Archive for the 'seo' Category

8 Tools & Tips for Picking a Domain Name

Thursday 1 March 2007 @ 11:48 pm

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. This is the final installment of my domain naming series. It’s just a bunch of tips and tool that I’ve used for brainstorming and selecting the perfect domain for your projects.
Consider that the domain name is the single most important part [...]

Nemeas Review - How To Choose a Domain Name - Part 3

Wednesday 28 February 2007 @ 05:32 am

In this, the third part of our domain naming series, I’m going to talk about a cool tool that is used for scoring domain names.
The tool is called Nemeas and it attempts to answer a simple question, “How do you know if a domain name is any good?”
Well it’s a tough question to answer, and [...]

How To Choose a Domain Name - Part 1

Friday 23 February 2007 @ 04:42 am

For a long time I couldn’t quite figure out why Google was sending so much traffic to this site for terms related to “art.” While the word is in my domain name and site’s title, 99% of the content of the site is about money, so you’d think that search engines would leave me off [...]

3 Great Free Keyword Tools

Thursday 1 February 2007 @ 09:45 pm

There’s a rumor on the web that the famous Overture keyword suggestion tool’s end is imminent as Yahoo has decided to pull the plug.
The tool was very widely used and it is great to see that a few companies have jumped in to fill the void.
I’ve been able to find three new keyword tools and [...]

SEO Guru Brad Fallon’s Magic Tricks

Saturday 27 January 2007 @ 11:06 pm

I was interested in a post that popped up in my RSS reader today by SEO guru Brad Fallon of StomperNet and MyWeddingFavors fame. Since it was Saturday, I figured a little diversion from Internet business obsession couldn’t hurt.
Here’s the entire post from his site [source]:

Who doesn’t enjoy a good magic show? In [...]

External Wikipedia Links Now Marked nofollow

Tuesday 23 January 2007 @ 08:32 am

I just noticed that all the external links on Wikipedia are marked with a nofollow tag.
Why does this matter?
Links from Wikipedia have been seen as highly credible and therefore they carry a lot of weight in determining search rankings. With the nofollow attribute, in theory at least, that weight will be gone.
This could have a [...]

How To Go From Page Rank 4 to Page Rank 1

Wednesday 17 January 2007 @ 03:38 pm

News Flash
Art of Money achieves Google Page Rank of 1!
SEO Reporter: “Jon, how did you accomplish this fantastic feat of advanced SEO in only 10 short months online.”
Jon: “Gosh, it was nothing. A couple hundred high quality unique articles, a few thousand high quality incoming links from trusted sites and that’s about it, an Alexa [...]

Best of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs

Wednesday 3 January 2007 @ 10:13 am

There have a been a couple Carnival of Entrepreneurs in the last 2 years, but Ben from Startup Spark has taken up the project and he’s doing it right this time.
I submitted my Internet marketing cautionary tale, Pipeline Profits: Tempted? If so You Aren’t Ready to Be Rich! to this weeks edition and I [...]

How To Go From $10/Week to $800/Week

Friday 29 December 2006 @ 10:43 am

I just ran across an interesting thread on Digital Point forums that is essentially a nicely detailed description from a 21 year old university student describing how he built a website that currently is earning him about $800 a week.
Even though he is using AdSense to monetize the site, there are some good take-aways [...]

Art of Money out of Google’s Sandbox

Tuesday 5 December 2006 @ 08:58 pm

Google says that there isn’t such a thing as a sandbox, but as every stats addicted webmaster knows, there is a point usually between 6 and 10 months from its launch, when a website will suddenly receive a huge boost in referral traffic from Google.
Most speculation is that the sandbox is not [...]