Nov 17 2008

Book Review: SEO Search Engine Optimization Bible

SEO Bible by Jerri L. Ledford
(ISBN: 978-0-470-17500-2) As usual I have not purchased this book, I have, however, borrowed it from the Ottawa Public Library.
This is an excellent book for those who are beginners in the “Mug’s Game” of Search Engine Optimization.(SEO) It explains what the basic concepts of SEO are, and why they are [...]

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Oct 23 2008

Using Alexa To Clean up

I have been trying to find a smart way to clean up my old blog on blog spot Canadian Financial Rants, but I finally bit the bullet and deleted it and then recreated it.  That purged all of the entries on the site, and now it has a single entry telling whoever trips over the [...]

Oct 8 2008

Useful Tool: Smart Page Rank.

I stumbled onto another very useful tool, which is Smart Page Rank a tool which will find back links to any site and tell you the page rank of the linking sites, and can tell you what the linking text from the site was as well. At first I didn’t think the tool was that [...]

Aug 19 2008

Adsense for RSS, Couldn’t Wait

So I ended up going and setting up a NEW feed for this site which you can link to Working Hard on the Internet or via the subscribe RSS button on the right hand margin. I have redirected Feedburner to use this as it’s feed, but it will now be interesting to see what happens [...]

Jul 30 2008

What is so Cool about Cuil?

Evidently there is a new exciting entry in the search engine world, CUIL. I have looked at it and found that it does have copies of my old Financial Web site, but does not have Canadian Financial Opinions hooked into it yet.  I sent them an e-mail with updated pointers and descriptions of both of [...]

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Jul 23 2008

Wordpress: Two New Plug Ins and a Problem

So after completing the upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 I had to clean up some things, so I decided to add some more affiliates to my UBD theme advertising rotor, unfortunately it now no longer seems to work. I have reported the issue to UBD, but for now, as you can see I have no ads [...]

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May 24 2007

No Google Supplemental Issues

John Chow pointed me at a useful

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May 18 2007

Lu Lu Lemon

Yup, I am now officially peeved at Google again, and their Search Engine ranking bovine feces.
My original posting on Canadian Financial Rants about Lu Lu Lemon was posted a while back and picked up by a couple Stock Carnivals, so I was happy with the article. I checked to see where it might show up [...]

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May 11 2007

DoFollow Please Do

So I didn’t even know this was an issue, but I read yesterday about how the Blogspot default policy in your template is to have “No Follow” set on comments. Given that I moderate my comments, I don’t worry as much any more about SPAM comments, so I went in and turned off the NO [...]

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