LinkMünki holds Court

Futuripsum

2011-08-04T02:03:00.000-07:00

You reserved the whole rink? . Iet them know whose aide was coming by. The mayor's, that's whose. Mr. Vogel, I thought we was going skating. No, we're not important enough. Everybody just hold hands until the bus driver comes back from his haircut. What? Seriously? I'm trying to impress you with my clout. I know, and it's working. But think how much skating would mean to those kids. We came here instead of eating today. This might be their only chance to skate here their whole lives.

Dog-danged scammers used our money to build a fleet of remote-controlled, solid-gold Death Stars. Ooh! I’d take one of those with a side of chili fries. We're hopelessly outgunned. The force is with us, but that's about it. to a huge manufacturing complex. I brought the eIves back from vacation Chained them up and caIIed my hoIiday friends Kwanzabot And the Chanukah zombie Three mad, wise men Bearing murder and frankincense Damn you Now fetch those bunnies by the armfuI sIightIy more harmfuI No one here goes near that door This toyshop's going to war'Be sIow to anger'Low-down scammers got me seeing red Got my TIE fighter out of the hangar'Cause I'm Jewish and I'm undead Ten hut! DreidI, dreidI I made it out of bIasting cIay You're nuts And when it's dry and ready For mercy they wiII pay I can't wait eight nights or more This zombie's going to war Kwanzabot in the NeptizzIe-hizzIe With my inhuman beat box Busy buiIding missiIes They're guided by these cute dancing fairy figures CarefuI, IittIe eIf That's proximity-triggered I'm fighting back for Kwanza So the chiIdren won't miss it I'm confused about its meaning But I know it when they dis it So, Santa Come on, pimp my sIeigh Easy with that toy artiIIery Torgo's powder's deadIy but unstabIe Can they sue for liability? Certainly not! Use as much as you are abIe You signed away your rights when you were hired Chestnuts roasting, I'm gonna open fire Prepare for gore gaIore This trinity's going to war Troops, you are now equipped with the finest weapons magical elves can build.

The Defence of Blogger

2011-07-20T06:02:00.000-07:00

Blogger, or blogspot, the blogging platform upon which these words have been placed, comes under an awful lot of criticism from both the blogging community and the SEO community, but since they are both generally full of **** you can take their opinions for the shit that it is: crap.

The simple fact is that you can do almost anything in blogger that you can do in the horrid behemoth that is WordPress [spit], these people only ever regurgitate what other bloggers and SEOs [on wordPress [spit]] say on their rubbish WordPress [spit] blogs. These people are clearly idiots, these people have clearly never used blogger [or anything other than WordPress [spit]] in their miniscule blogging career. The case is made most clearly when you suggest to them that there are a lot of very good, well made, blogs out there using tumblr, they look at you as if you are speaking in Klingon, they only see the many run-of-the-mill tumblrs out there. But I can tell you there are some fantastic ones, if you want to look.

Another thing about blogger, quite simple, it is a google service, and the big G likes its own stuff. Google hosts it, it is on the google server: quite simply it is in the best interests of google to index all original content on blogger, and cancel the accounts that are rubbish. Being on blogger also helps in metrics: for those of us who do not register our own domain name, the domain level metrics would always be better for http://*.blogspot.com/ than the theoretical www.linkmunki.com/ [if you want it, it is available [but I will burn you]] I already have linkmunki.co.uk/ [also hosted on the big G], so when it comes to this shitty little blog [on blogger] and mummy blogger version XXXXXCCCCCII [on WordPress [spit]] I know which is better.

All this and I haven't even mentioned how much the admin interface is much easier to use, and how the interaction between google's webasters tools & google analytics is so much easier [though it must be said I am more & more impressed with parts of bing webmasters tools these days]. The case: if you are an enthusiast then there is no case; the little that WordPress [spit] gives you that blogger doesn't, in no way makes up for the benefits that blogger gives you, and if you are a web developer [spit] f**k off to your WordPress [spit].

