http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll 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 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"> 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 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 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">< 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 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= 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 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/ 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 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 ...] 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 ...] 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 ...] 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 ...] 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 ...] 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 ...] 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 ...] 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 ...] 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 ...] 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 ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/274805576/ So as was posted yesterday, the winner on Friday night was too close to call, but the results are in! At 7:28 PM, Amin Taheri was sittin on $1002.50 while the 2nd place guy, Matt Marcin was at $983.65. Really close! The amazing part was, Matt started his campaign less than 24 ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/277864196/ Several months ago the guys from Tracking202 let Nickycakes beta test their ppc campaign tracking service. It was pretty sweet. It let you monitor everything down to the keyword level in terms of traffic, conversions, ROI, etc. Pretty much everything you need to track and optimize your campaign. It even had ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/276255453/ Being involved in the Internet Marketing industry gives you a slightly different perspective in everyday life sometimes.  When see ads on tv, it makes you wonder things like, “How much are they spending on that ad spot?  What’s their ROI like?”  It helps you spot obvious scams much more easily than the average Joe.  It ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/273822240/ Nickycakes is currently on vacation in Maryland and hasn’t been able to post anything about the contest.  Apparently there were 2 people that hit the $1000 mark around the same time for the Xbox contest, so Cakes is still waiting for the people at Advaliant to confirm who won.  There will be prizes for both ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/274850827/ Nickycakes would like to start this fun little article out by letting you know who Joel Comm is. He’s a walking infomercial. Visiting his site (which isn’t even worth a linkback) will present you with 6 different e-products with pictures superimposed onto a box of some sort, to make it look like it’s ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/276984073/ Nicky has spent a little time writing up a short internet marketing newbie guide to help new people to the industry and answer a lot of common questions.  It’s going to be permanently linked right at the top of the page here, so feel free to flame any morons who post questions answered in that ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/275550736/ Nickycakes gets asked this question quite often. “What is a Reformed Blackhat?” Most people assume that it has something to do with spam or making cloaked pages to fool the search engines. Wrong, WRONG. First, take a look at what “blackhat” really means. For years, the terms “Black Hat” and “White Hat” ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/279712684/ This is a guest post by Matt Marcin, the dude who came in 2nd place in Nickycakes’ xbox 360 contest. � Hey guys, this is Matt from mattmarcin.com. I recently came in as #2 in Nickycake’s contest and only lost by about 2 minutes. The Cakes asked me to talk about how I came from behind to ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/278478605/ Last week Geoff at Cant Get Rich asked Nickycakes to do a phone interview for the first in his series of weekly podcasts.  After some technical difficulties, it finally got recorded, and today he posted it.  The interview with the Cakes is about 20 minutes long and there are some pretty funny parts.  Topics discussed ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nickycakes/~3/284439264/ This is a guest post by Amin who was the winner of Nickycakes’ Xbox 360. It’s not about how he won the contest, since he already posted about that on his blog, however, he decided to write about how he makes bank in another, area. Def some good ideas. Thanks dude. I ...] http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/206630907/ RedFly LTD would like to wish every single one of our readers, friends and especially clients the very best tidings to you and your loved ones this festive season. Be good and enjoy the celebrations. http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/213265694/ Article explaining how an effective online PR campaign is a lot more than a simple press release. There’s a pretty common misconception (especially on the Web where press releases are booming) that one press release alone is supposed to bring massive exposure, traffic, and links. Well sorry folks. In the vast majority of cases, that’s just not how it works!... http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/228621180/ The stage has been set and flights to Dublin from most European and domestic locations are fully booked. The first annual Dublin webmaster, SEO, Designer and webworker meetup will take place on Saturday the 9th of February. This is an event that will certainly go down in the history books. Ireland’s web workers have long ...] http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/200256589/ Our good friend Vittorio over at Tech Savvy Marketer has created a video tutorial on the installation and usage of the new Google Global Firefox extension we recently released. For all of you have have emailed asking how to install the extension and how to use the extension