From the monthly archives:

July 2007

Putting Partial Feed SEO Bloggers on Notice

If you’re an SEO blogger and you publish a partial feed I’m putting you on notice, August 1st I’m dropping you from my RSS reader.

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Your Stories Never Go Popular Because Your Personal Marketing Plan Sucks

Yesterday Rae mentioned You’re Damn Right It’s a Popularity Contest as response to all the whinny posts about Sphinn being a popularity contest, if you haven’t read it go check it out. I’d also like to add the reason nobody votes for your stories and they never go popular is because your personal marketing plan [...]

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I Need to go 3G

Ok I’ve resisted the call of crackberry long enough and I need to go 3G. I’ve sidestepped the lure of the iPhone I’m just not a Mac kind of guy, but I’m totally lusting after the big screen. I need a keyboard and I have to be able to connect it to the laptop to [...]

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Blog Search WTF

Hey Google blog search how come I can’t blog search for domain.com? What if I wanted to know who mentioned [techcrunch.com] do you automatically think I meant to search for [link:techcrunch.com] ? Why is that important? Maybe I want to know who blogged about [sneakers.com] and not the word [sneakers]. The link command would work [...]

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Spinn.com A New Search Social Website

Danny Sullivan’s new social website Sphinn.com launched today.

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Google Documents Folders Bug

Not really sure what’s the best/most efficient way to get this info to the right person so I’m totally going to link and hope I show up in Matt or Adams ego surfing. In the new google documents UI if you have a lot of folders/tags (they changed tags to folders) the bottom one’s drop [...]

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ProBlogger Job Board vs Craigslist

Recently I started working two projects where I needed to hire some bloggers. After exhausting my friends network (I’m in ur address book stealin’ ur contacts) I was still short people. So I turned to the paid job listings boards Craigslist and ProBlogger Job Board.

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I can’t Fix it if I don’t know it’s Broke

C’mon Matt if you take away the supplemental results label how are we ever going to know what’s “broken” in order to fix it
SEOmoz | Google – Please Bring Back the Supplemental Results Query; It’s Incredibly Valuable
I believe it’s good to remove this query because I don’t want people to get fixated on Supplemental [...]

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Searching for Argentina is Not Safe for Kids or Work

One of the problems that’s bound to creep up with universal search is that inappropriate images will start to make their way onto the first page. For example searching for [argentina] (NSFW) yields a cheerleading team from behind wearing thongs. While that might be appropriate for Argentina, it probably falls into category of inappropriate. Purely [...]

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What You Should Learn from Rand Fishkin

You can learn lots of things reading the SEOMoz Blog, I do and it’s one of the few SEO blogs I still subscribe to, but this weekend I was reminded of two things I thought I share with you.

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Things You May Have Missed 7-8-2007

Here’s a list of things you may have missed for the week ending 7-8-2007

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fuhgetaboutit skateboarded

Want to see something funny, create a Google document and use the word [fuhgetaboutit]. I didn’t expect Google docs to recognize it as word however I was rather amused when they suggested [skateboarded] as a correction. Must be a California thing … fuhgetaboutit

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Compute for Our Childrens Future

A couple weeks a G-Man who many of you may know from SEOMoz dropped me note asking to mention the Compute for our Children Project. If you’d like to help you can go to http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ sign up for the download and help the cause, thanks.

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2007 Tour de France Winner – Wikipedia

The Tour de France is scheduled to begin tomorrow, so I was doing some research for another site and was really amazed at the favoritism Google shows Wikipedia. So I decided to break it down and show bad it really is. Below is a list of all the stops on this years Tour de France, [...]

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Wikipedia I’m in Ur Index Rulin’ Ur Serpz

Go ahead type in any single letter of the alphabet into a google search box. Think it highlights an algorithmic bias that wikipedia is listed top 10 for every one. Sure no one really searches for the “a” but when you play on the fringe you learn things about how an algo works. Still not [...]

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How to Make YouTube work for Your Company

So say you’re a traditional SEO consultant and your looking ways to make some of the user generated content work for you and clients. I always suggest YouTube as an option and the response is usually less than enthusiastic. For most people when they think of YouTube they think of crappy lip-sync, America’s Funniest Video [...]

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Goog411 Voice Recognition and Unclickable Links

So I tried out the new ‘map it’ function on Google 411 service, and had some issues. I live in Wantagh, which as the Lisa can verify is actually pronounced Juan-taw (as in Tawny), however Goog 411 kept giving me Montauk. I finally had to key in my zip code and Google pronounced it as [...]

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