LinkMünki hath spoketh

Search Engines

2011-05-20T01:05:00.000-07:00

Search Engines are lovely things [frustrating things, often, yes, but lovely things] in many ways they are part of the pinnacle of civilization so far, I'm not joking. For a person to type two or three words into 'a search engine' and within milli-seconds 'relevant results' are returned is remarkable, never mind baffling [take into consideration asking for something at your local library ...]

But this is the problem, search engines are wasted on the greater mass of the human race, most searches are so genereric as to give people like me a job, when the beauty of search engines allows anybody [especially those who know how] to refine their searches so well. However in truth this is almost a secret language to most of the people who search. I'd also like to point out now that I am talking search engines and not google per se, all of them act differently [well yahoo! & bing are the same thing now], thus can and ought be used differently. I am mainly talking about site commands, and I know all you SEOs know this but ...

Well here I'm going to step back from that assertion, I recently left the SEO team of a company where two people in particular taught me a lot about using search engines to find ways of getting links [you know who you are], in many ways I wish i had never had to leave... but other than blogs we had to use ingenuity to find links, and that's what was done: I think I prefer onsite stuff though, [but whenever I do onsite stuff I usually find loads of things wrong with the site, and get very unpopular with developers/designers/managers/account managers/you name it, I can piss people off]

No, not all the people who call themselves SEOs [not me by the way, I am proud to be a linkbuilder] apparently know how to use site commands, and therefore not all of them know half a shit about search engines and how they work, and it isn't surprising when the whole industry is obsessed with getting links and not making links, don't get me wrong, I'd love to spend more time onsite, but you have to have links for site to get indexed in the first place.

Example of knowing how to use "search engines" to find a site you might want to get links from others, try this,

first check with bing

[linkfromdomain:targetteddomain.com] look for what looks like an seo link [ie dubiously related]

take the site that was linked to and use the yahoo!

[linkdomain:competitor.com] to find where on targetteddomain.com linked to competitor.com it

look at the page/html with the link on targetteddomain.com to find out how the link was got [ctrl+u]

do something similar................

google

Simple google examples of finding potential link targets

[site:site.com stuff] results from site.com with a 'stuff' relevance

[site:site.com ~stuff] the great related search eg ~stuff might also give you results for 'things', etc

[site:site.com allintext:stuff+things] this search returns pages with the words stuff & things in the text, "d'oh"

[site:site.com inurl:stuff] this will return the search site.com/stuff but not site.com/things

[site:site.com -site:www.site.com] one of my favourites, this gives you just the subdomains of a site, and of course can be tailored to fit what you are looking for, ie site:site.com -site:www.site.com stuff things, this can give you results like stuff.site.com & things.site.com, but neither www.site.com/stuff nor www.site.com/things, whala!

But the chance is that I am only speaking to myself, so this is just me pissing into the wind, eh?

LinkMünki

RSS - The Gift that Keeps Giving

2011-04-13T04:01:00.000-07:00

I have already posted about RRS in an earlier post, this is not quite the same thing [over the last week and a bit I have been working a lot with RSS and it has rejuvenated my love for this often overlooked asset.]

I keep hearing a lot about RSS being dead, yes ... it is not rendered correctly in chrome [my favourite browser], yes it is not particularly 'cool', but I love RSS. But as I said in the title it is the gift that keeps on giving. As soon as you write a new post it gives you, automagically xXx amounts of free links back to your site, what is there to dislike? [well there are scrapers which steal your content from agregators, but if you are smart enough to link to yourself in every new post, it is the scrapers which give you a link ;)]

Really Simple Sindication is often seen as rubbish free links, but it can give you a boost [short term] so that search engines do pick up your latest news [well in my case 'ramblings' would be a better word], and what is more you only have to go near it once, set a feed up, then it keeps going, and going, and going...

It's not even spam, it is sindication, it is getting your content out there, it is getting links to the original source. I have never quite understood why people do not have easily accessible feeds on any site which is regularly updated, you are going without free linkage [and I fail to see the negatives in that]. Luckily there are places out there where you can make your own custom RSS feeds [I prefer instapaper, but there are others like open dapper, but ...], but it is not the same, they have to be manually updated, real feeds don't, there is nothing like a proper RSS ...

