For this post-Thankgiving, black Friday sale, Hostgator is offering 50% off of the first month’s hosting service. The promotion begins just after midnight, Friday, November 25th, 2011 Central Standard Time. This special offer will run until 11:59PM CST Friday, November 25th, 2011. Here’s the offer: 50% OFF on ALL hosting services. This includes shared hosting, [...]
Google Search Algorithm Update: Freshness
Today, Google released an update to their search algorithm which will supposedly improve the freshness of the content within their search results. So, this basically means that you’ll see a boost in rankings for content that are time-sensitive. According to Google, this update will affect close to 35% of all searches. This may be good [...]
SEMRush Review
I have never been a big fan of SEO software. I guess I’m old school and I like to stick to the basics. The software I use today are the barebones type of tools like Notepad, Word, Excel and Google Keyword Tool. In the many years that I’ve been doing SEO, I’ve only tried out [...]
Splogs Still Work for SEO
Splogs, or spam blogs, are the latest marketing tools for black-hat SEOs and marketers. What they do is – set up a bunch of meaningless blogs for the sake of linking out to their prized websites in hopes of increasing their organic rankings in the search engines. This technique has been around for some years [...]
RIP Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was truly an innovator. He had a vision, which he turned into reality. He was like King Midas – everything he touched turned to gold. I mean think about everything he invented. They all became hugely popular and successful… the iPod, iPhone, iPad, not to mention all the Mac computer products. His products [...]
Namecheap Coupon Codes – September 2011
Here are the Namecheap coupon codes for September 2011: For domain names, use HOTNCOLD For 10% off the first month of VPS hosting, use MELLOWFALL For 10% off shared hosting packages, use WINDOFCHANGE Website: Namecheap
Free Incorporation or LLC Offer from MyCorporation – September 20th
Here’s a great promotion from MyCorporation. They are offering a free Incorporation or LLC for one day only! This saves you $49. This offer is good for 24 hours, starting on Sept 20th. Coupon code: MYFREE Website: MyCorporation.com
Google Adsense for Search Pays Low CPC Rates
In the 5+ years that I’ve been working with Adsense, I have never tried out Google Adsense for search. Until a month ago. I have always assumed that search CPC rates would be higher than content CPC because it seems to be industry standard, not just with Google but also on other PPC platforms like [...]
WordPress Plugins for Automatic Links
Manually creating links to certain posts or pages are fine if you don’t have too much content to manage. But what if you have a blog with tons of content and you’re constantly adding new blog posts? Then manually creating links within your content would not only be very time consuming, but also very difficult [...]
Ezilon Directory Coupon Code 2011
Ezilon is one of the strongest and oldest directories around. The current submission rates are $69 for yearly and $199 one-time. However, if you use the following coupon code, you can get a 30% discount on all new submissions. Good until the end of December 2011. Coupon code: s1z8v Website: Ezilon
Facebook Lottery Scam
Here’s the most ridiculous email scam I’ve seen/received so far. A Facebook lottery promotion…LOL…what a joke! Congratulations !! We are very happy to inform you that your name appear on the face-book lottery promotion for the New Year 2011 held here in London UK and we are giving out the total sum of 1,000,000 GB [...]
How Can a Site Rank for a Keyword When it Has No Content for it?
Answer: Backlinks You’re obviously asking this question because you’ve probably come across a website that hardly mentions a certain keyword, yet it ranks top 5 for it. This is because the site has a ton of backlinks pointing to it, using certain anchor text keywords. Here’s a prime example: Bing. If you take a look [...]
7 Things to Watch Out for Before Hiring an SEO Company
1. You usually get what you pay for. This statement is true for the SEO industry. You can hire cheap labor just about anywhere, but you’ll get what you pay for – perhaps some low quality directory links, spammy comment or forum links, and maybe an in-content article link written by someone who doesn’t speak [...]
Namecheap Coupon Code – November 2010
Save $.88 on new domain registrations when you use coupon code, FAMILYWARMTH, at checkout. Visit: Namecheap
Business.com Directory Listing Promo Code – October 2010
Here’s a cool deal from Business.com. Save $100 when you submit a new listing to their directory. That comes out to $199 for one year. This is a directory that’s worth submitting to, in my opinion. This offer expires 10/14/10. Use promo code OCT100 at checkout: Business.com