Brett Tabke has his shopping list in hand and I think is hunting a new co-lo in Austin. Sounds like a pesky backhoe cut a fiber and caused one of the main Cisco routers to fail and the failover didn’t flip over correctly.
So webmasterworld.com server as cut off from the world and worse yet, sounds like their DNS server was at the same location so the DNS can’t be pointed to another server.
Brett says - “This will never happen again. “
Well just like GoogleGuy and Matt Cutts said, it is happening. Check out my 5 years PR History page.
I predicted Oct 21 for the Toolbar Pagerank export so I was only 2 days off.
I am predicting the next Toolbar PR export for Jan 25/2005. The way I come up with my date is to take the last 5 Toolbar PR exports and averaged them out. See below.
| Oct 6/2004 | TBPR Update; No BL Update | 106 |
| Jan 1/2005 | TBPR & BL Update | 87 |
| Apr 22/2005 | TPR, GDPR & BL Update | 111 |
| Jul 14/2005 | TBPR & BL Update | 83 |
| Oct 19/2005 | TBPR & BL Export | 97 |
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| 484 | ||
| ÷ 5 | ||
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| 97 |
Oct 19th plus 97 days is Jan 25th 2005. With BL’s I just add a month.
Toolbar Pagerank and Backlink exports are now boring as they don’t effect the search engine results position. If you see any movement at that the same time it is only because of everflux or in some cases Google does an algorithm update at the same time as they do a Toolbar Pagerank and Backlink export.
Matt Cutts just announced on his blog that there is a Backlink and Pagerank export on the way.
Just to give you a heads-up, I think a new set of backlinks (and possibly PageRank) will probably be visible relatively soon; I’m guessing within the next few days. I still expect some flux after that though, just to let you know.
Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable posted on a DMOZ Editorship For Sale On Ebay. Here is the eBay auction.
The user that is selling the DMOZ editorship is seoblackhat com and registered on 10-25-2005.
Sure enough you drop over to seoblackhat.com and there is a notice of the DMOZ Editorship for sale.
I applied to be a DMOZ four times and just got turned down for the fourth time last month. Jimmoble a Meta let me know on my 4th decline - “Declined again. It’s probably time to find some alternative new hobby.”
I am guessing it is the fact that I offer a submission service to add websites to DMOZ and change for it that could be standing in my way. The other reason could be that I own a number of directories that have there starter sites parsed from the DMOZ RDF and don’t give credit. The programmer that set up the directories did this.
It will be interesting to see how the auction pans out. I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets shutdown.
[added Oct 18 3:27 GMT-5] - Well that didn’t say up very long. Just got pulled. I got the following email at Tue 10/18/05 3:18 PM from eBay.
Please be advised that the following auction 5626578939 - DMOZ Editorship of Page Rank 5 Category Page PR5 was ended early by eBay. The auction was ended due to the account suspension of the seller. All results for this auction are null and void.
Well it looks like there is a Google algorithm update under way. That means you will see a big change in the SERP’s. Keyword SEO Company move from #5 to #2 and #3 on my site and I have been in #5 for I don’t know how long. SEO Company is a 13k Overture PPC per month word so that is a pretty competitive keyword to rank well for in the SEO industry.
There has is been quite a bit of talk for the last week about the SERPs moving around. Last week Search Engine Roundtable had a post Google Update? where Barry noted the discuss on SEO forums on there being an update.
“For what it is worth, there has been some quiet threads plugging away this week discussing a possible Google update that is going on. Many are watching some of the datacenters closely.”
Here are some of the threads on the forums that have been discussing this since last week.
DigitalPoint: Google seems to be dancing
SE0Chat: Google update today
Webmaster World: Google’s Pending September Update
I have been keeping an eye on Matt Cutts blog watching for a weather report but nothing from Matt.
Interesting this is we are due for both a Toolbar Pagerank and a Backlink export. Last Toolbar PR export was 95 days ago on July 14th and for Backlinks the last export was 43 days ago on Sept 4th. You can see the latest dates and numbers on this Pagerank Export History page.
Note I said Toolbar Pagerank export and Backlink export. They are not longer considered updates as they don’t affect the SERP. And SERP movement during a TBPR or BL export is due to the on going everflux changes.
SEO Company came out with a RSS feed for the SEO Tools Directory about a month ago. I spend the last few weeks testing it it on 3 different site and fine tuning the code.
