http://www.darrinward.com/ Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com 2011-09-02T15:37:02-04:00 Copyright (c), Darrin Ward De Ward Group CMS http://www.darrinward.com/blog/random/treasuries-leading-indicators 2011-09-02T15:37:02-04:00 2011-09-02T15:37:02-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Government treasuries are considered a predictor of economic activity. But do they actually define future economic activity?

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/reciprocal-links-good-bad 2011-06-27T11:24:47-04:00 2011-06-27T11:24:47-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Reciprocal links are when sites link to each other. But are they good or bad for SEO? Are they viable for link building? Find out...

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-strategic-realignment 2011-06-25T14:07:09-04:00 2011-06-25T14:07:09-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

In closing Google Health and DoubleClick Ad Planner Marketplace, are Google going through a realignment of their business?

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/using-firefox-prefetch-advantage 2010-11-10T11:57:59-05:00 2010-11-10T11:57:59-05:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Firefox and Google use prefetch to automatically request the first result. We can use this to identify where we rank but don't get clicks.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/video-google-firefox-hits 2010-11-09T16:04:43-05:00 2010-11-09T16:04:43-05:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Describes a weird anomaly happening with Firefox and Google, where hits to Websites are being generated without people actually visiting the Websites.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/random/google-cache-versions-idea 2010-11-09T13:35:23-05:00 2010-11-09T13:35:23-05:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Google's cache is powerful, but there's more that Google could be doing with it. Why not create an archive.org type cache system?

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/301-302-redirects-refresher 2010-11-05T12:45:52-04:00 2010-11-05T12:45:52-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

A quick overview of 301 and 301 redirects and how they impact SEO. Includes code examples of how to implement 301/302 redirects.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-apache-mod-pagespeed 2010-11-04T20:00:18-04:00 2010-11-04T20:00:18-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

We love super-fast Websites. Loading times are super important for Google ranings and also for visitor satisfaction. Google's new mod_pagespeed

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-keywords-http-referrer-ajax 2010-07-14T11:58:31-04:00 2010-07-14T11:58:31-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Google slips up again and prevents the keyword data in the referrer string from being passed. Can't track referring keywords.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/google-penalty-nofollow-affiliate-links 2009-09-24T10:11:31-04:00 2009-09-24T10:11:31-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Got affiliate links? Not Using the rel=nofollow? then Google may give you a penalty so that you no longer rank. Use rel=nofollow on affiliate links!

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-dictionary 2009-09-21T10:34:40-04:00 2009-09-21T10:34:40-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Why does Google still use answers.com for word definition as opposed to establishing a dictionary/reference function of their own?

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/search-engines/google-bing-future 2009-09-18T11:01:17-04:00 2009-09-18T11:01:17-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Have you noticed the increase in Google's output? Is this because of Bing? Glad we've got such an interesting search battle ahead!

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/random/sync-folders-mac-blackberry 2009-08-27T17:55:04-04:00 2009-08-27T18:00:39-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Ever need to sync folders on your mac to folders on your BlackBerry? Here's an easy way to sync mac folders to your blackberry.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-preferences-search-settings 2009-08-27T11:13:17-04:00 2009-08-27T11:17:18-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

I could have sworn that the preferences link on the Google homepage was there not so long ago. Now the link has been renamed to search settings and moved to the top of the page.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-sitelinks-adwords 2009-08-25T18:10:47-04:00 2009-08-25T18:10:47-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Have you noticed that Google is showing sitelinks for some sponsored links if they are at the top of the page? Screenshot included.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/fun-stuff/google-street-view-store-bokodes 2009-07-27T18:01:20-04:00 2009-07-27T18:01:20-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Want to see how useful Google street-view may be in the future? Take a look at how Bokodes may change how our world is being digitized.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/random/west-coast-airfares-rising-rapidly 2009-07-27T13:32:28-04:00 2009-07-27T13:32:28-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Airfares are rising faster for flights on the West coast than on the East coast.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/search-engines/msnbot-2 2009-07-20T12:03:13-04:00 2009-07-20T12:03:13-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

The bing blog recently told us that they will be ramping up usage of their new crawler/bot msnbot/2.0b

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/internet/facebooks-prominence 2009-07-16T12:16:06-04:00 2009-07-16T12:16:06-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Nielsen has a report out this week showing that Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other Website.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/dmoz-opd-link-value 2009-07-06T14:33:31-04:00 2009-07-06T14:33:31-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Is an inbound link from DMOZ / Open directory Project (ODP) good for SEO? Darrin's thoughts ODP / DMOZ link values.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/fun-stuff/map-lat-long-points 2009-06-26T17:52:05-04:00 2009-06-26T17:53:05-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Want to map lat/long points on a map by simply copying and pasting coordinates? Try This Google Maps Tool...

