social networking

How often are the Search Engines Crawling Your Blog?

by ian

Very promising new WordPress plugin for tracking search engine activity while crawling your internal pages, seems to have some fun bells and whistles you won’t get from analytics alone – will give you all kinds of data that "might" give you a bit more of a window into which pages/links/and external sites are giving you more bang for your "buck" than might be visible in how most people interact with Google analytics. Times, rates, frequencies, etc – all from your WP admin panel…check it out, it’s free and you can find it at the link below: ( I did)

With the advent of Google Analytics and other JavaScript based solutions a lot of webmasters have lost the ability to easily analyse log files to see how search engines are interacting with their site. Google Webmaster Central offers a nice graphing feature so you can see the crawl trends but there is no way to access meaningful data. Studying crawl rate is hugely important because it helps you find out which pages are trusted most by the search engines (especially Google). The more Google trusts a page the greater the frequency it will re-visit that page. If you build a few deep links and see your crawl rate for the target page suddenly increase you can be confident that the links are highly trusted and that you should try to get some more.Today we are releasing a plugin for WordPress that allows you to track crawl activity for MSN, Yahoo & Google from your dashboard.

WordPress Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin

Tags: serps, search engine analytics

Social Proof & the Power of Persuasion:

by ian

(photo credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdeye/)

Ok – this has nothing to do with Internet Marketing, making more money, copywriting,or just about any of the other small minded matters I try to tackle on here as often as possible. So if a little bit of scary social commentary is not up your alley – simply skip watching the video below. But if you want to take a closer look at the real power of persuasion and how social memes spread nefariously through small groups in cataclysmic ways ( and of course – you can draw any number of your own analogies as to how these very same sorts of mindsets are at work in our lives, business practices and the fishbowl economies that so many of us play in online) take a VERY close look at the last 2 minutes of this video. The whole thing is worthwhile – but if you truly want to feel the immense power of social conditioning run amok – ( and of course the whole nature/nurture argument of belief) taking a hard, close uncomfortable gaze into the eyes at the end of this thing, is well – very sad stuff.

Supernatural SEO Blogging Software: Semiologic Pro Just Keeps Getting Better

by ian

I wrote and submitted an article earlier today to one of the article directories on the power of WordPress, and it’s inherent ability to take a complete and utter online marketing newbie and having him or her creating a killer site in mere minutes – it really is unbelievable the flexibility in both form and function that WordPress offers, and amazingly it is completely free….. [click to continue…]