Archive for January, 2007

Jan 24

Recently, an anonymous financial consultant has made some claims regarding Second Life’s “so-called” economy. This is more than conjecture apparently, as an associate of his decided to invest 10 000 USD in an opportunity they discovered on July 2006 after doing some research and seeing SL being reported on in many popular financial/business magazines.
Apparently they […]

Jan 22

The NAC meta tag.

2007 at 12:46pm | by Dave

NAC Geographic Products (NACGEO) has  introduced a  meta tag called  the Natural Area Coding system or NAC for short. Essentially it is a coded system that will allow you to identify the geographical location related to your website with a standardized meta tag.
The system is quite complex, but there are already generators that will provide […]

Jan 21

Final link report

2007 at 10:15pm | by Dave

So this post will wrap up the report on the report of the link building project I have been writing about. We are doing quite a few link building projects for different sites…and I suppose that we could report the results of them all…but it would probably get redundant and boring. Here is a final […]

Jan 21

Wiki Goes No Follow

2007 at 9:47pm | by Jay

I can’t say this was entirely unexpected but apparently at Jim Wales orders all links going to external sites from the English language Wikipedia have now been setup with the search engine sponsored “nofollow” tag. [ Source ]
Obviously this was done to cut down on the spamming that was more then a little rampant on […]

Jan 20

Google has officially okay’d other contextual ad based services on the same page as your Adsense. I have to say, I’m shocked by this…but it comes from a reliable source (JenSense: the Queen of Contextual Marketing)
She tells us of her conversation with Brian Axe, a senior product manager at Adsense. His direct words were:
“When it […]

Jan 20

Dan Thies SEO training review

2007 at 7:51am | by Jay

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Dave and I were discussing what topics we should post about and figured it might be a good idea to review some of the services and products we used while building our business…
The first in our series of reviews is Dan Thies’s SEO training.
Dan thies sells various training packages off his […]

Jan 19

Link building report #2

2007 at 1:21pm | by Dave

We’ve generally found when sending out link requests, that most of the time if someone is going to link to you they will generally get back to you within a week. After that, you recieve few if any responses.
From my first link building day on Tuesday, I’ve officially crossed a 25% response rate, with 17% […]

Jan 19

Google cracks down again

2007 at 8:06am | by Dave

By now we all know about the recent change in Adsense policy about images beside ads, it`s hit us hard and probably hit other publishers as well. It`s not surprising that Adsense has updated their policy this month, either. They just needed to add the new information about images beside the ads right?
Well…not exactly. They […]

Jan 18

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After reading a number of Dave’s suggested blogs, I have to say one of the primary difficulties I think most fledging web entrepreneurs face is: staying motivated.
I’m not saying everyone in this line of work is lazy, but once you reach a certain level of success - when money is already […]

Jan 17

Yesterday’s work day (which was quite productive, enough so that we rewarded ourselves with a little Gears of War after 5 ) was my turn to build links. I’ve found that in our particular niche (something that we will be revealing in the near future…mainly because over the past few months it’s gone from extremely […]