A Peculiar Blog

I recently discovered something that I think is going to turn out to be a really popular plugin. It’s the CommentLuv Wordpress plugin.
When enabled, it looks for the most recent post on the RSS feed at the url that the commenter leaves when posting the comment and adds a link to that post at [...]

Anybody that’s been around the web in general and blogging in particular knows very much the value of social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Technorati, StumbleUpon and others. They’re the source of a lot of traffic and it’s helpful to be indexed in their sites. If you’ve got the SearchStatus plugin for Firefox and you [...]

By now I can’t imagine very many people not having at least heard about the latest round of “Google spankings” where blogs all over the Internet are suddenly being dropped to a zero PR.
There’s a lot of speculation about why this is being done but it comes down to brass tacks, Google has changed their [...]

“Tags” have become something you see a lot more frequently on blogs these days. The latest version of WordPress supports tagging, as does Blogger and other blogging platforms. In addition to whatever native tagging support is available, there is html based Technorati tags.
What are tags? Simply put, tags are keywords and phrases [...]

Not too awfully far back I used to see a phrase on UseNet once in a while “Google is your friend” in reference to how somebody should go about finding some bit of information of whatever flavor, especially when the question was one that could easily be answered with a few minutes on a search [...]

Everybody loves a contest. It’s a chance to win something cool for the pretty minimal effort required to enter it. David Airey writes a graphic design blog and this contest is part of the celebration of it’s one year anniversary.
This contest has a bunch of pretty cool prizes including gems like these:
Professional logo [...]

Again and again the one thing that keeps being the center of any effort to promote a website is building links to that site. Submitawebsite is a search engine optimization company. One of the services that they provide include a Text Link Advertising program. Programs like this can be used to build [...]

One of the most important reasons why people will come to your blog / website, look around a bit and then never return can easily be your overal style.
For example if you write in a confrontational, abusive manner then people who don’t like that sort of thing will take one look at your site and [...]

I’ve seen this question enough that it’s worth a few minutes to post an answer here. It usually goes something like this:
I’ve got links coming to my site from xyz porn site and / or this-n-that spamming scammer site Etc. Etc. Will these links hurt my pagerank since they come from “Bad neighborhoods”
The [...]

Like just about everybody else out there, I’ve been looking forward to Google’s next PageRank update and like everybody that’s looking for it… I’m still waiting.
I did some looking around and found a Page Rank Export List History which shows the history of Google’s various updates going back to July of 2000. Of course, [...]