http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/316453657/ Interesting, it seems like a ranking penalty has been applied to yackyack.co.uk, that or some funky Korean hijack has had the effect of kicking this domain out of the rankings Go try a search for any of my unique title strings and see what comes up! I tried, .co.uk, .com, .ie, .in, .jp google domains and ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/318868050/ I’m at the Online Marketing show at the business design centre in London Islington, doing.SEO Consultations. I just so happened to attend a Universal search aka Blended search presentation by Neil McCarthy CMSO of Latitude Group. Neil’s presentation was entertaining, Neil had a good take on what it is that is required to do well in search ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/316796121/ Hey Microsoft? What gives with all these dodgy false referrals? Do you think it’s a good thing to send zillions of false queries to website owners? Why are you doing this? Don’t you think it’s a little rude. Back in December here Nathan Buggia said on the very issue of these cloaked referrals Hopefully webmasters ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/317481342/ Old School SEO Sucks and in isolation is a waste of money I won’t be telling anyone anything new when I say that today in 2008 the web is a very different place from the web we knew in 1998. Back then Google was pretty fledgling, and spent a lot of time and energy building relationships ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yackyack/~3/317524304/ Manufacturing consent. Nuff said. If you really really liked this post you might even want to buy me a Stella Artois :D http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/370444291/018053.html 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... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=ZMPfDw"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=ZMPfDw" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=wDNmvK"><img src="http://feeds.seroun http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/370317753/018046.html Searcher Behavior Research Update How do searchers interact with search engines? New research is constantly coming out revealing how searchers act. 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Moderator: · Kevin Ryan, VP, Global Content... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=WcRAj6"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=WcRAj6" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=oQTMcK"><img src="http://feeds http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/370419968/018051.html Moderator: Marshall Sponder, Senior Web Analyst, Monster.com Use comscore Conversational media category - dont forget that the numbers are panel based Let google do it for us - Trends down to the site are now available CMO&#8217;s will end... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=6eapxb"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=6eapxb" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=o64yNK"><img src="http://fe http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/370403960/018050.html How many keywords do you need in your paid search account? What keywords are your customers searching for? How do customers find products after they reach your site? How to target the right terms in your paid and organic search... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=8Pnha3"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=8Pnha3" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=sFFv4K"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/370453860/018055.html Black Hat/White Hat: Playing Dirty with SEO Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2008 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:15p - 5:30p Speakers: Jill Whalen, HighRankings.com Bruce Clay, BruceClay.com Dave Naylor, Bronco.co.uk Todd Friesen, "on sabbatical" Greg Boser, 3 Dog Media Moderator:... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=PEV3ZT"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=PEV3ZT" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/370311485/018038.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=ASspM5"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=ASspM5" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=9JiEhK"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=9JiEhK" border="0"></img></a> &lt http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/370397765/018049.html 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... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=g8DrX2"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=g8DrX2" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=AFpy5K"><img src="http://feeds.serou http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/370443136/018052.html How can you best tap into long tail terms? Are there targeting techniques you're overlooking? This session examines these and other techniques to help you get more out of paid search. Moderator: Richard Zwicky, Founder &amp; CEO, Enquisite Speakers:... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=aNAEBj"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=aNAEBj" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=GfTndK"><img src= http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/370444290/018054.html 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... <p><a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=oGOuAg"><img src="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~a/SearchEngineRoundtable1?i=oGOuAg" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~f/SearchEngineRoundtable1?a=SXLiVK"&gt http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/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 ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/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 ...] 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/seo/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 ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/seo/why-im-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 ...] 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/seo/123-reg-hacked-awghfjuhrfgh/ 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 ...] http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/search-engine-marketing/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 ...] 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/google-still-not-treating-underscores-as-word-seperators/ 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 ...]