Carl’s SEO & Web Design Blog

We are getting several emails from people that say they have had the same experience with Vonage we have. Here is one from Charlotte, NC from Edward and included with his permission:
Charlotte, NC 28211
comments: I have the same problem with Vonage and Bell South. Both are pointing fingers. It has been over two months. I […]

By now Google should have finished their massive Bigdaddy indexing. Quite a few people experienced problems on this update. One of Google’s goals on this was to bring together multiple domain URLs that point to the same site so that they appear to Google as a single site. For example:
http://www.netadventures.biz/
http://netadventures.biz
http://www.netadventures.biz
http://www.netadventures.biz/index.html
and even http://www.carltown.net, is an […]

There are several differences between the directories and the search engines of the Internet. Here are a few:

A directory generally organizes sites by categories and subcategories. You choose the category for your listing. Search engines have no categories or organizational structure.

When submitting to a directory, you suggest your site to a human operator. The […]

Here are a few new features in Google. Unfortunately, for most of them you will be on a waiting list…
Create a Web Site
Google lets you create your own (and free) website using an easy-to-use page creator. Pages created in this way get no preferred treatment in search engine positioning - but hey, it’s free! […]

The problems Vonage is having with its customers are increasing. Back in November of 2005 when we first reported our problem with Vonage a Google search on vonage +support +blog returned 297,000 pages. A search on the same term in Google today returns 609,000 pages - more than doubling in about 4 months. Vonage […]

With a Bush Administratin and Congress that seems owned by te DMA, the business of stopping spam is in your own hands. And yes, it can be controlled. To quote Jim Louderback, Editor-in-Chief at PC Magazine:
We can’t rely on someone else to fix this problem…Although the bad guys are ultimately to blame, each of us, […]

Well, the latest Google dance is stabilizing. What did it do to your PageRank? More important, what did it do to your positioning on your keyword phrases and what did it do to your site traffic? Did it hurt or help you?
If your site dropped in the rankings, remember that Google is really trying to […]