Of course the db to xml RSS feed was simple. It was the XML to XHTML that the time had to be spend on. The presentation for the SEO Tools has been put in CSS so all the editing is done there. The XML to XHTML file xml2xhtml.php is encrypted.
There SEO Tools Directory has 125 tools in 23 categories. SEO Company is offering a feed of these tools where site can place them on your site for added value to your visitors. The XML to XHTML file is set up so that you can show all categories or just one specify category.
The full feed is add to your site page with a simple PHP include.
< ?include ’seo-tools-xml2xhtml.php?’;?>
If you want to remove the New SEO Tools category and just show one category you add the following code to your new file.
<?php
$_GET[”cat”]=2;
$_GET[”hidenew”]=1;
include ’seo-tools-xml2xhtml.php’;
?>
The following are the current SEO Tool categories.
Michael Hargove of Web Submission Services Inc. jumped at the chance to add the SEO Tool directory to his site. He placed them all on his SEO Tools Set page and created another 22 pages and placed one category of the tools on each page.
Here is a sample page on the Web Submission Services site for the Alexa Ranking tools.
You can download the Tools-RSS-HowTo.txt, test-file.php, test-file2.php, seo-tools.css, and seo-tools-xml2xhtml.php here seo-tools.zip. The seo-tools-xml2xhtml.php is encrypted and copywrited by Solutions with Service the owner of the SEO Company Website and content.
Massive Links Directory joined the multi-link directory club and are now offering a 4 extra deep links in a Bacis Plus package for $19.99. Seems they were already offering this in the Premimum package for $49.95 and I didn’t even know it.
Any way I added them up to the Most Links Per Web Directory page. This is basically the sites your want to start with for paid directory listings.
Well I am up and in business and I have to admit I am a excited. Jared Quinn put up the blog for me and did a quality job if I may say.
He added Live Spell checking plugin, Bad Behaviour plugin a set of PHP scripts that pervents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing HTTP requests, Head Meta Description plugin that inserts content into the Meta description tags (SEO), SecureImage plugin which is a turing mod, Forced Word Wrapping plugin which prevents long words from horizontally stretching the page, Keywords plugin that takes the keywords from the keywords field and puts them in the Meta keywords, Markdown plugin that lets you write using a read-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, turned on permalinks, and changed the size of writing box to 39 lines.
I will 301 the old blog into this one, change a few links and then we are off and running.
I orginally was going to call the blog SEO Company blog but seeing how I ranking number one and number two on Google, Yahoo and MSN for that I decided to target SEO Blog and that’s its name.
I have been looking at 3 column all in CSS templates as I am doing a long overdue redesign of this Website. I am going to be using a 3 column all in CSS fixed width center column that is center column first sourced.
I am throwing out the suckfish menu and going with a menu in the first column. I decided that running your menu down a column allows you to expose more of the page titles to your users than running a horizontal menu across the top of your content. The horizontal menu hides your page titles which is not a good thing.
The other point is that if you run your menu across the top the spider is going to end up reading your menu items first. If you use a two or three column template and you first source your second or center column the spiders will read your content before your menu.
The Skidoo Too by Ruthsarian has a center column that is first sourced and I have been eyeing this template over of the last six month.
postioniseverything.com also has a template that has the center column first sourced. Check out the source on both of these and you will see the second column is first sourced.
Here are a few more quality 3 column layouts.
Here is my 3 Column Template and my 2 Column Template. I am still working on getting the fixed width working on the 3 column template on IE.
Well I spend a couple of hours looking at all the different server packages and settled with a server from Managed.com. I ended up with a 2.8Ghz P4, 1GB DDRAM, 120GB IDE, 1TB brandwidth, Redhat Fedora, and Cpanel.
I am releasing my first two free SEO tools next week. Tool #1 will spider you whole site and then check Google, Yahoo, and MSN to see which URL’s are in the index and show you ther percents and let you list the URL’s are are or arn’t for each search engine. Tool #2 will search the Overture PPC database for a keyword and then check to see how your Website ranking on Google, Yahoo and MSN for those keywords. I will be releasing between 20 and 40 quality tools in the next 3 to 6 months.
The XML Sitemap Generator tool picked up the Best September Tool award. That gets them 22 links from the SEO tools pages on this site and links from all the other sites that displaying the RSS feed of the SEO Tools directory pages.
Work as not started on the Keyword Ranking Monitor Tool but things are getting close. I set move time in discuss with the programmer that will be doing the tool for me.