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 the list of resources for the keyword “art.” As...

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 they are all very high quality and good for any basic...

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 the last two weeks, I met two...

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 big effect on positioning for some...

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 rating of...

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 was very pleasantly surprise by the quality of the...