Entries from August 2008

Relationship Building

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

At Walt Disney World for Grownups we were a bit frustrated in developing our forums. We were having trouble getting enough traffic to have our site look “credible.” The most common advice was to get your friends to post to get the ball rolling, but most of our friends are not “Disney people.” They lacked […]

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Tools You Should Be Using: Webmaster Tools

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Most of the major search engines have some kind of “Webmaster tools.” The three we use so far are: Google Webmaster Tools Live Search Webmaster Center Yahoo! Site Explorer Number 42 for "strap on"…oh dear. In a not-surprising turn of events, Google’s is by far the most useful. Although its utility diminishes somewhat when it […]

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The NoFollow Fix-All

August 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Or something like that… We’ve been hunting for bad neighborhoods. In fact we’ve been hunting desperately for them. As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve clearly been “punished” by Google and we’re trying to find the cause. At about the time of our last […]

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Categories: Main blog narrative