http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress Building Web Sites that work.. Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:26:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Vonage, who we’ve been fighting over a year regarding their corruption, is going down the tube. A U.S. District Court has barred them from signing any new customers. Their stock is below $4 now and has dropped below $3. Unfrotunately, they will take a lot of people’s money with ... http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2007/04/06/vonage-going-down-the-tube-2/ It use to be that Google did a “Google Dance” once a month indexing everything and if you were lucky you held on to your position or climbed up some. The less fortunates saw their site head for the back forty or disappear entirely. One of the famous ones ... http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2007/03/03/google-changes/ Last month was busy here working with 4 clients. There is a bad link problem on this site with many links to our SEO book site going to to an old domain name. We are fixing these with time, but the correct link to our seo book is http://www.the-seobook.com. We ... http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2007/03/02/spam-problem-and-more/ A few months ago if you searched Google on “miserable failure”, you’d find the bio of George W. Bush at the top of the list that was returned. Google tried to communicate that this wasn’t a political statment on their part, it was simply the result of their ranking algorithms ... http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2007/02/13/google-bombs/ One very important blog - if you haven’t found it - is Matt Cutt’s blog. Matt works at Google and has become the primary interface between Google and the SEO community. This is as close as you are going to get to the inside scoop on how Google works. You ... http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2007/01/25/google-inside-scoop-with-matt-cutts/ Yahoo has changed its bidding system (paid advertising) to compete more effectively with Google. You can find more details of this at: http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/01/08/the-new-bidding-system/ http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2007/01/18/yahoos-new-paid-advertising-system/ DMOZ is the without doubt the major directory on the Internet. It’s unlikely, however, that someone will search it for your website. Why, then, is it so important? It’s important because (1) it is updated by human operators (2) it’s free and (3) it is Google’s directory. If you ... http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2007/01/11/what-happened-to-the-dmoz-directory/ For the second time, we’ve had a client having problems with their email through Comcast. Comcast is blocking their email when using another host, even though they aren’t spamming. Contacting Comcast about it doesn’t do anything. Comcast is on our blacklist of hosts that support spammers at: http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/stopspam.pdf They are also ... http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2007/01/04/comcast-email-is-for-the-birds/ The level of spam is increasing dramatically, yet hosting systems and the Bush Administration are wimpys in all of this. One particularly agressive spam host is netplace.ru, with an email address of support@netplace.ru. LOTS of illegal spam comming from this guy. We suggest millions of users stomp this host until ... http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2006/12/14/spam-increasing/ Google Adwords has changed things a bit for their ads going into the holidays. Bid price has become more important for positioining your pages and the quality of the landing page less so. This, I presume, is to enhance Google’s profit during December. This means you may have to ... http://www.netadventures.biz/wordpress/2006/11/30/online-sales-and-the-holidays-part-ii/