Second Page Poaching Part 2: Data Collection Code Snippets
Below is a basic beacon-receiver method for collecting the Second Page Poaching data. You could, of course, simply include the PHP directly on your page and handle the entire thing internally. This method, while a little more exposed, would allow you to develop one system to crunch numbers and do the rank-checking remotely, so as not to disturb the machines dedicated to page-serving. The Javascript Include The simple Javascript Include determines whether or not the visitor to your page has come from the 2nd page of a Google search result and, if so, generates a 1px by 1px image that is actually a beacon calling a piece of PHP. The PHP Receiver The beacon code is quite simple. It strips out the query from the Google search result in the original page referrer. It...
Why You Don’t Work For Digg…
There is a reason why the author at PeelOpen.com doesn’t work for Digg – he has no idea what he is talking about. After seeing his submission on “5 ways to fix Digg” go front page, I was hoping to see an insightful set of solutions to the issue of “Power User” effectiveness on Digg. Instead, I saw a poorly-thought-out set of tweaks that would do little service to the site. I have dealt with each of his solutions item-by-item below. You many notice the heavy level of redudancy in my answers. It seems, unfortunately, that all of the “fixes” offered by the author are easily circumvented using the same methods Digg spammers, and spammers in general, have used since the inception of the internet — create more...
Second Page Poaching – Advanced White Hat SEO Techniques
It is time that someone put Quadzilla in his place. Don’t get me wrong, I think there is a huge amount of innovation in the black hat and gray hat industries that simply is too risky for white-hatters to discover. Nevertheless, it is ridiculous to claim that white hat techniques have become so uniform and ubiquitous in their application that nothing truly “advanced” continues to exist. In today’s post I am going to talk about a technique with which many of you will not be familiar. Here at Virante we call it Second Page Poaching. But, before we begin, let me start with a brief explanation of what I believe to be “advanced white-hat SEO”. Chances are, unless your site has thousands well-optimized pages in Google, advanced...
Glync Tracking 25,000 URLs
I will stop writing about Glync for a few posts after this, but I just wanted to announce that we recently surpassed 25,000 URLs being tracked via Glync. The Glync Firefox Extension allows you to add historical graphs to your Google Webmaster Tools external link tracker. Instead of just seeing how many links now, you will see a graph of the links over time (in my opinion, a much more useful representation of the data).Thanks for everyone who is using it and, if you aren’t, why not? It’s Free! Get it here!Â
Blog About Glync for Pro Upgrades
Hey folks, thanks to all of you who decided to download and install the new Glync Firefox Extension. Right now we are tracking over 17,000 unique pages and the number is growing rapidly! I did want to give everyone the opportunity to get a chance to look at the Glync Professional Version. So, in exchange for a little publicity, I will upgrade any single domain in your account. Just go blog about your experience with Glync and shoot me an email at [email protected] with a link to your blog post and the website for which you would like an upgrade!
Find me at PubCon for Free Glync Upgrades…
Hey folks, if you haven’t tried Glync yet, go take a look. It is a free Firefox extension that adds a timeline graph of your links in Google Webmaster Tools. The professional version, $5/mo, adds Yahoo links to that same graph, and also gives you a graph of every subpage, and the PR of all the pages on your site and those linking to it. Find me at PubCon and I will hook you up with a free upgrade.
glync: Introducing Google Webmaster Tools External Link Tracker
Google Webmaster Tools was one of the greatest gifts Google ever offered the webmaster community. However, of the many things they did right, there were certainly shortcomings. The most noticeable shortcoming in my area of expertise was link tracking over time. While it is certainly valuable to know the number and quality of links your site possesses at any given moment, it is also equally important to see how your link profile has grown over time.Here at Virante, we try to come up with solutions that work for both our clients and employees. Often, this means creating software that can work on multiple operating systems and retains data from computer to computer. In this particular instance, the clear solution was to create a Firefox Extension coupled with a web...
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