A few experts told me that yesterday’s post about blog link love was wrong. Didn’t I know that Wordpress automatically added rel=”nofollow” to all embedded links?
Bullshit.
Only to links within comments, you dumbasses. Not posts. And yes I know Wordpress has been doing that since 1.5, and I also know there’s a bunch of plugins […]

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This and tomorrow’s post cover ways in which blogs can be used to improve rankings of your main web site.
In this post, I deal with a technique that uses blogs to create lots and lots of backlinks. As you read this, you’ll see I don’t think it works.
In tomorrow’s post, I deal with a couple […]

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Matt Cutts just put up a post reminding us about the Google webmaster console. In particular, he highlights the robots.txt analysis tool and gives an example showing how it can find errors.

Just for fun, I used this tool on the firsthit website. Here’s a screen grab (click the thumbnail and a full size […]

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Following on from yesterday’s post about sitemap file directives in your robots.txt file, I though it may be worthwhile reviewing the process of creating a sitemap for your website.
If you website is mainly static content (ie, you use something like Dreamweaver or FrontPage to create pages), you’ll need some free software to do this. Visit […]

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The big four search engines - Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search and ASK have announced at SES New York that they now support a sitemap directive in your robots.txt file. This makes the whole submission process easier, although you still have to generate the sitemap file.
Here are each company’s blog entries:
Google: What New with Sitemaps.org ?
Yahoo: […]

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