Archive for the ‘Webmaster Playground’ Category

Fresh Site Bonus - constantly unnailed barnburner of Google’s search engine

Let’s go back to the “challenging” sort of topics. Three days ago I made a comment to Dee Barizo’s post about building site authority in Google, so there is a great opportunity to write a comprehensive post about one of the most interesting public-known SEO issues - Fresh Site Bonus.

What the hell is the [...]

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Interminable Growth of my luscious Wordpress theme

Well, I have pimped my Wordpress theme a little bit more. Now it has one new rounded AdSense block below each post, nice looking list of related entires, and manually chosen index of top stories. Todos: I have to do something with with that ugly code of sidebar, my favorite AJAX RSS chicklet chooser is [...]

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Wordpress themes - This bunch of fresh themes might rock the Web

Wordpress is definitely the most popular software for bloggers, so there are a lot of themes to choose. Too many themes situated in too many places, in fact. Browsing through thousands of themes makes me sick, even user ratings are not helpful in seeking. Also, archives of Wordpress usually have a lack of worth descriptions [...]

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Feedbuddy forced me to make an AJAX chicklet chooser on my own.

I am a big fan of all these gorgeous AJAX solutions so always when I find another cool gadget prepared for blogs, swiftly I add it to all of my sites. For example, there was a problem with chicklets - huge list of most popular rss readers was too long, and too glitzy to hover [...]

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Automattic Stats plugin for Wordpress

Hi folks. I wanted to review that killer Wordpress plugin here, but finally I realized that it’s enough to write a short description and share a few links with you. In the first words, it looks like a great alternative for a little bit sluggish Google Analytics. It shows all sorts of data that common [...]

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Keyword Difficulty - What Makes a Keyword Rivalry?

Many people believe that SEO is easy. Even though it sucks, all in all it’s nice news for me. The more people think SEO is is easy, the more and more guys are interested in SEO. That’s great, coz’ it creates demand for information about that issue. Simultaneously, it creates a crap. Yep, I mean [...]

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Example.com is selling links, here’s a page on example.com

Have you read that post written by Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team on his personal blog? It is called ‘How to report paid links’. I understand that our friends from Google want to fight with spammers in order to make the SERPs better, and it’s ok, I think. Even though I’m SEO, [...]

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