No, the only thing in the interweb that I like more than RSS are those mental little social networking sites which spring up all over the place [especially whilst in beta], but methinks that that is a different story, for a different post.

LinkMünki

Social Networks & Clients

2011-03-01T00:22:00.000-08:00

Lets face it, from an SEO point of view, clients are generally so behind the curve that they really ought keep shtumm and let us get on with our jobs, all they ever want is a facebook and a twitter, a facebook and a twitter, a facebook and a twitter. Well if that is what they want, why don't they go ahead and do it? But why do you want me to do it? In terms of SEO, facebook is simply rubbish, it gives me nothing [except a real link on my front page to everyone who isn't my 'friend'], and twitter ... you are having a giraffe?

However they do not understand the power of social networking sites, not the huge ones, but there are many which offer us linkers to put links, and good local links, on the internet [for nothing, publicly, etc]. Yet the clients do not want to know, why not ... because the kids all love facebook, but the kids are not likely to 'friend' some rubbish corporate site. Besides the googlebot does not discriminate, you ping it to a public social networking site that you have cleverly linked up and it will, sooner or later [okay, later] come and spider you.

What I simply mean to say is that, Facebook is not the be all and end all of social media, there are a gazillion sites out there, some of whom give you good linkage, others which don't, but most are a whole shit load better than facebook and twitter, but the clients pay the money and they make the choices, so they get the shit results because of their choices.

If you hadn't guessed I love social networking sites, however I use facebook and twitter for what they are good for, that is not SEO.

LinkMünki

Link Monkeys

2011-02-16T00:13:00.001-08:00

Now we all know that there are plenty of link monkeys out there, and this is a necessary problem of SEO. We also know that many people criticise [often rightly so] the amount of people churning out hundreds of shit links month after month, but think about it for a minute ... as in the other analogy, what are the monkeys without the organ-grinders. Somebody tells them to do it, and somebody else [higher up] pays them to do it! The monkeys are just fulfilling a function in our 'industry' .... poor little lambs.

Yes I admit that many link monkeys are outsourced these days, therefore little quality control is instantly available. But again whose fault is that? Not the little monkeys, the manager or agency that made the decision, simples. Yes, lots and lots of rubbish links are handy for an SEO campaign to be successful [especially in a highly competitive market] but why do SEOs feel it above themselves to do the basics from time to time? There are too many SEOs out there who feel themselves above link building, maybe if they kept their feet on the ground they would know that [good] free links are few and far between on the interweb [no matter what that bizarre percentage Mr Cutts said a while ago was].

No, there are good links out there, but they have to be cultivated. Regular blog links are not 'dead' but they are weakened, however if a really good blog with relevant content and selective linking is applied [and the time taken to distribute & sindicate content] blogs can still be very useful. The idea that the 'anchor text is dead' is so stupid I won't even go further. That a link profile has to seem natural is beyond doubt.

These are not the traits of the average link monkey. They just do as told. Google has refined and refined its algo [how much attention do you REALLY think google pays to all those directories?]. The meta key words was too easy to key word stuff: gone. Weight of links can work if they are good, but I've seen competitors with many more links ranking nowhere. SEO, as I said takes time, forging relationships to get links from authority sources, a certain craftiness in looking for places to link well [which SEOs all missed out on the goings on in the Middle East to comment on disruption in <link>holidays in egypt</link>? ;)] on some major news websites. Oh and hey, let us not forget, fixing the site you are optimising for ... when they listen :( [precious b*****ds]

No, as much as the link monkeys get a bad press, they get it because they have bad [and lazy] SEOs and SEO Managers running poor formulaic SEO Campaigns, not thinking and not allowing their charges to think. When it comes to shit SEO and shit links: don't blame the link monkeys blame the link organ-grinders!

One last thing, if you want a good link from a good page, the first lesson should be - ask the webmaster nicely [they can only completely ignore you!]

LinkMünki

WhiteHats v BlackHats

2011-01-26T00:24:00.000-08:00

Whilst not the oldest of people [and certainly not the youngest], I sometimes make references to things well beyond the ken of people outwith my era [like Bits [a TV programme google it], etcetera], and the WhiteHat v BlackHat debate always reminds me of Spy v Spy.

