From the monthly archives:

August 2006

Does Google use Whois Information

August 31, 2006

I received an email last week from one of my readers asking me to explore the question of “Does Google use whois information”, and it seemed like an interesting topic to talk about.

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Public Apology

August 30, 2006

I was trying to pull off a distributed blog event earlier this week. Unfortunately things didn’t work out as planned and only one other person participated. So I’d like to appologize publicy to Peter who’s now posting over at the v7n blog for any time I may have caused you to waste on this project.

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Testing the OOP Part II

August 30, 2006

Well that didn’t take long [serps]

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Google Adsense for Video Beta Program

August 30, 2006

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Google Adsense for video ads. Initially I was told this blog was approved, which seemed a little odd to me as the content really didn’t match. After some back and forth earlier this week they decided choose another of my websites instead. In a way I’m glad because the content [...]

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The Dark Side of Social Media Optimization

August 30, 2006

Rand came out with a kick ass post on Social Media Optimization for those of you who lean a little more towards the dark side, here are some things to think about.

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Chicken Noodle Soup Part II

August 29, 2006

So my Chicken Noodle Soup Dance post has almost 5000 page views in 1 week …

If you don’t think that’s like shooting fish in a barrel I’ll point you to Targeting Keywords versus Targeting Traffic.

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Suggestions for Ask.com

August 29, 2006

After reading some comments from SES in San Jose it looked like Ask.com was looking for suggestions on ways to improve. I was working with Rand of SEOMoz.com trying to get other SEO bloggers to participate. While we didn’t get the level of participation I hoped for it still seemed worth while enough to go [...]

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Testing the OOP

August 28, 2006

Just for kicks let’s see what happenes for [Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic serps] with this post on [Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic]

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August 28, 2006

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Graywolf on SEO Rockstars

August 28, 2006

If everything works out according to plan I’ll be a guest on SEO Rockstars on Tuesday August 29th 7PM EST.
Game canceled due to a the hurricane about to hit the studios.

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WebGuerrilla on Preventing DNS Monkey Business

August 25, 2006

Greg’s got a cool post on how to protect yourself from DNS abuse. I’m pretty sure this would have solved my IP Mismatching problem. Hey Google Sitemaps how about adding this kind of data to the sitemaps control panel, so we can tell if something is wrong. I mean seeing something like “wonkydomain.com” is currently [...]

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Firefoxies.com – Using Sex to Get Market Share and Affiliate Commissions

August 25, 2006

I came across Firefoxies.com today via a link on digg. It combines the “hot or not” concept with spreading the useage of the firefox browser (with some affiliate links to boot). Kinda goofy, but definitely clever, definite viral potential.

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Targeting Children with Adsense

August 25, 2006

I’m not speaking about the information in this post as something I approve of dissaprove of, it’s just something interesting I came across that made me think.

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SEO Tips I Learned from Matt Cutts

August 22, 2006

As an SEO one of the things we often have to overcome is optimizing for the singular and plural form of the word, such as [blue widget] and [blue widgets]. Now some folks go the route of building one page for each keyword. While this can work you often end up with two very similar [...]

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Roboform Tips

August 22, 2006

Like many of you I use roboform to manage my passwords and logins, with the amount of data I have to keep track of there’s no other way. Anyways I was at meeting the other day and saw one of the other guys used roboform as well. I asked him how he liked it and [...]

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Chicken Noodle Soup Video

August 21, 2006

Do you Know what the Chicken Noodle Soup Video is? Well you should …

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ShoeMoney Net Income Podcast

August 21, 2006

I can’t imagine if you read this blog and haven’t heard of Shoemoney. However if you aren’t listening to his podcast you’re missing out. I can’t listen live because I’ve got some scheduling conflicts but I’m catching up on the podcast archives. My top recommended Shoemoney Net Income Episodes are:

ShoeMoney talks arbitrage, PPC, and affiliates [...]

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Back in Technorati

August 19, 2006

It took a while and quite a few emails back and forth but I’m finally back in Technorati. My best advice if you’re having a problem be persistent without being a pest.

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Rebranding Your URL Can Decrease Your Usability

August 18, 2006

Like anyone in the search space who does some background checking I subscribe to whois.sc Domaintools.com. The problem is when they rebranded a few months ago they switched from whois.sc to Domaintools.com, making it more difficulty to use especially for those of us who are bad spellers alphabetically challenged. I have no problem typing [...]

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Experimentation and Off Topic Posts

August 17, 2006

My buddy Nick has a golden rule of blogging, it’s called the 80/20 rule. If you’ve never read that post you certainly should, but in a nutshell it says 80% of your posts should be about your “core topic” and 20% of your posts can be off topic or “cat posts”. I have to say [...]

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