In the SEO world we see untoward activities on a regular basis. Mostly folks trying to game the system for themselves or their clients to increase rankings or decrease competitor rankings. It can get pretty nasty with so much at stake and not a whole lot of governance short of the Google web spam team who are… Continue reading
DATE ARCHIVES : 2011
Why I Still do Meta Keywords
A number of factors contribute to increasing keyword rankings on a search engine. One of those was the meta keyword tag or <meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword phrase, another keyword phrase, yet another keyword phrase”>. Once upon a time it was considered a pretty major factor. Even in Google’s early days, they seemed to have a great deal… Continue reading
Checking up on Competitors Online
We’re all curious. We’re all also a bit competitive by nature. We all have our business nemesis, that guy that keeps turning up at networking events, whose website keeps appearing under search terms you’re targeting, whose name keeps cropping up during prospective client discussions. Even though we may highly respect them, a bit of healthy… Continue reading
Whereisdudescars.com WordPress Hack
We manage a number of WordPress websites and the immense popularity of the platform can certainly open it up to malicious coders. I recently noticed that a couple of older websites had become fodder for malware infections. These blogs were both hosted on Dreamhost and I have since discovered that the issue seems limited to… Continue reading