On a new in my reader is Thats SEO.  Today this post about the role of your IP address in your SEO efforts.  It defines the usual why you need to know where you site is going to reside e.g. “bad neighbourhood” etc etc.  But continues with some explanations of what this actually means.  Too many posts these days, including mine are too brief and dont lay out the context!!  A good read, thank you Raghaven. Oh, and if you want to check to see if your IP is blocked on a number of bad site lists check out what  is my IP address.

If you are ever considering going solo, then reading 10 lessions from a failed start up would be negligent.

On SEOMoz there is some detail, although a pseudo sales pitch, but some interesting facts about what they have seen with their crawl of the web.  Some highlight numbers.  That 2.7% of links are NoFollowed, 73% of these were internal, so site scultping is popular.  I do it.  And 16million pages have the new canonical tag. 

On black hat seo, link to a digest page on recent popular articles, such as “why spam works” ; “How to break captchas”, and more. All in very simple to read articles with a ‘can-do’ attitude.

We all like a good list.  On SEO Optimise they have a non-Google focused list of resources for social meda. Worth checking out.

And as mine are all broken (work ones), its good to look at sitemaps. SEL have published a casestudy. See it here.

Tags: Articles, Business, crawl, General Comment, Industry, IP, SEO, Social Media, Spiders, Tools, Twitter, Widgets

I have noticed two businesses  that are using affiliation techniques to make money, and their guise is to share with a charity.  

Now sharing the spoils of war is nothing new.  Years back I am sure I had a greasy palm or too and my friends site OwnMysite.com give shares aswell as rebates.  But its seems that charities who have a larger emotional pull are using this to entice people to use and re-use.

Check out Breast Cancer and Hospital Gift aid respective sites.  Good luck to them.

Tags: Affiliates, Business