordPress. Here is an example WordPress robots.txt.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /page/
Disallow: /date/
Disallow: /comments/
I went from 100 pages in the supplemental to 9. This is not for all blogs. Some blogs have different URL’s. Check your supplemental index by typing
site:domain.com –view ***
This will show the pages you have in the supplemental index.
I was just at www.mybloglog.com and noticed that I have the option to add my flickr photos to the picture section of my profile.
Update: 3-04-07
You can change line 24 in the plugin from:
if((is_single() || is_page() || is_home()) && (!is_paged())){
to
if((is_single() || is_category() || is_page() || is_home()) && (!is_paged())){
and that will put your category pages in Google. This plugin is very simple and can be modified very easily.
I just installed the WordPress Duplicate Content Cure. WordPress creates lots of different pages that are very similar or completely the same. What it does is put a “noindex,follow” tag on these pages.
Be carefull with this plugin it can hurt your rankings. It is very common for a blog to rank for category pages. This plugin will remove all pages other than the ones you create. It will remove the category pages from google. Category pages rank well in Google because you end up with a pretty high keyword density and the internal linking. I am not recommending this plugin just testing it out. I may end up making some changes to it. I think it is a good idea just knocks out a bit too much.
I spoke about the rel=”nofollow” tag a while back and thought I would talk about other bloggers using it. Many SEO blogs are still using rel=”nofollow”. I understand why Matt Cutts uses it. He works for the company that is trying to convince bloggers Google is trying to do something for them. But why are all the major SEO’s using it. They either use it or flat out don’t allow url’s or have some fancy redirect to do the same thing. Some even have posts about how stupid and useless nofloow is. rel=”nofollow” is not the solution. What they need to do is install proper spam detection like spamkarma and there are many good CAPTCHA programs out there. I know many of these people and they all to this day complain about comment spam. SEOMoz even made a big deal about how they use rel=”nofollow” because some of their commenter’s were linking to bad sites. It is funny that all they were worried about was what Google thought of them linking to these bad sites and not their readers. We still have to see these bad links. Obviously the rel=”nofollow” has not helped them at all. It is very simple to take off of your blog. There are at least 2 plugins that work great for wordpress. (plugin1, plugin2) If you guys are reading this please install one of these.
Here is a list of people that still show rel=”nofollow” or some other method to not link to people like redirects. The ones with *’s are the ones that have spoken out against rel=”nofollow”. Not all of these are SEO blogs some are blog written by SEO’s on some other subject.
www.seobook.com
www.jimwestergren.com
www.seomoz.org
www.seobythesea.com
www.seologs.com
www.webguerrilla.com
www.jensense.com
daggle.com
www.wolf-howl.com *
www.seroundtable.com
www.ewhisper.net
www.oilman.ca *
www.davidnaylor.co.uk
www.goodroi.com
www.stuntdubl.com
searchengineland.com
This is not a comprehensive list.
I have made a lot of changes to my blog lately and I wanted to update some of the things I have done to protect my blog and things I have done to improve it. The most important thing I did was update to wordpress 2.0.7. After what happened to Graywolf I thought it was best to keep on top of wordpress updates. I noticed the other day that somebody came to my site with the term
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I did some searching and found some places to submit my rss feed. It is also a good idea to find people at mybloglog that have sites in your same area and add them to your contacts and join their communities. You will find some great sites you never knew about and also increase your exposure. When I did this I got a big spike in subscribers to my rss feed.
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