Blind Ape Seo

 
Great collection of free icon sets for the desktop as well as for web projects.

Some are even available as  .eps files, all for free.

I did a lot of thinking about the content of this blog, and one thing struck me as important:

I have been holding back.

This blog has not seen a lot of the weird geekiness that is me.
Expect a lot more strangeness, nerdy posts and weird ideas from now on.

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You can find a neat lightbox plugin for wordpress over at ZEO.

Neat addition to my article about using it to multiply your available adspace.

Just thought you might like some of the webmaster tools offered at hostmasterwebtools.

You will find the usual suspects, such as a backlink checker, google datacenter query, Meta Tag Extractors, IP Locators, etc..

Nothing really new, but useful tools nonetheless.

Today I want to write about my observations concerning the recent GOOGLE algo update.

The Google ranking algorithm seems to put more weight onto the age of a domain than before.

How do I arrive at that conclusion?

Wonderfully coincident, I have just started a fun blog in English a few months ago.
The wonderful coincidence being that it is basically a copy of my German blog.

The German equivalent has been up for a few years, but the last months on the blogs are almost identical

• Same domain name .de and com
• Same WP setup
• Same posts
• …

Here now is the Google analytics from the month to date.

As we can see, the American blog just took a nice nosedive from one day to the other, while the German blog just continues in the same pace.

I checked the ranking for some keywords which drive people to both sites (even those lign up).

Almost needless to say, the English blog is found somewhere on site 3.
The German blog has risen to rank 2 or even 1 for some keywords even though it dropped one level in PR.

Witholding the conclusion that PR is utter bull, I guess I will hold on to some old domains I thought of chugging and think of something to do with them instead.

Cheers,
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