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The No Follow and Linking

How important is link scultpting? Apparently the LA Times thinks so. Notice all the red marks on their internal links? These have the rel="nofollow" attribute. What is the nofollow attribute? It was originally a plan from Google and the other engines to stop comment spam.... Read more →

Mortgage

Do you know the latin word for mortgage? It means Death Grip! That's probably a secret you want to keep to yourself lol. .. from medieval times when, if one fell on hard times, one solution was to seek to mortgage a property you already... Read more →

"Yahoo!?... Where R U?"

For a few years now, looking at backlinks thru Google using the link:http://www.url.com query was all but a waste of time. Much like putting any credence into the Google Page Rank bar. So thank goodness for Yahoo. And in fact, they put together a nice... Read more →

The Wizard Behind Googles Curtain

A story in the Register portends to expose Google's willingness to manipulate its own Algo generated results with people generated editorial. ..technology utopians began to herald Google as the conduit for a new form of democracy. Google was only too pleased to encourage this view.... Read more →

The Rescue/Bailout Explained

This is the rescue package explained by our nations top economists: Read more →

Tails, Blogs and Traffic! Oh My!

This is a tale of tails that include blogs and traffic. You have heard the pitch all over the web.The pitch is the promise of traffic just from writing anything. Implied in that is the lack of a need for any "SEO" because of a... Read more →

How Do You Triple Your Business?

Just Ask.... HouseBlogger started off way back in 2004 proclaiming that the web was best suited as a DM tool for real estate agents. DM means Direct response. Which implies that you start with a slippery chute that starts with traffic & finishes with the... Read more →

Obamas Propaganda Machine?

President elect Obama has been heralded before on HouseBlogger for his net savvy ability to get the grassroots to come out and vote. Now, politics is always a polarizing issue so please put away any bias you may have and please come with me as... Read more →

The Webs Influence and Social Web: A New Thing?

From politics, to markets, to opinion. The web can and does influence. The web is a syndication machine as distributed computing allows networks to talk with one another with ease. It is what has given us Google and their huge computing power. It is what... Read more →

Pownce on the New Media!

Pownce, one of many alternative Twitters, is now about dead. Six Apart, owner of TypePad (which powers HouseBlogger) just purchased them. And it seems they will disolve it into the Vox ap. This is the problem with new media. In a reccessionary world of reluctant... Read more →