Webmaster Consulting
- Ungrateful clients
- Threats from prospective clients, lowball from clients, clients not understanding true amount of work they need
Traffic and Analytics
Content
- To use mediocre content
- Search engines may look at sentence structure - 10 words with certain numbers of nouns and adjectives.
- Deep site or multiple small sites
- If original has age and authority, don't change
- Lots of quality links, don't split
- Mulgiple sites spread risk
- Wikipedia doing no follow, are links from wikipedia a waste
- Do seem to deliver visitors
- Link from wikipedia may help an article to not be supplemental
- Wire service info for a site
Search engines
- Do next gen search engines deliver traffic
- Examples: http://www.mahalo.com, cha cha, hakia,
- yuntis - university project
Domains
- Pagerank
- Effect of increased page rank
- Google's internal pagerank may differ from what is shown.
- Others will think your site is better and pay more for links
- Possible increased google crawl frequency (although this is probably more influenced by frequently changing content)
- Effect of increased page rank
- Becoming an authority
Links
- Someone wants to buy a $5 a month link
- Could be risky to your reputation if target is a bad neighborhood. Careful to make the link in-context.
- Can be an effective strategy to get 20% of people to give you a link
Spiders
- Whole site scraped
- Figure out how they are making money from the scraped content
- Possible solutions: crawlwall, copyscape
- Ban list for reaper ips
- The scraping may be for personal research, not to repost scraped content
- DT (whois.sc Domain Tools) spidering sites and making spiderable cache
- Attack of the robots, spiders, crawlers
- DT Tools Cache Outranking Site They Are Caching
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