From the monthly archives:

February 2006

ASK and Mortgages

Seems Barry Diller’s “be evil” quip my not have been that far from the mark, check out the search for [mortgage] over at Ask.com (Google [mortgage] for comparison). Screen shot after the jump.

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AdBrite Review

While I had heard of Phillip Kaplan and F**kedCompany.com before, I hadn’t heard of AdBrite until Pubcon in Las Vegas where Phillip spoke one morning. I spoke with the nice folks at the booth and decided to give it a shot a few months later.

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Clickbots and the Wisdom of Rosie Perez

So yesterday one of my websites was targeted by a clickbot. They executed the exact same search 400 times from the exact same search engine, visited a few pages on the websites and then clicked on an Adsense ad. Now I’m not sure if it was a script kiddie playing a prank or a malicious [...]

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FireFox 1.5 Buggy as All Get Out

OK I’m a big Firefox fan but version 1.5 is pretty gosh darn buggy. It’s at the point now where it crashes 3 to 4 times a day. At first I thought it was Session Saver which caused some problems before, but after removing it I really don’t see any difference. I know I’m not [...]

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Virgin SEO Space

Credit Cards, Mortgages, Herbal Viagra, Pay Day Loans, and Diet Pills the list goes on and on. For anyone who’s been in the SEO arena for any length of time chances are you got at least one if not quite a few websites in these spaces. Let’s face it the money is good so it [...]

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Pay-Per-Click Placement Tips

In my opinion part of any good pay-per-click campaign consists of two parts. The first part is getting good ROI, or getting the most conversions from the fewest amount of clicks and for the lowest price. The second part consists of making sure your competition is paying the most and getting the lowest ROI. To [...]

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Google Pages

So I’ve got a quick little experiment running over here.  First impressions scripting is turned off, you can’t even run some basic javascript to print out the current date and time. So will people use it to try and get some link love off of a Google subdomain, or will they use it stick a [...]

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SEO and the Thrill of the Rank

I’m an SEO.
My job is not is not to educate, organize, or raise profits of any search or advertising company.
My job is to find algorthym or market ineffiecincies.
My goal is profit from that knowledge and share it with those willing to pay for my expertise.
I’m a fox in the hen house.
I want your position in [...]

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No Travel Tips on MSN

If you’re looking for travel tips don’t use MSN, they think you’re looking for trips instead

Orlando Vacation Tips
California Vacation Tips
Ireland Vacation Tips
This is particularly bothersome as I’m bidding on about 20 variations of [location tips] in MSN. What’s even more curious is those words are my best converting words in Google.
(screen shot after the jump)

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Shameless Self Promotion in a Web 2.0 World

One of the the common elements of a lot of web 2.0-ish applications is they rely heavily on user generated content. However as I mentioned in my Forums vs Blogs post many people are blogging to keep all of the value of their own work. So why should should any smart marketer give away [...]

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MSN AdCenter and Keywords

Dear MSN AdCenter PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, DROP THE PRETTY PICTURES AND FUNKY GRAPHS AND JUST WORK IN FIREFOX DAMMIT!
Next how about just a big old text area to let me drop my keywords in, I don’t want to import from some funky excel sheet, or some other mumbo [...]

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Sandbox and Pagerank

If you read any of the forums you’ve probably heard murmurings of PR update underway. Actually this ties in quite nicely with some sandbox phenomenon I’ve been seeing for quite a while. Usually about 2 to 4 weeks before a pagerank update goes public sites start popping out of the sandbox ( see Peek-a-Boo [...]

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Work Husbands What’s in it For Me?

Thankfully I don’t work in an office environment so it’s not my problem, but it seems having a “workplace husband” is all the rage now. Now I know I’m gonna get in trouble for this but heck I’m all about stirring up trouble so here goes.

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Why I Hate Web Hosting

Throughout my life one of the things that’s constantly plagued me is my ability or more correctly lack of ability to delegate. Many moons ago when I worked in sales selling high end watches i was in charge of a staff of 15 to 25 people (imagine that me like a grown up in charge [...]

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Google Gives Wikipedia a Handjob on Groundhog’s Day

I’m not sure why someone would need to do this but the serp for Ground Hog’s Day looks an awful lot like a handjob to  me.
(screen shot after the jump)
Added: after reading Matt’s comments and doing more investigating it appears this a new UI SERP and not a hand edit at all

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Dedicated Reseller Hosting

I want the dependability of a dedicated hosting server with the full functionality from a reseller or hosting manager account, why is it so hard to get both at the same time?
Update:
I got a tip about a dedicated reseller server, so I’m giving them a shot and we’ll see how it goes.

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Peek-a-Boo in the Sandbox

First off let me say Google’s constantly updating non synchronized data centers are actually becoming quite annoying. Big Daddy data centers not being in sync with anything even more annoying. Anyways, I’m starting to see some sites coming out of the sandbox in the past week or so. Let me clarify that I’m starting [...]

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Button Pushing is Not Marketing

From the Wall Street Journal comes this comment about the “v7ndotcom elursrebmem” contest :via WSJ.com
Several other groups are trying to win the contest by soliciting links via an entirely different route: aligning themselves with charity groups and promising to donate the prize money. SEOs grouse about that tactic, saying it makes the contest a test [...]

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If Search Engines Were High School Teachers

Search Engines and ranking algorithm’s are evolving, in fact many of them are coming close to simulating artificial intelligence and exhibiting distinct personality traits. What better way to explain these personalities than to use an example everyone can relate to their high school teachers.

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Alexa Get Yer’ Game On

In certain circles and under certain circumstances having a good low Alexa rank is a very good thing, in fact it can even line your coffers quite nicely. Now there are some people who sell tools that are supposed to lower your Alexa rank, and I’m not going to comment on whether they work or [...]

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