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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7For example the link command, google has been showing a random sampling of some of your links for years, don't believe or even worry about pagerank it's useless, meta tags are completely useless, and so on. A much more useful guide by someone who actually works as a professional SEO can be found here
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php - EyeDye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Getting sick of 007google.com spam like this...
http://007google.com/Stop%20spamming%20digg!!!.aspx
...send your complaints here...
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Suite 300
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Phone: 303-459-6012
support@domainsite.com
catherine2222 has never dugg or submitted a single story & every comment they've made has been a link to 007google.com
http://digg.com/users/catherine2222/comments - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can't post something like that without explaining yourself. You just end up looking stupid.
- arrrrrg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/cgi-bin/makehtml.cgi%3Fdocument%3D1999/66%26format%3D0
A real secret ... PageRank started out as an academic exercise before it turned into a real search engine. Security through obscurity sucks, anyway. - jknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Can you be more specific? For example, what is inaccurate? I would really like to know.
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not really, quality is better than quantity. I rather have 20-30 good quality links then 3,000 ***** ones.
The biggest player in good SEO is: content. If you have good and original content, Google loves you. Moreover, your visitors love you, and hence you don't have beg or trade for links, you just get them. I was able to move in roughly a year from 3,000 visitors a day to close to 10,000 visitors a day by just writing content :-) - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pretty basic *****
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Some of that information is ok but some of it is just plain wrong you guys really should be careful about some of the advice you recommend and follow.
- ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3How does stuff like this make front page. There are tons of forums out there that talk about this. There is nothing profound in this article. I have written many articles about this stuff along with other diggers but did not feel I needed to spam digg with it. Quit digging spam and old news people. The front page should be for new ground breaking things not old news that most people already know or can find quickly with a few searches or on many many forums and blogs.
- mvprj84, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Google and Firefox...all you need to survive! And now Firefox 2 is out ( http://digg.com/software/Firefox_2.0_Alpha_1_Download ) and Google Desktop Search is out of beta. What a wonderful world.
- jknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1now THAT is the kind of info we wanted :) Thank you very much!
- mattgilberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1man, i was reading that list and didn't see robots.txt there.....then i got to the end. now many websites must be careful as many of you already know that by just changing your user agent to the "googlebot 2.1" one can gain access to many parts of webpages not meant for public (as seen in the google cache and the infamous whitehouse.gov/robots.txt). optimize your webpage for a good page rank, but at the same time, protect your private data from "the googlebot".
- firefusion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Very comprehensive. Good find.
- Vortech89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The tips for getting a good Google Page Ranking are about the same as another other search engine optimization. The biggest player in good SEO is to have lots of sites link to you.
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1from the article "Meta-KEYWORDS tag: The META keywords".... well, the META keywords tag isn't used by any of the big seach engines.
More *****:
"We do know that Google is one of the few search engines that crawl dynamic/database driven websites."
In HTTP there is no such thing as "this is a dynamic page". The receiving end (read robot in this case) can only do some guessing. If you use mod_rewrite (or some other URL rewriting technique), and make sure there are no other give aways, a web robot just *can't* see if your page is dynamic or static.
"Hold the cursor over the image below and see what happens."
Nothing, with Firefox.
"We recommend that you avoid frames" for bogus reasons.
SEO has a lot of myths, and this site didn't help much to clear some.
My advice: content. I get 9-10k visitors every day (http://johnbokma.com/ ) because of content, and some common sense. No I don't use meta tags, nor do I sacrifice a goat when the moon is full. - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Installing and customizing the google toolbar: http://johnbokma.com/firefox/google-toolbar-customizing.html
Gives the PageRank value in Firefox.
I also wrote a Perl program that creates a nice report of how often Googlebot visited your site: http://johnbokma.com/perl/googlebot-statistics.html
Import its output in Calc or Excel and have fun. - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so block them out with a firewall, just block their IP space.
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There was a short time that the links google showed with link: all had a PR of 4 or over, which is no longer the case. PageRank is considered worthless by some, and having some additional value by others. I have a PR of 7 ( http://johnbokma.com/ ) and when I look at how well positioned my new pages become a few days after I have written them I think that PR does still have some weight.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1thats too ***** complicated to "optimize". as it should be, thats what makes googles good it weighs in on all factors equally
- SilverRocket, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Holy cow, that link should be a digg on its own
- starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1but i don't want to be friendly to googlebots.
- Caygill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pretty basic stuff, and rather pointless too, if your site offers any real value.
A real tip: you publishing platform makes more difference than any "optimizing". Google indexes well known friendly dynamic environments (read unfriendly URLs) and might stop on first page if it doesn't like your *fill in your Blog/CMT/CMS here*. - nuclei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1rubbish
- dwalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This Digg is relatively simple and only provides the basics, but you could search around a little more and find many methods to fool Google.
So sure it can be abused - but if you do and get banned then it you have lost your most reliable source of decent traffic.
Too much emphasise is made of Google PageRank (pr) - we have many sites/pages with poor pr values yet get good traffic from Google. Yet others like http://www.s4servers.com/ which has a pr 6/10 gets very little traffic from Google.
AS ALWAYS: Content is king - in terms of Google it uses everyone else's content to line its own pockets, yet we all still look up at it with awe! We are now just peasants in the shadow of the giant... - randfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This guide really is of very poor quality. Sad to see it making the front page and getting so much attention. I fear it will spread significant misinformation.
BTW - The SEOmoz Beginner's Guide did have a Digg entry when it came out - http://digg.com/technology/Beginner_s_guide_to_SEO - MedicineMan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3If knowledge is power, then Google is king: All hail the new king, and be mindful of his leanings.
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I can see this being abused.
Maybe Google should keep some things a secret in order to keep porn and other stuff that's pretty much crap off the front page. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1quick link to google cache if site goes down (it probably wont) i recommend a fire fox extension called "Cacheout"
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Zvr7PaZKJrcJ:www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Standards/Rules/RulestoBetterGoogleRankings.aspx%20&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8 - MedicineMan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1[error]
- tenzing, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1WTF This is so old stuff....Digital Point Forums and Webmasters world have had info on this for years...no digg.
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