Cuil-Latest Pretender to Google’s Throne

Well, for one thing If You Write It isn’t indexed in Cuil except for one entry for a Social Network I don’t even use anymore. Of course, complaining about not finding my own site indexed in Cuil is a bit petty-after all, Cuil claims to be the world’s biggest search engine, not the world’s best search engine. One of the countless cool things about Google is that it knows we are all idiots who can’t spell-so if I type scie nce fiction into the Google search box, it will ask, did you mean science fiction? Not so with cuil, who…

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SEO and Google

The Google Top Ten is the normal first page of results from a search and the most likely to be clicked. SEO-Search Engine Optimization, is the art of getting into the Google Top Ten as often as possible. First off, get a Tracker, since it does no good to get into the Google Top Ten if you don’t know your getting into the Google Top Ten.I use ExtremeTracking, which tells me not only when I am in the Google Top Ten, but what keywords were used to get me in The Google Top Ten. As any Search Engine Optimization expert…

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Ford and Google Ads

Search Engine Journal has a pretty good article about all those Adsense ads for Ford that mysteriously appeared on blogs over the past few weeks. Seems that Ford and Google made it Job 1 to spam the internet with Ford themed Adword ads, even though there was no mention of Ford, or Ford Products on said blogs.Since I added Adsense to my site, it has been a bit of fun to watch the ads that have popped up. Sometimes they have been off-base, but still made sense. If the post is brand new, the ads are often for blogging, but…

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SEO, Digg and Google Trends

SEO-search engine optimaztion, is the art of getting your site noticed by search engines, most importanly, the Google Search Engine. I have been blogging for a while and a couple of months ago I stumbled upon Showtime’s BlogBuzz section. This was a place to ask Showtime to post a link to blogs talking about their show The Tudors. Hey, I had written a post about The Tudors, so I sent them an email. I went from one or two hits a day, to thirty or forty hits a day. I got something like 500 hits from that one link on…

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