social blog roll with tag: google

The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks

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 ...]

Update your crawler detection: MSN/Live Search announces msnbot/1.1

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 ...]

Why storing URLs with truncated trailing slashes is an utterly idiocy

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

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

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 ...]

Still not yet speechless, just swamped

Long time no blogging … sorry folks. I’m swamped in a huge project that has nothing to do with SEO, and not much with webmastering at all. I’m dealing with complex backend systems and all my script outputs go to a closed user group, so I can’t even blog a new SEO finding or insight ...]

Nofollow still means don’t follow, and how to instruct Google to crawl nofollow’ed links nevertheless

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 ...]

Save bandwidth costs: Dynamic pages can support If-Modified-Since too

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 ...]

@ALL: Give Google your feedback on NOINDEX, but read this pamphlet beforehand!

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 ...]

You can’t escape from Google-Jail when …

… 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 ...]

Confirm that you’re using Analytics on all pages

Here’s something from my mailbox - someone wanted to know how he could crawl his site and confirm that all of his pages really have the Google Analytics tracking-code on them. WordPress users have it easy, there are plugins that handle it automatically. Sometimes it’s worth asking nicely - let me show you how ...]

Running Firefox in parallel

Sometimes it would just be great to have multiple instances of Firefox running at the same time. Some web applications just love to eat memory in Firefox, some web pages go crazy if you have JavaScript enabled and sometimes you just want different sets of cookies to let you manage two accounts at the same ...]

Google Webmaster Groups statistics for August 2007

Another month goes by, here are the statistics for August (and some comparisons to July in brackets) 2007. The numbers Number of new threads = 1329 5.3%] Number of new posts = 7676 -1.0%] Average number posts/new thread = 5.48 -4.5%] Number of posts by new users = 1061 (13.8%) 30.0%] Number of threads by new users = 813 (61.2%) 13.4%] Average ...]

Interview with Richard Hearne (”Red Cardinal”)

Hi Richard, welcome to my blog! When I look through the top posters in the Google Webmaster Help groups, you’re almost always in there - it’s great to have you there and your posts bring in a lot of background knowledge that I’m sure many site owners appreciate. It’s interesting that you are - as ...]

Being #1 with “Untitled Document” and Flash

Untitled Document We’ve all seen it - “untitled document” is a popular page name, probably the most popular one out there. I wonder who decided that “untitled document” was better than no title at all? There are a lot of those pages out there, do they even know that a good title can do wonders? Being ...]

Opportunities in Search

So I went to visit Google in Mountain View … … and learned that every second sentence has to be prefixed with “so”. Wait, that’s not all. I’m sure you’re all just reading this to hear about the secret information they’ve been feeding me, heh. Sorry, you’ll have to join Google yourself to find out more about ...]

A set of command-line Windows website tools

If you have to do things over and over again, it’s a good idea to use a tool to make things easier. Windows is a bit limited (or very - when compared to Linux) when it comes to batch file scripts and “wget” is limited to what it can do right out the box, so ...]

Google Webmaster Groups statistics for September 2007

I finally got around to getting the statistics for September 2007 for the Google Webmaster Help Groups finished up. I have to admit the numbers for September aren’t the best, especially the counts for the posts by Googlers. Getting started at Google took quite some time and a lot of learning . And wow ...]

How to use Google webmaster tools stats with Excel

Google’s webmaster tools has a neat feature that lets you download your query and click statistics (once you have verified ownership of your site). The data you can get from there is quite comprehensive, but hard to break down for use in Excel. As a fun exercise I put together a small Python-script that takes ...]

Go hack yourself - recovering your FTP password

All of the websites I put together at the moment are used for playing around and testing things. It’s fun to set up a site, try some things out, delete it or just let it sit and then - usually much later - start over and try something else. The only problem is that by ...]

Maximizing SEO Returns with User Generated Content

When your catalog has 200 million products, grows at $3M per week, and contains content created by users, how do you optimize it? · Capture the long tail by balancing a user-contributed folksonomy with a site taxonomy that works for...

Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues

More and more site owners are concerned that they might get penalized accidentally or overtly because of duplicate content. If you run mirror sites, will search engines ban you? If you have listings that are similar in nature, is that...

Facebook, Feeds and Micro-Blogging

From Facebook to MySpace, Twitter to FeedBurner, social software and feeds are reshaping the world we live in and streamlining our online experience. Networking sites like Facebook and social messaging utilities like Twitter bring the human element to the foreground...

