social blog roll with tag: SEO http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll Search In Pictures: Disposable Cups, Google's Great Firewall, &amp; Yahoo's Bird Problems http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291716716/080516-114550.php <p><a href="http://searchengineland.com/guides/search_in_pictures.php"> <img src="http://searchengineland.com/images/searchinpictures100.jpg" alt="Search In Pictures" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="3" width="100" height="100"></a> In this week's <a href="http://searchengineland.com/guides/search_in_pictures.php">Search In Pictures</a>, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. </p> <p><a Yahoo! SearchMonkey Now Open For Everyone http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291026955/080515-120000.php <p>Today, Yahoo! is <a href="http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000583.html">making</a> its SearchMonkey developer platform publicly available and is kicking things off with a launch party and a <a href="http://www.searchmonkeychallenge.com/">developer challenge</a>. As we noted a few weeks ago when <a href="http://searchengineland.com/080424-113600.php">SearchMonkey launched in private beta</a>, Yahoo! is encouraging the use of microformats and semantic web standards by providing an infrastructure that developers can use to build applications (using SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 15, 2008 http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291179243/080515-162530.php <p>Below is what happened in search today, as reported on <a href="http://searchengineland.com/">Search Engine Land</a> and from other places across the web.</p> <p><b>From Search Engine Land:</b></p> <ul> <li> <b> <a href="http://searchengineland.com/080515-121210.php">Carl Icahn Makes His Move To Oust Yahoo Board, Which Has "Completely Botched" Microsoft Merger Talks</a></b><br>As Danny reported earlier, Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is making a proxy move to oust the Yahoo board in an effort Carl Icahn Makes His Move To Oust Yahoo Board, Which Has "Completely Botched" Microsoft Merger Talks http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291031935/080515-121210.php <p>As Danny <a href="http://searchengineland.com/080515-072325.php">reported</a> earlier, Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is making a proxy move to oust the Yahoo board in an effort to reignite takeover talks with Microsoft. Just a few minutes ago a <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080515/nyth088.html">press release</a> was issued by Icahn explaining his intentions and rationale. </p> <p><a href="http://searchengineland.com/080515-121210.php">Click to continue reading...</a></p> <p><a href="http://feeds.searchengineland Search Engine Accreditation Programs, Google Tools, Part 2, &amp; Visual Map Of Website Links http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291606285/080516-082435.php <p><a href="http://searchengineland.com/lands/in-the-trenches.php"> <img border="0" src="http://searchengineland.com/images/inthetrenches100.jpg" alt="In The Trenches - A Column From Search Engine Land" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="3" width="102" height="102"></a> In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: Search engine accreditation programs, today's in-depth look, "Google Tools, Part 2" and this week's free tips and tools. <p><a Google Logo: First Laser Logo http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291617670/080516-084405.php <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rustybrick/2497132202/" title="Google Logo: First Laser by rustybrick, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/2497132202_27305af001_o.gif" width="298" align="left" hspace="3" height="110" alt="Google Logo: First Laser" /></a>Google has a special logo up on the <a href="http://www.google.com/">home page</a> today, a laser logo. </p> <p>The logo links to a search results for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=first laser&hl=en">first laser</a>, which shows image res Human Hardware: The Illusion of Conscious Searching http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291580922/080516-072603.php <p><a href="http://searchengineland.com/lands/just-behave.php"> <img border="0" src="http://searchengineland.com/images/justbehave100.jpg" alt="Just Behave - A Column From Search Engine Land" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="3" width="100" height="100"></a>You know what you’re doing, right? We are all rational beings. We are all blessed with huge neocortexes and use them on a regular basis. This is especially so when we do something as thoughtful as use a search engine. Our rational loop is kicked into high gear. Right? <p><a href="http://searchenginelan Yahoo To Icahn's Takeover Letter: We're Just Fine, Thank You Very Much http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291568845/080516-062850.php <p>Dear Carl. We here at Yahoo <a href="http://searchengineland.com/080515-121210.php">got your letter</a> telling us how much we suck. We think you suck more And let us tell you why. That's the short summary of Yahoo's <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080515/20080515006543.html">response</a> to Carl Icahn's letter yesterday telling Yahoo he will fight to oust their board and do a deal with Microsoft, assuming Microsoft is still willing. Plus, Yahoo does a deal with WPP on ad exchanges.</p> <p><a href="http://searchengineland.com/080516 Google Feeling Green: Testing Green Color Scheme http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291622296/080516-085336.php <p>iCrossing <a href="http://www.icrossing.co.uk/search-sense/wp/2008/05/02/google-testing-green-serps">reported</a> noticing that Google is showing a green user interface within the Google Directory search results and also, in some occasions, for main Google web search results. </p> <p>The most shocking green interface is when you look compare the typical blue bar to a green bar, when Google is showing yellow ads. Here are screen captures I <a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017150.html">posted</a> at the Search Engine Roundtable, comp Google Adds Real Estate Pull-Down Filter To Maps http://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/searchengineland/~3/291680397/080516-094922.php <p>Google has offered the capacity to search real estate listings for a long time. For example, when entering queries such as "homes for sale in San Francisco," a "one box" result used to show <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2283/2491514573_0e87dc82fd_o.jpg">pull-down menus</a> for "location" and "listing type." Activating these boxes would then lead into a <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/2492335078_35022ced6f_o.jpg">specialized "Google Base" screen</a> that allowed for further refinement. I found those screens as recently as earlier this week Google removes the #6 penalty/filter/glitch http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/225122491/ After the great #6 Penalty SEO Panel Google’s head of the webspam dept. Matt Cutts digged out a misbehaving algo and sent it back to the developers. Two hours ago he stated: When Barry asked me about “position 6″ in late December, I said that I didn’t know of anything that would cause that. But ...] Update your crawler detection: MSN/Live Search announces msnbot/1.1 http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/233961176/ Fabrice Canel from Live Search announces significant improvements of their crawler today. The very much appreciated changes are: HTTP compression The revised msnbot supports gzip and deflate as defined by RFC 2616 (sections 14.11 and 14.39). Microsoft also provides a tool to check your server’s compression / conditional GET support. (Bear in mind that most dynamic pages ...] Save bandwidth costs: Dynamic pages can support If-Modified-Since too http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/237806974/ When search engine crawlers burn way too much of your bandwidth, this post is for you. Crawlers sent out by major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live Search) support conditional GETs, that means they don’t fetch your pages if those didn’t change since the last crawl. Of course they must fetch your stuff over and over ...] Nofollow still means don’t follow, and how to instruct Google to crawl nofollow’ed links nevertheless http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/240199379/ What was meant as a quick test of rel-nofollow once again (inspired by Michelle’s post stating that nofollow’ed comment author links result in rankings), turned out to some interesting observations: Google uses sneaky JavaScript links (that mask nofollow’ed static links) for discovery crawling, and indexes the link destinations despite there’s no hard coded link on any ...] You can’t escape from Google-Jail when … http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/242119819/ … you’ve boosted your business Web site’s rankings with shitloads of crappy links. The 11th SEO commandment: Don’t promote your white hat sites with black hat link building methods! It may work for a while, but once you find your butt in Google-jail, there’s no way out. Not even a reconsideration request can help because ...] The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/227371395/ A while ago I’ve staged a public SEO contest, asking whether the 401 HTTP response code prevents from search engine indexing or not. Password protected site areas should be safe from indexing, because legit search engine crawlers do not submit user/password combos. Hence their try to fetch a password protected URL bounces with a 401 ...] Why storing URLs with truncated trailing slashes is an utterly idiocy http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/230207840/ With some Web services URL canonicalization has a downside. What works great for major search engines like Google can fire back when a Web service like Yahoo thinks circumcising URLs is cool. Proper URL canonicalization might, for example, screw your blog’s reputation at Technorati. In fact the problem is not your URL canonicalization, e.g. 301 redirects ...] Sorry Aaron Wall - I fucked up http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/225560390/ My somewhat sarcastic post “Avoiding the well known #4 penalty“, where I joked about a possible Google #6 filter and criticized the SEO/Webmaster community for invalid methods of dealing with SERP anomalies, reads like “Aaron Wall is a clueless douche-bag”. Of course that’s not true, I never thought that, and I apologize for damaging Aaron’s ...] Comment rating and filtering with SezWho http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/226820690/ I’ve added SezWho to the comment area. SezWho enables rating and filtering of comments, and shows you even comments an author has left on other blogs. Neat. Currently there are no ratings, so the existing comments are all rated 2.5 (quite good). Once you’ve rated a few comments, you can suppress all lower quality ...] @ALL: Give Google your feedback on NOINDEX, but read this pamphlet beforehand! http://feeds.sebastians-pamphlets.com/~r/SebastiansPamphlets/~3/240883787/ Matt Cutts asks us How should Google handle NOINDEX? That’s a tough question worth thinking twice before you submit a comment to Matt’s post. Here is Matt’s question, all the background information you need, and my opinion. What is NOINDEX? Noindex is an indexer directive defined in the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) from 1996 for use in ...] Second Life Optimization, Moms Respond to Word of Mouth, Video and Social Networks Surge &amp; SLO http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/41107792/second-life-optimization-moms-respond-to-word-of-mouth-video-and-social-networks-surge-slo.htm Dear God, it’s me Natasha, please don’t let me start seeing articles calling Second Life Optimization, SLO in the near future. And please forgive the SEO in me who could not resist buying the domain names SecondLifeOptimization.com&#8230; ah hem and VirtualWorldOptimization.com. (FYI:  C.C. Chapman of Managing the Gray owns SecondLifeMarketing.com and VirtualWorldmarketing.com) The What Have ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit th Plinking (Say what?), Spamming Spurs MySpace Exodus, Microformats, Targeting RSS to Your Market &amp; TGIF http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/42474881/plinking-say-what-spamming-spurs-myspace-exodus-microformats-targeting-rss-to-your-market-tgif.htm Thank God It’s Friday. And if you are going to the Blogger Happy Hour in San Francisco after User Research Friday, I’ll see ya then. The What Have I Been Reading Reading List: Technology