From the monthly archives:

July 2007

AlexaRank, Compete, Google Toolbar PR, and other SEO quackery

by Michael Martinez on July 31, 2007

First impressions are hard to recover from. They are also not very trustworthy.
I usually form an opinion of someone’s SEO capability within 30 seconds of reading the subject line of their forum posts. If their opening sentence or paragraph mentions Alexa, Google Toolbar PR, or some similar popular “ranking” value, I usually write [...]

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The SEO Tremor Effect

by Michael Martinez on July 30, 2007

My personal hosting company moved all of its dedicated servers from one city to another as part of a new “partnership”. As of this writing my personal domains are offline because mine is one of an undisclosed number of servers that are still not responding even to pings on the IP addresses.
I have been [...]

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Supplemental Days and Supplemental Nights

by Michael Martinez on July 27, 2007

A few weeks ago Matt Cutts suggested that it might be a good idea for Google to remove the “Supplemental Pages” tag from search results. Although his proposal might have seemed like a good idea on the surface to me it seemed like it might be disingenuous if Google was going to continue treating [...]

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