Monthly Archives: November 2008

Fast and Simple SEO to Increase from PageRank 0

  By GeekLad | November 18, 2008 - 8:10 am | Blogging, Internet, Search Engine Optimization
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I was very surprised when I learned that I had quickly increased to a PageRank of 3 within less than 30 days of having created this blog.  A few weeks later, I reflected upon some of the things that may have contributed to improving my PageRank. More recently, I came across some additional information that may actually provide the real reason I rose so quickly.
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Google Webmaster Tools External Links Detail Error

  By GeekLad | November 17, 2008 - 12:16 pm | Internet
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webmaster-tools-logo This morning I was trying to do some analysis with my Greasemonkey script for displaying nofollow information in Google Webmaster tools.  Unfortunately, it seems that the external links detail pages are dead.  I’m getting an error that says Our system is currently busy. Please try again in a few minutes.  It has been much longer than just a few minutes that I’ve been seeing this error.  Hopefully they resolve the issue soon.

Google Webmaster Tools External Links Error

A Perspective on Micro-blogging from a Microblogging N00b

  By GeekLad | November 10, 2008 - 8:57 pm | Blogging, Microblogging
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In 2007, a micro-blogging service called Twitter took the ‘Net by storm.  I will often jump onto public (and sometimes private) betas to check out new products, but for some reason Twitter never grabbed me.  In real life I am somewhat social, but online I never really developed the kind of presence I would have liked.  On the other hand, my college buddy Bwana did a much better job of developing an online presence over the course of many years.
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