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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email feed. Thanks for visiting!Rel=”nofollow” was first introduced by the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) in May 2005 as an answer to blog comment spam and other spamdexing techniques utilizing unauthorized link dropping. Since then, Google [...]

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So did you hear about DMOZ founder Rich Skrenta’s Topix.net purchasing the Topix.com domain name from a Canadian company for a cool USD 1,000,000?  I guess too many people were being lost in the type-in traffic going to the dot-com.
So, think about that when you choose a domain name.  If it’s a dot-net (or something [...]

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From time to time I see comments on this and other blogs that indicate concern amongst bloggers that linking out too much is bad. The nature of the concern is two pronged. One, some feel that linking out too much results you sending traffic away and reducing the stickiness of one’s own blog. Two, some feel that linking out too much will have a negative effect for search engine rankings. I don’t think either should be a concern for the quality blogger.

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Aaron Wall (of SEOBook.com) was kind enough to share his thoughts on my post about the Killer Four Column Layout Strategy. He asked me, “Do you think being that aggressive with ad placement hurts the ability of sites to gain inbound links?”
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There is still an intense focus on search engine results pages (”SERPs”) for all sites, including blogs, and not enough focus, in my opinion, on converting casual visitors (e.g., visitors from search engine referrals) into repeat and loyal RSS and/or email subscribers. I, for one, have become intensely focussed on converting casual visitors. I really believe that those websites with the most loyal subscribers/repeat customers will be the only ones left standing when the search engines decide that there isn’t enough room in their indices for everyone.

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