Google to Close Dallas Texas Office

Perhaps it is a sign of the times, but Google is closing their Dallas, Texas location, as well as their Denver, Colorado location. These were primarily sales offices to support their Google AdWords programs. As one of the founders of the Dallas Search Engine Marketing Association, I have to say that I am very surprised by ...]

Alex Rodriguez and Madonna Surge in Searches on Lycos Network

According to Lycos, the rumors of an affair between Alex Rodriguez and Madonna caused a huge surge in the number of searches for their names last week. Other searches that surged last week were searches for Grey’s Anatomy’s Katherine Heigl, Nicole Kidman, Jesse Jackson and the iPhone. Lycos maintains The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular ...]

Paul Levine Joins Zvents Board of Directors

Photo courtesy TechCrunch. Paul Levine, former GM of Yahoo! Local, has joined Zvents board of directors as Zvents continues to grow both its network and innovative local search platform. His experience with local listings will prove invaluable as the platform continues to support local business as is done offline; by way of event promotion. This news ...]

Want Online Casinos? Search Uncle Sam Courtesy of Google

Search Engine Roundtable recently pointed out that you can now search all of the US Government web sites courtesy of Google. Using Google’s new Uncle Sam search, you can now search the US Government websites. I can see how this would be very useful, especially if you wanted some unbiased government data. But wait! Last year ...]

SnapNames and Moniker Return Domain to Prior Owner After Winning at Auction

On June 26th, 2008, I was looking at the domain name auction listings at SnapNames and saw a domain name that caught my eye. For some reason, I just “liked” the domain. So, I bid on it. Apparently I was the sole bidder, so I won the domain, fair and square, for $99. It was ...]

comScore Releases June 2008 Search Engine Rankings

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. In June 2008, Google retained its lead in the U.S. search market capturing 61.5 percent of the searches conducted, down slightly from 61.8 percent in May. ...]

6 Ways to Get Nearly Instant Links to your Web Site

It seems as though everyone wants something done quickly, or nearly instantly. We want success quickly. We want to be successful online and we want to get links to our web sites quickly. We want traffic to our web sites quickly. There are many reasons why you would want to get an “influx” of links to ...]

Paris Hilton Fires Back at John McCain; Stays At Top of Search Phrases

Paris Hilton fired back at John McCain in response to Presidential Candidate John McCain’s recent television ad. John McCain’s TV ad compared Senator Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Paris Hilton stayed atop the Lycos to(TM) Top Search Terms for the week ending August 2nd, 2008. Every week Lycos comes out with a ...]

iCrossing Says General Motors, Chrysler and Nissan Have Most Online Search Visibility

Global digital marketing agency iCrossing has announced their findings of their Vertical Visibility Index: Automotive. They’re saying that Chrysler, General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Nissan are tops when it comes to online search visibility. The Vertical Visibility Index: Automotive is the first in their series of studies that analyzes the paid and organic/natural search media visibility. They ...]

SEMPO and Onward Search Partner to Increase Number of Search Engine Marketing Professionals

SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, and Onward Search, a nationwide search engine marketing staffing company, has announced what they’re calling a “joint partnership” to promote programs that will increase the number of career opportunities in search engine marketing for job seekers seeking to enter the industry. Through this joint partnership, SEMPO and Onward Search ...]

Richard Dewick: Search Blogger of the Day

Meet Richard Dewick, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I'd like to highlight a post called Google Local Business Center: Local Search Engine Optimisation. Richard gives some quick tips on how to optimize your local business site, using Google's Webmaster Tools, Local Business Center, maps and videos, and local business directories. If you're looking to rank better for local searches, and provide more targeted infor

Congrats Search Marketing Standard Magazine!

Although I don’t usually do “announcement” type posts, I had to throw out my congratulations and best wishes to the Search Marketing Standard Magazine. The company has been acquired by iNET Interactive, and the staff of the magazine will remain in place. They are all jazzed about the future of the magazine, and as an avid reader, I am too. I wonder if this means we can convince them to move to a monthly print schedule (hint, hint). Anyway, if you haven’t yet subscribed to the magazine, you’re really missing out. It rocks. Search Blogger of the Day. Today I'd like to highlight a post called Top Google Adwords Quality Score Misconceptions. Remember the old days when all you had to do was buy your way to the top of Adwords? Right, and despite the fact that those old days are long gone, people still have that misconception. PPCHero debunks that and more in this post which is just one of a series of Adwords Quality Score posts. Go read it and

Peace Y’all

As you know, I got a little fed up a couple of weeks ago with all the B.S. going on in our industry lately, and I decided to step back for a while and not participate. I’ve done that (and will continue to do so), but that whole crazy debacle got me thinking about peace. In fact, at some point, I plurked that we should bring back the peace sign, and that got me thinking about it even more. See, I think perhaps our society has lost its way just a tad bit. Although I don’t think we can relive…

Roderick Ioerger: Search Blogger of the Day

Meet Roderick Ioerger, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I'd like to highlight a post entitled Top Lists Are The Pits. From the post... "The truth is top lists have become over saturated as a product and are also now viewed mostly as watered down content. Is a single sentence or two really all that useful?"

