Art Of Money

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I’m considering re-naming my site to CSI: Interweb as this is the second recent article on the topic of thievery. Both have been based on evidence that I’ve uncovered via my server logs.
The first episode was mild compared to this one. [...]

1. Stops Sending Your Site Traffic
Some algorithm tweaker could have a bad hair day and introduce a variable which drops your site out of sight. No traffic for you.
Sorry, if you rely primarily on search engine traffic from Google to pay your bills, get a job.
2. Stealing Information from Your Gmail Account
Do you have any [...]

Here’s a little tip for advertising buyers…be careful where you purchase your ads.

If you’re not a webmaster this may help you get the joke.
Great pic taken by jkenning.

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 of your website and it’s also the most difficult piece to change once your [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Did you ever wish for one page where you could check out what was going on at:
digg, del.icio.us, reddit, flikr, newsvine, metafilter, tailrank, youtube, news.google, news.yahoo, netscape, ifilm, wired, slashdot, boingboing, odeo, fark, nowrepublic, shoutwire, furl, clipmarks, dzone, the onion and get your daily fix of gaping void?
me neither, but it turns out to be [...]

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 [...]

Did you know that Google had an online store? Just in case you can’t live without a pair of Google socks, or a Google dog leash.
Sorry, in case you’re wondering, they don’t sell Page Rank

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 [...]