A funny observation on ranking for unexpected keywords.
Thanks to my post recently about keywords used to find this blog, I now rank #1 for many of those keywords just on the strength of a single occurrence of each in that post.
The chances are good nobody will ever search using those keywords again, but […]

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As you add more and more content to a blog, you’re going to find yourself more and more surprised by the keywords people use in search engines to find you.
Here’s a selection of keywords used to find Online Opportunity over the past couple of months.
a hungry crowd: I was actually on page […]

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After installing DoFollow, the blog started getting hit by a peculiar sort of spam comment.
Akismet had always been catching the porn comments, and those submitters didn’t care whether DoFollow was installed or not. The latest spam comments are from someone using a tool called Trackback Submitter. The comments were obviously auto-generated, and included […]

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I saw that headline, or something similar, while exploring the web today.
The advertisement was for a company that guaranteed you’d be on the first page of Google within 48 hours, for only $5 for 7 days. There were testimonials from customers exclaiming about the service. One gentleman was mystified as to how it […]

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We all know that backlinks are an integral part of a site’s search engine optimization strategy.
The anchor text used in backlinks is key in obtaining high rankings for given keywords. Look at John Chow’s review scheme for the keyword “make money online”. Through offering backlinks for reviews that used that specific anchor text, […]

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