Richard Burkhardt: Search Blogger of the Day

Meet Richard Burkhardt, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I'd like to highlight a post called Reciprocal Linking for Ranking is Anything But Dead. What do you think? Do you still see value in the old recip links game? Do you still have a links page on your site?

About.com Redesign Goes Largely Unnoticed

Apparently, about a month ago (not sure of the exact date), About.com did a major redesign, and sadly, it went largely unnoticed. I could find a few mentions of it in a handful of blogs and a forum I visit, but it didn’t cause the kind of stir that a major redesign of a major site would normally cause. In a way, I’m not surprised, because About.com has always been the kind of site that many people hate, and yet, it’s still a huge presence on the Internet. How sad is it to own one of the largest sites, do a…

PPCBlogger: Search Blogger of the Day

Meet PPCBlogger, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I'd like to highlight a post called Why I'm Not a Fan of Submitting Sitemaps. PPCBlogger lays out three reasons why submitting a sitemap can be a bad idea, and it's probably not for the reasons you think. Some good arguments are made, so head on over and read the post. Do you agree with PPCBlogger? Do you have evidence to the contrary? Join the conversation by commenting on the article.

Raaj Paatkar: Search Blogger of the Day

Meet Raaj Paatkar, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I'd like to highlight a post called Site-wide Links Can Hurt Your Rankings. Raaj explains what sitewide links are, and then discusses the value of these links, going so far as to say that they can actually hurt your rankings. Do you agree? Have you tested the effects? Raaj also wonders about blogrolls, since these are often sitewide. Go read Raaj's post, and then chime in with your

Google Hijacking Sites Now? No, Just Fail

Wow, I just had a bizarre thing happen to me while reading an article over on Money-Hacks.com. I’d been on this page for about 30 seconds or so, and had read half the article, before suddenly I was whisked away to another page…no, another site…a Google error page! What The … ?? Here’s where I was…

new search engine on the horizon called Cuill, the next “Google Killer”. Since then, not much has come out about the engine, except additional funding and concerns with their crawlers. Now they have launched their search application and shortened their name to Cuil.

Why so special?

Microsoft Still Pines for Yahoo!

Microsoft still wants to purchase Yahoo!, however, now their true intentions are becoming more visible:

There’s yet another chapter in what’s beginning to look like an eternal corporate love triangle: Seems Microsoft just can’t get past it’s obsession with Yahoo’s search business, at least according to The Wall Stre

pittfall on twitter

I have begun playing with twitter. In it’s honor, this post abides by their rules of 140 characters or less. Free to follow me pittfall.

pittfall on twitter

Useful Tools for Blackberry

Recently I switched from a Palm Treo to a Blackberry Curve because it offers functionality that helps me stay connected when my laptop is closed, I’m on the road, etc. It definitely offers more than the iPhone and Palm for business applications. A few of my finds (thanks to some friends) that I think are useful enough to share with others.

Opera Mini 4.1

Mini technolog

Fishing for Links

In October of last year, Google made some major adjustments to PageRank because of paid links, then in November, Google noted that buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and asked for webmasters to report them. I have hea

SEOmoz PRO Training Series - Expert Seminar

Next week, I will be headed to Seattle, WA for the Expert Seminar hosted by SEOmoz.

This looks to be a very interesting two days of expert education covering a list of topics beyond entry level SEO:

Elite Site Architecture for Enterprise, E-Commerce and Micro-Targeted Domains

White Hat Cloaking

“Avoid Being Labeled a “False Positive” - How Black Hat Tactics Impact White Hat Websi

Happy 4th of July from SEOpittfall

Copyright © 2008, by Stephen Pitts aka SEOpittfall.com, All Rights Reserved.

Happy 4th of July from SEOpittfall

Google Out to Destroy Keyword Estimation Tools?

Google has always offered very valuable tools to advertisers, one of which that is extremely useful to organic keyword research, the Google AdWords Keyword Tool for discovering and building a keyword list. The only limitation is that it expressed search volume and search volume trends as a green bar. This was a great way to see the volume of traffic a particular keyword had in relation to the other keywords on the generated list, but without realistic quantitative data.