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-changes-account-login-form 2009-06-24T21:12:02-04:00 2009-06-24T21:13:40-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Google has modified their account login form, simplifying the words used to describe the checkbox that keeps you signed in.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/june-2009-google-pr-update 2009-06-24T04:08:37-04:00 2009-06-24T04:08:37-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Early reports of an ongoing Google PageRank for June 2009 surface on the Web. This PR update (if it's true) comes less than one month after the last update.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/updated-seomoz-seo-best-practices 2009-06-23T14:23:14-04:00 2009-06-23T14:24:37-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

SEOmoz has issued some updated SEO best practice policies based on 'correlation data'. Here's a glance at the items on the list.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-product-results-on-right 2009-06-22T20:29:48-04:00 2009-06-22T20:29:48-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Google's commission-based products ads displaying on the right side of SERPs. Google tried CPA before with AdSense publishers.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-voice-quick-look 2009-06-22T12:25:17-04:00 2009-06-22T20:41:42-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

With the opening of Google Voice to the public being imminent, let's take a quick look at Google Voice with with screenshots and info.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-truncating-urls 2009-06-19T09:41:45-04:00 2009-06-19T09:41:45-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Google are now truncating some of the long URLs in SERPs to one line, whereas before they would have been two lines.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/china-disables-google-functions-porn 2009-06-19T09:22:41-04:00 2009-06-19T09:22:41-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

China has disabled a feature of Google that it claims displays pornographic and other objectionable material.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-now-translates-persian 2009-06-19T07:40:00-04:00 2009-06-19T07:41:53-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Persian (Farsi) has now been added to the Google Translate tool so you can translate pages to and from Persian using Google Translate

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/freshness-recency-optimization 2009-06-18T18:57:05-04:00 2009-06-18T18:57:05-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Google's recent introduction of 'Freshness' options means that we need to be thinking about how to optimize for recent and fresh SEO rankings.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/random/analytics-search-keywords-keyphrases-difference 2009-06-18T12:14:08-04:00 2009-06-18T12:14:08-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

In your site analytics program, you may have referring search keywords and keyphrases. See the difference between search keywords and keyphrases.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/search-engines/early-bing-comscore-compete-numbers 2009-06-17T14:04:58-04:00 2009-06-17T14:04:58-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

See early traffic and market numbers for Bing as measured by comScore and Compete.com

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/google-nofollow-link-changes 2009-06-16T12:49:53-04:00 2009-06-16T13:21:06-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

interesting thoughts surround Google's change in rel=nofollow and Pagerank sculpting policy and how to adapt to the changes.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/inbound-link-text-diversity 2009-06-15T16:17:34-04:00 2009-06-15T16:18:34-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Using diverse inbound links with different anchor text can be a good thing for SEO, but there are a few things you should know...

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/webjam2007-slides 2007-09-24T21:51:22-04:00 2007-09-24T21:51:22-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Darrin J. Ward shares the Webmaster Jam 2007 Slides / Presentation

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/research-papers 2007-08-04T02:21:13-04:00 2007-08-04T02:26:01-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Academic papers are among the most common sources of thought-provoking material in SEO. This article elaborates a little and links to some of the very most useful documents for SEO

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/bad-robots-prevention 2007-07-19T10:12:18-04:00 2007-07-19T10:12:18-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

If there is anything that is important when it comes to website ranking, we know it's unique content. So, how do we protect against people from stealing it and scraping?

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/googlebot-css-javascript 2007-07-18T14:19:23-04:00 2007-07-18T14:19:23-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Darrin talks about how Google downloads include files such as JavaScript (.js) and Style Sheets (.css), and retroactively determines when it might have all began.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/google/excessive-checkout 2007-07-16T10:46:03-04:00 2007-07-16T13:46:08-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

This is a bit of an eyesore.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/faq 2007-07-11T16:05:30-04:00 2007-07-11T16:05:30-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

This page is a list of some commonly asked SEO questions - along with answers. Old, but perhaps of interest to some!

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/webjam-2007 2007-07-11T14:54:03-04:00 2007-07-11T15:07:34-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

It has been nearly a full year since the first Webmaster Jam session, where Darrin J. Ward spoke on SEO. Darrin will be speaking again this year in September, Dallas, TX.

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/xerox-powerset 2007-02-12T19:06:57-05:00 2007-02-12T19:06:57-05:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

It is time for another one of those whacky claims: Powerset believe that they have the technology to better improve search engine results. 'Natural Language Processing' - Good?

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/mod_rewrite-www 2007-01-07T23:28:34-05:00 2007-01-07T23:28:34-05:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

I get asked about doing redirects quite often. The single biggest question in this area, I think, is how to get example.com redirecting to www.example.com - So here is how!

http://www.darrinward.com/blog/seo/interviews 2006-08-01T07:37:39-04:00 2006-08-01T07:37:39-04:00 Darrin Ward Darrin@DarrinWard.com

Several interviews with SEOs (including myself) were conducted by 14thc