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Heh heh.  Would you believe that I never set up Movable Type to kick out a daily archives page?

No wonder why I'm having all these directory listings with the search engines.

Oops. :)

Well, there's one good thing that came out of moving back over to wordpress.com. I'm now first listed over in Google when you search for 'drmike.' Check it out! :) It's a pity though that I'm only third when you write it correctly though. Have to work on that. Maybe I should start tagging all of my posts with 'drmike' and 'dr mike' edit: Actually had that on my to do list. Something else to knock off thte list as complete. :)

I'm sure you've head about Google Fight by now where you can Linus Torvalds matches up against Bill Gates or finally prove to yourself that Coke is better than Pepsi by comparing Google results between two different words. Bringing it to the next level we have Search Engine Smackdown. Using the heavy weights of the Search Engine field, see how much trivia you know about the history of the market. Technorati tags: Flash Games, Search Engines

Looks like Google has taken action on preventing future Google Bombs.

I just think there were more folks talking about this example of Google Bombing instead of actually doing it. That and the sites talking about Google bombs probably outweigh in importance the sites doing the bombing.

Biggest Moron Ever

Worst Web designer ever

That's the idiot I had to deal with a few weeks ago over on the WordPress.com support forums.

*sigh* I really like it when folks listen to me. :)

edit: Feel free to add in your own links to those sites if you want to help out. :)

I'm flipping through some of the posts about Google's recent broken PR update (All of my new sites have PR0s still.) and came across this suggestion of removing the "rel='nofollow'" bit from the comments.

I've got to admit that I'm kind of torn. While I can understand the need to have the tag in the links, most bloggers monitor what appears in their comments. I know I do. Anything that's spam gets removed.

I'm going to remove it from my WordPress setup and see what happens.

While searching for support for a thread over at the WordPress.com support forums, I came across this post over on Matt Cutts's blog. While it didn't help me with the issue of text size in Internet Explorer, I did find it interesting that he states that the latest upgrade of the Google Spiders would be discounting links that would be classified as "excessive reciprocal links, linking to spammy neighborhoods on the web, or link buying/selling." Makes me wonder now because I had thought of possibly supporting this site with the selling of some text adverts. I'm still waiting for see what and how Google rates us on the next update. For the old site, which is now a mirror, I got a Google PR5 right off the bat. Hopefully it'll be about the same this time through. :)

Occasionally, we'll talk about Google and page rank over at the WordPress.com Support forums. In my travels, I came across a site that keeps tabs on when Google does its updating of the databases and pageranks.

Looks like we're about due. :)

Andy gives us a few ideas on how to promote one's blog or website. Feel free to read the comments as well as this thread over on the WordPress.com Support forums.

I'm big on including links in the sigs of any posts that you make at forums. Search engines pick up on them as well as other forum readers.

Found a tool over in Weblog Tool Collection land:

SEO Analyzer Web Design Report

My back up blog got an 80 while both my main blog and the webcomic got 65s.

Read about it here.