Fast Indexing
November 6, 2008
How Fast Can You Get Indexed?
I’ve been experimenting with a number of traffic generation techniques recently, but one thing that almost always helps is being indexed in the search engines.
Of course you might have an army of people willing to send traffic to your site, even if not a single page appears in the search engines, but for most of us there is a need to be indexed. Besides, organic search engine traffic is free - which is nice.
There are various theories about how to get indexed quickly, as well as weird and wonderful schemes that may or may not be white hat, black hat, or no hat at all.
One such technique is to Read more
What it takes to succeed in business.
June 5, 2008
How To Fail Without Even Trying
Now I’m not actually going to tell you how to fail, although you could argue that learning how to fail would help you avoid all the mistakes that generally lead to failure.
No, I’ve just read a very interesting - and insightful - blog post by Jon Leger that discusses what it takes to succeed. Some would say luck, some would say a rich parent, but the reality is that plenty of people succeed without either of those.
The reality is also that many, many people fail. In fact Jon says over 90% will fail. That’s a US statistic, but in the UK I think it’s about the same figure so I guess the 90% applies generally wherever you are in the world.
Jon uses some strong language in the post. Quite unlike him, he uses four-letter words Read more
Blog your way to profit
June 3, 2008
I have several blogs and for a while I have wondered whether to link to them from each other, or re-use content from one on some of the others.
Blogging is a great way to make a profit, but keeping up with the amount of content creation you need can be difficult. That’s why the idea of re-using your own content, or somebody else’s sometimes, with permission, is so appealing.
However, there’s often talk about a ‘duplicate content penalty’ that Google supposedly slap on you if they find that you’re not producing totally 100% unique content.
Pretty much pure myth, but most people believe it. In fact most people believe it without having any idea why. They haven’t done any research into it. They hear ‘facts’ proclaimed in emails and forums and there’s usually no evidence to back up the point of view - just loud argument.
This report gives the real facts and figures together with techniques for improving your search engine position results Read more
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