Tag Archives: Seo

Black Hat SEO tricks are getting trickier.

April 5, 2007 by aaron
Or at least odder. In a post subtly titled “Why it is good to link to LZZR” LZZR suggests that it is advantageous for you to link to their site, and argues (rather ineloquently) an interesting technique to raise PR and and raise SERP placement. However, it seems that the idea is black hat (or at least grey) and more likely to cause trouble in the long run. Linking should be mutually beneficial for both the linking site and the linked one and more these benefits must be obvious and immediate.
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WordPress Meta Tag/SEO plugin

April 7, 2007 by aaron
I was sick of having a half dozen different plugins to add meta tags and fix the robots, so I wrote a plugin that prevents duplicate content from being indexed by Google, adds useful meta tags, and ensures that all posts are at one single permalink (using 301 redirects of course). This is more a shell of a plugin than an actual plugin as there are no options, and there are obvious flaws such as it doesn’t allow you to use paged posts.
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Back on Google

April 3, 2007 by aaron
As I had hoped the SEO changes and the redesign have gotten me put back on Google, and Technorati finally realizes I update. It may not seem like much, but I have been off both since June or so of last year (although prior to that I had a good ranking in Google). As an aside to the person who found my site on Google while searching for INAP help: If you need help with a plugin, post in the comments.
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Black Hat SEO tricks are getting trickier.

April 5, 2007 by aaron
Or at least odder. In a post subtly titled “Why it is good to link to LZZR” LZZR suggests that it is advantageous for you to link to their site, and argues (rather ineloquently) an interesting technique to raise PR and and raise SERP placement. However, it seems that the idea is black hat (or at least grey) and more likely to cause trouble in the long run. Linking should be mutually beneficial for both the linking site and the linked one and more these benefits must be obvious and immediate.
Read More ⟶

WordPress Meta Tag/SEO plugin

April 7, 2007 by aaron
I was sick of having a half dozen different plugins to add meta tags and fix the robots, so I wrote a plugin that prevents duplicate content from being indexed by Google, adds useful meta tags, and ensures that all posts are at one single permalink (using 301 redirects of course). This is more a shell of a plugin than an actual plugin as there are no options, and there are obvious flaws such as it doesn’t allow you to use paged posts.
Read More ⟶

Back on Google

April 3, 2007 by aaron
As I had hoped the SEO changes and the redesign have gotten me put back on Google, and Technorati finally realizes I update. It may not seem like much, but I have been off both since June or so of last year (although prior to that I had a good ranking in Google). As an aside to the person who found my site on Google while searching for INAP help: If you need help with a plugin, post in the comments.
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