From the monthly archives:

June 2006

Suggestions for Improving Squidoo

June 28, 2006

I’ve got a few lenses over on Squidoo, and although I’ve made less than $1 from them and haven’t gotten any meaningful traffic from them, I still think it’s too early in the development stages to give up on.

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Google Sitemaps and Site Migration

June 27, 2006

Recently I’ve been laying the groundwork for some future SEO projects doing some site migrations onto content management systems, showing search spiders friendlier content, and cleaning up some URL structures. I’ve been using Google Sitemaps to help keep track of how the projects are progressing.

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Flickr and Travel Agents

June 24, 2006

I’ve got a friend who happens to be a travel agent. She’s looking for ways to grow her business. I suggested she start a blog and a photo journal. She travels fairly frequently and takes lots of pictures, so I suggested every time she travels she write up a little review and post some photos [...]

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Mosquito Ringtones and why New York Times Cloaking Sucks for Usability

June 23, 2006

Go ahead search for [mosquito ringtone] which do you think is better CLOAKED New York Times Article or a the actual Washington Post article on mosquito ringtones?
The only good part is once everyone is cloaking spammer, no one is …

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Crossword Puzzles and Domain Hacking

June 20, 2006

I’d like to think I’m pretty good at thinking outside of the box, but I’m a horrible speller so when I find a dictionary made to help you solve crossword puzzles, a big light bulb over my head turns on and I think about domain hacking.

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Delicious and Flickr Intergration

June 17, 2006

I haven’t delicious bookmarked a lot of stuff from flickr so not sure if this is new thing or not. However since Yahoo owns both Flickr and Del.icio.us a little integration behind the scenes isn’t unexpected and actually works pretty nicely, see screen shot below.

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My Inbox Runeth Over

June 14, 2006

With a first communion, kindergarten graduation, karate belt test, church picnic, and dance school recital all within the past three weeks my inbox and pile of work I need to get to runeth over. Posting will be light untill I get back on track.

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Looking at Google Sitemaps

June 13, 2006

A few weeks ago Aaron asked me to look at and explain some things in Google Sitemaps, and although it’s been a few weeks I did eventually get around to it (see SeoBuzzBox.com). I’ll get into looking at things in a little later I’d like to start by looking at ways to improve Google Sitemaps.

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Liechtenstein Meets Long Island on the WWW

June 10, 2006

One of the things that always makes me think outside of the box is when “the real world” and “my outside life” intersects in serendipitous ways.

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Alt Tags Back in Black?

June 9, 2006

I remember the good ole’ days when you could stuff alt tags with whole sentences and it worked like a charm, then it got killed. However recently I’m seeing more and more alt tag stuffing working.

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Google in Pieces

June 8, 2006

OK Google calendar “talks” to GMail, but why don’t any of them talk to google notebooks? Why don’t any of them talk to Google-Writely? Why don’t any of them talk to Google Spreadsheets? Why don’t any of these products which are not designed to compete with Microsoft office (yeah … right) talk to each other?
Isn’t [...]

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Working with Google Adwords Quality Robot

June 8, 2006

It’s taken a few days and a few tech support emails back and forth but I’ve finally been able to get an answer on how to work with the new Google Adwords quality robot.

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Cocoonworks.com Part II

June 7, 2006

North over at Cocoonworks.com accomodated my request to remove all of the content taken from my RSS feed over on his news aggregation blog, you can see his comments here. While I’m not going to enter into a debate about copyright you will notice I’ve changed the footer in my feed to clear up any [...]

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Superficial Crawling SEO Strategies

June 5, 2006

On WebmasterWorld people are discussing big daddy strategies, and on SEORountable they are highlighting how this is becoming a problem for directories. No discussion about Google’s new crawling method would be complete without also looking at Matt Cutts on the indexing timeline. While to some extent things are still in flux, I think we’ve hit [...]

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No Follow The Leper of Blogging

June 3, 2006

Jim was ahead of his time killing nofollow, Nick gives nofollow a smackdown, and Greg steps up to the plate and knocks one out with his yesfollow post.
Having them in place does nothing to discourage spammers, and they only seem to punish the people who actually do participate in the conversation. If I have a [...]

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Al Gore Loses Mind, Film at 11

June 3, 2006

Politics aside, this quote from former vice president Al Gore is truly classic, and one of the funniest things I’ve heard all week:Dateline Hollywood » Blog Archive » AL GORE CONDEMNS ‘CARS’ FOR PROMOTING GLOBAL WARMING
Since “An Inconvenient Truth” grossed $365,000 over Memorial Day weekend at just four theaters, Gore has immediately become a power [...]

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Firefox Update Borks Roboform

June 2, 2006

It’s annoying when Firefox and Thunderbird auto-update in the backround without giving you a choice, and then your roboform install get’s borked, sigh …

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Reputation Management – Case Study, Part I

June 1, 2006

Since my experiment in reputation management is actually getting much more interesting than I planned I thought I should go back and do a proper writeup.

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