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September 21, 2007

Google hops onto the social bookmarking bandwagon

Author: Random Seo - Categories: Google

Social bookmarking has become extremely popular in the last couple of years, and there are newer sites coming in everyday. The idea of having the users select the stories that they wanted to read was considered a novel one when the first site appeared on the scene, and there has been no looking back since then. Some of the bigger social bookmarking sites can send hundreds and thousands of visitors to your site at one go- such is the extent to which these sites have become popular.

If your story hits the Digg frontpage, for example, there is a reasonably good chance of your server crashing and your blog going off line. This has therefore resulted in many people trying to sneak their way into the first page by hook or crook- exchanging Diggs is quite a common practice on several webmaster forums. Now, I won’t comment on whether or not that practice is ethical. Some people might believe that you do not need artificial ways to get to the top, for if you genuinely have good content, you will automatically get recognition. Others believe that you need to lend your site a helping hand so that it can stand on its own two legs. The former is true in most cases, but a few diggs from family and friends will not hurt your site one bit. Read it all..

David Airey blog anniversary contest

Author: Random Seo - Categories: SEO competitions

This isn’t an SEO contest, but it is definitely a contest, and has some brilliant prizes on offer. David Airey is an Irish born Scottish graphic designer who is holding this contest as part of the first year anniversary celebrations of his blog. David started his blog in October 2006.

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September 9, 2007

Fed up of Spam ?

Author: Random Seo - Categories: Blogging, Wordpress

How big a problem is spam for your site ? If you run a blog which doesn’t receive too much traffic, you would probably not have to worry too much. Reasonable traffic and pagerank, and the spam will flow in. Viagra, pharmacy, adult, video links….the list can go on and on, but to sum it up in a nutshell, sites which have absolutely nothing to do with the content of your site. All they want is a bit of traffic, and some PR to be leaked from your site. Some people do delete spam religiously, but there are the odd ones which creep in through the system. And considering that most of the work is done by bots and not humans, that success percentage is perfectly acceptable to spammers.

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September 5, 2007

Happy birthday keyword tracker

Author: Random Seo - Categories: General

Some of you might already be using this tool. This tool, a very handy one to track your ranking in the search engines for your targetted keywords, was released by Digital Point Solutions on 5th September 2003. Which makes today, 5th September 2007, its fourth birthday ;)

September 4, 2007

September Namecheap coupon

Author: Random Seo - Categories: Domains

Namecheap is one of my favourite domain registrars. They are a little bit on the expensive side, but they do provide quality service. As you might know, Namecheap releases coupons which allows you to get a discount on new registrations. The code for the month of September is LABORDAY. It appears to take ninety cents off the listed price.