From the monthly archives:

December 2006

2007 End of Year Meme Roundup

See I said this meme thing was going to get out of hand and the only reason I’m answering is because the sex goddess tagged me.
5 Predictions for 2007
I’m going to go with the long shots…

Matt Cutts takes a long vacation somewhere where it’s warm, sunny filled with wonderfully pristine beaches and brilliant azure colored [...]

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Ok I am so getting out ahead of the pack on this one and am taking full credit for coining the term and of picture bait. Sure people have been doing, maybe even in very deliberate and manipulative ways, but gosh darn it I’m giving it a name, and if science has taught us anything [...]

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Google Says No to Cloned SEO’s

I got a tip from someone inside of the ‘plex but expect google to come out with a ruling early next year outlawing cloned SEO’s regardless of whether they are blackhat or whitehat. Still no word on whether they approve of cloned cuttlets, chicken or human

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MyBlogLog Widget

Ok I got the MyBlogLog widget thing going on so you can join my community.

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Graywolf’s SEO Blog the Year in Review 2006

Since it’s the last week in the year I thought I’d share some stats from this blog with.

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Oddities From the Latest Google Update

Man the latest update on Google is clearly showing some odd stuff. For example on one domain I own it says the site isn’t in google at all. If I do a site: search on the domain I get 300+ pages but everything except one is in supplemental. If I look back at the page [...]

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SFX Motor Sports Podcast

SFX Motor Sports Podcast
For the curious visit CNet, for the legally minded take note that the link goes to google and google is the one doing the redirecting.
Hat tip to my non-analog spectral friend.

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Web Based Email For More than One Address

In addition to playing with my feedreader I’ve also been playing with my email lately and I’m equally frustrated at not being able to do what I want.

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Viral Marketing for Long Term Sales

Over on threadwatch I recently made a comment that social media should not be used for meeting short term sales goals (link). I read an article today from Reuters that showed how giving something away to generate an early buzz resulted in more long term sales Disney learns lessons from “High School”
In print and [...]

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Feed Reader Suggestion

I’m at my wits end trying to find a feed reader that works for me and am looking for some suggestions.

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Google Adwords Telling Fibs

So which is wrong Google Zietgiest or Google Adwords, either way one of you is lying …
See the top searches for 2006 and look at #5 radioblog. Try and buy the keyword here’s what you get …

Price jacked to $10 and I get told the keyword is rarely included in searches (new ad not [...]

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Asking the Questions

Dean’s got a guest blogger over on his wordpress site. Jessica was nice enough to answer some questions I posted:
Jessica On The Web Â« Speaking Freely
Which do you use more email or text messaging?
Texting. I send email to my grandparents. My friends all text, email is just too slow and you have to be on [...]

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Nit Pickers and Link Buyers

So it seems it’s not ok to buy links, however it is ok to pay for an editorial review which may get you a link as long as it’s not guaranteed.
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO Â» SEO article in Newsweek
Josh, with Yahoo, youâ€™re paying for the manual review of a site by an editorâ€“itâ€™s [...]

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If Google Ran The World

This is the way things work in the real world

this is the way things would work if Google ran the world

any questions …

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Taco Bell and E. coli O157:H7

Since I live on Long Island in New York where some of the Taco Bell E.Coli 0157:h7 food poisoning incidents have occurred the story has been fairly front of mind for me. However I though it might be interesting to share the SERP with some of you from other spots who don’t get some of [...]

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Narcissism Filter

Rich Skrenta from Topix.net moved into “his own digs” at Skrenta.net. In his 5 things tag post he mentions this:
…hmmm, too much I- me- my- in this post…it will never make it past the Topix narcissism filter.
I actually never considered the existence of a narcissism filter, interesting and something to consider. [...]

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How Do You Save Pages?

I’m a big fan of delicious I use it all the time, and I use regularly to bookmark almost everything. However today I wanted to bookmark something in the New York Times I knew I would want next year. The problem is the NEW YORK TIMES IS STUPID and they put things behind the walled [...]

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