Okay, before you get too excited, I am not going to be handing out links willy-nilly.  I don’t want to be penalized for participating in linking schemes.  But if you can provide my blog with something of benefit, such as a guest post, or a comment or something like that, you will receive a link […]

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I was about to jump off the web for the week, but I saw in the traffic stats a lot of links from Windows Live search.  So I checked all of the search engines and I am at the following positions on search engines for search “andrew messer” as of right now (this may be wrong […]

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Okay I’ve only been blogging about blogging lately, but seeing as there is still 45 minutes left in the first day of the second real month for this blog, I thought I should quickly go and check the search engines to see how much they love me.
Now for the search term “andrewmesser”, they love me […]

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I was reading Blogosis on his current move up the Alexa rank and I realised that traffic is so much more important than PageRank.  This flies in the face of what I read on SEOnoobs about Google’s sharemarket on searches.  But I still think it is true.
(Now note that I am saying traffic is more […]

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This is becoming a bad habit, I’m getting concerned about my position on Google.  At last I am on page 3, at rank 22.  Here is the snapshot from Google.com.au.

I am still only 33 on Google.com, but perhaps they haven’t crawled again yet.  Anyone know if Google crawls differently in different countries? Let me know […]

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So I changed the blog’s name from AndrewMesser.com to Andrew Messer dot Com at the suggestion of Glen Allsopp, and since then Google has dropped my main page out of the index!  I see a link to the about page of this blog on page 6 (so a rank of 60+) of Google for the […]

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Its quite frustrating to find out that Google has cancelled (for me in Australia) a referral program that I have signed up for only two days ago - d’oh!  In fact, nothing in the Adsense website informed me that I would not receive any money for referrals because I’m in Australia.
However that seems to be […]

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Now in my first post I mentioned that I should try to get to the top Google spot for the search on my name, Andrew Messer. Since then I have done a grand total of ZERO SEO. I haven’t even tried to improve my rank or get any links from anyone. Yet I have started […]

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