Enables Product Placement in CGM – New term alert: Plinking – “Plinking is the process of adding a product or service link ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit the site. <br />© www.ThatGirlFromMarketing.com Game Mechanics &amp; Social Software, Why Blogging Matters, Viral Video vs. Video Banners &amp; My Integrated Marketing Epiphany http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/40710626/21.htm After having a conversation with a brand marketing manager this weekend about how she and the other marketing managers at her company interact on campaigns I&#8217;ve come to the following conclusion: “Integrated Marketing is like Communism. It sounds great on paper, but doesn’t work in reality.” (Update: Unless you you are JoinRed.com) The ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit the site. <br />© www.ThatGirlFromMarketin Second Life Optimization From a User, Online Media and Consumer Electronic Purchases, 30% of MySpace Users Create Content? &amp; YAPR about Second Life http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/41558810/second-life-optimization-from-a-user-online-media-and-consumer-electronic-purchases-30-of-myspace-users-create-content-yapr-about-second-life.htm Last night I read Yet Another Press Release (YAPR) about a major brand’s launch into Second Life, and thought to myself, “Gosh, what’s the purpose at this point, especially if you aren’t offering anything to the community other than a virtual replication of your big corporate brand.” Then I read Sense.PSFK’s piece: There&#8217;s Gold In ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit the site. <br />© www.ThatGirlFromMarketing.co HP Says No Way to MySpace / Facebook, Writing a Social media Press Release, PDF SEO &amp; So Tired http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/44094185/hp-says-no-way-to-myspace-facebook-writing-a-social-media-press-release-pdf-seo-so-tired.htm As much as I would love to attend The SF New Tech November Meetup I am feeling beat, I have emails to respond to and ANTM to watch (ok, so I kid about needing to respond to emails&#8230;). The What Have I Been Reading Reading List: HP: Social networking not marketer friendly: “For Mary Bermel, Director ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit the site. <br />© www.ThatGirlFromMarketing.com Demographic Targeting for Organic Listings? Tactical SEO Needs Strategy &amp; Attending Social Bookmarking at SFTechsessions? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/43357873/attending-social-bookmarking-at-sftechsessions.htm Ok, so I&#8217;m pretty excited about actually scheduling time to go to my first SF Tech Session. And this one is on Social Bookmarking. It takes place tonight from 7-9 p.m. at CNET in San Francisco. Hopefully I&#8217;ll get to meet a few of you there - and have no ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit the site. <br />© www.ThatGirlFromMarketing.com Emetrics Summit Presentations, Statistics for Analytics &amp; IE7 Rendering Issues http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/39346255/20.htm I was going to post this yesterday.  But after downloading IE7 and realizing that my last template looked horrible in that browser, I spent the better part of last night trying to fix the style sheet.  You can see by the new template, that this is still a work in progress ;).  I guess I’m ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit the site. <br />© www.ThatGirlFromMarketing.com Marketing Strategy &amp; The Paris Hilton Law of Visibility, Matt McGee Interviews Become.com’s Jon Glick &amp; Social Bookmarking Tech Session Redux http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/43827946/marketing-strategy-the-paris-hilton-law-of-visibility-matt-mcgee-interviews-becomecom’s-jon-glick-social-bookmarking-tech-session-redux.htm I have so many notes from yesterday’s SF Tech Session on Social Bookmarking, that I’ll need more time to coordinate my thoughts. In the meantime, you can check out Daniel Riveong’s excellent recap: Social Bookmarking Talk at SF Tech Sessions as well Niall Kennedy’s Bookmarking and Social Sharing Trends (gosh I felt like ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit the site. <br />© www.ThatGirlFromMarketing.com Online Marketing in B2B, Plugins Help E-tailers on Social Networks, Time, Query Quality and Search Results &amp; Social Network Fatigue (aka: Social Saturation) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/44826031/online-marketing-in-b2b-plugins-help-e-tailers-on-social-networks-time-query-quality-and-search-results-social-network-feed-aka-social-saturation.htm “As much as people want to connect through the Internet, the practice also can have the opposite effect: Social Networking Fatigue,” so says the article Social Sites Becoming Too Much of a Good Thing (via: SteinBlog). It&#8217;s been noted in Compete Inc&#8217;s paper on Social Commerce that marketers are facing the challenge of Social Saturation: ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit the site. <br />© www.ThatGirlFromMarke What SEMPO Knows, Meta Descriptions Aren’t Dead &amp; SEO for Web 2.0… Sorta http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThatGirlFromMarketing/~3/56328992/what-sempo-knows-meta-descriptions-aren’t-dead-and-seo-for-web-20-sorta.htm I recently went to a Silicon Valley WebGuild event at Google on what I thought would be a discussion on SEO for Web 2.0. I thought I would hear discussions on optimizing Flex and AJAX and learning how we could make these Web 2.0 Technologies more search engine friendly. Instead, the discussion was more focused ...]<br/> <br/> This is a partial feed from <a href="http://www.thatgirlfrommarketing.com">That Girl From Marketing</a>. To read the full rant... I mean post, visit the site. <br />© www.ThatGirlFromMarketing.com Microsoft to buy Yahoo http://www.ibrian.co.uk/01-02-2008/microsoft-to-buy-yahoo/ Microsoft have pitched to buy Yahoo. I’m gutted. Last Autumn it was obvious that Yahoo stock was seriously undervalued by comparison to Google, Amazon, and other major internet companies. However, not only did I not have an investment portfolio, but the promise of the stock markets tanking made it a bad time to set up a portfolio ...] Important Notice - please read http://www.ibrian.co.uk/18-04-2008/important-notice-please-read/ I’m now blogging my secrets away at Internet Business. More explained here: Everything now changes on InternetBusiness.co.uk I work with small businesses you have never heard of - I work with massive corporations whose brands you walk past routinely on the high street. I’ve been interviewed by national media, national press, and spoken at international conferences. It’s time to ...] Lessons learned from speaking at SES London http://www.ibrian.co.uk/18-03-2008/lessons-learned-from-speaking-at-ses-london/ Speaking at SES London was exciting and daunting - to be honest, I’ve *always* wanted to speak at SES since I started doing SEO, and having two sessions to cover on link building was a dream - many thanks to Mike Grehan for the opportunity. A couple of clear lessons learned, though: 1. Presentations are Linkbait The two ...] Google vs Links sales: the worst is yet to come http://www.ibrian.co.uk/04-02-2008/google-vs-links-sales-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/ Aaron Wall posts about a trend that’s opened up to a lot of webmasters over the New Year - falling Adsense revenues. The chatter has been around for a while, and it seems the recent move to reduce the clickable space in Adsense could well be contributing - but the economic downturn hitting big corporate advertisers ...] How to determine brand potential http://www.ibrian.co.uk/22-12-2007/how-to-determine-brand-potential/ One thing I’ve struggled with - not least through trial and error - is how to determine a brand and build it. Lessons I have learned include: 1. Use familiar words to define a brand where possible 2. If using made up words, try to avoid more than 2 syllables 3. Thriving communities confer brand by sheer familiarity And of ...] Drupal: The Next King of CMS? http://www.ibrian.co.uk/26-12-2007/drupal-the-next-king-of-cms/ UPDATE: It appears there are some very interesting complaints about scalability with Drupal which apparently still hold - ie, great for a small site, but if you want it to run something larger, you’d better have some good developers on your books. Conclusion? Drupal promises much, but could still be a victim of its own ...] iBrian to speak at SES London 2008 http://www.ibrian.co.uk/07-01-2008/ibrian-to-speak-at-ses-london-2008/ I have *always* wanted to speak at SES. I love SEO and especially link building - my speciality. I love talking about the subject, and I love talking about my experiences with link dev work. The trouble is, I’m usually too busy to keep any pace with blogging the subject - plus there’s also the concern ...] Intel CEO&#8217;s amazing risk quote http://www.ibrian.co.uk/08-01-2008/intel-ceos-amazing-risk-quote/ I was amazed to see this quote from Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, on the BBC today: Our business model is one of very high risk: We dig a very big hole in the ground, spend three billion dollars to build a factory in it, which takes three years, to produce technology we haven’t invented yet, to ...] Needed: WP coder &#038; webmaster http://www.ibrian.co.uk/31-01-2008/needed-wp-coder-webmaster/ I am so busy at present - far too busy in fact - and desperately need some freelancers to help on webdev work. I currently need: 1. Wordpress Webmaster Must be comfortable using CPanel, including for setting up databases Must be able to set up Wordpress installs Must be able to modify Wordpress settings (such as permalink rules, set up ...] Hardest lesson in business: Managing growth http://www.ibrian.co.uk/18-03-2008/hardest-lesson-in-business-managing-growth/ I’m at something of a business crisis point at present - managing growth. Simply put, my workload is far too large for me to handle. This is a big part of trying to expand my business - not so much client side, but general services side. Because I’ve always been a hands-on person, I used to do everything ...] Actual Sighting Of Google Video Results Under AdWords Listings In Right Column http://www.seodisco.com/google-video-results/ I’ve always been a big fan of the Ask3D SERP UI. It looks as though Google is testing a layout along those lines… Danny Sullivan wrote about AdWords Video, last month, with a mockup of what it might look like, but this layout is a bit different. My good friend and fellow SEO ...] Go Win Yourself A Copy Of Aaron Wall’s SEO Book http://www.seodisco.com/go-win-yourself-a-copy-of-aaron-walls-seo-book/ Disclaimer: I got paid to write this. If you don’t have a copy of Aaron Wall’s SEO Book, you might as well just go head on over to Internet Babel and subscribe to the email feed for a chance to get it for free. Internet Babeler, Nick Sullivan, is trying to get more RSS subcribers on his ...] Google Universal Listings Not Taking Away From Original 10 Spots In SERPs Anymore? http://www.seodisco.com/google-universal-serp-update/ Back in April, I wrote about the manner in which the Google Local Onebox was appearing on the results page. Up until a few days ago, the Onebox/Universal listings were taking away a number of the 10 spots available on the results page, as shown here from a screenshot taken of a search for ...] Warning: This Is A Stupid Post http://www.seodisco.com/warning-this-is-a-stupid-post/ So you like to read stupid posts, eh? I just really wanted to write something really quick. I ended up thinking about what to write, longer than it probably would’ve taken me to write something worthwhile. Hmm… Should I have put a comma between write and longer in the previous sentence? When I say the ...] Google Is Updating Their Technical Fiddly Bits http://www.seodisco.com/google-local-unavailable-message/ I just went in to add a listing to Google Local today and, instead of seeing the normal page, apparently Google is working on things and I was presented with this page: (click on image to enlarge) It reads: The Google Local Business Center is unavailable for the next hour We appreciate your patience as we perform some routine ...] Sweet New FireFox Extension For Quick &amp; Easy Domain Lookups http://www.seodisco.com/domain-lookups-firefox-extension/ It seems like there’s been more and more talk about domaining going on around the SEO-sphere, lately. I know that I’ve been buying more and more domains, in recent months. My UK buddy, Richard Kershaw, just emailed me about a new FireFox extension that he created called Domain Lookup. It a really sweet tool ...] Start 2008 Right: Internet Marketing Ninja Style http://www.seodisco.com/internet-marketing-ninjas/ I initially found