What I have to say here is different: there is a lot of muck slung at 'so called' Black-Hat SEOs, and for what?

Buying Links - Well what is advertising then?

Cloaking - Who actually does that?

Getting Opponents Delisted - hhrrrmmmm, well this might happen, and google seems to be making it easier.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-search-and-search-engine-spam.html

The fact is that in my knowledge, the BlackHats are about the most honest in what they do, they come to an agreement with webmasters over a link and it is done. On the other hand we WhiteHats look everywhere for the sneakiest of links, exploiting every loophole of the rules when it comes to links, we pretend to be concerned citizens to get our sites into government & university websites. We have social bookmarking accounts that are beyond the realm of the honest people who want to keep track of their favourite websites. We write blogs which are purportedly about an issue, but are just exercises in linkbuilding.

I ask you which is the most honest, the onsite side of SEO is the both for both sides. SEO has to try to look natural, but the simple fact is that it is all bending the rules that somebody else came up with, and if you have to make something 'look natural' then it clearly is not, and if clients made really good websites with good content that people wanted to link to then it would be natural, and need very little SEO [White, Black, Grey or No Hat]

LinkMünki has Spoketh

Festive Comments

2010-12-23T04:32:00.000-08:00

I have just been doing comments, and the nice people over at my company's rivals Alienation Digital, were not only nice enough to publish a comment, reply, they also allowed the link to where I work Equator.

It's nice to be nice around this time of year! Even in Glasgow [Spit]

LinkMunki

LinkMünki on Spam

2010-09-09T00:44:00.000-07:00

LinkMünki on Spam

It's just too easy to spam, you know it is! If it wasn't then it wouldn't be all over the net. This, to me is a problem, not that I'm really anti anything, it's just that since it is so easy just about anybody can do it, and sometimes it feels like they are. We have all logged into blogs [or our e-mails] to accept/reject these requests.

And I don't hate spam so much [I can get very close to being a spammer myself sometimes ;)], if people leave comments on my blogs and they are vaguely related to the subject, quite amusing or even if they have enough cojones I usually leave them: if they are about certain types of mucky pictures, little blue pills or really badly written they go.

But all this is by the by, in my efforts link up all of my social networking accounts [if an account gives you a public profile and you can put links on it fair enough in my opinion!] I started some of them doing what can only be described as a cacophony of autospam. It seemed like everything I did was being automagically posted on tumblr or facebook or my google profile [and my yahoo profile :)]. But they were just throwing out torrents of bit.lys, and this.lys and that.lys, and that was probably as annoying to me than to anybody who had the dipleasure to look at it. I'm shutting down the auto-spam where and when I can remember which accounts I have [but I have a lot].

But this is also a problem in spamming being made too easy, auto-posting doesn't help me get the traffic to what I want people to look at, it just clutters up the internet with rubbish that nobody wants to see. There should be controlls put on it [I can't believe I said that!!], perhaps we ought not stop it altogether but make it a lot more difficult, nothing wrong with linking profiles, but keep what you post seperate, eh! Otherwise this little interweb toy we all enjoy might meltdown and turn into mush.

LinkMünki

Blekko

2010-09-03T03:55:00.000-07:00

The world of SEO is undergoing one of those 'things' at the moment, we have a new toy! There is a new search engine out there and it is impressing us SEO-ologists in numbers, it's called Blekko,

Wait! Wait! What the hell is this, me writing a post on something related to SEO on an SEO blog... ach I've been wittering and twittering about Blekko for a while on LinkMünki holds Court, but i need to go on more about the Blekko, so...

In the way that people think that google is 'just' a search engine, well it is, but it's rankings have been SEO-ed to ****, Blekko is so malleable, Blekko gives control to the user [you can cut spam out of your SERPS [by clicking 'spam']] Blekko gives the user so much information at the drop of a hat that sometimes it's nearly overload. I love the fact that when you check inlinks it gives you a graphic illustration of both location from where the links derive, but it also breaks it down into most popular anchors, and gives you percentages. Then if that was not good enough, when you check the list of inlinks [a bit like siteexplorer, but...] it tells you whether they are follow or nofollow, the anchor and some new info I've yet to decipher.

