From the monthly archives:

December 2007

You Can Have Any SERP You Want as Long as It’s Google

December 31, 2007

I was just reading the 10e20 top 50 of 2007 and picked this up check out the SERP for [I am Legend] screen shot for posterity …

The top 3 results are Google owned properties, for those of you still naive enough to believe that you aren’t competing with Google for content creation, I hope this [...]

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Vote for me in The Search Engine Journal Awards

December 31, 2007

You all should totally go vote me in SEJ search awards to convince you why I deserve your vote, here are some of the highlights of this year. In January my blog got hacked, February I published a kick ass series of interviews on Local Search, in March I did a video on making [...]

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Techcrunch Scared of Google and Caves in Like a School Girl

December 30, 2007

Don’t think Google’s war on paid links has an effect on how you do business, then let’s take a look at Michael Arrington and TechCrunch, here’s a look at a November “thank the sponsors” post:

Now here’s a look at this weekspost

Notice all those pink outlines around the links indicating the nofollow tag, that’s because Michael [...]

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Matt Cutts Says Financial Arrangements Should Affect All Links Within a Post

December 30, 2007

I was notified about this post via email and have to say if it’s true I do find it somewhat disturbing. Ted Murphy of Izea (formerly Pay Per Post) sat down with Matt Cutts at Pubcon and had a discussion about links in sponsored posts. According to Ted here’s what was said …

I explained to [...]

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Web Analytics – An Hour a Day: Book Review

December 27, 2007

One of the books I looked forward to reading this year was Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik. I’ve hesitated making this post because I met Avinash at SES San Jose earlier this year, I sat in on one of his sessions, was in talks to get involved in Market Motive with [...]

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Using Google Sitemaps for Competitive Intelligence

December 26, 2007

I’m a big fan of the Google Webmaster Central Program and using sitemaps. I agree that you should build your website so that it is crawlable and not rely on sitemaps to compensate for poor site architecture, but hands down there is no better tool when you are migrating or cleaning up after a site [...]

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Loren Cracks Me Up 2007 Predictions

December 24, 2007

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I’m Quite Sure Google Doesn’t like Repeated Text at All

December 23, 2007

Google tells us over and over not to repeat text, it’s funny how the algo still seems to like it, screen shot for posterity [youtub]

hat tip to the tipster who wants to remain annon

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Cigna Healthcare Sucks

December 21, 2007

Cigna Sucks

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Google Knols and Opportunity

December 21, 2007

Since I spent the early part of the week discussing how Google Knols will ruin the internet, I thought it might also be fun to discuss potential ways you can use it to your advantage.

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Lane Hartwell, Reputation Management and Your Google Permanent Record

December 20, 2007

There’s a big debate in the blogosphere right now involving a parody video from Richter Scales and photographer Lane Hartwell. A photograph Lane took was used without her permission, she was not credited and not compensated. Richter Scales feels this falls under the fair usage act. I’m not going to take sides in the [...]

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Is This the 11th Hour for Thin Affiliate Sites

December 19, 2007

While some people realized affiliate marketing has has slowly been changing for some time now many others missed the memo, or are on are sailing a ship of blissful ignorance up a famous river in Africa. For those few people I hope the announcement of Google Knols last week serves as a wakeup call.

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What Google Knols Can Teach You About Google’s Philosophy

December 18, 2007

Last week with the announcement of Google Knols, much of the conversation centered around how this was going to affect sites like Wikipedia. However what the announcement also revealed was Google’s philosophy about how they interact with the world.

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Sharing in Google Reader

December 17, 2007

Sharing in Google reader is pretty interesting, right now only two people are sharing with me which is kinda sad. What’s cool is if you turn out to be an annoying “social tuesdays” only kind of friend I can turn you off and ignore you completely. You also get to see the lame drivel cool [...]

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Primate Spheres in the Blue Grass State

December 15, 2007

Sometimes things need to be tested and checked, answers need to be sought, friends need the assist, even if it is for Monkey Balls In Louisville Kentucky

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Hey Matt Cutts How About a Domain Redirection and Consolidation Post

December 14, 2007

So during the Matt Cutts in Hotseat presentation at Pubcon Brett gave me the mic to ask a question (heh dangerous I know). While I did get my question out and Matt did kinda answered I think it’s a topic that could use a little enlightenment, especially considering there has been some back room chatter [...]

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test the yahoo plugin

December 13, 2007

i live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20006 yay
my favorite president is george washington who lives in richmond virginia in a nice home

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Electrovaya Power Pad External Battery Review

December 12, 2007

For me one of the main limitations of a laptop based office/lifestyle is battery life. Manufacturers advertise battery life spans of 3, 4, and 5 hours or more. However what they don’t tell you is these times have very very little to do with real use conditions. Now I imagine there are people who use [...]

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