out about Internet Marketing Ninjas last month at PubCon, where I picked up this nifty little tchotchke: Membership was just opened up, yesterday. Since I found out about the service, I’ve been saving up my money here and there so that I can sign-up as soon as possible. I plan to ...] Get to Know SEO Consultant Adam Moro http://www.seodisco.com/seo-consultant-adam-moro/ I haven’t been writing as much as I would like to on my SEO blog, here… but a lot of other things have been keeping me busy. I’m actually writing this from Seoul, South Korea because I was skimming through my RSS feeds and I felt like I had to write real quick to say that ...] Synergize Your Twitter Account And Your WordPress Blog With Twitter Tools http://www.seodisco.com/twittertools/ I’ve had my Twitter account for about a year, now, but I didn’t really “get it” at first - mostly because there weren’t very many tweeps (twitter/peeps) on there that I cared to tweet to, or with. It wasn’t until November that I saw more and more tweeps that I knew, thus ...] NEW Google Advanced Search Page http://www.seodisco.com/google-advanced-search/ I just happened to notice that the Google Advanced Search page has a new look: (Click on image to enlarge) Here’s what the same page looks like with the Plus Box expanded: (Click on image to enlarge) This is how it used to look (still up on Google.ca and other country extensions): (Click on image to enlarge) I use ...] Free Preview Copy of Best Website http://www.highrankings.com/content2657 We've got a special offer for you today a completely free preview copy of Nelson Bates' 'Best Website' ebook. How to Make an Emotional Connection Through Your Copywriting http://www.highrankings.com/emotional-connection If you know where to look, you can easily find clues about what people are feeling. Once you discover that, making the connection is simple. Diagnosing the SEO Health Of Your Website http://www.highrankings.com/sel-seo-health Is your website sick? In many ways, SEO consultants are like doctors, only instead of analyzing your personal health symptoms, we analyze the overall health of your website. It's true we're not working with life or death situations the same way doctors do, but having a website that is not receiving all the targeted search engine traffic it could be, is a sign of a sick website. HRA Wrap-up 231 http://www.highrankings.com/wrapup231 Let's see ... what's been going on lately that I can talk about? Oh yeah...I almost forgot about last week's family reunion for my grandmother's 100th b-day in Florida. Optimizing Articles for Long-tail Keywords http://www.highrankings.com/long-tail-articles Regarding long-tail keywords, I often find it difficult optimizing them in an article, mainly because it can look unnatural if you include them too often. How do you recommend I deal with this problem? Apart from in the headline, at what density do they need to be mentioned in an article in order to maximize our chances of getting good listings? 302 Redirects Appear As 200 Status http://www.highrankings.com/302-200 If you're a true techie geek, you will like this High Rankings forum thread where member 'doughayman' notices some weirdness in his server logs. With some probing, forum moderator and all-around server wizard 'Randy' helps diagnose the problem, and all is well again. SEM Scholarship Contest http://www.highrankings.com/sem-scholarship I'm honored to have been asked to be a judge in Marketing Pilgrim's third annual Search Engine Marketing Scholarship contest. There are a ton of great prizes for the winner, including a free seat at an upcoming High Rankings Training Class! SEO Consequences to Adding a Sharing Button http://www.highrankings.com/sharing-button While this question may not be directly SEO-related, I'm wondering if there might be any negative SEO implications to including a social bookmarking and sharing button to the more popular pages on our website to leverage some of the popularity of social networking? 2 Domains, 1 Website http://www.highrankings.com/2-domains I have a client who has 2 domain names: namehere.com and differentnamehere.us pointing at the same IP address. Is it bad SEO to have multiple domain names for the same site? And will this negatively impact search engine results for each? Lost Toolbar PageRank http://www.highrankings.com/lost-pr The front page of my website has a toolbar] PageRank of 4 and most of my inner pages had a PageRank of 3. After this quarter's Google toolbar] update, my homepage remained a 4, but most of my inner pages went down to a 2. Not at the SMX? Want to be? I can help… http://www.sugarrae.com/not-at-the-smx-want-to-be-i-can-help/ <p>Its that kid again, <a href="http://www.streko.com" title="i hate your seo">Michael Streko</a> - the one who was unable to write a post because of some crappy car accident, remember<a href="http://www.sugarrae.com/it-was-going-to-be-awesome/"> it could have been awesome</a>? Well guess what - its going to be awesome. While Rae is out <strike>drinking</strike> speaking at the SMX I have invaded her blog for the guestwhore post that should have been&#8230;</p> <p><!--more--><br /> <img src="http://www.toprankblog.com It was going to be awesome… http://www.sugarrae.com/it-was-going-to-be-awesome/ <p>Sunday, the day of god. The day that was bestowed upon me to take a shot of awesomeness &amp; go down in history as the last guestwhore for guestwhore week round 2. My name is <a href="http://www.streko.com" title="i hate your seo">Michael Streko</a> - I work for a <a href="http://www.venturecomm.com" title="New York SEO">SEO company in New York City</a> &amp; a <a href="http://www.exclusivenet.com" title="Affiliate Network">Affiliate Network</a>.</p> <p>It was going to be amazing, it was going to be ground shattering - the pic The Camera Adds 10 Pounds or A Girl’s Guide to getting ready for conference season http://www.sugarrae.com/the-camera-adds-10-pounds-or-a-girls-guide-to-getting-ready-for-conference-season/ <p>If this is entirely incoherent, it isn&#8217;t my fault. I blame Lisa. Speaking of which, she&#8217;s writing my introduction for me so:</p> <p>Hi. I’m not sure how I got commissioned into writing this, but okay. If you’re scratching your head trying to figure out who the hell this Susan Esparza chick is, I’ll help you out. Susan is Senior Editor at <a href="http://www.bruceclay.com.com">Bruce Clay, Inc.</a>, which basically means she corrects my blog typos, plays a lot of Scrabulous, and silently resents the attention I get. She’s been at B Be a Normalizer - a C14N Exterminator http://www.sugarrae.com/be-a-normalizer-a-c14n-exterminator/ <p>Hi Sugarrae readers! I’ve prepared something a little less fun today. To make my guest post worthwhile (and to donate about 3,000 words of heavy SEO material to Rae’s blog), we’re going back to SEO Kindergarten to review one of the most basic tenets of SEO – <strong>canonicalization</strong> (C14N) - in excruciating detail. Examples here include excerpts from one chapter of <u>Advanced URL Management</u>, a work in progress currently looking for a publisher. (If anyone from O’Reilly is reading this – let’s talk)</p> <p>If you’re in Good Financial Advice for Startups: AKA Calacanis is Right http://www.sugarrae.com/valuable-financial-advice-for-startups/ <p>I stumbled across a Techcrunch post about how startups need to manage money and hiring processes <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/08/startups-must-hire-the-right-people-and-watch-every-penny/">or risk failing</a> that came as a result of a post by Jason Calacanis about <a href="http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/how-to-save-money-running-a-startup-17-really-good-tips/">how startups can save money</a> that was then <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/calacanis-fires-people-who-have-a-life/">sensationalized</a> and <a href="htt 58 Reasons Why Sugarrae Is Paying For My Rehab http://www.sugarrae.com/58-reasons-why-sugarrae-is-paying-for-my-rehab/ <p><em>Guestwhore post from <a HREF="http://www.themadhat.com/">TheMadHat</a></em></p> <p>So many moons ago <strike>Rea</strike> Rae offered to let me be a whore mongering pirate and do a guest post. Well&#8230;what the hell am I supposed to write? It had to be something a little different than calling someone a douchebag or teaching you how to piss off <a HREF="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/">the Cutter</a>. Coincidentally this was the same week I purchased my digital HD camcorder so I figured it would be a nice place to d SEO Osmosis Quiz http://www.sugarrae.com/seo-osmosis-quiz/ <p><em>Rhea&#8217;s required intro:</em><br /> My name’s <a href="http://www.rheadrysdale.com/blog/">Rhea</a> as in Dia-, Gono- and Pizza. ew] Yeah, my parents doomed me to playground hell. In 2004 I stumbled into the acronym-filled SEO world and have since grown to love it. I write occasionally (emphasis on occasionally) for Search Engine Journal (check it out <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/author/rheadrysdale/">here</a>) and work full-time as an Internet Marketing Manager for a staffing and recruitment company.</p> & Lamb Chops Anyone? Don’t Be an SEO Sheep http://www.sugarrae.com/lambchops-seo-sheep/ <p><a href="http://www.winningtheweb.com"><img border="0" src="http://www.winningtheweb.com/wp-content/uploads/gyutaeface.jpg" alt="Internet Marketing Strategy" style="margin: 5px 10px; float: left" / ></a></p> <p>Hello everyone,</p> <p>For those of you that don&#8217;t know (and that&#8217;s probably all of you), my name is Gyutae Park and I work as a professional SEO at a top agency in New York City (blah blah blah). I also run a blog on Internet marketing strategy at <a href="http://www.winningtheweb.com">Winning the Web</a 7 Business Tips You Can Learn from your Neighborhood Whore http://www.sugarrae.com/7-business-tips-you-can-learn-from-your-neighborhood-whore/ <p>Good day fellow <s>whores</s> friends. While most of you are probably still drooling on your pillows watching Saturday morning cartoons today, I will be wondering who the hell will actually be reading this right now. For those that don’t know me, my name’s Joseph Stein from <a href="http://www.area1labs.com/blog">Area 1 Labs</a>. When I’m not working or watching <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=E9_amg-Aos4">ingenious infomercial products</a> I always enjoy learning new things or playing some good old Texas Hold’em.</p> <p& Sarah East of Popcrunch Exposes Sugarrae http://www.sugarrae.com/sarah-east-of-popcrunch-exposes-sugarrae/ <p><center><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/elGiuG0M0yE&#038;rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/elGiuG0M0yE&#038;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></center></p> <p>Special thanks to Sarah East of <a href="http://www.popcrunch.com/show/">the Popcruch Show</a>.</p> <p>This post came from the Sugarrae Take A Moment: Is It Time To Change? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/285233703/ <p>Let’s start this post out with a couple of quotes: one old and one new.</p> <p>Albert Einstein supposedly said, “<em>Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.</em>“. I’m sure we all occasionally bang our heads against a wall, repeatedly, without even realizing what we are doing. I know I do. I assume you do too.</p> <p>Someone recently wrote this about me in a forum post. “<em>She is always coming up with something new to think about. Or something that you haven’t thought about for a long time, that you darn Dr. Strangelink, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Google bomb http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/275269900/ <p><em>The following post is a guest post. SEO Scoop endeavors to showcase and highlight guest bloggers, in the hopes of giving up and coming bloggers and SEOs a chance to shine. Please take some time to appreciate their efforts by visiting their sites, or by networking with them.</em></p> <p><cite>SEO Scoop does not necessarily agree with or condone any tactics mentioned by guest posters.</cite></p> <hr /> <p><strong>By:</strong> Ken Jones</p> <p>I noticed something interesting about the trackbacks in my spam filter the other day. Something that’s been reinforced by Yahoo Site Explorer Terrible Landing Page Rant http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/276232306/ <p><em>Be forewarned: I may have several rant posts coming at you over the next few days. Here’s the first.</em></p> <p>Let’s get one thing very, very clear. A good search ranking is wonderful … but for all that is sacred in the geekdom, please don’t ruin a perfectly good ranking with a terrible landing page!</p> <p>Being the geek that I am, a large proportion of my daily searches are for software, scripts, or applications of one sort or another. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the landing pages that I am directed to from those top 10 rankings are so bad that th Open Source Support Not Always Very Supportive http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/276982883/ <p><i>I warned you there would be more rants on the way. Here’s one.</i></p> <p>I love open source apps. Really, I do. Free is so warm and welcoming, isn’t it? But open source support - well, that’s a whole ‘nuther ball game. That’s not always so warm and welcoming. Let’s take one example. How about, hmmm… WordPress! I love WordPress, I surely do. But trying to resolve a problem at their forums is often like trying to cut off your arm with a butter knife (both slow and painful).</p> <p>Sorry, Lorelle, I have the utmost respect for you, but <a The 2,000th SEO Scoop Post http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/287473950/ <p>I just noticed that there were 1,999 posts here, so I thought, hmmm…. I should do something special for the 2000th! Unfortunately, my creative brain cells were on vacation, so I couldn’t come up with anything cool. Instead, I thought I’d just push you towards a series of posts I just completed over on my DazzlinDonna blog. I did get a little flack for spreading the posts out and being wordy, but I did that for a reason. Maybe it wasn’t a good reason, I don’t know, but hey, it was A reason. <img src='http://www.seo-scoop.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_ Online Reputation Management Guides http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/283521613/ <p>Glen Allsop (aka ViperChill) asked me if I wanted to take a look at his new ebook that he has just published, <a href="http://www.viperchill.com/blog/online-reputation-management-ebook/">All You’ll Ever Need to Monitor and Manage Your Reputation Online</a>, and of course, I said yes. I’ve watched Glen rise up to be a very knowledgeable young man, and I was anxious to see what he has to say about online reputation management. I know that he has decided to steer his company in that direction (moving slightly away from SEO), so I was definitely curious.</p> <p>He is selling the ebook Make Those Image Hotlinkers Give You Backlinks! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/279280456/ <p>Ever get tired of people stealing your bandwidth because they hotlink your images? I used to have Myspacer’s sucking my bandwidth dry because their pages got so much traffic, and they were using my images for their backgrounds, etc. There are several ways of dealing with this issue, one of which is showing a different image to them than they bargained for, but there’s a new widget script available now that is even better - it gets the thieving hotlinkers to give you a backlink! Woot!</p> <p><a href="http://www.funscripts.net/javascript-widgets/">LinkMyPics</a> is subtitled <i How And Why I Made The Switch From Vista To Linux (Ubuntu / Kubuntu) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/289307313/ <p>A week or so ago I took a scary leap that turned out to be not so scary after all. I installed Ubuntu on my Vista PC. I’ve been researching this for a while now, and knew that I could dual-boot, so the plan was that I would install some flavor of Linux without getting rid of Vista. I assumed I would play with Linux for a few days, tire of it, and would be no worse for the wear when I moved back to Vista (which would still be installed and intact on my machine).</p> <p>I was wrong.</p> <p>I was wrong…</p> Your Voice Counts! How To Turn Your Answers Into Inbound Links! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/277512506/ <p><em>The following post is a guest post. SEO Scoop endeavors to showcase and highlight guest bloggers, in the hopes of giving up and coming bloggers and SEOs a chance to shine. Please take some time to appreciate their efforts by visiting their sites, or by networking with them.</em></p> <p><cite>SEO Scoop does not necessarily agree with or condone any tactics mentioned by guest posters.</cite></p> <hr /> <p><b>By:</b> Jeremy Rivera</p> <p>My friend has a young daughter who just learned the most important thing in the English language… How to ask a question. In our day to day lives, we How to Use WordPress Like a Ninja http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seoscoop/~3/274578318/ <p><em>The following post is a guest post. SEO Scoop endeavors to showcase and highlight guest bloggers, in the hopes of giving up and coming bloggers and SEOs a chance to shine. Please take some time to appreciate their efforts by visiting their sites, or by networking with them.</em></p> <p><cite>SEO Scoop does not necessarily agree with or condone any tactics mentioned by guest posters.</cite></p> <hr /> <p><strong>By:</strong> Joshua Ardoin</p> <p>Are you looking for some tips on how to use WordPress like a ninja? Well, you are in luck. I recently attended <a href="http://dallas.wordcamp Writing for People (and Search Engines): How to improve click-through rates for organic listings http://hamletbatista.com/2008/01/15/writing-for-people-and-search-engines-how-to-improve-click-through-rates-for-organic-listings/ Another new year has come and many of us are still analyzing the balance of successes and failures of the previous one. It is definitely a useful chore. I am happy to count this blog as one of my successes. It was humbling to see it included in SearchEngineLand’s blogroll and nominated for Best SEO ...] Share and Share Alike http://hamletbatista.com/2007/12/11/share-and-share-alike/ Last May I decided to start this blog as the key driver for my personal branding strategy. The idea was that, in order to attract attention, I would share my most valuable ideas and insights. My geeky side loves to teach and share, but my business side tries to prevent me from releasing potentially sensitive ...] Google: The New Market Gorilla http://hamletbatista.com/2007/12/06/google-the-new-market-gorilla/ Every company, big or small, faces unfavorable market conditions at some point in its trajectory. The common sense thing to do is to try to adapt—modify the business strategy to survive and continue thriving. Unfortunately some companies, especially big and successful ones like Google or Microsoft, are stubborn and prefer that the market adapt to ...] A Radically New Concept in Keyword Research http://hamletbatista.com/2008/03/12/a-radically-new-concept-in-keyword-research/ SEO expert and blogger Donna Fontenot recently honored me with a positive review of my recently launched software, RankSense. I must admit that I was not born a salesman and I detest hype and hyperbole, so it feels great when my peers see the value in what I am trying to bring to the market. ...] How to Think Like an SEO Expert http://hamletbatista.com/2008/03/06/how-to-think-like-an-seo-expert/ If you want to become an expert you need to start thinking like one. People perceive you as an authority in your field not because you claim you are, but by listening to what you say or reading what you write. From my personal experience, the key seems to be the originality, usefulness and depth ...] How to Act Like an SEO Expert: Four mistakes to avoid when performing SEO experiments http://hamletbatista.com/2008/03/07/how-to-act-like-an-seo-expert-four-mistakes-to-avoid-when-performing-seo-experiments/ In yesterday’s post I explained my creative process for uncovering new and interesting search marketing ideas. In this post I want to focus on the other critical element toward becoming an expert: endless experimentation. Of course testing must be done carefully to avoid arriving at the wrong conclusions, which will bring us to another of ...] Baiting and Beseeching — Obtaining the right mix of chasing links and getting them to chase you http://hamletbatista.com/2008/03/28/baiting-and-beseeching-obtaining-the-right-mix-of-chasing-links-and-getting-them-to-chase-you/ In this blog, I’ve often spoken about different link-building strategies. Generally, we can break them down into two categories: chasing links vs. letting them chase you. Both methods have their pros and cons, and personally I’ve found that a mixed approach of link acquisition and link baiting is best. In this post I’m going to ...] My SMX West Experience and Pitching the Business Value of SEO http://hamletbatista.com/2008/03/05/my-smx-west-experience-and-pitching-the-business-value-of-seo/ I haven’t been blogging as often as usual lately and it’s about time I get back on track. I attended my first search marketing conference last week. I do not consider myself much of a conference-goer and I am not really much of an extrovert. Previously, I’d been to only two conferences—JavaOne in 2003, but ...] Link Mass: How to determine how much effort it takes to rank for any particular keyword phrase http://hamletbatista.com/2008/03/12/link-mass-how-to-determine-how-much-effort-it-takes-to-rank-for-any-particular-keyword-phrase/ Based on the emails and response I received for my contribution to the “Link Building Secrets” project, I know that I am not the only one that loves to use metrics to measure how close I am to my goals. Thanks to everyone for your emails and encouraging comments. In this post I want to ...] The Unsuspecting Recruit: Why every SEO MUST learn Internet security http://hamletbatista.com/2008/02/06/the-unsuspecting-recruit-why-every-seo-must-learn-internet-security/ Internet security is a big problem, and it isn’t just for the IT staff anymore. It affects us as SEOs. Don’t believe me? Consider the incident reported at the end of last year by security research firm Sunbelt Software. …criminals are now combining SEO tactics and booby-trapped Web pages, and doing it systematically. By posting tens ...] Make Web Analytics Actionable: Focus On “What’s Changed” http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/274567037/make-web-analytics-actionable-focus-on-whats-changed.html Here is a dirty little secret: Unless you are a exceptionally content heavy website And your content changes every day, it is quite unlikely that your Top 25 of anything changes all that much. So why do we insist on stuffing our dashboards with top x or this and top y of that and top z ...] The “Action Dashboard” (An Alternative To Crappy Dashboards) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/280663285/the-action-dashboard-an-alternative-to-crappy-dashboards.html Know the difference between a Reporting Squirrel and a Analysis Ninja? One is in the business of providing data. One is in the business of providing, to use a old fashioned word, information. This one of the core reasons why most dashboards are “crappy”, i.e. they are data pukes that provide little in terms of context and even ...] Benefits Of Blogging - A Practitioner’s Perspective http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/291668307/benefits-of-blogging-a-practitioners-perspective.html Two things in this post: 1) Quick reflection on a birthday. 2) My perspective on the benefits from blogging. Hopefully you’ll have as much fun reading this as I did writing the post. Act 1. Occam’s Razor (the web analytics blog, not the principle!) is exactly two years old today. First post: Traditional Web Analytics is Dead. I can’t believe it ...] Context Is King Baby! Go Get Your Own. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/253529036/context-is-king-baby-go-get-your-own.html Common complaint: “Sure I have web analytics data, I have no idea what to do! I swear I have really tried hard and looked at all possible reports. I can’t find anything interesting“. Does this sound like something you would say? Know what the single most important missing ingredient? Context. Often numbers don’t “speak” to you, or as ...] Excellent Analytics Tip #13: Measure Macro AND Micro Conversions. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/258177862/excellent-analytics-tip-13-measure-macro-and-micro-conversions.html We love our conversion rates. :) Really really. Part of me is glad because my book and the Trinity strategy and the Web Analytics 2.0 mindset all stress the importance of measuring Outcomes. No Outcomes = No Happiness. But I have come to realize that we are not being the best we can be by focusing on just ...] Web Analytics Flamenco in Barcelona! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/263204066/web-analytics-flamenco-in-barcelona.html Flamenco: A Spanish musical genre with strong, rhythmic undertones and is often accompanied with a similarly impassioned style of dance characterized by its powerful yet graceful execution, as well as its intricate hand and footwork. (Source) Web Analytics: A data analysis genre with strong, rhythmic undertones, often accompanied with a similarly impassioned analyst whose life is ...] 4Q - The Best Online Survey For A Website, Yours Free! