Archive for February, 2007
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Yahoo Search Content Quality Guidelines Overview
I went back and had a look at the Yahoo Search Content Quality Guidelines the other day after Michael Campbell mentioned them in his ezine. They tell us that Yahoo wants to index:
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- Original and unique content of genuine value
- Pages designed primarily for humans, with search engine considerations secondary
- Hyperlinks intended to help people find interesting, related content, when applicable
- Metadata (including title and description) that accurately describes the contents of a web page
- Good web design in general
Immediate Thoughts:
No revelations in (1) & (2).
(3) Seems to shout “anchor text,” but probably simply refers to linking in general since it’s said that for years
(4) Makes it plain that the title and meta description tag ARE important.
(5) Reinforces that search engines like html that validates, with structured sites full of good old plain links.
So what is search engine spam to Yahoo? Well, here’s what Yahoo says it doesn’t want in its index:
- Pages that harm accuracy, diversity or relevance of search results
- Pages dedicated to directing the user to another page
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
My $7 Offers Product, Using $7 Secrets Scripts
A few weeks ago I bought the $7 Secrets ebook by Jonathan Leger. It was a good read.
The basic idea of selling low cost reports is nothing new of course, but the killer is in the simple twists and scripts that Jon added to create armies of sneezing affiliates passing your virus on.
The $7 Secrets ebook has become so successful that Jon has set up a website, $7 Offers to showcase the growing collection of $7 products available using the scripts supplied free with his $7 Secrets ebook.
The popularity of the whole thing prompted me to create my own $7 product to list on the $7 Offers site for a slice of the traffic it’s getting.
The product is My Article Submitter. I’m sure you know the power of submitting articles to directories, right? Well this software automates the process, yet submits like a human. It doesn’t spam and comes preloaded with 163 sites to get you started.
But best of all, you can add as many other sites that accept article submissions as you want.
It’s a nice piece of software. And right now you can get it for only $7!
