Another reason you should write articles. I’m living proof that it’s true and my stories have appeared in Google news updates that I monitor countless times – I wonder sometimes how many queries I’m not following that they show up in…
Archive for July, 2004
Free Traffic Tip #5: Article of the Day
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
You can’t go wrong with Google information, especially in the form of articles, at lilengine.com. If you want to know the mechanics of getting higher page rank, there’s a recent article posted there that you should study.
Free Traffic Extra: MSN & I told ya so: Updated
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
So. Remember on Monday when I told you there was a new news bot in town? Today, the back story was in- and yes, I was right again. *does little dance*.
Update: The earliest place I can find with the story, after my speculation in my blog was ZDNet. They’re in the same family as Technology.Updates.com – so I thought it only fair that I should come back and state that. How did I find that? My Slashdot headlines.
End update.
Free Traffic Tip #4: Site of the Day
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Short and sweet: if the answer for your Google question isn’t in this forum, stop looking.
It doesn’t exist yet.
On the rare occasions that I have trouble getting a page into Google, this is one of the few places I go to look up answers – very handy when Google does an update, they’re often among the first to discuss it, and its impact. Every webmaster should join and bookmark this site.
Free Traffic Tip #3: Google Tools of the Day
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Here’s a tool that gives you three levels of site information – its Google PR, the number of backlinks it has through Yahoo, and its Alexa rating.
As the site discusses, Alexa information can be a helpful way to help determine a relative traffic measure. It is not, and is not intended to be, an absolute determination of a site’s ability to draw and retain traffic. When evaluating sites by their Alexa rating, click on Traffic Details and look at the page views.
Our second tool is the Poodle Predictor. If you want to see what your site will look like to the Googlebot, which crawls your site for pages to add to its database, you’ll enjoy this gizmo. Very helpful for determining problems with a page that isn’t getting indexed. Just type in your URL and go.
Free Traffic Tip#2: Google News
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
I love the movie Mommie Dearest. Ah, the benefits of having a home based business… for the last few days anytime anyone asks me why in AIM I say…
“Because I am NOT one of your faaaaaansss!!”
I know it’s a true story, and I do have sympathy for Christina Crawford (who is still writing) – but the actors are over the top by today’s standards in a way that comes across as comical to me.
But you came here for Google News, right?
By now you already know that Google was down for some time this weekend. Why?
Today’s Free Traffic Tip #1: Focus – Google
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Hi gang.
Today we’re back to the numbered Free Traffic format, with methods popping up throughout the week. As I usually do, I’ve decided to expand on what I wrote about, leading up to a big finish that has been in the works for month – another resource I intended to have finished immediately, but then found out so much that I turned it into a bigger resource.
Thank goodness for feeds.
Today’s Free Traffic Topic is Google. I’m still a Google gal, but I didn’t kirk out when they went down. (For the definition of “kirk out”, please see any Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk thought he was going to die.)
Free Traffic Tip: Search Engine Gossip
Monday, July 26th, 2004
Since the 23rd, I’ve been seeing a new bot on my site, which is likely to be MSN’s special RSS feed bot. It’s unconfirmed whether or not this bot is new, or it’s just new to me, but I’ve only seen 16 references to it on the Web so far. It lists on my server as msnbot-rss/0.11 , and gives the regular information page as a reference, though there is no specific info on that page or any of the links from it. (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm).