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/245500015/4q-the-best-online-survey-for-a-website-yours-free.html It gives me a great deal of delight to introduce 4Q: A true permission based on-exit survey that provides an easy to deploy, easy to use and easier still to analyze framework to answer 4 questions that no website owner can live without. It is the antidote for the most pressing of web analytics challenges: the ...] Standard Metrics Revisited: #5 : Conversion / ROI Attribution http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/249408962/standard-metrics-revisited-5-conversion-roi-attribution.html My post on exactly how Time on Page and Time on Site are calculated by Web Analytics tools was well received but there were some people who had this reaction: ”Good lord! This seems so fragile! Abandon ship!!” I was not totally surprised at the reaction because people deep in the trenches (and ...] How To Excite People About Web Analytics: Five Tips. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/266216106/how-to-excite-people-about-web-analytics-five-tips.html Reality: A small fraction of people who can benefit from data actually use it. This is especially true for the world of web analytics. I realize as we swim around our fish bowl this seems hard to believe. :) But it is very true. Sure one problem is that many Fortune xxx companies don’t even have a web analytics ...] “Dear Avinash”: Stressed Agency Analyst &amp; Robots Are Out To Get Me! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OccamsRazorByAvinash/~3/285944752/dear-avinash-stressed-agency-analyst-robots-are-out-to-get-me.html I write one post a week now and yet the blog is about 25 hours of work each week. Email is one big contributor. Many many of you write in with specific questions and it takes a lot of time to answering every single one with specific advise. Some are really tough, this is the complete ...] Brand Bidding and Closed Groups - A Step in the Right Direction? http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/05/09/brand-bidding-and-closed-groups-a-step-in-the-right-direction/ There has been a lot of talk about closed groups and the opening up of brand bidding. Many, including mate Doug Scott have been getting their truncheons in a turmoil. If you don’t know what sanctioned brand bidding is, it is where merchants allow you to bid on their brand terms. eg : Next What is different about ...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Brand Bidding and Closed Groups - A Step in the Right Direction?", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/05/09/brand-bidding-and-closed-groups-a-step-in-the-right-direction/" });</script> Dougs Mouthpiece http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/03/04/dougs-mouthpiece/ Some of you will know DougS (real name Doug Scott). If you dont he is a loud, brash, Geordi who is quite successful and I class him as a good mate. If he can get past the boredom his blog will be a good place to get some good opinions on what is going on the ...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dougs Mouthpiece", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/03/04/dougs-mouthpiece/" });</script> Search Marketing Agency - You Have Chosen Poorly http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/10/search-marketing-agency-you-have-chosen-poorly/ Every once and a while you find stuff that large search agencies have done and find yourself wondering how they can get away with doing questionable things. When I say questionable I mean it can be picked to bits in minutes (well maybe 10’s of minutes) Imagine my surprise when a mate showed me an email that ...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Search Marketing Agency - You Have Chosen Poorly", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/10/search-marketing-agency-you-have-chosen-poorly/" });</script> Protect Your Website From Hackers http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/28/protect-your-website-from-hackers/ OK OK, I know if a real hacker wants access to your box with your little wordpress site on it, it is curtains, but there are many things you can do to make it a little more difficult, especially for script kiddies who can do a lot of damage. There is a blog that I read, ...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Protect Your Website From Hackers", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/28/protect-your-website-from-hackers/" });</script> Gimpy&#8217;s Keyword Density Analyser http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/18/gimpys-keyword-density-analyser/ It’s been an eon since I promised myself to get this Keyword Density Analyser up and running. Take a look at the options available from only including certain tags in the mix and adding your own stopwords. It does not look the prettiest in terms of columns, but it is a fine bit of programming. A fine ...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Gimpy’s Keyword Density Analyser", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/18/gimpys-keyword-density-analyser/" });</script> Debris Flash Game http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/12/debris-flash-game/ A good friend of mine is a mobile phone and flash game developer. He showed me his latest one and I said I would post a link to it especially since it amused me so (sad like that I am). It has some rather amusing sound effects. Go on, kill five minutes….. Play Debris AKA Log ...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Debris Flash Game", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/12/debris-flash-game/" });</script> Google Should Embrace Web Standards and Improve the World http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/15/google-should-embrace-web-standards-and-improve-the-world/ I have always bleated on about website standards and how accessibility can and should be incorporated in any SEO programme. It stands to reason that you will have to do some on page SEO, therefore why not do the accessibility at the same time. Google could flip the whole web for the better simply by including ...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google Should Embrace Web Standards and Improve the World", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/15/google-should-embrace-web-standards-and-improve-the-world/" });</script> Red Bull Sucks Ruling - The Bull Wins http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/23/red-bull-sucks-ruling-the-bull-wins/ Red Bull win the battle over redbullsucks.com and make Carl Gamel have to hand it over to them. This is an interesting result especially in the hotting up sector of reputation management. “Thus, the Panel concludes that a domain name is ‘identical or confusingly similar’ to a trademark for purposes of the Policy when the domain name ...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Red Bull Sucks Ruling - The Bull Wins", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/23/red-bull-sucks-ruling-the-bull-wins/" });</script> Gray Wolf Talking Poo? http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/10/gray-wolf-talking-poo/ I had a post all lined up to talk about “calling people out”, which was inspired by The Wolf, re Seth Godin, but I have scratched that in favour of actually calling someone out. As the title of this post says, at this point I think Michael Gray is talking shite when he says that bloggers, ...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Gray Wolf Talking Poo?", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/04/10/gray-wolf-talking-poo/" });</script> SEO Roadshow 2008 http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/03/18/seo-roadshow-2008/ Not a lot to be said at this point, but that mutha is on!! SEO Roadshow 2008 If you don’t know what it is all about take a peek at SEO Roadshow Copenhagen <script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "SEO Roadshow 2008", url: "http://www.ukgimp.co.uk/2008/03/18/seo-roadshow-2008/" });</script> BIGLIST Update Search Marketing Blogs 050208 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/282384077/ Going by the last month of updates, we&#8217;re now updating the BIGLIST of SEO blogs every second Friday. That should give us more time to filter out the better sites for inclusion. Read on at the bottom as there are several reminders on how to get on the list as well as stay on. The ...] Top 10 Uses of Twitter and Tools http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/291353981/ The results of our poll on how Online Marketing Blog readers use Twitter are in. We had over 220 responses, which isn&#8217;t a bad sample considering this blog is fairly niche with a modest sized (and very smart) audience. Below I&#8217;ve listed the poll results and a few comments on each. Follow us on Twitter ...] Top 10 Reasons for Monitoring Brands in Social Media http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/286051366/ Editor's note: We're excited to share this next guest post from David Alston of Radian6. A fast emerging leader in the field of social media measurement, Radian6 (a TopRank client) provides social media monitoring tools to hundreds of leading PR firms, ad agencies and brand marketers.] David is VP Marketing at Radian6 in New Brunswick, Canada ...] BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 050908 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/287114054/ What a week! Spring is officially here in Minnesota. Don&#8217;t laugh, it snowed just 2 weeks ago. This week&#8217;s BIGLIST of SEO and SEM blogs includes a nice mix of search, social and online PR content. When I co-hosted the Daily Searchcast on Thursday it was great to have Danny Sullivan mention the ...] Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/284244136/ Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. (Follow me @leeodden) We&#8217;ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community on how to get the most productivity out of it. This post shares a few ...] Tips on Content Centered Link Building http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/285523465/ Yesterday, Junta 42 announced their latest list of top content marketing focused blogs (Online Marketing Blog came in at #2 in between Copyblogger and PR 2.0) and it reminded me yet again of how important content is for SEO. It used to be when discussing search engine optimization services 5-6 years ago, we&#8217;d focus ...] Enterprise Social Media Interview with Jim Cuene and Douglas Pollei http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/290274501/ Tonight interactive gurus from General Mills, Best Buy, Target, Fingerhut and Gage will convene at an event hosted by MIMA to discuss: Duality Reality: Who Controls Social Media in the Enterprise? As a preview, I reached out to Douglas Pollei (left) of Social Media Club Minneapolis and VP of Internet Strategy and Corporate Development for IKANO ...] Agency Client = Superhero Link Building Team http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/286433994/ Two heads are better than one. How many times have we all heard that in our lives?  When having a brainstorming session, it helps to bounce ideas off of one another to generate the best possible solution. Even when saving the world, is it always important to have a sidekick. Or a team of sidekicks. ...] Book Review: Achieving The OPEN Brand by Way Of An Open Worldview http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/285321979/ TopRank's Mike Yanke reviews the new book, "The Open Brand: When Push Comes to Pull in a Web-Made World by Kelly Mooney and Dr. Nita Rollins with advice both for marketing agencies and in-house marketers looking to make sense of branding in a Web 2.0 World. How Many Conferences Can You Attend in 30 Days? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/289513659/ Conferences are a big part of TopRank&#8217;s marketing and content promotion strategy and it looks like a busy summer is ahead of us. Numerous events are coming up quickly - enough to make your head spin. Here is a summary of our involvement with PRSA, DMA, PUSH, SIS, SES and SMX events over the next ...] Questions For Ken Evoy of Sitesell http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/key-evoy-questions.html <span class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; display: block; float: right;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kenevoy.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Kenevoy.jpg" alt="SiteSell President Ken Evoy in his Montreal office" style="border: medium none ; display: block;"></a><span style="margin: 1em 0pt 0pt; display: block;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kenevoy.