I’ve just returned from PubCon Las Vegas 2011 where I spoke on Hosting Issues and SEO, and Ways to Monetize a Blog. Bruce Clay’s staff did a great job of summarizing the Monetizing Your Blog segment, complete with some screenshots. It was a great conference with lots of national leaders in the disciplines of SEO, social media, and internet marketing.

Leo Laporte’s Keynote Address:
Marketing in the Social ...

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Last Google PageRank Update: The Definitive Test

We’ve discovered a sure-fire way to reliably and certainly determine when and if Google has recently updated its toolbar PageRank. Knowing the Google PageRank for your recent pages lets you know if your pages are popular and have garnered links. Here’s our step-by-step guide.

1. First, you need to find a page on a high-value, high-authority, high-PageRank site such as BusinessWeek.com. High authority sites ...
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How to Diagnose a Google Ranking Ban, Penalty, or Filter

The following is an excerpt from our upcoming book SEO for WordPress. You can sign up for an advance copy.

If you undertake black or gray hat techniques, you run a fair chance of having your site penalized in the search results. But even if you are not engaged in these techniques yourself, your site may be punished for associating with black ...

The following is an excerpt from our upcoming book SEO for WordPress. You can sign up for an advance copy.

Authority Links: What They Are and Why You Want Them

There is a measure of power that some links possess that is independent of PageRank and it is the principle of authority links. Authority links are links from websites that have established a substantial degree of trust and authority ...

Does Google Hate Forum Sites? Millions of Pages Disappear From Index (or Do They?)

Millions of pages of popular forums sites have disappeared from Google’s index in the past few months. Testing the index, a Google search for the custom string “site:forums.digitalpoint.com,” which would normally return tens of millions of pages, returns only 256,000 results. Simila2ly, the tremendously popular forum site, fanforum.com, shows only ...

The following is an excerpt from our upcoming book SEO for WordPress. You can sign up for an advance copy.

The Mathematics and Operation of Google PageRank

Google’s PageRank is part of its search algorithm; the other search engines’ ranking algorithms work similarly. Yahoo and Bing, while they obviously measure inbound link counts as a ranking factor, do not disclose to web users any measure of page value equivalent to ...

Today, Google offered a new feature to enhance its already-robust search capabilities: Secure Search. Google is the first major search engine to offer search in a secure setting.
Pictured below, the secure search works and looks just like traditional search, but operates on SSL (secure socket layer), and can be found here: https://www.google.com. The “https” references a secure internet browsing location, unlike traditional “http” locations:

What Does it Do?

Google’s secure search protects ...

Clone Your Google Adwords Campaign With a Yahoo Search Marketing Import

Following a tip from Gary at Topside Media, I finally got a handle on Yahoo Search Marketing’s import function. Yahoo Search Marketing (Yahoo’s sponsored ad offering) is a necessary evil in competitive markets; but their Web web-based interface is both slow and unwieldy.

I was looking for a way to import some finely tuned AdWords campaigns into Yahoo ...

Adsense Revenue Sharing Site

We have just launched an adsense revenue sharing site. The site is ArticleShare.info. It’s a general article site (like ezinearticles.com), except authors share in the revenue generated by adsense dollars! ArticleShare.info pays an 80% share of revenues to authors.

Signup is quick and free.

Today we’ll be covering a very advanced topic, but it’s so powerful and beneficial comment it’s just too good to be ignored.

How to Get the Coveted “Show Map of” Tag

I learned this device from a power blogger in the search engine optimization business, and through some research reading Google’s Webmaster documentation. What the trick does is it enables a show map tag to appear within a Google result. The following photo will illustrate:

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