SEO

Link Vault is an advertising network that a lot of SEOs use very successfully to increase their rankings. To do this, you have to register in the system with a good site that you get a lot of “Vaultage” for (Vaultage is the internal currency), and then create some “Links”. There are some minor disadvantages, such as a flawed controls system and absece of support for Unicode characters, but on the overall, it is a rather good network which I use a lot myself. Read more about Link-Vault (sometimes called LV) here.

If you need support for Unicode characters, there is another somewhat smaller network called StaticAds.

My link exchange network, StaticAds, is now up and running. I’m looking for people who want to act as testers and use the system in the future when all bugs have been corrected. Register in StaticAds.

test and test and test.

This post will be pretty small and I will update it when we see the effects.

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UPDATE: I was wrong. As pointed out here, the text “gdymov.com” is present on the page, although it is cloaked using CSS. Since I overtrusted the wordpress site, I didn’t check the source code of that page. Sorry for any inconvinience caused.

While searching I observed a strange phenomenon. For this search, look at the page codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Statistics that appears 9th, the snippet says:

Backlinks (http://gdymov.com/inbound-links-backlinks-wordpress-plugin/): Draws a graph over how the number of incoming links (thus the name “Backlinks”) to …

but the text http://gdymov.com/inbound-links-backlinks-wordpress-plugin/ does not actually appear on the page. So, where did Google get this text? When I examined the source, I found that the ‘title’ attribute of the link contains this text. Thus, this proves that google indexes the content in the <a title='’ attribute.

For those that want really rigid evidence, I can say that this does not work with links that have no ‘title’ attribute (in this example, nothing shows up, though the page has a link to gdymov.com, but contains neither the text “gdymov.com” nor does the link have a ‘title’ attribute).

When the PageRank algo was first invented, it was almost perfect: it used the semantic structure of the web, counting links as votes. Google was a small company that nobody knew of, and nobody cared about.

But now, when Google gives many sites 50-70% of their traffic, the incentives to cheat the algos are bigger than ever. It is very much like physics: you cannot measure a system without changing its state. Same thing happened here: now, every effort is not spent on linking to useful sites, but linking to sites that you have an interest in linking to.

Pragramtic webmasters put rel=”nofollow” on all “useful” links (that are intended for visitors), and only leave some sold or links to their own pages without the nofollow property. This works short-term, but in the long term it will destroy the semantic structure and, as a result, Google will have to invent a new way of ranking websites. So in the long term, this strategy won’t work.

Footnote: this should not be interpreted in any way that I dislike the “nofollow” param or that I don’t use it myself. These are just my reflections=)

Check my contest page for The Four Required Words seo contest.

Here, you can see a chart over how different people are performin in this contest.

This contest is small, so I’m doing this more for fun than for profit.

I’ve done some interesting observations on the IDN & filename fix that Google has applied to its Swedish version.

Until recent, Google could not handle IDN properly. It showed up something like “%c4pple.se” instead of äpple.se. You can see an example here on MSN.

There are still problems with the Toolbar PageRank.

Anther interesting thing is that we now can confirm that google treats o=ö, a=ä, å in filenames. You can see this by searching for a phrase that should contain any of the letters ö, ä, å, but contains their correspondents in english, e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=sokmotoroptimering

A fynny side-effect of this is that if you search for a word that should not contain å, ä, ö; e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=sokmötöröptimering

UPDATE: I won’t work on this one. I just hope that my image will be grabbed by the Google Images engine, that’d be interesting.

The Four Required Words is a small seo contest, but I entered it since I want to test wheather a page can win with only (well, we’ll see) internal links. Nobody seem to take it very seriously, neither do I. Strange keywords, The Four Required Words, moahahahaha. I’d say fourth required word instead. Hahaha. You have to have a link to them, but at least they allow to put nofollow on it, unlike som other contests. For obvious reasons, I’ve done so.

You can see the current positions here: The Four Required Words Contest Positions

The Million Dollar Screenshot

Since there are prizes for image search and I’ve been interested in how the Google Images ranking algo works, here is my “The Four Required Words” image:

Now, I’ve fixed some other carcasherdotcom dealings, I’m returning to the seocontest with a brand new Carcasherdotcom Seocontest domain. Feel free to visit link :)

And another new carcasherdotcom seocontest. I love carcasherdotcom seocontest!

I haven’t had time to work on this one for some time. I will return to the carcasherdotcom seocontest when I get som of my other carcasherdotcom fixed.

Carcasherdotcom Seocontest - doesn’t it sound magnificent? It is like poetry:

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Seo
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I personally love it. I think this masterpiece of “Carcasherdotcom Seocontest” should be visualized, so I asked a friend of mine to draw a piceture of carcasherdotcom seocontest. My frined is a really cool carcasherdotcom seocontest painter, so he did this:

carcasherdotcom seocontest image

I want to explain one thing to you. CCDCSC (carcasherdotcom seocontest) is a grand masterpiece of literature and is to be considered as that. Unfortunately, it is not yet famous enough to be compared to Sheakespeare or old carcasherdotcom writers. But the seocontest participants will certainly make it more popular and promote this masterpiece.

I’d love to tell you more about the carcasherdotcom seocontest but I’m very tired right now, so come back later for more!

The postiton chart has moved to the page gdymov.com/casherposition/

If you like the carcasherdotcom seocontest poem, please link to this carcasherdotcom seocontest page.

And yes, We support CarCasher.Com

And yes, you can email me at in fo ^at^ gd ymov.c om (think you’ll get that one)

Hey, do you know what? there is a another great carcasherdotcom seocontest page.

Carcasherdotcom seocontest MSN spaces entry by seo contest

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