I know what you are all thinking, -wow-LinkMünki-this-is-fantastische- but I haven't finished yet, with a little click you can move onto a bar graph oriented multiple [between 2 and 4] website comparison [again a lot of the info I am yet to decipher, but...], bar charts rule.

For the non geek, well... for the geek too, you can create your own ways of searching [called slash tags], which is like searching for an angle on your search term, so a search might be "hotel /edinburgh" or "edinburgh /hotel" giving a different result depending on which was the more relevant to you, both giving a different result to "edinburgh hotel" or "hotel edinburgh", which you just can't do in google [plus you can add sites to the slashes, and you can create your own slashes, and make them public].

But calm down, google isn't quite dead yet, the size of the google index is ridiculous, no other search engine is likely to come close to it for well ... ages, google is still so popular and Blekko [so far] helps people look for stuff that can be so specific. But I can tell you that it is yet to be SEO-ed yet so for the moment it still gives you helpful results, not just results from companies with the best SEO's, Ima love playing with Blekko for the time being, and just pray that google doesn't get their big fat chequebook out quite yet [sorry Blekko can you wait a couple of years till you get very, very rich!]

LinkMünki @ Work

PS I'm kinda new at this stuff so don't go on at me about getting over-excited over new search engines

PPS if you want an invite you only have to ask them try here for starters, but testing will be over soon and you will all have your chance

Blekkoed

2010-08-09T07:45:00.000-07:00

Well today I was allowed access to Blekko, I'm not sure yet what to do with it. It certainly has aspects to it which allure. But I'll tell you this: it ain't google.

As a searcher who has searched mainly by google it is weird, I liked the default slash-tags, and I liked the fact that you can create your own slash-tags. However, like all young things it has its 'teething troubles', for example I am not 100% sure how to fully utilise the slash-tags, also I am so indoctrinated into using google's site commands that I just do it naturally. There is also the question of the size of its index, it will not for a while be able to compare itself when put up next to the breadth of the google index.

This is not, however, a review, just telling you that I now have access to it, I will have to play with it for a while before I can faithfully make a judgement, but even then, it took me a while to get off Firefox and on to Chrome, now I look back at that person as rather foolish, the future is the undiscovered country.

LinkMünki away to play with Blekko

Twtkr

2010-07-26T00:40:00.000-07:00

Yes you're not reading that incorrectly, it says twtkr not twitter. Twtkr is a very strange thing that I noticed once whilst bored and searching for traces of myself in google. It seems to be a clone of every single twitter account [don't even think about the numbers], it seems to be Korean, and unlike twitter it does 'dofollow' links.

I wondered about it for a while and then I decided I'd start to link to it from here and there, then the other day I just noticed that it is now starting to get picked up by Site Explorer, which is very interesting as this means that it must be either getting rank, or has now been fully indexed by yahoo [thus presumably bing too]. Mmmm, I don't know how much use this will turn out to be, but I'm going to keep an eye on this one.

LinkMünki

Yahoo, Google & Blekko [and 30boxes]

2010-07-22T00:38:00.000-07:00

What is happening with yahoo? What is it there for anymore? With the fact that yahoo and Microsoft [you won't catch me linking out to msn] will be working ever more closely together, does this mean that the yahoo search engine will just wither on the vine, with bing taking over all search between the two. Internet savvy people still find a lot of yahoo's facilities very useful, I have a yahoo pipe for my blogs, at the moment there is nothing quite comparable to siteexplorer, I certainly have a yahoo mail account [or two], and many websites are fundamentally linked to yahoo, disqus & flickr for example.

On another tack, I was looking at google sites the other day, interesting linking policy, it seems that on many of the sites it had nofollow links in the main text, except if you linked to anything google. I don't know if this is automatic or not, I have a website, but it's still empty, and will be until I get the time to put some nonsense on it.

- NB since I wrote this, and just to confuse things further, it has come to my attention that from now on yahoo japan will be powered by google. But that is quite a different case.

