December 3, 2009 | Posted by Sapphire
In recent weeks, I detailed the moves I’d made to improve this domain. Most of those moves had to do with SEO: setting up for better inbounds, setting up for better ranking keywords and recovering page rank – the last of which, of course, is strictly a Google thing. During the first couple of weeks [...]
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November 24, 2009 | Posted by Sapphire
I’ve tried out a few plugins recently to stop sploggers from stealing my content. My favorite was ©Feed, but unfortunately it causes errors if you use it alongside any Feedburner redirecting plugin.That plugin does everything I want, otherwise – maybe someday it will work.
Now I’m using Anti-Feed Scraper Message, which is a simple plugin that [...]
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November 20, 2009 | Posted by Sapphire
If there’s a trick to getting schmillions of visitors without a huge marketing budget, I don’t know it. But I have found that posting worthwhile stuff regularly leads to a steady increase in traffic.
By “worthwhile” I mean articles that are worth reading now and will be worth reading a few years from now. You can’t [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by Sapphire
Whether you’re building a new domain or rehabilitating an old one, you need to consider what keyphrases you want to rank well for in search engines. You have only so much control over this, as keyphrases come from the anchor text other webmasters use to link to you. Obviously, you can make clear what the [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by Sapphire
If your domain has issues, one of the problems you may need to address is your inbound links. You need lots of them, but they need to be from reputable sources. Paid text links or spammy directory links will only get you so far, and then they start biting you in the ass. Over the [...]
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November 8, 2009 | Posted by Sapphire
Go check out RedButtonReviews – this asshole may be stealing your content. But I’m not nearly so upset this time, because look at the hilarity:
I installed the ©Feed plugin recently and changed my feed to excerpt only. Therefore he only got an excerpt and he got a clear copyright infringement notice, and a digital fingerprint [...]
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