From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Conducting a Real Time Google Experiment on 7/30/2008

July 29, 2008

I’m going to be doing some real time experiments on Google tomorrow, if you’d like to participate be sure to follow me on twitter and retweet the messages … lets see what happens shall we

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Wordpress – Clean Up Your Backend

July 29, 2008

There are lots of posts dedicated to showing you wordpress plugins that enhance your post functionality and add features but not many that focus on helping you clean and maintain a secure and orderly backend. I’ll include a few you may have seen before but also a few new ones to help keep things running [...]

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Looking at Fake Social Media Profiles

July 28, 2008

Somewhere in the middle of all the drama last week was a discussion on fake social media profiles, and as usual the white hat zealots were ready to crucify anyone associated with them, claiming they were yet another tool disparaging the SEO and internet marketing industry. Well it’s my profession responsibility to provide some examples [...]

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Performancing Ads Launches

July 27, 2008

If you’ve been reading blogs for any length of time it’s hard to miss the presence of those 125 x 125 square banner ads in sidebar. They represent a great opportunity for publishers to make money and monetize their blogs. The problem is unless you’re a big or well known blogger it’s tough to find [...]

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Digg’s Most Valuable Asset is User Data … Who Else But Google Needs That

July 26, 2008

As much as I loathe rehashing news stories I’ll throw my hat into the failed Google buying Digg story.

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SEO Haters: Misconceptions and Misinformation

July 24, 2008

The following is a Guest Post from Melanie Nathan.
There is a harsh wind blowing through our industry. We all feel it. and if we don’t, perhaps we’ve got our heads in the sand. The truth is SEO’s are, for the most part, loathed.
As a transparent and somewhat public SEO I personally receive at least one [...]

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First Guest Post

July 24, 2008

I’ll be having my first guest post today from Melanie Nathan, I’m reaching out to other folks this week. Let me know what you think in the comments or in private.

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How to Turn Google Knols into an MFA Scraper

July 23, 2008

The following is purely hypothetical and should not be taken as advice or a suggestion.

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Lessons in Linkbait and Social Media

July 23, 2008

One way to make sure your linkbait is successful is to pick a subject that you believe in, are passionate about, and that will bring out an emotional response from members of your target audience.
Or you could play it safe and write the 5 ways Twitter is helping web 2.0 businesses.
The first is memorable the [...]

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Is the BlogHer Conference Guilty of Sex Discrimination

July 21, 2008

Last week July 18th through the 20th was this years BlogHer Conference. According to the Blogher website their mission is:
To create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community, and economic empowerment.
To those organizers I challenge them to look in the mirror and realize that you’ve now become the same evil and sexist [...]

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Looking for Guest Posts

July 9, 2008

So over the years I’ve been asked more than once do I accept any guest posts, and they answer has always been no. Well I’ve decided to change that policy and try letting a few guests posts go out and see what happens.
So what’s it take to be accepted as a guest author? Well you [...]

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Google Loves Wikipedia – Even the Empty Pages

July 9, 2008

If you’re one of those kooky SEO’s that doesn’t believe that domain authority/trust is the single most important factor in SEO today, I really think you are either blind, stupid or both. Situations like the Tour De France really highlight the weaknesses in the Google Algo.

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Hey Google Going to Drop the Paid Links Hammer on Coke

July 7, 2008

Hey Google Going to Drop the Paid Links Hammer on Coke? I’m not sure how sending someone a mini fridge knowing full well they are going to blog about it is any different than sending someone cash for link advertising. Then again you created the two tiered internet justice world we now live in, and [...]

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Follow Me on Friend Feed – Yes it’s Time

July 7, 2008

We’re getting close to approaching critical mass on friend feed, and with twitter’s horrible performance and feature removal yes I think it’s time people start looking at friend feed.
if you’re interested you can follow me there Michael Gray on Friend Feed
Feel free to drop a link to your profile in the comments, spam from low [...]

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How to Guarantee Your Stories Will Fail on Digg

July 7, 2008

Here’s a perfect example of how to shoot yourself in the foot on Digg (link)
What’s going to get more attention, clicks, or votes …
“How to avoid laptop loss at the airport”
or
“US Airports Lose Over 10,000 Laptops Every Week”
If you’re wondering why your submissions flounder look at your titles are they more like #1 or [...]

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Why Fast Company Won’t Exist Long Before 2016

July 3, 2008

So Fast Company posted an article entitled Six Jobs That Won’t Exist in 2016. Hey Fast Company Staff get your heads out of your collective asses and stop with the paginated articles … especially when you don’t need them … if you don’t people will stop reading you and you won’t be around to see [...]

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Hey Robert Scoble and Seth Godin Did You Forget Something

July 3, 2008

So Seth Godin and Robert Scoble talk about a video by Fred. When you look at all the views of his videos he has over 45 million youtube views

Scoble and Seth go on to say how the traffic numbers aren’t important and it’s the quality of the viewers. Umm hey did you guys miss that [...]

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Google Knows Where I Live

July 2, 2008

Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!

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