Will Google editors ever visit my site?
March 14, 2008
The answer is yes. And no. They might.
The more successful your site becomes, the higher the chance that a competitor might report it for something that might not even be worth looking at..
Yet editors do come by from time to time.
Editors will do a quick scan to see whether or not the reason for your high rankings could be something that Google frowns on, or if indeed your site provides a good search result for the keywords it ranks for.
Before you get paranoid, let me show you an example of a high profile site using blackhat:
All of the dentists.com pages have dotted lines in between the listings. The lines are not lines as you can see in the html code.
They are keyword spam and the purpose of doing it is that Dentists.com wants to rank highest whenever someone googles a specific dentist’s name.
This is blackhat and I’m sure that editors have been made aware of it, yet it isn’t something that gets them penalized or banned mainly because Google figures that overall the site provides targetted results for web searchers.
However, you never know what an editor might do with your site, so you always need to evaluate the risk you are taking.
If you have ONE main site which carries your business, my recommendation is to play it cool.
~ Mike
SEO Tip - Everything Matters
March 14, 2008
Practice doing everything possible to rank better for keywords and get more traffic. Instead of focusing solely on how much one aspect of SEO effects your rankings, do everything you can to get the most out of your efforts. If you read that something has a minor effect on SEO it doesn’t mean that you should not do it, you may neglect to do something that could get you a few extra visitors every day.
For example, people argue that Meta descriptions are pointless, but if a good description gets a visitor to visit your website, then it should become a mandatory part of your strategy. Search Engine Optimization involves more than getting good rankings – it involves getting you or your clients more website visitors, conversions and profit. A combination of everything will get you the best results.
Everything counts, don’t do your competitors any favors.
Dylseiax
March 10, 2008
Look at the amount of competition for that one.
Have you ever wondered if there are certain groups of people who are more likely going to misspell keywords than others?
Dyslexia is a pretty tough keyterm to score, but what if you are finding a way to get into the top results for easy misspells thru non spammy blogposts?
Soon this post will be one of 2 or 3 results and there are many more.
No, don’t just clutter keywords, but go for it in a sensible way explaining to your viewers which misspells dyslexic people are most likely going to use.
OK, this is just one example of thinking outside of the box.
There are many more I will discuss in the future.
Are you a blog stalker?
February 29, 2008
So your name is “Penis Enlargement Pills” and you really love commenting on other people´s thoughts and daily writings. You have nothing better to do with your time than complimenting them and are in a hurry to spread the love all over, so more than one line is out of your timeline.
Yeah, we understand. My life is not that easy either.
But come on, is this really the way to succeed and spend your time?
Greatest real estate agent in the world
February 28, 2008
So you´re not into real estate, and you haven´t heard about this contest. So what? Whoever ranks number 1 in Google for greatest real estate agent in the world wins a prize.
Me and my team are currently number 1, but that´s not even the point. 
The point is that my SEO Tip of today is for you to check out the first few pages of the results and tell me what you see.
Authority sites, sites with lots of content, and then… Mixx, Active Rain, Squidoo, Propeller and all of the network pages where someone unable to rank his own site (or is just adding some fuel to his fire) has put up a page with the keywords in the title.
