Twitter Updates for 2008-08-19
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- @BirdmanDodd - congrats. #
- My followers now equals those I am following. 648 #
- Where have I been? I just heard about the Blackberry Thunder from a colleague. #
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Daily SEO Tips- Don’t submit your site to 5500 search engines
In the dawn of search engine optimization days there were a lot of search engines out there. Well, they CALLED themselves search engines, but in fact they were glorified directories. Actually they weren’t even directories, in hindsight they were massive link farms. They were in every piece of search engine submission software available. 99.9999% no one had ever heard of, but the idea back then was to get your name out to every nook and cranny of the web.
A close cousin to this search engine/directory/link farm hybrid was the Free For All site. Essentially another link farm, these repositories were just massive one way links from their site to yours.
Thank our lucky stars we came to our senses … for the most part.
Many people still believe if you submit to hundreds of search engines you will be flooded with visitors and prospects eager to buy your product.
That might be true, but you can bet your bottom dollar that only the big search engines are generating any significant number of visitors for you. By big search engines I refer to Google, Yahoo and other popular engines.
The truth is that if you submit to hundreds of search engines you have just wasted your time, because only a small percentage (and I mean small) of them will send you any decent monthly traffic. They might claim to be visited lots of times but that’s mostly other webmasters submitting their URL and not actually using the search engine to find websites of interest to them.
In fact there are STILL currently hundreds of search engines out there, most of them are not much more than an advanced FFA page.
Beware of ads such as ’submit to the top 500 search engines for only $99′. I say this because generally only the top 3 or 4 will drive traffic to your site. It doesn’t take much time to manually submit to these top engines and your $99 could better be spent on Google Adwords, or on any of the other marketing methods which are available to the modern Internet marketing professional.
Daily SEO Tips - How to get rid of 404 pages on Google
It happens to everyone. You rename a page, delete a page or otherwise change your site structure and end up with some pages still listed on Google. rather than have these dead pages still come up on your Google rankings you can have them removed.
To block a page or image from your site, do one of the following:
- Make sure the content is no longer live on the web. Requests for the page or image you want to remove must return an HTTP 404 (not found) or 410 status code.
- Block the content using a meta noindex tag.
- Block the content using a robots.txt file.
Now submit your removal request. You will need a Google account to do this. Log on to your account and go to Webmaster Tools. Add in your site if you haven’t already and then go to the dashboard for that site.
In the overview under Web Crawl errors - find the “Not Found” link and click on it.
This will list the URLs which are being returned as 404 errors when Google crawls your site.
Now go back to the main menu and go to the Tools section. There will be an entry for “Remove URL:s”, click on this and list your 404 pages.
The next time the Googlebot comes by your site it will insure that these pages are removed from your listings.
If you don’t have a Google account or would like assistance with this, drop me a line and we can discuss how we can work together to remove your 404 pages from Google.
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-15
- Studio ‘Muggles’ postpone new Harry Potter film until 2009 - http://tinyurl.com/hp6-delayed #
- @stacerella - so it’s worth the drive to Ac - er Oakville? #
- @stacerella - Joe is THE man then. I’m researching my problem and trying some of the fixes. It is working a bit better but still slow. #
- stocking up onbooks for my camping trip at the library. Waiting for my kids to pick their books out. I’m continuing my Coupland spree. #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-14
- @AlanoClub - thx for the follow. #
- @Mouthygirl - one month is ideal and two prizes, be sure to cal one a Grand Prize. Who isn’t a sucker for a grand prize? #
- What’s your current “earworm”? Thanks to my tween daughter, mine is the Jonas Brothers “Year 3,000″. Thanks Blondie! #
- Very Interesting - Did you know that you can text your zip/CDN Postal code to MYSBUX (697289) to find the 3 nearest locations? #
- @starcella, thx for the follow, I may need you and Joe’s services soon for my home PC. #
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