Awww, man!

27 Oct

Google just updated their toolbar PageRank score for the third time in three weeks. The score you’re seeing in the toolbar at this moment has probably been exported on the 2nd of October, somewhere between 3.45pm and 8.55pm. As of today, Wiep.net is a PageRank 3, which sucks in my opinion. I really liked that […]

Link Building this Week (Oct. 26)

26 Oct

There were several great posts about linkbait this week. Eric Lander explained How to build a solid linkbait in three easy steps and Patrick Winfield added step four; Using images in a linkbait is important as well. Lisa Barone explains why link bait should mature. “What do you call grown up link bait? You call […]

But what about the rankings?

25 Oct

A Google PageRank update (a bigger one than earlier this month) has punished large scale blog networks and similar heavy cross linking sites by cutting their PageRank scores. The update also hit several sites that sell (or sold) direct links. Some of the large sites that got hit: Engadget.com (both network and selling links) Joystiq.com […]

Thanks, Bluehost. You suck!

25 Oct

Messages like “Problem Loading Page” suck. Especially when it’s your website returning that message. Like, for an entire day or so. When I made the choice for cheap in stead of reliable, I could expect going down within 9 seconds after hitting the Digg frontpage, but almost 24 hours downtime because of “file maintenance” without […]

Easy-to-access Link Building data: 404s

23 Oct

Today, I realized, that in stead of writing about When to Stop Your Link Building Activities, I should have been discussing where to start your link building activities first. So let’s discuss an example of really easy-to-access data you can use while starting up your link building campaign. The starting point of your link building […]

Is this trending new? Online Poker

22 Oct

While poker has been played around the world for several centuries, it is only in the last decade or so that it has become a popular online game. With millions of people around the world now playing poker, however, it is becoming easier to see what the current trends are, as well as where poker […]