It was always a great

AT&T Offers Up Pogo - Do We Need Another Browser?

AT&T stepped into the online realm last year with the purchase of ingenio, and now they have launched their very own browser called Pogo, now in invitation only beta. TechCrunch has invitations for this limited beta.

Essentially, it looks and acts a

SEO: The Online Triathlon

I am a very competitive person when it comes to many different areas including athletics, games and even sports teams. The fact that I work in the SEO industry is no different. I am pushing myself both in learning what is relevant to their market and keeping abreast of the changes in the industry as a whole. So, seeing that the Olympics is starting soon, I see a very relevant correlation between triathlon and SEO.

A triathlon is an endurance

Should You Jump Into Social Networks to Promote Your Business?
There’s a lot of buzz in the online PR world about social networking, whether that be traditional social networks like Myspace and Facebook or social networking through microblogging services such as Twitter. Should you jump into social networking to promote your business? And if so, with so many options available, how do you choose which social ...]

Irish SEO, SEM, Webmasters & Designers Meetup Take 2
The time has come again. Irish SEOs, online marketers, webmasters, all members of the Irish Webmaster forum and anyone with an interest in all things web related are all welcome to come along to the second official IWF meetup. The event will once again be hosted by the Harbour Master in the IFSC, Dublin on Saturday ...]

RedFly Interview With Aaron Wall Of SEO Book
An interview with the man who literally wrote the book on Search Engine Optimisation. Dave Davis from RedFly asks Aaron Wall some burning SEO questions relative to the state of the 2008-2009 web.

The Desktop Analytics Package Of Your Dreams
Details about the fantastic new up and coming Google analytics desktop version build in Adobe Air.

Use PPC To Dominate Your Typo SEO Landscape
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 ...]

Take The Guesswork Out Of PPC Campaign Setup
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 ...]

The Irish Blog Awards - Best Blog from a Journalist
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.

Unusual Google Website Optimizer Bug - Check Your Code
Today, Google announced that it would be holding a website optimizer competition where you can win a partnership with a website optimizer to improve your sites ROI. The “webSite workout” competition is open only to those in the US (What’s new?) as advertisers outside the great United States don’t really spend that much on advertising. ...]

Free $100 Facebook Coupon Courtesy Of Visa
For those of you who are not advertising on facebook already (and even if you are) and want to give it a try, now there is a completely free way to test the waters. As part of the Visa Business promotion, Visa are offering $100 USD in advertising credit to facebook users/advertisers. To get the free ...]

How To Use The Google Content Network To Invest In Domains
A detailed article on using placement performance reports from the google content network to source domains with ROI to invest in. The article goes into specifics on how to run a placement performance report within adwords to get conversion data on parked and for sale domains.

The Hypocrisy Of Google & Nofollow
Ok, so I was just reading the official Google blog today about their new 3D virtual experience product called Lively when I noticed some big red lines. Anyone who uses the SEO for firefox extension knows that red means the ‘nofollow’ attribute is being used on a link. So what are Google applying the ‘nofollow’ attribute to ...]

Hiding Links In Flash
Interesting experiment by the Neutralize Guava guys over on Search Engine War blog where they tested and proved that Google is now indexing links in flash. Next up for them to prove is whether text in a flash button acts as an anchor on those links… Pretty big achievement by the Google/Adobe engineers, flash still ...]

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 -

NME First For Spam
It’s festival season and I have been browsing here and there getting all excited about seeing some great bands and having a few beverages in the sun rain. Anyway, NME is first for music news (apparently) but it also seems their forums have been totally nuked by spam. The main forum boards has a nice toolbar ...]

Why I’m Not A Fan Of Submitting Sitemaps
This question seems to come up a lot still and while I believe sitemaps in general can be great for helping search engine spiders crawl your site and an effective way of spreading out linkjuice (with some nice anchor text) they can also bite you in the arse when not used intelligently. Certainly submitting sitemaps ...]

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 ...]

123 Reg Hacked
Another example of a Wordpress blog being hacked and injected with hidden links to viagra, tramadol and the like. Their blog is on a subdomain of the main site - http://inside.123-reg.co.uk/ If the self acclaimed ‘UK’s largest web host’ can’t protect their own blog or even spot they have a big problem, what hope is there ...]

Always Get The Dot Com
I always wanted the ppcblog.com domain, but unfortunately it was registered before I got the chance. At the time, the .net & .org were available aswell as the .co.uk and nobody had built a brand around the name ‘PPC blog‘ in the same way there were seo blogs seemingly everywhere. About 2 years ago when I developed ...]

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 ...]