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span></span>My previous post on <a href="http://andyb Banned By Google http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/banned-by-google.html It happens... even to the most accomplished SEO professionals. Last August Dan Thies revealed the amazing story about how Brad Fallon, Stompernet founder and owner of MyWeddingFavors.com was kicked out of Google, because of people exploiting bugs in Google. For many people the "proxy hacking" explanation was extremely complicated to understand (I struggled), but what wasn't revealed was how Brad's company survived (and grew) without his top Google listings. It is now revealed, in a <a href="http://www.stompernet.net/jvp/aw.aspx?B=44&#038;A=347">54 minute video</a> with How To Get Noticed? http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/how-to-get-noticed.html <img align="right" src='http://andybeard.eu/wp-content/uploads/impact.JPG' alt='Impact' />Ken McArthur has pulled out all the stops for the launch of his new book now selling on <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Impact/Ken-McArthur/e/9781564149978/">Barnes &#038; Noble</a>. That isn't an affiliate link, I am not a B&#038;N affiliate so I just pulled that link from Ken's blog (one of many). What I can refer you to is the free stuff, <a href="http://theimpactfactor.net?id=3953">a ton of great audio recordings</a> There are 2 featured recordings New WordPress SEO Blogging Software http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/new-wordpress-seo-blogging-software.html <p>What a difference 24 hours make.</p> <p>A few days ago I was honestly prepared to rip a product to shreds. It wasn&#039;t that it was a bad product, but it wasn&#039;t as well prepared as it should have been, and from what I can tell it was due to an honest communication error between a well respected online marketer and his programming team.</p> <p>But before I talk about the product itself, I am going to give you a little history lesson.</p> <h3>Wordpress Elite</h3> <p>A few years ago I purchased a script called WordPress E Blog For A Cause Or Fabricate A Story http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/blog-for-a-cause-or-fabricate-a-story.html <a href="http://unite.blogcatalog.com" title="BlogCatalog - Blogging For Hope"><img align="right" src="http://blogcatalog.s3.amazonaws.com/badge/080515/humanrightsbadge3.jpg" alt="Bloggers Unite"></a>Today in partnership with <a href="http://blogcatalog.com">Blogcatalog</a> and <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/">Amnesty International</a>, bloggers Worldwide are <a href="http://unite.blogcatalog.com">blogging for human rights.</a> As I usually do for each Bloggers Unite initiative, I am taking part, but as usual I want to at least try to k When Will New York Introduce A Google Tax? http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/when-will-new-york-introduce-a-google-tax.html <p>Today&#039;s news is that Overstock have decided that they are axing 3400 affiliates in the New York area because of the previously reported &#034;Amazon Tax&#034; - which Amazon are fighting.</p> <p>I think Janet was the first to break the news of the <a href="http://www.businessknowhow.com/blog/2008/05/overstockcom_dr.php">Overstock changes</a></p> <p>This is a story that both Linda at <a href="http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com/1490/overstock-affiliates-new-york-tax-law.html">5 Star Affiliate Programs</a> SEO Tool - Site Seer - Coming Soon http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/seo-tool.html <p>I mentioned in my second poll post that the Stompernet guys would be coming out with a new tool soon, and that also they would be limiting availability of some of their goodies to those that subscribe. That will include this new SEO tool.</p> <p>First off, I have worked out how to get their videos to syndicated correctly, so click through to watch the video showing off this new tool.</p> <p> </p> <p>The bad news is that the first piece of totally new content, a video on keyword research by Dan Thies.</p> <p>Now Dan is kn Blogging Response Rate (Part 2) http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/blogging-response-2.html I mentioned I was testing on multiple posts, and that also included the recent Adwords video from Dan Thies of Stompernet. Here are some important notes <ul> <li>The headline was chosen to be a little more appealing - it wouldn't have affected people reading a full feed, or receiving my content by email (even though that was switched off), but it would affect links from social media and other blogs, and also platforms that only show headlines, such as Blogrush, Technorati Favorites, Alltop etc.</li> <li>I was sneaky - I didn't have a suitable graphic, and a synd Blogging Response Rate (Poll) http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/blogging-response.html <p>Whilst the test I performed over the last few days isn&#039;t ideal, recently, just for a few days I actually switched off my email subscriptions. Email subscriptions has never accounted for the largest percentage of my subscribers, but I have always recognised them among my most responsive readers. I assure you the decision wasn&#039;t taken lightly, especially with a number of major launches to write about which were highly targeted to my core audience.</p> <p>One of the promotions I was testing was for Jeff Johnson&#039;s <a href="http://andybeard.eu/20 Wide Circles = Blog Comment Spam http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/wide-circles-blog-comment-spam.html Maybe I am a little sensitive to blog comment spam issues, but I like genuine members of my community gaining a little link juice for their comments. Many comments you find on my blog are better than full blog posts elsewhere (sometimes the comments are better than what I write) The best way to guest post on my blog is just to write a great comment. <span class="read-more"><a href="http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/wide-circles-blog-comment-spam.html">Continue reading</a> &#124; <a href="http://andybeard.eu/2008/05/wide-circles-blog-comment-spam.html#comments">13 Comme SES London 2008 Day 3 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/239890562/ I attended SES London on Thursday, my first since way back in 2002 or was that 2003, Christ I can’t remember! Customers Prospects and Drug users The first session I went to way a presentation by Brian Eisenberg of Future now entitled Redefining the Customer loosely speaking, Brian hit on important aspects to consider when ...] Google spidering its own custom search results? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/241111593/ I was doing a little search this evening and found this amongst the results on the 1st page. I thought it might be something related to me being signed in to a Google account so I signed out and tried again. Same result. So I opened up IE7 and same result. I tried the same query ...] Google Subscriber links - The Good - The Not So Good and The Reality http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/241706151/ Google Subscriber links There’s a little bit of buzz about today over Googles subscribed links feature. I thought it might be handy to share my robwatts view on it. The view being one that is informed from 3 perspectives. A google user a site owner and an SEO. I’ll stick to three classifications, good, not so ...] Site links for yack yack http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/251923597/ Cool - This domain now has site links (not to be confused with subscribed links). A  search for the phrase ‘yack yack’ returned this Who searches for yack yack? Answer - no one, but hey - for those who are interested there are lessons to be learnt. I’d like to know how they arrived at those titles ...] SEO’s our own worst enemies and Negative SEO http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/257013540/ I just wanted to get this out there and vent a little it’s a little rant fired up by what I keep seeing every single week on forums, blogs etc. It isn’t going to go away, I know that - but I’ll feel better for getting it off my chest. To any SEO who ...] Selling Web sites Domain Assets Ice in Alaska http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/287005539/website-value-estimation.html How do you value a web site as an asset? If your company is closing down, what is the web site worth? Increasingly common questions, for which there are no standard answers. And there won&#8217;t be any &#8220;standard answers&#8221; for some time to come. That&#8217;s not how business works at this stage of the Internet ...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/287005539" height="1" width="1"/> Live Blogging from DomainRoundTable San Francisco http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/273655837/domainroundtable2008.html I&#8217;m at Domain RoundTable, in San Francisco, with several hundred Internet entrepreneurs. Like other webmasters, these guys own the Internet. Unlike most webmasters, these guys own a significant percentage of the Internet. But besides scale, they have similar interests to other webmasters: managing risk, earning and monetizing traffic, navigating politics and managing cash flow. They have ...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/273655837" height="1" width="1"/> What Matt Cutts Said at Domain RoundTable 2008 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/273735789/mattcutts-domainroundtable.html This is live blogging from matt&#8217;s session. It will update as I enter information. Matt said: about his role on the web spam team, he defined spam as sites that &#8220;rank higher than they deserve&#8221;. Go figure that one out. Matt asked how many people were into domaining because it was like a garage sale, where you ...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/273735789" height="1" width="1"/> Competitive Webmastering http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/281751199/yawn.html I&#8217;m really glad hardly anyone has the time or patience to read all of this. Security through obscurity, as link bait. Good job! Topical Tags:Post from: johnon.com by John Andrews. Competitive Webmastering<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/281751199" height="1" width="1"/> Google does WHOIS, again. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/264950112/google-domaintools.html Google&#8217;s mission is to make a fortune off other people&#8217;s content organize the world&#8217;s information, and now Google and DomainTools are joining forces to bring the power of WHOIS lookups to the Google interface. Again. Google started hitting the Network Solutions WHOIS lookup without permission back in 2004 before Netsol promptly shut them out. That seems ...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/264950112" height="1" width="1"/> Dan Kaminsky on DNS and Trust http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/274318445/dan-kaminsky.html ISPs are placing the security and privacy of their customers squarely in the hands of a third-party ad company Dan Kaminsky is always fun (and scary) to watch, and he is describing how some ISPs are utilizing a 3rd party DNS service in an attempt to monetize user activity. According to Dan, that third party is ...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/274318445" height="1" width="1"/> Why Keyword Domains Are Better for SEO http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/276019623/keywords-in-domainname.html The DomainRoundTable Conference hosted Matt Cutts of Google and a panel of SEOs, to discuss search marketing and domaining. One topic of conversation afterwards was the value of keyword domains. Is a domain &#8220;better for SEO&#8221; if it contains exact match keywords? Matt said yes, keywords in the URL can help rankings, but you don&#8217;t need ...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/276019623" height="1" width="1"/> Get Out and Live Life http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/280294427/blind-mountain-biker.html Via the remarkably inspiring HowToAvoidTheBummerLife.com Topical Tags:Competition societyPost from: johnon.com by John Andrews. Get Out and Live Life<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/280294427" height="1" width="1"/> Coming Full Circle: Blogging &amp; Journalism http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/277639423/frontiers.html Journalism is a funny beast I don&#8217;t pretend to understand. As a consumer, though, I can say that I used to pay a lot of money to subscribe to certain products of good journalism. I paid in advance, and the information appeared in my mailbox. The currency of the information was judged by relative measures&#8230; ...