Eric Schmidt, The Wall Street Journal and Personalized Search

Google's step towards personalized search represents a strategic move that will have profound effects on the search industry.

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Shopping Cart SEO Tips

When you run an online e-commerce store with a shopping cart, it's quite easy for your architecture and URL's to enter into territory that's not friendly for search engines. Here are some basic tips I recommend for everyone working with an online shopping cart.

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25 Things I’d like to See Google Fix

Here's a list of things I'd like to see Google fix to make things better.

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How to Use Twitter Lists To Create Reputation Management Problems

Twitter lists are a powerful tool, that can be used for both good and evil. In this post I'll show one way you can abuse the power to create a reputation management problem for someone.

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How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide

Evernote is a mobile cloud based note taking, storage and informational retrieval product. In this tutorial I'll show you how to use it to create a conference reference.

How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide

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December 14, 2009

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Eric Schmidt, The Wall Street Journal and Personalized Search

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Early Friday morning the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece from Eric Schmidt on how Google can help the dying newspaper industry. Later that same afternoon Google announced they were “turning on” personalized search for everyone. While these two events were connected because the occurred on the same date, they are also a clear signal of [...]

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Easytweets Review

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I get to see a lot of twitter products and software, some of it in beta version before launch, some of it just after launch. Truth be told most of them suck and only do one thing really well. Seeing how twitter has become an essential part of most websites’ marketing plans, it’s really hard [...]

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Shopping Cart SEO Tips

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When you run an online e-commerce store with a shopping cart, it’s quite easy for your architecture and URL’s to enter into territory that’s not friendly for search engines. Here are some basic tips I recommend for everyone working with an online shopping cart.

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25 Things I’d like to See Google Fix

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While I’m well known for being critical of many of the things Google does, I’m also a power user of site and many of their tools. Being a power user gives me a unique insight to see some areas these tools could be improved. This post is written in the spirit of constructive criticism, since [...]

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Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors – November 2009

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I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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How to Make Your Address Book More Useful with Facebook

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While there are a lot of advantages to having a large social graph (aka friending everyone and their bots), there are also advantages to having a more tightly managed social graph. If you keep your address book/contact list filled with people you talk with on a regular basis, you can use facebook to help fill [...]

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How to Use Twitter Lists To Create Reputation Management Problems

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When twitter lists first came out and I commented about how awesome they are, I also warned they had the potential to become a tool for evil and create reputation management problems. Since no one paid attention, I figured what better way to illustrate the problem than to see it in action?

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Why It’s Harder to Hide Things on The Internet

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In recent years it has become increasingly more difficult to hide information (including data, pages, new domains, and entire websites) on the internet. In some cases, the discovery’s results can range from being mildly embarrassing to to completely giving away a business plan. In this post I’ll talk about some of those holes and how to protect [...]

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How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide

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Now that Pubcon is over I’m going to let you in on a tool that helps me keep track of, organize, find, and use the information I get from conferences, trade shows, and seminars:  Evernote.

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Why Google HQ Loves Thin Affiliates

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Despite what you may have read, Google secretly has a love affair with thin affiliates. Like a techie and Gizmodo, Google can’t get enough of affiliate marketers who build sites with no value add. If Google has its own internal Twitter, Eric Schmidt would tweet, “I heart affs who rely on search to power their [...]

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How Bing and the Wall Street Journal Could Screw Google

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In the past week there’s been a lot talk about the Wall Street Journal threatening to pull its content from Google and why it’s a good idea or sheer lunacy.

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New Twitter Account @graywolfseo

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Now that twitter lists have taken off and are being utilized, and in some cases are replacing RSS readers, I’m going to try to take advantage by experimenting with a new account @graywolfseo.

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Twitter Lists are Teh Awesome

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Now that twitter lists have been rolled out just about everyone, I’m going to actually agree with Robert Scoble and say twitter lists are teh awesome.

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Thanks to this Months Sponsors – October 2009

October 30, 2009

I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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Bad Architecture and Band-Aid Solutions

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In the past few months all of the search engines, but especially Google have released or started supporting new ways of fixing site architecture issues. However IMHO these are band-aid solutions for bad site architecture, and not something you should rely on … at all.

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How to Add Search Shortcuts to Google Chrome.

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Last week Danny Sullivan twittered he was looking for a creative commons image to use. Christine Churchill poked a little fun at me wondering how I was able to get that so quickly. The trick is using search shortcuts, and I’m going to show you how to do it.

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Using Sponsored Blog Themes For Reputation Management

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This is the second time I’ve encountered this technique in the past few months so I thought I’d spend some time explaing what it is, what to watch out for, and how it could be problematic for you.

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No The TSA Really Didn’t Take Your Baby

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Late last week as we where all recovering from balloon boy, another minor kefuffle percolated to the top involving a mother and her child being separated during a TSA checkpoint screening. This story provides some interesting insight from a reputation management and social media perspective, so I’d like to delve a little deeper.

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Google Whacking on Bing

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If you’ve been involved in SEO for a while chances are you’ve heard the term google whacking. For those of you that haven’t basically it was coming up with a search term for a real word that had exactly one result. Due to the way Google does things now it’s nearly impossible, and hardly any [...]

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