From the monthly archives:

November 2005

SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems

by Greg November 22, 2005 Search

While I was browsing through today’s posts at SEW, I came across a post on the topic of affiliate networks and SEO.
The basic question presented in this thread is this:
Is it possible to structure an affiliate tracking system in such a way that the links used by affiliates end up helping the merchant site rank [...]

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Brett Loses His Mind Part 2

by Greg November 21, 2005 Search

Well it didn’t take long for some people to realize that BT could use some help getting all of those 2,050,000 pages out of Google.
And Danny also brings up a good point about how long it should really take for WebmasterWorld to go missing from SERPS.
If search engines are hitting that robots.txt ban repeatedly, they [...]

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Brett Tabke Loses His Mind

by Greg November 21, 2005 Search

Brett’s decided to finally deal with that nasty ingrown toenail by amputating his entire foot.
I’m certainly not going to question the problem of rogue bots crawling WebmasterWorld. I know it’s something he spends alot of time on. (I think he’s even banned me a couple of times). But banning all bots just to get rid [...]

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The Truth About Reciprocal Link Networks

by Greg November 21, 2005 Search

Shortly after stage 2 of the recent Google algo update began, I received an email from a panic stricken ex-client. He woke up on a Monday morning to find all of the recent gains we had made Google were gone.
I was a bit shocked to hear this because this particular project was as "white hat" [...]

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Back from Vegas

by Greg November 18, 2005 Search

OK, I made it back from Vegas in one piece. I’d love to give everyone a rundown of all the great sessions, but I can’t because I only managed to make it to two of them. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any good scoop to report.
Some of the highlights:
1. Hearing that Anne Kennedy has [...]

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