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/277639423" height="1" width="1"/> Matt McGee: The Last Person on Twitter http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/280941074/mattmcgee-last-person-twitter.html Executive Summary: Twitter is not for everyone but if you&#8217;re in the web entrepreneuring space you should have been on it last year already. Don&#8217;t feel bad if you never heard of it; just join and don&#8217;t admit you weren&#8217;t aware. Matt McGee is an SEO guy out of Marchex, who is into social ...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~4/280941074" height="1" width="1"/> Google Explains The Processes &amp; Thoughts Behind an Update http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/291624968/017152.html Google updates their search algorithms and indexes fairly often. Results change all the time. The goal for Google is to make this transparent for searchers by providing relevant results. But when a change happens, typically the webmaster will notice and... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=QGfGdA"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=QGfGdA" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=T2Em4H"><img src= Google Celebrates the Anniversary of the First Laser http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/291641743/017154.html If you've ventured to Google today, you may be wondering what in the world that logo resembles. Fortunately, all you need to do is click on the logo for the answer. Today, Google is celebrating the anniversary of the first... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=WXAmDb"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=WXAmDb" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=oWJUlH"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/ Weekly Search Buzz Roundup - 05/16/08: Google Dresses in Green, Yahoo Gets Local &amp; Laser Games Are Played http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/291712988/017157.html Another Friday, another rainy day. For what it's worth, though, today is a special day, as we are celebrating the first laser. I don't know if lasers are viewable through cloudy skies, though. Do you? Mother's Day First things first.... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=l1LlDQ"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=l1LlDQ" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=b4QVbH"><img src="http://feeds.seroun ISP to Spy on User Activity to Deliver Targeted Ads http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/290937485/017143.html United States ISP Charter Communications announced that it will start looking at your surfing behavior to find you relevant ads. While continuing to deliver the same fast and reliable Internet service you’ve always received, innovative new technology in the field... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Z42Qop"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=Z42Qop" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=MpQDPH"> Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2008 http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/291208778/017146.html Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=3gcsHD"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=3gcsHD" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=YJi0WH"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=YJi0WH" border="0"></img></a> &lt Competitors Use Long Tail Keywords To Hurt Yahoo Search Advertisers http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/291650919/017155.html An interesting phenomenon is occurring within Yahoo Search Marketing that has been expressed pretty intensely by affected advertisers at WebmasterWorld. According to the impacted advertisers, the quality of their campaigns have gone down because of false impressions that have been... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Jgyp9D"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=Jgyp9D" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtabl Google AdWords Traffic Estimator Figures From The API Wrong? http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/291597454/017149.html A Google Groups thread reports that the numbers reported from the traffic estimator tool within Google's AdWords API interface is reporting different numbers based on the IP calling the data. The AdWords advertiser said that depending on which IP is... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Pkyb9R"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=Pkyb9R" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=1XnDgH"><img src="htt Google's Malware Review Form Now Working Again http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/291610002/017151.html Google's Malware Review form, which was added back in August of last year had some technical issues this week. First reports came via Google Groups at about 1am on May 15th. Webmasters trying to utilize the form received a "oops,... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=Mqar3i"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=Mqar3i" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=CRaETH"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtab Yahoo Opens SearchMonkey Doors to Everyone http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/291667872/017156.html Are you a developer? You may be interested in SearchMonkey, Yahoo's new open developer platform, which was released to all developers yesterday. The concept behind SearchMonkey is to empower developers to build applications that increase relevancy of search results. Developers... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=fH8dWJ"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=fH8dWJ" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a Google Testing Green Backgrounds &amp; Turns Directory Ads Green http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/291603476/017150.html The iCrossing Blog posted screen captures of Google experimenting with green in the Google user interface. In addition, Google has changed from the yellow background color for their ads to green, within the Google Directory. iCrossing actually reported this two... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=DYJtHN"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=DYJtHN" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=n9tGbH">< Digg Down Today and Other Social Media Revelations http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/265878306/ For many years now, I have always been a fan of creating custom, unique 404 error pages. I have also, at the same time, been rather annoyed that a site as large as Digg can consistently serve up an error page like the one below. Not only have I been rather annoyed from time to time ...] Marketing Foo for Thursday April 10th 2008 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/267928831/ Today, I thought that I would talk about a few interesting things that I have been either involved in, or just things that I’ve been interested in. These are not in any special order, but perhaps you will find them useful bits for today, a Thursday, where there’s not a lot of other news going ...] Black Out Your Google Listing in the Google Search Results http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/258591583/ As you know, I am a pretty big fan of Mixx, and I have been using Mixx for a while now, ever since day one. Anyhow, Mixx is not really the focus here; although Mixx is the main reason behind my discovering the fact that you can essentially “black out” virtually your entire listing in ...] ComScore Releases Web Rankings for March 2008, Yellow Book and MLB Top Gainers http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/270289463/ comScore has released their monthly internet rankings for March 2008. Among the notable changes this past month is the increased traffic to the Yellow Book Network as well as more traffic to MLB.com. The typical NCAA “March Madness” drove a lot of traffic to online gambling sites. According to comScore, the Yellow Book Network got the ...] 5 Top Tips for Bloggers and Marketers on a Friday http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/255841358/ Since today is sort of a slow news day, being Good Friday and everything, I thought that I would mention 10 or more items that are useful tips for bloggers and marketers alike. Legit News Photos for Free. Om Malik has the scoop on PicApp, where you can get legit news photos for free. It’s an ...] comScore Releases March 2008 United States Search Engine Rankings http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/271008342/ As a follow-up to yesterday’s comScore post, I thought I would update you on the United States’ search engine rankings. comScore has released the search engine data for March 2008. This is part of their monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search engine marketplace in the United States. During March 2008 there were 10.8 billion search ...] Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don’t Understand Social Networking http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/286850667/ Eric Lander has a great blog post about Sphinn. If you have not heard of Sphinn.com, Sphinn is a “News, Discussion Forums & Networking for Search & Internet Marketing Professionals” site. It’s Danny Sullivan’s social networking site for internet marketing professionals. Since Eric has written a great post and has pointed to my activity on ...] Search Engine Workshops Now Offering Online Search Engine Marketing Resource Center http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/275392810/ Search Engine Academy is now offering a networking community for search engine marketers. This new networking community is the first on the internet to offer a place where search engine optimizers can meet and share strategies, access other online areas, and get the latest updated material on a regular basis. Search Engine Workshops was founded by ...] OBG Management and Convera Launch OBGfindit ObGyn Search Engine http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/282275654/ OBG Management has teamed up with Convera(R) to create OBG FindIt, a vertical search engine for the ObGYN specialty. OBG Management is a leader in obstetrics and gynecological patient care and practice management communications. Convera Corporation is a leading provider of vertical search for trade publishers. OBG FindIt provides search results for ob/gyn specialty-specific patient care ...] Best Viral Marketing Campaign Ever? Carmen Bares All http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillHartzer/~3/268612112/ A friend of mine forwarded a link to me today about a new movie called “Meet the Spartans”. I have embedded a link to an interesting video of Carmen talking about the movie. You will have to watch the video in full to get more information about one of what I would call the best viral ...] SEO Class Troy NY April 11th - Free to IM Ninjas. http://www.jimboykin.com/seo-class-nyc/ In a few weeks (April 11th) we’re having the first SEO Class of the year. It will be held at the Franklin Square Inn in Troy New York (just north of Albany). The presenters that day will be: Chris Winfield (10e20) Michael Gray (Graywolf) Kim Krause Berg (Cre8pc) Ted Ulle (Tedster) Barry Schwartz (Rustybrick) Greg Niland (GoodROI) Jim Boykin (We Build Pages) On April ...] Support Charities and Chance to win IM Ninjas Subscription. http://www.jimboykin.com/support-charities-and-chance-to-win-im-ninjas-subscription/ Since Donna let the cat out of the bag, I thought I’d follow suit. A handful of SEO’s are in a contest to lose weight, and to help charities. You can help us as well. The Women: DazzlinDonna from SEO Scoop playing for Hospice Foundation from America Jennifer Laycock from Search Engine Guide playing for HMBANA Milk Banks Nathania ...] Link Buying: Reviewed and not Guaranteed is the line in the sand. http://www.jimboykin.com/link-buying/ In Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, they say you should: Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites. I know a lot of webmasters have questioned what is the difference between paying Yahoo for a Directory link, and paying any other web entity for ...] Lessons Learned from Positon 6 Filter and New Video for IM Ninjas http://www.jimboykin.com/position-6-filter/ Position 6 Filter - Confirmed, and told "Glitch" and "being fixed". Some laughed, some cried, any many analyzed and made "guesses". We had 6 sites that we clearly saw this happen to, so I was analzying for countless hours since just before Christmas in an attempt to figure out what could have happened to ...] YahooMSN.com, YahooLive.com, LiveYahoo.com - Who ownes them? http://www.jimboykin.com/yahoo-msn-google-ask/ So I can’t help but wonder how the cards will be played this year with the search engines. Will Microsoft buy Yahoo. Will Google buy Yahoo, Will Google buy Ask? Will