once it is installed, this should answer all of your questions. http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/222915023/ As an online PR consultant, there are a few questions I repeatedly get from webmasters and online entrepreneurs. One of those common questions is how many press releases a company should send (weekly, monthly, more?). I always give the same answer: Send a press release whenever you have something newsworthy to say. http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/216029204/ A detailed how to guide on building an effective negative keyword list for your PPC campaigns to improve CTR and increase conversion rate and quality score using some known and some little known methods for negative keyword research. http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/281879560/ PPC advertising is not only great for generating sales and qualified traffic, it’s also the BEST possible keyword research tool available. While other keyword research tools offer a general “starter” set of keywords in most verticals, most only give general words and without demographic information. PPC data can be used for a whole lot more ...] http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/278814419/ As we grow and take on more and more clients as well as consult with smaller clients, there has been one very alarming trend that we have noticed. The majority of business owners coming to us asking us to “fix” or “improve” their PPC campaigns all arrive with their accounts in the same state. Poorly ...] http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/231273766/ The 2008 Irish blog awards are to be held on the 1st of March at 7.30pm in the Alexander Hotel in Dublin. This is a non profit event and al proceeds will go to charity. RedFly will be sponsoring the best journalist category. We hope to see you there. http://feeds.redflymarketing.com/~r/redfly/~3/235551069/ Details about the fantastic new up and coming Google analytics desktop version build in Adobe Air. http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google-adwords/google-changing-trademark-policy-in-the-uk/ Good news for naughty affiliates. Nightmare for real brands. Google are moving inline with their policies in the US/Canada. We’re writing to inform you that we’re changing our trademark complaint procedure in the UK and Ireland. This change may affect how we handle the trademark complaint you currently have on file with Google. If you’ve submitted a complaint ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/removing-sitewide-blogroll-links-in-wordpess/ I have finally found some time to make some changes to the blog. So lets get rid of those sitewide blogroll / links that seem to come with a lot of the ‘out of the box’ WP themes available. Before - <h3>Links</h3> <ul class=”list”> <?php get_links(-1, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’, ‘ - ‘); ?> </ul> After - < ?php if ( is_home() ) { ?> <h3>Links</h3> <ul class=”list”> <?php get_links(-1,’<li>’, ‘</li>’, ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/yahoo/yahoo-promoting-viagra/ Quite an amusing spot by Jeremy over at PPC Discussions. Looks like the YSMBlog (”nofollow” for you I don’t want to be linking to bad neighbourhoods) has been hacked (another WP exploit example) and currently has a ‘buy viagra’ link hidden in a noscript tag. Actually what I found interesting is that it took this long ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google-adwords/2-days-later/ It’s been a couple of days since Googles keyword trademarking policy change and it’s interesting to see many advertisers have already been slapped out of the bidding. In a quality score world, its not as simple as bidding against any brand due to quality based minimum bids. Although you might be able to display against ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/ppc/page-load-time-whats-the-point/ Am I being to cynical but page load time as another factor in quality score?. Why? According to Google it’s all in the name of ‘user experience’ and hence it’s going to be added into the quality score algo in Adwords sometime soon. I don’t get it. Why bother? Surely if site load time is long and delayed ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google/google-site-links-update/ Looks like there has been a site links update, thanks big G. Interesting to see which pages Google chose. The Amy Alexandra post was just a little testing I did for fun and was certainly not one of my most linked to pages, but traffic wise its been pretty big… http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/ppc/understanding-when-to-bid-on-your-own-brand/ Interesting article over at Conversation Marketing about bidding on your own brand name. The post throws up some good arguments, but like all things in life one rule simple does not fit all. Aswell as reasons to bid on your own brand there are equally very good arguments against bidding on brand ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google/google-adds-onebox-results-for-premiership-football/ I just spotted Google is showing onebox results for queries relating to English football clubs. A simple club search query brings back their next fixture. Screenshot below - Only seems to be Premiership clubs currently. Cool. Update - Google have now added last game results alongside the next fixture. As below - http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google-adwords/google-keyword-trademark-policy-change-are-you-prepared/ Ok so the 5th of May lift on Google keyword trademarking date is nearly here. Are you prepared? Are your clients? Are you going all out aggressively to bid against competitors trademarks?. Are you going to start bidding against your own brand as protection?. Perhaps a mixture?. Or are you going to wait and see what your competitors do? Looks ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/amnesty-international-promoting-viagra-too/ After Yahoos blog was hacked I spotted today that Amnesty seem to have a similar problem. Monitoring the SERPs for ‘buy viagra‘ (ahem) I noticed an Amnesty blog post appearing in 8th. If you click on the link you get redirected via some onpage script to a pharmacy site… The cached text of the page shows the ...]