A friend of mine came back from the WordPress conference and someone speaking up on the dais said the same thing to the people there. I was stunned.

However, it did give me the chance to write a blog post in which I came up with the line “a Dedicated IP on a shared hosting server is not the web hosting world’s equivalent of a DisneyWorld FastPass.”.

I really like that line – it even makes me giggle.

A friend of mine came back from the WordPress conference and someone speaking up on the dais said the same thing to the people there. I was stunned.

However, it did give me the chance to write a blog post in which I came up with the line “a Dedicated IP on a shared hosting server is not the web hosting world’s equivalent of a DisneyWorld FastPass.”.

I really like that line – it even makes me giggle.

1) You claim to be an expert in something that
2) No one can prove you are doing right or wrong because the info you claim you have is proprietary and supposition and
3) if you use the tricks you came up with to work the system you think you know there’s a possibility that instead of helping your client you’ll hurt him worse than if he never came to you
4) and charge outrageously for it.

I mean, that really is brilliance. Ridiculous and maybe even unethical, but brilliant.

1) You claim to be an expert in something that
2) No one can prove you are doing right or wrong because the info you claim you have is proprietary and supposition and
3) if you use the tricks you came up with to work the system you think you know there’s a possibility that instead of helping your client you’ll hurt him worse than if he never came to you
4) and charge outrageously for it.

I mean, that really is brilliance. Ridiculous and maybe even unethical, but brilliant.

Just give a page a good title, make sure that menu and navigation links are descriptive… and that’s all you really have to do. All the other stuff does… pretty much nothing.

Just give a page a good title, make sure that menu and navigation links are descriptive… and that’s all you really have to do. All the other stuff does… pretty much nothing.

Heck, I have people that can find me locally (above locals that have been around longer than me) because I have the sense to write out every description of the local area on my site (county, city, area nicknames, surrounding towns, etc.).

Google mostly just cares about what’s on your site and how many (relevant) sites are linking to you. And you have to have decent content to get those links.

Yeah. That’s pretty much the bulk of the “trick”. And just what I’m constantly yammering at clients about too.

Heck, how many people can put in something like “Skippy” and show up in the top 15 on Google? (He used to be top 5 and beat the peanut butter and kangaroo…I think they learned the Google “trick” too!).

Heck, I have people that can find me locally (above locals that have been around longer than me) because I have the sense to write out every description of the local area on my site (county, city, area nicknames, surrounding towns, etc.).

Google mostly just cares about what’s on your site and how many (relevant) sites are linking to you. And you have to have decent content to get those links.

Yeah. That’s pretty much the bulk of the “trick”. And just what I’m constantly yammering at clients about too.

Heck, how many people can put in something like “Skippy” and show up in the top 15 on Google? (He used to be top 5 and beat the peanut butter and kangaroo…I think they learned the Google “trick” too!).

And everyone seems to be trying to trick their way up there. If these folks spent half the time that they spend on these “tricks” actually writing original site content no one has ever seen before….

Naaaaaa. That’s not as fun as trying to figger out The Google.

And everyone seems to be trying to trick their way up there. If these folks spent half the time that they spend on these “tricks” actually writing original site content no one has ever seen before….

Naaaaaa. That’s not as fun as trying to figger out The Google.