Have you run out of great ideas when it comes to clever ways to get some link love from super trusted .org sites? If you have, here’s a tip. Surf on over to Craig’s List and browse the resume section. Copy the content of the oldest resumes you can find. Then repost those resumes with [...]

Back in February I posted that we were moving into a new office in March, and that we were looking to hire a few new people. Unfortunately, we ran into a few delays regarding the office space, so we put off the hiring until we got things worked out. I’m happy to report that the [...]

When I originally started this blog, I required users to register in order to comment. However, there seemed to be a bug in WordPress that caused the registration function to fail for some people. Rather than track the problem down, I just switched to running everything in pre-mod mode. Unfortunately, the level of comment spam [...]

Just incase you missed it, Matt is back from Boston and has posted an indepth explanation of Google’s new crawl caching proxy. (The system that is responsible for Mediabot fetching pages). Matt’s diagram pretty much matches what we’ve been seeing, although I still think there might be some issues regarding robots.txt, but we’re still collecting [...]

Just a quick follow-up on the whole Mediabot thing…… Many people seem to be jumping to the conclusion that adding AdSense code might be a new submission tool that will help a site get indexed faster. I think most webmasters would love it if that were the case, but I haven’t seen anything in all [...]

During last Tuesday’s Rockstar show, I mentioned that I had been working on a project that got a bit messed up due to the fact that Google’s Mediapartner bot (aka Mediabot) was being used to index content for Google’s database. We had setup some 301′s for Googlebot, but had neglected to redirect the Mediabot. The [...]