Microsoft buy Yahoo and Ask, and maybe grab AOL along the way? Who Knows….here’s some interesting URL combinations, and who owns them. MicrosoftYahoo.comRegistrant: zhou lupingCreated: ...] If you build links, this paper is worth reading. http://www.jimboykin.com/link-building-report/ Sugarrae put together 11 SEO’s to get 12000 words on link development ideas. Here’s the SEO’s who state their ideas on link building:Rae Hoffman- Rand Fishkin - Roger Montti- Todd Malicoat- Eric Ward- Justilien Gaspard- Aaron Wall- Debra Mastaler- Michael Gray- Andy Hagans- & Me. I like how this interview was put together. All of us wrote ...] WBP buys SEOClass.com, and offers 4 Live Training Dates. http://www.jimboykin.com/internet-marketing-training/ So this is just my leaking the news that We Build Pages has acquired SEOClass.com. SEO Class has been a leading Internet Marketing training program providing live SEO Training classes. We’re going to take SEO Class to the next level, and offer 4 classes from New York, to San Francisco, to Dallas, to Edinburgh, Scotland. These ...] Ninjas in Amsterdam, Jamaica, &#038; Scotland. http://www.jimboykin.com/ninjas-in-amsterdam-jamaica-scotland/ Next Tuesday (the 29th) a few ninjas and I are going to Amsterdam (going to visit with a client). I’ll also try to catch Martijn while I’m there. We’ll be there during the Queen’s Day celebration…which looks pretty crazy. ThenfromJune 6-10 there’s about 19 Ninjas going to Jamaica. We should be booking everything probably tomorrow. If ...] What&#8217;s Jim up to? I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky. http://www.jimboykin.com/jim-update/ I haven’t been blogging much….sorry……ya know, I’m totally down with staying under the radar. There’s enough other people keeping each other in check that I’m fine with sitting back and watching the games being played. I’m fine with reacting internally to what goes on out there, and not being a part of the conversation these ...] Buying Websites for SEO - Who me? http://www.jimboykin.com/buying-websites-seo/ - I wasjust asked if I’d speak on"Buying Sites for SEO" at SMX Advanced in Seattle (June 3-4)… wasn’t planning on attending any SEO conferences in 2008….but man…that’s a prett interesting topic! ….. but I’m not sure if, like link building, I’d feel comfortable talking about the finer points of this….. I wrote about it once ...] Do you want to be my Facebook Friend?? Stop Threatening Me!! http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/04/17/do-you-want-to-be-my-facebook-friend-stop-threatening-me/ Image by Miky Jpeg I have been a little disappointed in Facebook lately. Well, maybe not Facebook directly, but instead some of the people that I have agreed to Facebook Friendships. And, due to the tactics these people are using on Facebook to pass the word about things they feel ...] The People Pleaser 2.0 http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/02/04/people-pleaser-20/ Photo by *sean The People Pleaser 2.0 We have all come across a People Pleaser at one point or another. People Pleasers love making people happy. They seem to become happier themselves by making others happy. They are super nice…. almost too nice, some might say. If you have ever have been a ...] 26 Reasons Why I Love Twitter - Plus 27 More just in Case http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/01/24/26-reasons-why-i-love-twitter/ A while back I wrote a post about how I just didn’t get Twitter. At that time, It didn’t make sense to me to hear people rave about Twitter. But, I must say….. Twitter is another Social Media Activity that I am really enjoying. As a matter of fact, ...] How Web 2.0 has changed Education http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/02/20/web2-changed-education/ Photo by chbradshaw When I was a kid I would walk 6 miles to school in snow that was up to here (points to his shoulders). I remember as a young girl my Grandfather telling me stories like this. And, when he would say this to me I would be thinking, "Thank G-d ...] StumbleUpon Changes - Are you a List or Grid? http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/04/01/stumbleupon-changes-list-or-grid/ In the past few days I’ve noticed a few changes on StumbleUpon. They aren’t huge changes, but changes none-the-less. These changes appear on your own StumbleUpon page. What is cool about these changes is that you have a choice. You can choose to keep things the same as they ...] 8 Random Things about Me - A Meme http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/03/17/8-things-about-shana-albert/ I have been tagged by Julie Joyce, one of my favorite SEO Chicks, to do the Meme, "8 Random things About Me". Being a huge fan of all the SEO Chicks I was more than a little excited about participating in this Meme. So, here are 8 Random things about Me. 8 Random things you ...] I am so in Love&#8230;.. and it is not with Social Media http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/02/14/i-am-so-in-love-but-not-with-social-media/ Photo by Osvaldo_Zoom Since Valentine’s Day is coming to an end I wanted to write about Love. But, not my Love for Social Media and Web 2.0. But, instead my Love for other things in this crazy World. So, take a ...] Lymphoma the Victor in IM-NY BOTW SMO Contest For Charity! http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/03/06/imny-botw-charity-event-contest-lymphoma/ Each year coinciding with a major SEM event, The Internet Marketers of NY throw a Manhattan party bash to benefit a deserving charity. This year during Search Engine Strategies New York, the event’s sponsor Best of the Web ran a friendly poll where “advocates” ran unofficial ...] I&#8217;m Not Only a Social Media Marketer&#8230; I&#8217;m also the Tooth Fairy. http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/03/12/not-only-a-social-media-marketer-im-the-tooth-fairy/ I have a little secret…. I’m the tooth fairy. It’s true. And, guess what else?! I’m also Santa Clause, The Easter Bunny, and Cupid. Last week my 6 year old daughter, Hannah lost one of her front teeth and just yesterday she lost the other front tooth. She is missing both of ...] Are teens today lacking in Interpersonal and Communicative Skills? http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/05/02/are-teens-today-lacking-in-interpersonal-and-communicative-skills/ Image by BdwayDiva1 Are Texting & Social Media Platforms causing teens to lack in Interpersonal Communicative Skills? I received a text from my oldest son last week that was very disturbing. He was obviously too freaked out to discuss the topic with me face-to-face and instead ...] The Key Ingredient for SEO and Web Design is True Passion http://cre8pc.com/blog/archives/447 While presenting a class on web site usability in New York for Internet Marketing Ninjas Marketing Training, my husband was in the audience as cheerleader and teacher. I wasn’t connected at first and I could feel it. I wasn’t inspired. I had a feeling I wouldn’t be because the first part was the boring ...] You&#8217;ve Got Your SEO in My Usability http://cre8pc.com/blog/archives/453 I’ve spent the past few years writing about usability to SEO’s and trying to not burn bridges while doing so. Each industry contains skills that benefit the other, and both benefit the client. It’s rare to find good dialog by user experience folks on SEO, however, so I found the following interesting - Seo ...] New for SES - Search Engine Strategies Awards in August http://cre8pc.com/blog/archives/450 Every time I see an awards announcement, I always make up categories in my head they haven’t bothered with, like “Best SEO Costume” and “Old, Loud Mouthed and Still Kicking Ass”. Today’s awards news comes out of the folks who run Search Engine Strategies conferences and their awards launch. The San Jose conference coming up ...] Angry? Destroy Their Reputation Online! http://cre8pc.com/blog/archives/452 An old friend once told me back in 1995, “Assume that every email you send will eventually land on the lunchroom bulletin board for everyone to see.” It was great advice for email. It’s even better advice for blogs. Miffed at someone? Kill them with words. With the Web as ammo, it’s easy to ...] Search Engine College Celebrates Four Years http://cre8pc.com/blog/archives/448 Kalena Jordan and her husband celebrate their fourth year as founders of the Search Engine College. What began with a few courses and high hopes has evolved into an online school offering certification for SEO’s. Kalena had the forethought to include web site usability in her course lineup. Like my friend, Jill Whalen, whom ...] Affiliate Marketing The Fun Way…With Boobs! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/247446942/ So I have three real SEO posts I’m working on, and I’ve been boiling over getting ready for a rant…but I figured I write about boobs and hot chicks instead. I joined up with the Pepperjam Affiliate Network today to see what they have that’s different than every other network out there. Well, for starters ...] Friday Tea Time - Google Must Be Feeling Lucky http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/255342397/ After the disasterous week of Google shoving a toaster up my ass sideways, Google must think it’s “Feeling Lucky”. Well, you feeling lucky, punk? Oh, but you’ve really pissed me off and I’m coming after you Google. BIG TIME. I don’t know if your immature computer brain can remember what this is, but I’ve got one ...] Friday Tea Time - Rant Edition http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/251391007/ I know, I haven’t done Tea Time in a few weeks. Go fly a kite, I’m busy doing stuff. In order to keep all my greedy readers happy, this Friday is dedicated to the rants and controversial posts of the past week or so. Did you know that the shortest war in history was between ...] Debauchery, Douchebaggary, &amp; Drunkenness: Being A Twit http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/259624519/ Resistance Is Futile. Now that you’ve been assimilated and you know how to use the twitterborg in just about every way imaginable. Let’s talk about the fun things you can do with the twitter. I think I’ll call it “the twitter” from now one…kind of like “the wife” since it wastes so much time talking ...] [($ Money) / Google Hatred] = Rank http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/262776212/ Since I don’t have time to post because Sergey Brin and Larry Page decided bring the pain, here is something for your enjoyment from Search Engine Journal: This post is from TheMadHat: SEO Blog ($ Money) / Google Hatred] = Rank Impulse Domain Lookup Tool http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/249613139/ You know when you’re at the store standing in line and they give you all those enticing items like Big Red and Energizer batteries? We all know what they are, but sometimes we can’t help ourselves. So I wanted to throw this out there real quick so everyone knows about it. And since everyone ON ...] Find Your Way To Blackberry Nirvana http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/250335401/ I’m somewhat of a huge Blackberry fan. I’ll pass on the child-toy iPhone. It’s all fun until you try and do something useful with it other than scroll pictures around on your screen like a 12 year old. I’ve been using a blackberry for around 5 years starting with the old ass “didn’t even have ...] Friday Tea Time - Failure Edition http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/268442689/ I don’t know how you people have time to post 17 times a damn week. In lieu of an actual post, here is to me on writing another blog post. FAIL. Here are some of my favorite FAILS and other stupid things you get in email forwards. The End. Have A Nice FAIL. This post is from ...] Clickbooth [ALLEGEDLY] Likes To Attack Their Affiliates http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/253693918/ Attention affiliate managers of the world: Err on the side of caution and conversation when you screw up. Try and fix the problem instead of attacking the communities that support your company. Slightly Shady SEO went out on a limb and posted the seemingly highly controversial story of Clickbooth and their brigade of lawyers ALLEGEDLY] ...] Do Not Click Here http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/themadhat/~3/273019708/ No, I don’t have a post done, I’m busy. I told you not to click, it’s your fault. SMX Social next week. I’ll be there Monday - Thursday. Hit me up on twitter or shoot me an email and we’ll have some Jager. Don’t try to keep up, you’ll regret it. ...] Personal Data Leaked to Big Business http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DixonJones/~3/257782275/ It had to happen. Someone has found a way to share personal data between websites without technically invading privacy la