Google Still Not Treating Underscores As Word Separators
There is still some debate whether the search engines place any weight on keywords used within page urls and that’s actually what I wanted to quickly test. So I set up a couple of pages from this blog and included unique words within the page url, one separated by hyphens (dashes) and the other by ...]

Fake Alex Goad & Craig Beckta
Fake Steve Jobs is an internet phenomenen and now we have fake Jerry Yang which I am sure will be a huge success, and add valuable perspective to the internet tech news scene. John Cow was a revelation, a wonderful parody of the (in)famous John Chow, and the legend continues with new owners of the parody site WordPress.com has added XML sitemaps so I thought I would take a glance at their implementation. My immediate though was to take a look at Lorelle's sitemap.xml

Homepage daily priority

Every other page updated on a weekly basis?

That seems like a good way to tell the spiders to index your site less often than they currently do. With Lorelle you would certa

Never Underestimate The Power Of The Dark Side of Search
That title might have inspired thoughs of Jedi Knights, those with ADD might have instantly warped their thought trains to Pink Floyd and "The Dark Side of The Moon". Both might be correct in their connections. Just like you couldn't see the dark side of the force, and you can't see the dark side of the moon, you can't actually see all of your traffic that originates from search on the internet. This is something that Tim O'Reily seems to be forgetting.
Search

Opt-in Accelerator Warning - Security Risk - Read This First!

Optin Accelerator is a massive security risk for your customers - rather than fix the security problems, the new version just adds fluff without addressing core issues.

Anyone can make a mistake, release a product without considering all the possible ramifications, but to release Opt-in Accelerator again without major changes is irresponsible.

The Irresponsible Viral Tell-A-Friend Trio

So far there have been 3 such scripts I have written about, and there is a 4th "coming soon"

My first cover

How To Build Profitable Minisites
I tend to leave newbie internet marketing tutorials to experts, but often I say that a little tongue in cheek - the people writing the newbie tutorials are often writing them because they couldn't do advanced stuff. (the "Advanced Whitehat SEO Debate?" ) In the case of Minisite Secrets Exposed, Michael Rasmussen does a great job of covering all the basics, and there are some quite advanced tip in there as well. This is a great alternative for bloggers who are struggling making any real money online.

Paydirt: Blogcatalog Interviewed on Technorati Blog Advertising
Technorati have now officially announced their new blog advertising platform surprisingly called Technorati Media. It is a significant step, though not as many seem to think unusual. Afterall, Google started as a search engine, then monetized search, and finally introduced their own publisher program Adsense.

Eperks On Mahalo

Here is a little olive branch for the guys at ePerks, an unbiased resource that could be used to present 2 sides of the current Vlad vs ePerks legal kerfuffle.

I am not going to portray Mahalo as some kind of "sacred ground", and I have been a little negative about Mahalo in the past, but it does offer ePerks the opportunity to submit links, hopefully not from anonymous sources, of people happy with their service.

Mahalo I am sure will validate links, and if they seem to be from an anonymous shill blog on WordPress.com, my hope

Paid Content - A Dying Business Model?
Michael Arrington in his boycott of Associated Press seemed to suggest that paid content is a dying business model. I must admit I am not a huge fan of linking to articles from Associated Press, simply because it is extremely difficult to determine the original source when these stories "go over the wire". A great example of the reasons why is when I reported about the Could social news aggregators such as Digg, Techmeme & Technorati be sued for copyright infringement because the frequently used lead for a story often encompasses the core story? Larger concerns will no doubt have their own team of lawyers, but do bloggers need Blogging Insurance? The idea of specific insurance policies for blogger

Comment on Google AdWords Tool Offers Search Volume Numbers by radio en espanol
excellent article. was a bit confused with all these options in the adwords tool before reading it. vivo!

Comment on Google Rankings Change From Day to Day, Hour To Hour, Why? by CrankyDave
Thanx for the link Jaan. You have to wonder whether or not they're trying to get more CT's on the shopping links (my guess) or if it's to try and bolster the CT's on adwords. CrankyDaves last blog post..Patron Saint of Athletes

Comment on Google Bomb No More Says Washington Post Blog? by incrediblehelp
Exactly Cole, hence the reason many think it was a hand job.

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Comment on Google Rankings Change From Day to Day, Hour To Hour, Why? by incrediblehelp
Yes I have been seeing the Google product results in the middle to. Barry talks about it here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017933.html

Comment on Google Bomb No More Says Washington Post Blog? by Cole
The google bomb "miserable failure" done to George Bush's page still works to a certain degree. Do a search on miserable or miserable bush or miserable web site. It'll come up...hmmm

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