At the end of last year I posted some 2006 stats about the SEOptimise blog, another year has passed (very quickly) so I thought this would be a good time to take a look at the progress made over the last year.
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I will be frank here.

I am quite new to SEO, optimization, web design and site creation, etc. I have a few of my own sites and I am working hard on them using the best optimization tools available. But I can see some trends here already.

I have a few friends that use black SEO tactics like doorways, cloaking, you name them… They can easily make over $10,000/month with a 2 month old site and then they start another one because they are banned by search engines. So, they start it all over again and again using the same techniques…and make money.

Some of my sites are over a year old. Original content only. And I use white SEO only. Most of them suck. Yes, I get some search engine traffic but my sites make me just $10-15 per month. See the difference?

I know many of you will say that legal tactics work better in the long run. But how long? A year, two years? More?

What are the quickest ways of getting your way through to the top? Which ones would you prefer - the ones that make you money right away or the ones that will bring you some pennies don’t-know-when?

I understand that some of you will advise to try both…

This honorable SEOmoz site stands for white SEO, I know. Which one would YOU choose if you couldn’t choose both, but rather just one of them?

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When you do your keyword research, my bet is that you may have tens or hundreds of keywords to choose from. How do you keep track of it and monitor your rankings? A High Rankings Forum thread asks this question.

One member still uses the old-fashioned pen and paper tool. I’ve seen most people use an Excel spreadsheet, and one member at the forum suggests that.

Do you know of any current programs that monitor your rankings for keywords? I know there are some that used to take the Google Search API key, but unfortunately it’s been over a year since that has been discontinued by Google. (Can you bring it back, please, Google?)

Forum discussion continues at High Rankings Forums.

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Since I spent the early part of the week discussing how Google Knols will ruin the internet, I thought it might also be fun to discuss potential ways you can use it to your advantage.

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Michael calls it on just how the whole "Richter Scales" incident will impact Lane badly in the long run - and proposes how she should handle it instead
(Woot! First Sphinn! )

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Well, I guess it had to happen sooner or later.
For the first time, Seth Godin is releasing a new book, and I won’t be buying it.
You’d think that a shameless Seth fanboy like me wouldn’t be able to pass up the purchase. But it’s not happening this time.
Why? Because for the first time, I got […]
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There’s a big debate in the blogosphere right now involving a parody video from Richter Scales and photographer Lane Hartwell. A photograph Lane took was used without her permission, she was not credited and not compensated. Richter Scales feels this falls under the fair usage act. I’m not going to take sides in the […]
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The wonderful Brian Clark from Copyblogger again with a brilliant post on why the number three is so important structurally when writing engaging content.

This is one of the best blogs out there.

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It’s interesting to know that some folks, like those who have parental obligations, still are very influential bloggers. Wendy Piersall highlights 10 of these father bloggers (with pictures too… so cute!)

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My rebuttal to ‘A Career In SEO? Bad Move,’ over at sphinn.com/story/19137. A lot of good points, but I love this industry, and am very happy because of it. I wouldn’t want anyone to not take part.

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Mugshot sent me a picture of this new Google AdSense ad unit over the weekend. Here it is:

Honestly, at first, I wasn’t sure if it was a brand new format. But after scanning the forum, it seems to be new.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums.

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A great post discussing some issues Google may be having with Universal search, and the possible implications.

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The Future of Search webinar is archived and now available. An expert panel from companies such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK, and Search Engine Land discuss their experiences.

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In my previous post I showed an example of a search for my company name. I then noticed something I have never seen before. Conduct a search on rustybrick at Google and look (but don’t click) at the AdWords listing on the right hand side of the search results. Do you see an exact address that reads “Suite 305, 2 Executive Blvd, 10901″?

Here is a screen capture of the ad:

Google is known to show local information, such as the state, under the AdWords listings. They have been showing the state under ads that are geo-targeted locally since at least 2004. However, I have never seen a full address listed.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.

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The reason I write this is that a story on Mixx from my website was receiving votes even while the page was offline. Users were voting for an article they didn’t/couldn’t read.

Do you vote without reading?
Do you cast votes for people you like

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The reason a majority of the major businesses online have a reputation management problem is because they did nothing to combat it from the start. Lets face it, the bigger bigger you get, the more people you are going to have that want to bring you

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Yesterday, both Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter had reported issues with logging into their respective advertising consoles.

The first Google AdWords issues were reported at WebmasterWorld last night at 7:40pm (EST). Similar issues were reported with the AdSense console at DigitalPoint Forums at 7:35pm (EST) last night.

AdWordsAdvisor confirmed the issue at 8pm (EST) last night saying:

OK, yes, this is known to engineering - it’s impacting a small percentage of advertisers, and folks here are hard at it to resolve, as you might well imagine.

The Google issue was then confirmed to be resolved at about 8:20pm (EST).

Microsoft adCenter had similar issues, and the first reports came yesterday morning via WebmasterWorld at about 5am (EST).

adCenterEU confirmed the issue was resolved at about 11am (EST) yesterday:

Excellent. Engineering let me know that this is now considered to be resolved - as of just a few minutes before the time you wrote, briggidere.

Again, my apology to those who were impacted. I’m glad it was brief.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld (AdWords), DigitalPoint Forums (AdSense) and WebmasterWorld (adCenter).

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Since the average company spends almost a quarter of their marketing spend on content, how can a company put so many resources behind something and not market it effective?

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Building a solid blog that Google wants to rank highly is not easy task to start with but it’s made much harder by blog content management systems being designed using every SEO faux pas you can think of apart from Flash.

Most people have now figured out the obvious tips such as improving your url structure to include keywords, adding a unique title and meta description to each page and preventing indexing of noise pages such as comment feeds.

However lots of bloggers are still falling into a major SEO and usability trap - date based archives. When was the last time you visited a blog and browsed their date based archives? I’ve certainly never done it. The thing to remember about blogging is that maybe 90% of the content is time sensitive. If you want to read about internet marketing or some new product launch that’s great but the information is likely to be out of date in a couple of months. I certainly would never want to look back at something you wrote back in 2006 unless I knew what the post was about and that’s where the date based archives become even more useless. You can’t find a post by topic so you need to know what date it was published. How many of you remember the date another blogger published a post?

Date based archives are not just useless from a usability point of view they don’t help your SEO either. As well as possible duplicate content issues if you publish full posts in your archives the main issue is that the pages are full of unrelated content. If you group all your posts about the iPhone together on one page Google can see that the page is related to the iPhone and each post will rank higher because of it. When you group 30 posts from January 2006 together on a page Google just sees it as a page of unrelated content.

If you really want to see how well used your category pages are just check your stats software. How many people look at them? Where did those people come from? How many people who recently read an old post from 2006 found it via your archives?

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It seems as though every day we are being invited to join yet another social network (YASN). If we actually spent time at each of these social sites, participating and becoming respected contributors, we would never get anything else done. It’s just

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