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Technorati Battles Continue

Published on August 11, 2005 in Gnorb.NET Updates and SEO. 0 Comments

I just finished XHTML validating the site. Now for the RSS feeds. Maybe Technorati will finally start looking at my site.

Check it out: W3C Markup Validator

Edit:Victory is mine! My entries are now starting to show up in Technorati! Huzzah! huzzah! Huzzah! I looks like after the clean up, the Technorati spiders were finally able to work with the site. Sadly, it took me having to remove my Amazon links to do it. (Drat!) However, I think I know how to get around that. (See the post More on Technorati Problems for more information.)

For more information, check out this WordPress forums link.

More on Technorati Problems

Published on August 9, 2005 in SEO and WordPress. 0 Comments

I think I may finally have found what the problem with Technorati spidering my site is. I was planning to send them another message asking why they haven’t yet answered my first post when I noticed the following bit of information from http://technorati.com/help/publishers.html –

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Hello Mr Googlebot!

Published on August 9, 2005 in SEO. 0 Comments

I just noticed that the Googlebot visited Gnorb.NET. It doesn’t quite have the “Santa’s coming to town” feel, but it does help me understand how the spiders crawl my site. Using the Googlebot tracking WordPress plugin, I’m able to see that the bots were here yesterday. By the looks of it, the bot’s in love with my front page, having visited it once every 5 1/2 hours or so yesterday.

I guess it likes all that content.

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LinkedIn

Published on August 4, 2005 in SEO, Technology and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

After about of month of neglecting it, I finally checked one of the numerous email accounts not housed on this server. I was pretty surprised to find that I didn’t have that much mail, though what was there was pretty interesting. (It’s amazing the kind of things you find in old, unkept email accounts.)

As I logged in, I was expecting to see a lot of spam. To my surprise, there really wasn’t much there. (Hurray spam filters!) What I found instead was a couple of messages from would-be writing contracts and — to my surprise — a LinkedIn invitation from an old acquaintance of mine, Wayne H. Wayne is the owner of Blog Business World, a SEO/SEM firm based out of Canada. Previously, he was also a writer for a SEO website, which is where we met. (I used to be that site’s Chief Editor.)

It was surprising to see his name on my list of un-read emails, especially since it was there three times. The emails were invitations to join the LinkedIn network. Apparently, LinkedIn doesn’t take its invitations lightly. (I’m now glad they don’t.) Since it was Wayne who sent them, I said “What the heck. I’ll bite,” then went ahead and signed up with the program.

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