New google images is a bit disconcerting at first, but after a day, I think I quite like it, maybe even prefer it!

I have to say I'm quite sad and get a bit excited when a new search engine comes out, so I am quite miffed by the fact that no matter how many times I have asked, the kids over at blekko haven't invited me for a shot. It's not there to really compete with google, but from what I read some of the functionality kicks the ass out of google's site commands for getting into serious SEO websearch, come on blekko, give us a shot!!!

In an addendum to a previous post, I came across another site which is great for syndicating your stuff, not only does 30 boxes give you a home URL with links to your homepage etc, if you submit a blog to it, it automatically syndicates it for you, fantastisch!!

LinkMünki

BING

2010-07-16T08:58:00.000-07:00

I can hear the cries of derision already, before I've typed a single word, but I'm going to say something that perhaps we SEOs think about. When are we going to think about thinking about taking Bing seriously?

I personally dislike the thing, but in the short time that it has been in existence it has continued to grow, even though it is still a gazillion [technical term] miles behind the big G but it is growing.This comes mainly from the fact that people get a computer, they just continue to use the Microsoft default settings [people are lazy].

Some of my friends have ridiculedme about thinking about this and I can't completely disagree with some of their statements "bings doubled its marketshare - 2 X 0 = 0" but I still think that we lose sight of the fact SEOs only worship at the altar of google because it is so big, and that we are 'search engine optimisers' first, and only temporarily 'googlemonkeys'.

Don't get me wrong I would much rather use Search or KartOO even teoma than touch microsoft with yours, but sometimes things are taken out of our hands. Maybe we should keep an eye on bing, it may be rubbish, but people are using it!!

Twitter, RSS Feeds, Yahoo Pipes, Syndication

2010-06-25T07:43:00.000-07:00

I've been doing this for a short while now, and whilst in no way could I be compared to those around me, I am learning some tricks of the trade.

This last couple of weeks I have been learning some of the arts involved in spreading my post as far and as wide as is possible. Now we all know onlywire, here we spread our stuff across lots of social bookmarking sites, we twitter things, yeah, then I started putting rss feeds of blogs on other blogs, it was spreading the word, then thanks to buzzblogger I learned about yahoo pipes, and how to make these mega rss feeds, submit them to every free news site and watch your in links grow.

But I recently thought of something new for twitter, I know all of us hate these twitter no follow links, but we have to put up with them, or do we?

We all know that there are twitter clones out there, here is a clone of SEOMOZ's twitter account, the first thing that all good seo's should notice is [no not the foreign language bits], that this has real links rather than nofollow. Second, it has an rss feed, but you can create one anyway if it wasn't there. Add this to your yahoo pipe, whatever, provided you have enough key words in the title, whala [in-joke] real links to real links.

Links - to link or not to link

2010-06-03T04:48:00.000-07:00

I have been reading lately about the effect of multiple links in the body of a blogpost. It seems that not everyone out there can likes to read through multi-layered pieces of text [that is what hyper-text is after all], and that an article can lose readers forever after the first click.

Among the ideas put out there are that if you want to it is still possible to put links on the page, however keep them out of the actual body of the text, and put them at the end, in a footer, in a similar way to footnotes work in an scholarly text.

I am trying this for the first time here, I don't know why I never thought about this before, after all it was the structure I was brought up with, in university and books etc. I'm going to see how this does.

Can You Handle On Page Links by Debra

Experiments in Delinkification by Nicholas Carr

The Case Against Links by Marshall Kirkpatrick

Change

2010-05-14T05:07:00.000-07:00

It's like everything on the web went mad this month, first google decided it was to change up everything on its site, adding lots of bizarre things in the sidebar [like wonderwheels...], youtube added all these bits to the side, then the bbc started changing colours at random moments, now wikipedia has changed, did I miss the memo.

Oh dear it seems I did.

LinkMünki

Facebook v Google

2010-05-06T07:21:00.000-07:00

Recently Facebook overtook google.com as the most visited site on the 'net in the USA.

