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Does Google Love WordPress?

by Mark Mason on August 25, 2010

google loves wordpress
I hear this all the time when people are talking about old-school static HTML sites versus newer WordPress sites.  They say it loud and proud as if it were a law of nature like gravity or something.

Google Loves WordPress!

The truth is (as far as I know) that there is no real data that says Google prefers static WordPress versus HTML (or vice-versa). There is no reason that they should care -- and I don't think that they do.

People say "Google loves WordPress" because they see WordPress because they see WordPress sites doing well in Google. The question is this: is this correlation, or causation? In other words, are these sites doing well because of WordPress, or for some other reason.

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Another Simple 62-Second SEO Tutorial

by Mark E. Mason on February 19, 2010

Hey there;

imageI was hanging out on Lynn Terry’s very cool private elite mastermind   forum (LearningWithLynn.com) this morning  and I ran into someone who asked for a simple explanation of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).  Here is what the poster said (I deleted and changed some stuff to protect her identity since LearningWithLynn.com is a private forum):

This may sound silly to the Pros, but your help would be appreciated as I really need to understand this aspect of my business.

I have been writing blog posts to my main site and have seen a number of them go to #1 on Google in a few days. The only thing I do is focus on keywords and especially long-tail keywords as taught by Lynn.

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Page Rank and Meta Tags

by Mark E. Mason January 15, 2010

Check this out.  I am working on an autoresponder series that includes SEO information.  I needed some additional content, so I turned to EasyPLR — Nicole just released a new SEO PLR Pack. So here is the thing — the content is so good in this pack, that I thought I would just publish excerpts [...]


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MW005 – Internet Marketing Podcast Transcript

by Mark E. Mason September 19, 2009

This is the Mason World Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast, Episode 5. You want to build a business that you can call your own, but you can’t imagine abandoning the security of your day job. You are confident that you can find a few hours a week to pursue your dreams of creating a business [...]


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Jon Leger Linking Tools Explained

by Mark E. Mason July 9, 2009

Hey there; The other day I sent an email out to my list that announced a discount (expiring July 10th) on Jon Leger’s linking products (1-Way-Links, 3-Way-Links, and My-Way-Links). That mailer generated a ton of questions about how the products worked and how they were different. I figured that the best way to answer those [...]

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Google Romance – April Fools Blast From The Past

by Mark E. Mason March 31, 2009

Update:  Looks like this was the foundation for GMail Autopilot. Now that is more like it. Is this Google’s April Fools joke this year? Lame.


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SEO: Number Of Competing Pages Is The Wrong Measure

by Mark E. Mason March 31, 2009

I have not written about SEO in a while, but it seems to me like everywhere I turn there is someone telling someone else how they should go look for niches with a low number of competing pages.  They use the logic that since there are relatively few people directly competing for the niche with [...]

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MasonWorld Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-01-26

by Mark E. Mason January 26, 2009

@rondavis007 thanks Ron. # @gushin bread was fantastic! # @rondavis007 TWIT? # Listening to NLP based podcast. Wondering if NLP really works, or is it just nonsense. # In the ER with youngest daughter and possible broken foot. Ouch! # Eating homemade jalapeno beer bread straight from the oven. Yum. # Finally celebrating Christmas with [...]


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