http://www.petertdavis.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:34:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the 'gotchas' about buying sites is stats manipulation. I'm speaking specifically about website traffic, but this could equally apply to revenues or any other statistics that you take into consideration when buying a website. How do you verify what the seller is showing you is true? With traffic stats, ... http://www.petertdavis.com/253-how-do-you-verify-stats-when-buying-a-website In an interview with Stephan Spencer, Matt Cutts, the Google Spaminator admits that aggressive link buying is "more likely to help" than harm a website. Look for the quote a bit over half-way down the interview. This may be just stating the obvious, because anyone who is still buying links ... http://www.petertdavis.com/251-matt-cutts-says-link-buying-still-works I say 14 months, 3 days. It's going to take up too many resources for Google to make a go of it. It's going to get spammed to death, like Squidoo. Even the best pages will be thinly disguised self-promotion (except the ones Google employees do). What's your prediction? http://www.petertdavis.com/250-can-you-predict-google-knols-demise As of now, I'm putting my blog on www.petertdavis.com and redirecting www.petertdavis.net I'll sort any issue with the feed as it comes up. Getting ready to pull this blog out of mothballs. :) http://www.petertdavis.com/249-new-url RSSMagician Coupon I just got this in - I don’t mean to review RSSMagician, but to simply pass along a coupon to anyone who’s interested in buying RSSMagician. Use this when you purchase and you’ll save 20% on RSSMagician. LUCKYYOU124112 It also works on their other products such as BlogSolution. Here’s their site: http://www.rssmagician.com/ http://www.petertdavis.com/248-rssmagician-coupon   We’re getting too many phone calls from these people. Phone number 866-267-9392. Anyone else getting messages like this one? http://www.zealot.com/blogs/voice-message.wav We’re on the Federal ‘Do Not Call’ list. These calls are obviously a blatant attempt to skirt around that. If you’re getting calls from these people as well, please leave a ... http://www.petertdavis.com/246-866-267-9392 This is just dumb.  Somehow I got on one of Joel Comm’s mailing lists.  Fine, I’m on a million of them anyway, sometimes I read, sometimes not.  Today I read one from him, which references a website of his.  I looked at the website and noticed a really dumb error ... http://www.petertdavis.com/245-why-you-shouldnt-be-like-joel-comm Much of the time when I meet someone, I google them. Sometimes I’ll google them after meeting, but more importantly if it’s an arranged meeting with someone I’ll google them before meeting them. To me, this is normal. I’ve also been cognizant of whether others do some investigating of me. ... http://www.petertdavis.com/244-what-does-your-web-presence-say-about-you I don’t often blog just to say read what someone else has posted, but occasionally I see something that’s so thought provoking that it’s worth remembering the login to Wordpress and crank out a few sentences. John Andrews post about A “Market for Lemons”, a Nobel Prize, and Snake Oil ... http://www.petertdavis.com/243-the-seo-lemon   When I try to visit the following url: http://www.marketingprofs.com/5/destefano1.asp here’s what I see: Contrast that with what Google thinks you should see: Naughty, naughty. Just something I found when searching Google. http://www.petertdavis.com/242-look-whos-cloaking-today