Category — domainers

Google recently anounced on their blog that they will be giving away more data for ad buyers including, search queries, navigation data, and demographics. You can read about it more on this New York Times Magazine.  My opinion on the whole thing is that it is just another attempt for Google to take over another vertical.

Beware the Google Web is growing. Google really is trying to build its own internet.

Before I kick things off, I want to thank all of you who have been posting your comments. They are great and help me discover new things every day.

Anyway I build websites both for fun and as a way to experiment with SEO. Recently I have been working on monetizing these projects just to see what the “make money online” hoopla is all about. I don’t make enough to retire, but its fun non the less.

One website I threw up had to do with DRM Free Movies. It was one of my early projects and I have not had the time to really build a valuable website. It did receive about 20 to 30 unique visitors, so I decided to throw up some AdSense, Amazon, and AdBrite to the site to see if I can monetize the traffic. I made about 50 cents to a dollar a day which was nice.

A few days ago I checked my analytics, and lo and behold I was receiving 0 traffic. I investigated to see if the site was still ranking for the keywords, and of course it was not. What was interesting is that the “brand name” still ranked the website, but all of the keywords I was targeting do not.

I believe it was due to human review that my site was removed. Thanks to Rose who posted a comment on Google Human Review and sent a link to SPAM Guidelines.

Lets use this opportunity to learn what NOT to do and how to avoid a Google penalty.

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If you have researched across the web for SEO material it is without a doubt that you stumbled across SEOBook. Search Engine Optimization is the practice of actively trying to get your web property to rank on search engines and gain organic ranking. Keyword research, title tags, meta data, anchor text, link bait, etc sounds overwhelming doesn’t it?

If you are like me you realize that the noise to quality ratio is quite awful when it comes to SEO online. However SEOBook claims to offer enough information to separate fact from fiction for experts and teach the basics to small business owners just starting out in SEO.

Below is review of SEOBook and the top 5 Reasons NOT to buy SEOBook

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I recently received an email from and SEO who tried to sell me his services. Within 20 seconds I could tell that he scraped for my email and sent me an automated email. The website he found my email on was one of the very first websites I build. This is back when I did not understand that ranking for keywords no one searches for like “stop car pollution” is worthless. I thought I can use SEO to help the planet, boy was I wrong. You have to give people what they want and rank for things like “remove drm” and “ameriprise complaints” to make any profit. Because I had put so much time and energy into my little www.Carfartz.com site I decided to keep it around and use it to conduct SEO experiments. Never in a million years did I think someone would try to sell me services for such a POS site.

Read on to see his email and why it sucks.

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This is a guest post from Demerzel’s SEO Blog on the big fallacy of Google Search.

This guest post is entirely dedicated to the problems of Google’s algorithm and not about the fairness of what it is doing. If you’re looking for a shoulder to cry on, you’re barking up the wrong tree as Google is entirely within its rights (at this point) to do what it wants for its search engine. As such, if you’re looking to rant and rave on that issue, go visit the following blogs:

• Johnon
• Graywolf
• SEO Book
• Matt Cutts

However, if you’re looking to understand why Google will ultimately fail as a search engine in trying to keep a large emphasis on link juice, then read on.

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