There have been murmurings for quite a while of the implications of Facebook in regards to SEO, it is a whole different ballgame. We like things like straight up honest links. We don't like redirects of any kind.

And sometimes the since people on Facebook can be real people that you actually know from the real world, you don't want to contaminate that world with anchors and key words, and it should be more about cool stuff that you might find out there.

Of course, saying that won't stop the marketers trying to getting in there, and eventually it will just become a commercial hell, and we'll have to optimise for it as well, or somebody else.

LinkMünki

PageRank

2010-04-30T06:42:00.000-07:00

To tell the truth I have very little clue about this, all I know is that the more your web page has the better it is seen in the "eyes" of google [GOOGLE HAS EYES!!!!!].

It is thought that a link from a page with higher PageRank, gives better weight to your page [in the eyes of google], but I think the people at google are just having a laugh with the world, Matt Cutts and his googlebuddies are sitting in wherever, spreading lies about this & that, and getting the entire world of SEO in a mass panic for kicks.

Or maybe it is just, a very complicated way of ranking things based on a highly complex algorithm, and I know nothing [it's probably the latter].

LinkMünki

Key Word Research [KWR]

2010-04-30T00:42:00.000-07:00

This is possibly the most bizarre part of the job, I understand slightly why it has to be done [mainly because so many people obviously lack common sense].

The fundamentals of KWR are that we try to find out the most relevant terms typed into google, then we direct our "campaigns" in so, it's not exactly rocket science, but we even have programs to do it!

For example, were we to seo a shoe company, then we would target "cheap shoes", "quality leather shoes", "cheap leather shoes" or something like that depending on the company.

And I get paid for this! the world has officially gone mad

LinkMünki

Content

2010-04-27T04:45:00.000-07:00

This is the holy grail of my line of work, it's all about putting [non-plagiarised] stuff on your website that people want to read. To put it simply, if you have a website worth linking to, people will link to it. Thus you get links [some call this linkbait but I think that makes it sound rather seedy], for free.

Examples

Poor content

Hey look at my spangly new site with all manner of stuff

Good content

Things you want to read and tell folk about

It seems simple but not everyone can do it, content has to be original, eye-catching and sometimes thought provoking. That can be daunting for a Link Monkey. This is why it is often punted out to a third party. But this is pure laziness, when I first went to Uni, I had no clue how to write an essay, but I had to learn, so must the rest of us, that is why we must professionalise SEO, it's not just a job for folk who can press a button on onlywire. And you're giving us a bad name! Directories have their place, but.......

Of course it's not good enough to just write good content, we need some of our magic to get it seen by the wider public, but you know that already......

The Title Attribute

2010-04-27T04:34:00.000-07:00

I have recently been pondering to myself the relevance of the title attribute in a link, you know what I mean, it's that rectangular box of words that appears when you hover the cursor over a link [sometimes], I think it is often sorely [and sadly] overlooked.

I checked about online with the folk because of whom I am "standing on the shoulders of giants", and it all seems to be a bit 50/50, some say google ignores it, others say that google does read it but doesn't care too much about it.

I don't know, analytics bore me. But I do think that sometimes we in seo get overtaken with the desire for google rankings and forget that sometimes we are there for the clients [black hat-ists excused], and sometimes we must yield to just making websites more accessable for the navigator, even though it might not yield results through through our normal chanels, but it might work for those who pay us.

In short, the title attribute may or may not help a site's rankings in google [I say if the title matches the targets meta title it certainly can't hinder], but it only takes a few more keystrokes, and it certainly would help onsite navigation, so you might as well do it.

Plain Link

<a href="http://www.linkmunki.blogspot.com/">LinkMünki</a>

Titled Link

<a href="http://www.linkmunki.blogspot.com/" title="SEO LinkMünki Style">LinkMünki</a>

See it's not that difficult, it helps the poor kids out there on the web, and it has more élan.

later kids

LinkMünki

Hello

2010-04-22T02:46:00.000-07:00

I'm gonna say stuff here, don't know if it's gonna make much sense, I call myself LinkMünki, for various unimportant reasons. But mainly cos it's what I do.

I'll be back soon, but now I have work to do.