Archive for May, 2007

Blogging, Robots.txt and the Supplemental Index »

A minor detail overlooked by most bloggers including myself is proper setup of your robots.txt file with your blog.
Here’s the situation suddenly a lot of your blog posts and indexed pages appear in the supplemental index for no reason. It’s all original content so why is it in the supplemental index?
It turns out Google also [...]

Spyfu Beta Users Get 50% Lifetime Discount »

If you were in the Spyfu beta program (which was free) you are offered a lifetime 50% fixed rate discount. Each beta user was emailed an announcement this week detailing the promotion with their own personal code plus 3 codes to distribute to friends
This knocks the price of the subscriptions to

Monthly Subscription $38.50 becomes [...]

Spyfu is out of beta- What is Spyfu anyway? »

Spyfu is out of beta! What exactly is Spyfu and why do I need to pay to use it.
Spyfu is primarily for keyword research- keyword research on your competitors and their keywords.
You can search for three types of things- terms, domains and company names.
From there you can drill down into Avg. Cost per click, [...]

What’s a Blogger Job and how do I get one? »

A new service offered by problogger.net is a job board for bloggers. A place where bloggers looking for jobs and various companies looking to hire bloggers meet.
Potential employers can post a job for 30 days for $50. This is actually quite a bargain for employers considering the pricing from the mainstream job boards like monster.com [...]