Dec 15

You can now set your own Googlebot crawl speed

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You can now set your own crawl speed on Google Webmaster Tools. What does this mean?

Many things actually.

1st, this shows that Google acknowledges that its automated settings are sometimes crappy, and an algorithm cannot always predict the perfect crawl rate for a site. Google is seldomly known to give options to the webmaster that affect rankings.

2nd, this makes Google Webmaster Tools even better than they already were.

All of you newbies, try to resist the urge to set the crawl rate at max. You don’t need it. On 99% of sites, the automatic setting works fine. There are only a few cases where you might need a custom setting. For example I have a few sites with thousands of pages, but only 10% of them are indexed. I assume that setting a faster crawl rate on those will help index a few more thousand pages.

It will be rare for someone to want to reduce it, despite the fact that Googlebot is the most frequent visitor, the automated setting is usually optimal. Maybe on huge indexed database sites? Nah, not even then.

So, when should you increase it? If you have a very new site, setting the bar at max might increase the indexing time. No idea, I am just guessing here. Try it.

Also, you might want to increase it a bit if you have a frequently updating site and you don’t see your new posts on a search after a few hours. Although, as I said, the automated settings usually adapt to that scenario. But, if it does fail, here is your setting that will fix it.

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Nov 25

Real mommies get it

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The WebWriMo challenge is near its end, only 5 days left. We all slacked. I know. Also, I was the leader up until a week ago, when a real mom joined the fray. Rebecca, is a fucking writing machine, a mom that “gets it”, has peachy cheeks, a hyperactive son and a great smile. She is also your professional internet author, ready to boldly go where no mom has gone before.

And because I like her style, here is her signature:

Quit Buying Shitty Content.
www.internetauthor.net
Rebecca Garland – Freelance Writer and Copywriter

She joined the WebWriMo challenge, took the lead, embarassed us all, kicked my ass and wrote 51000 words in a month, while taking care of her son as well. And she does that all the time. Damn!

So, practically the challenge is over, we all learned a few things about content creation, a few mustaches got bigger, I pumped out a lot of content for 4 sites including this blog, and we all go back to our normal slow content generating lives, except Rebecca. The challenge was ironically for epeen purposes, and to get a motive to generate the much needed content for our online assets. There was no real prize, but this post is both a tiny prize and a show of respect for people who manage to juggle work, raising kids and real life problems while maintaining a smile.

Are you serious about your online success? Do you really want to makemoniesonline? Then

Quit Buying Shitty Content.

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Nov 24

How to fool Akismet

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Internet is serious business

Since redditors call me a spammer, I might as well become one.

I discovered a stupidly easy way to bypass Akismet. If for example, I had glowleaf.net blacklisted (which it is), every comment I post to other blogs will get deleted.

I just buy glowleaf.info, redirect it to my blog, and use it in the url box.

I just tested it, it bypasses akismet. Of course, if you are still posting spam nothing prevents the blogger from hiting the report spam link and nullifying your 2nd domain. But it works as a second chance. Or a third, a fourth, a fifth…

Now go spread some havoc and chaos.

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Nov 14

Make monies online using your boobs

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Here is a little trick I just found out for Google Webmaster Tools. Ok, I’ve known it for long, but people seem to be unaware of it.

GWT has a great feature, where it shows you the top search queries your site has appeared. Not the clicks, the positioning. So, simply by checking out that page, you can see for example that you rank No 11 for a longtail like “make monies online using your boobs”. 

A quick Adwords keyword search shows that the phrase has no searches at all! What a shock. Nevermind, lets assume that it does. You want to do some optimization to your site, so you create a new page/post with the title “Make monies online using your boobs”.

A quick Google search shows that 20.400 results appear in the index, a measly number. But we rank No 11, that means at the second page. With a slight push, we can get our site to the first page. It is much easier than it sounds.

What we need, is to create an SEO optimized page to rank for the term “Make monies online using your boobs”. Url rewrites are a must, so, like this post, the permalink is something like glowleaf.net/make-monies-online-using-your-boobs

Then we need to write the keyphrase “make monies online using your boobs” plenty of times inside the post. That is called keyword stuffing. Keyword percentages are a thing of the past, forget that stuff. Just don’t make it spammy, make it readable. Also, you need to get the keyphrase in every nook and cranny, so put it in the alt image tag as well.

Next thing we need to do, is do some inside linking with our preferred anchor text, meaning we do something like this: make monies online using your boobs

Internal linking anchor text is mostly ignored by Google, but works for MSN. Since we are trying to rank for the phrase “make monies online using your boobs”, we also need to include the phrase to the post tags. And a category with the keyphrase would be ideal.

The next step is to build some backlinks for our post, with our anchor text “make monies online using your boobs”. The easiest way is to social bookmark the post, and also add the link to your splog farm. You do have a splog farm, right?

Why are we doing this whole deal with the post? Because, it is much easier to rank a page dedicated to a particular keyphrase, than to try and rank the homepage for a whole keyword list. I see that mistake all the time. People build and buy links to their site’s homepage. You can only put so many stuff on a homepage, you cannot possibly optimize one page for everything. Fire up GWT, check the top search queries, see what rankings you got that are decent, and make some pages to rank for those like I wrote here.

Check out the Google SERP’s for “make monies online using your boobs” and try to spot this page.

EDIT: And now that the tags are live, here is the second tip from this post. If you go to the dashboard of Google Webmaster tools, you can add not only e.g. www.glowleaf.net but also www.glowleaf.net/tag and www.glowleaf.net/category, even www.glowleaf.net/tag/affiliate

Go to your new “site” and click top search queries again. Yes, you see the ranking of that folder and below. Priceless.

What this gives you is even more ranking data, straight from Google. You can see which tags make you rank, and give you an even better edge over the competition. Now who is gonna write us a script to pull all that data and dump it into a csv?

Go. Rank. Dominate.

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Nov 12

You Know You Are Too Far Into Online Marketing When…

Doodling, Feed the Spiders, Google, Heavy construction, Mind over Pixels, Techniques, Trailers, WebWriMo challenge 1 Comment »

…internet tool developers send you insider information without you asking for it. Jeesh, I have really gone native.

Spydermate, an seo and website analysis web tool is getting a facelift, and a bunch of new features. The penguins who are developing it are adding new analysis graphs. Here is a sneak peek:

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The green is my blog (duh!), and the red is the average of the most recent crawls for every domain ever crawled by SpyderMate.

All of the data points are percentiles of the overall data set, meaning that everything is in scale, not actual numbers. Let’s not see anyone comparing the Google PR graph with Alexa rank, shall we?

The fact that the average is dynamic, is both a good and a bad thing. This is the same case as the Alexa rank, where it skews the data towards sites in US and who are tech savvy orientated.

Same goes for this case, only SEO’s will use this tool, so this average will be derived from all of our sites, and our competition :)

Anyway, even if it misses a percentile, who cares. This is a neat feature, and coupled with the other overview tabs in Spydermate you have a complete general picture of a website. What this analysis shows is that I should have a higher PR and Google neglected me…

As I said in the review post, experienced SEO’s find the site compare ability priceless.

The tool is getting some final finishing touches as we speak, and it will be live for the public very soon, maybe within the month. Go bookmark it now.

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