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Other than this blog growing horns I have been busy doing a few things.
1.) Pruning old posts - This place was starting to get cluttered with old outdated ideas. In the past, deleting posts would throw your rankings into a loop, let’s see how search engines handle it today.
2.) Removal of blogroll - Made a people page for those who take the time to comment that is linked in the sidebar. This actually has more value than a “sitewide” blogroll.
3.) Search Engines - Seeing how search engines deal with the appearance of archives in the sidebar, removal of posts and 301 redirects. Google gets an A+ for dealing with broken code and also for having a place for me to bitch about it.
4.) Studying SEO Phraseology - SEOs create little imaginary worlds to appear like authorities to people who can not think for themselves, sad.
5.) Growing a set of horns - You can learn a lot about others by how they treat people in blogs and forums, my horns grow longer by the day.
6.) Observing Snakes on the plane - There are three types of snake oil salesman 1.) Old school SEOs who blog very little and rank sites very well. 2.) Make believe SEOs who blog all the time and rank very poorly. 3.) SEOs that blog a lot, circular link to friends, rank well and control the conversation. I respect old school SEOs and spend lots of time in their business learning about stuff, thanks!
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March 2nd, 2007 at 8:34 pm
If you want your ‘people’ page to do any good, add text to it and make it look like a genuine page (descriptions for each person) instead of a list of links because otherwise the blogroll was better :)
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:53 am
I will look for some ajax code to collapse sidebar widgets, the lists will get too long.
March 3rd, 2007 at 7:03 am
I think I am an old school SEO, but I am launching a blog for my SEO website in the next few days and hoping to get more involved in the blogosphere.
March 3rd, 2007 at 9:54 am
I refuse to blog myself. People might figure out what’s in my head that way. ;)
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Good advice Aaron, but I’m weary of removing old posts.
Could you expand a bit more on why you think that’s beneficial? Thanks.
- Harry
March 3rd, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I could see a two-part reason for benefit, although this is a longshot at best:
1) If the terms that he is being found under for the old posts don’t bring anything other than confused traffic that he can’t capitalize on (e.g. anything to do with Raspberry Sundae or Brandi Belle…chances are Aaron isn’t looking for fans of those women.)
2) If removing the posts and their associated comments will somehow get him into a lower-cost hosting bracket in terms of space and/or bandwidth.
I’m not sure if that’s Aaron’s reasoning, but if it is, I could understand that.
March 3rd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
SEFL - #1 is correct but there are many parts to this equation.
Harry - See the last paragraph of my latest post for #2. ;)
March 4th, 2007 at 5:22 am
What Ahmed said, but if you want to make a nice page of people, thats your choice and thats fine :)
If your purpose is to ‘give something back’ then this is a less-optimal way of doing it.
The thought is appreciated, though :)
~ still giggling inanely at the thought of being on someone’s blogroll here, I’m afraid :)
March 4th, 2007 at 5:48 am
Ok, sidebar is back, I will just figure out how to collapse it when it gets longer.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Aaron, does your site accept trackbacks? I pinged you but it hasn’t shown up.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Harry - I check them out every couple days days but do not show trackbacks because the majority are spam. I did not see your ping, I will check it out.