http://giantslayer.net You can Win at the e-commerce game, search engine rankings, no matter your competion Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:35:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You'd have to be just about dead not to have heard the hoopla by now.  Honestly it's just part of the launch process that I find interesting - even amusing.  But here's the straight scoop: Had a lot of fun and got a lot of success stories started with our first ... http://giantslayer.net/2008/04/23/ok-its-true-im-opening-again/ Honestly social media is a bit of both. Heaven and hype. And if you've not been over to http://www.liveblueprints.com/seotalk/seo-proof-not-promises/ to view the fuller picture on social media please do so. What does bother me is the push many gurus put on the next new thing when often many tactics ... http://giantslayer.net/2008/04/10/social-media-heaven-or-hype/ See more at LiveBlueprints.com >>> http://giantslayer.net/2008/02/22/you-can-do-this-seo-is-simpler-than-you-think/ After my last post I received the following from Paul: "I've used the service you mentioned, Directory Maximizer, and I'd give it a thumbs up from my end as well. They did a fairly good job and the results worked well since I've used the service regularly as they keep adding ... http://giantslayer.net/2008/02/12/more-on-how-to-rank-on-the-search-engines/ Got a request from Bob this week: Hi I'm 19 and I've been making websites for two years. But the MAJOR problem is that they all can't get traffic. What's stopping me from making money is the obstacle of acquiring traffic. What do you recommend I do to get tons of ... http://giantslayer.net/2008/02/05/40/ Back on December 17 a Google representative announced the end of the Supplemental Index. Well at least that's how I think it was supposed to read. You can read the post on Google's Webmaster Central blog here. I'm pulling some of the more salient parts of the post below: "We ... http://giantslayer.net/2008/01/23/is-the-supplemental-index-really-dead/ I'm back here at GiantSlayer.net after an admittedly too long absence. What I hadn't counted on was the drain on my time that supporting our wonderful community at LiveBlueprints.com would take. For those of you who don't know about LiveBlueprints, I'm not going to plug it here but ... http://giantslayer.net/2008/01/13/after-a-too-long-absence/ I'm getting a few questions about my recent discussion about directories.  Paul asks: How does Google know if a link to your site is a paid link?  I remember you saying Google is preventing page rank from being distributed to a site if it's paid.  Wouldn't that make links from directories ... http://giantslayer.net/2007/08/25/questions-about-my-comments-on-links-from-directories/ Dropship vs. Inventory Recently we have received a flood of questions about how to go about sourcing products or finding wholsale suppliers. First of all, If you are new to the hard-goods e-commerce business you need to make a decision Inventory or Dropship. Starting out it's not much of a decision; do ... http://giantslayer.net/2007/08/19/product-sourcing/ I'm getting a lot of email these days and most of it I'm answering privately but a few trends are showing up in the question asking that I'd like to address.  Today I'll talk about one of these. I hear you talking about going out and getting one-way links, but not ... http://giantslayer.net/2007/08/13/quality-vs-quantity/