Common Footprints of Old Virgins, or Finding Sites to Buy for SEO

40 Year Old VirginSince there’s an upcoming session at SMX advanced titled “Buying Sites for SEO“, I figured the timing is finally right to hit the publish button on a post I wrote long ago about finding quality sites to purchase for SEO benefits.

The first time that I published this was about 2 1/2 years ago, and I was quickly asked by a well known SEO expert and friend (I won’t name any names, but he’s on the panel at the “buying sites” SMX session) to remove the post and wait until buying old virgin sites was common knowledge.
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Automatic Copyright Date Update Script for PHP, ASP, and Javascript

It’s a new year, and with that comes the annoying task of updating the copyright dates in the footer of all of your sites.

So this year make a resolution to never, ever do this again and just insert some code to handle the date for you. Examples in a few different languages are included below as well as a javascript version for static HTML pages:
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Wishing You Success In The New Year

2008 has arrived, and I have to say I’m extremely optimistic about this year. I have BIG plans for my business and personal life, so it looks like it’s going to be a wild but fun ride. I don’t have any new year’s resolutions, because I try to work on my long and short term goals daily (as opposed to once per year with new year’s resolutions).
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Next and Previous Buttons in AdSense Ads?

I was checking on one of my sites tonight when I noticed something I’d never seen before inside the AdSense block:

next/previous buttons
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Belated Blog Birthday and Favorite Post Recap

Blog Birthday CakeI could write an entire post about how hard I think it is to blog about SEO. Oh wait…I already did.

I just noticed that I missed my blog’s two year anniversary. Sorry blog, Happy Birthday. :)

I still suck at blogging, but please make my blog feel better by reading some of my favorite posts so far:
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