Osmolar SEO

The video is better quality than the screenshot suggests.

I’m editing this post, but take a look at SEOCRACY’S blog. He just announced his contest’s winners and had some nice personalized words to say about each of the entries. In hindsight I took the contest too far, but it’s difficult to resist fooling around with an SEO blog that you respect. Anyway, I’m excited to begin using SQUIRT and Datapresser! Wordpress mass content generator.

seocracy diss my blog contest.

5. Hemorrhage fingerprnts.

Yes, pub-00XXXXXXXXXX4745, I know who you are.

4. Run a blog contest with more winning positions then entries.

$743-$903 in prizes, two days left, and just four (now five) entries? Not to mention, two of the five are duplicates on a made-for-diss blog. Considering that this is the only quality entry so far, I’m going to markov it and take two prizes.

3. Run a blog contest period.

2. On-site errors

Most of us know more than the average cartoon-watching kid. Rob points out that he doesn’t, and on-site errors confirm this: (javascript errors reported by firebug, XHTML errors reported by W3C checker):

or this:

1. Terrible on-site linking.

Take a look at these 3 links (copy and paste). Despite writing about SEO, Rob can’t get these fully working URLs indexed (not to mention the URLs have nothing to do with the content):

http://www.seocracy.com/posts/show/38-I-look-at-child-pornography

http://www.seocracy.com/downloads/show/7-Here-are-some-of-my-personal-desktop-backgrounds

http://www.seocracy.com/posts/show/39-I-wish-I-wasnt-a-Canadian-since-nobody-respects-the-hat-of-the-USA

Notice that he doesn’t rank for any of the terms in those URLs and that they’d contribute to a duplicate content penalty if they were indexed. In other words, Rob’s failure to get his site fully indexed is protecting him from getting his site fully de-indexed (yes, there are literally 10000000s of other non-indexed links like these that Rob hasn’t been able to get indexed).

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Rob: You may notice I used some words like “markov” and “URL” here. I hope using words you probably don’t understand doesn’t disqualify me from your diss-my-blog contest.

Sphinn this. Google sent a message to webmasters last week, letting them (us) know who really owns page rank. Unscrupulous sites with Google authority lost some ability to sell it, and webpromoters were left with one less avenue to buy higher rankings in the SERPs.

But all I see are viewpoints against these “strong-arm tactics” by Google. As webmasters cry out against the toolbar PR update Matt Cutts is helpful and on-topic as always.

Case study: Search Engine Guide. SEG is preparing to take a hit as they restructure their ad program to retain pagerank. Here’s what happened:

1. SEG sold following text links to sponsors (advertisers paid for targeted clickthroughs and authority).
2. Google slapped SEG, reducing its PR (as visible from Google toolbar).
3. SEG changed their ad program (no more following text links).

Sure, SEG worked for their authority, but they never had the right to sell it. Yet these guys publicly complained for getting hit after violating the Google guidelines. That’d be like Rob (of Seocracy) complaining that one of his English-turned-Russian-turned-English translation scrapes got supplemented. Okay, unfair comparison.

But seriously, if you disregard the Google guidelines, don’t complain about getting slapped.

You can read some more articles about the October scramble.

Ever want to search a wordpress blog only to find that there’s no search bar? Don’t want to use Google (ie site:blog.com string)? No problem. Use this URL: http://www.theblogurl.com/?s=SEARCH+STRING+HERE .