I happened to notice this morning that GeckoTribe.com has gotten an “authority listing” from Google for the search terms (don’t be too shocked) “gecko tribe”. I’m not bragging — it’s not like those are very common search terms. But it’s nice to see.

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You’ll notice I kept the AdWords ads in the screen shot. […]

Last June, I launched a product named Fast JV. Until a day or two ago, it had never shown up in Google.
My first thought way back when was that it had simply been sandboxed, but when I registered it in Google’s Webmaster Tools, they said that no pages from the site appeared in their index.
I’ve […]

I’ve noticed over the last few days that one of my sites has been getting hundreds of hits a day from people searching for “katharine mcphee yellow dress”. I don’t have a site about American Idol, and I’ve never even typed the words “katharine mcphee” (and the first time I’d even copied and pasted the […]

We all know that getting lots of inbound links is a critical part of search engine optimization. And most of us know that joining link farms, which create lots of links between totally unrelated sites, is not a good way to do it, because if Google catches you at it, they’ll penalize you. So how […]

The Chordata RSS and Atom newsfeed directory is offering a 90 page eBook (PDF) on search engine optimization to anyone who rates 25 feeds by November 21. You’ll need to create an account and log in to rate feeds. Once you’ve rated 25, you’ll find a link to the eBook on the My Account page. […]

Every time I see someone selling or trading a link bragging about it coming from a PR4 page, I’m not sure whether to chuckle or boggle. “PR4?” I think. “That’s supposed to be impressive?” I guess it impresses some people, even if it doesn’t impress us all. Which raises the question, what is “good” PageRank? […]

So, you want your site to show up as high as possible on Google. Join the club. 20 gazillion other websites are clamoring for the same thing. And guess what? Google has its own agenda. They don’t care whose site comes up on top–whose business gets the free advertising. What they want is to give […]

There are a million ways to make money (or if you’re already making money, there are a million ways to make more money). But none of us has time to do all of them. And few of us have the desire to do all that we have time for. Part of the secret to success […]

Two simple steps to higher search engine placement: “Search Engine Optimization doesn’t have to mean paying gobs of money to self-proclaimed professionals with questionable qualifications. Nor does it have to mean hiring an army of copywriters to fill your site with content. Two simple steps will boost your search engine ranking and give visitors a […]

If your search engine optimization efforts are focused solely and capturing visitors who are searching for products like yours, you may be missing a huge chunk of your market. Don’t forget about those people who are looking for complementary products, services and information.
Over the last six months, some of the things I’ve done that have […]