Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 1 dot com crash, dubious claims, Search Engine Optimization, seo consultants, snake oil salesman, snake oil salesmen, Tulipmania, website, websites, wikipedia
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” Charles MacKay Tulips and SEO In the seventeenth century in Holland, tulip speculation was rife with people behaving irrationally. Tulipmania was caused as people ‘jumped [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 Add new tag, google, Google Custom Search, search, wikipedia
I, as do millions of others, use Wikipedia very often. The default Wikipedia Search however lets down this great Online encyclopedia.The default Wikipedia Search is good at returning results where the search term is identical to the Page however is not all that great where the name of the page is not known or is [...]
Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 0 backlinks, wikipedia, WordPress
Nofollow is an HTML instruction to Search Engines not to consider the link destination as endorsed by the link originator. Google, Yahoo, Bing and other high quality Search Engines use links as one factor in considering the importance of a Webpage. So, very simplistically, if two WebPages are identical except that one has more incoming [...]
Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 1 google, google pagerank, keywords, meta tags, search engine results, seo, wikipedia
One of the Sites I manage sells Blu-ray Movies and Blu-ray Players. There is a lot of competition for the search term ‘Blu-ray’ with tens of millions of results being returned on the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). I have started doing some SEO on the site to try to improve where the site appears [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 blog, blogger, blogging, blogs, facebook, flickr, google, gpl, Internet, it, it strategy, open source database, OpenSource, oracle, search, Software, sun, web, weblog, website, wikipedia, WordPress
Sun Microsystems has been acquired by Oracle Corporation (after it looked like Sun would be part of the IBM stable). Of particular interest to many bloggers and corporate Internet Application developers is what will happen with MySQL, the GNU General Public License (GPL) database engine. A Bit about MySQL MySQL was acquired by Sun in [...]
