From the category archives:

SEO

Google and Private Registrations

December 1, 2006

CShel has been doing a little research and thinks she got an answer tot he question of can google see private registration data.

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Internet Marketing Tools Review

December 1, 2006

Jim Boykin and the crew over at WeBuildPages have been pretty busy working on a redesign and fine tuning some of their tools, and Jim asked me to take a look at a few of them.

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Google Click Tracking in Gmail

November 30, 2006

I can’t believe that I am the first one to notice this, and I guess it’s because I don’t use GMail regularly that I didn’t notice this before, but if they didn’t actually want your user data would Google be tracking clicks in Gmail?

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What’s One Digg Worth

November 29, 2006

Back in October I conducted a little test to see what the value of making it to the homepage of Digg was actually worth, here are the results:

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The Domain Question for Matt Cutts

November 29, 2006

All right since Matt Cutt’s and I are well on our way to be being best friends (as is clearly shown in the picture to the right of him telling me jokes) I think it’s ok to ask the question that’s on everybody’s mind regarding the site review session, can Google see behind a private [...]

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Pubcon 2006 Custom Search Engine

November 28, 2006

OK so I was working on something earlier in the day for Brett, and while I was food shopping (a woman’s work is never done!) I came up with a cool idea to try. Why not create a custom search engine specifically for Las Vegas Pubcon 2006 with the Google Custom Search Engine. So check [...]

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Ted Leonsis SEO Contest

November 27, 2006

Is all that hard work Ted Leonsis did blogging about to be put to the test? It is if the Ted Leonsis SEO Contest gets any traction.

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Thinking About the Adwords Quality Score, User Data, and Organic Rankings

November 26, 2006

It’s dark, it’s late, I’m on my second red bull and I’m looking at some stats. I’m seeing things, funny things, interesting things, things that should be thought about, take a look into my thinking if you are curious …

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my First +30 Penalty

November 26, 2006

Noticed I got my first +30 Penalty today, not enough data to formulate a reasonable theory yet, if you’ve got anything you’d like to share in public drop it in the comments, or by email to keep it private, that even includes people who’s names rhyme with Cat Lutz and if your employer rhymes with [...]

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Ted Leonsis Better Get Back to Work

November 24, 2006

Ted Leonsis didn’t like what Google had to say about him so he decided to change it, in January he started blogging sometimes several times a day even linking to Mark Cuban (heck he said it I didn’t), and here’s what happened:
He added lots of tags to his blog posts, dropping names of famous [...]

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My Website Isn’t Banned in Google

November 23, 2006

This post is a follow up to is my website banned in Google. Looking at the screen shot below you can see I’m no longer banned.

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Is Google Pushing a Republican Agenda and Burying Internet Porn

November 22, 2006

Recently there have been a number of stories alleging that Google is in bed with CIA and feeding them data. Having just returned from an internet conference and speaking with some Goolge Engineers I feel pretty confident that Google’s response that they are not involved with the CIA is true, however there is a growing [...]

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Using Sitemaps to Combat Duplicate Content

November 21, 2006

If you talked to anyone at the recent pubcon you realized one the things that’s on everyone’s mind is duplicate content, scrapers, splogs and adsense. While I didn’t get a chance to spend any time with anyone on the Google Sitemaps team, sometimes it takes a few hours on a plane for an idea to [...]

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Longuylind

November 21, 2006

Hey Susan if you’re going to pick on Lisa for being from Longuylind at least get it right. It’s one word Longuylind not two words Long Island. Kind of like ‘Nawlins and not New Orleans. Of course one of the fun things about living on Longuylind is we have all these really cool towns with [...]

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Pubcon Recap

November 20, 2006

This post will be my brain dump for all things pubcon.

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MSN Won’t Win Playing Catchup

November 20, 2006

There’s something of a buzz right now with MSN supposedly banning people for reciprocal linking. True or not I feel this is typical of why MSN is stuck in third place, you can’t be a leader playing catchup.

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Is FedEx going to have a problem with Fed-Ex

November 18, 2006

Is Federal Express aka Fedex going to have a problem now that Britney Spears former husband, the artist formerly known as as K-Fed, is now known as Fed-Ex
Yeah yeah I hear ya no one is going to confuse FedEx with Fed-Ex (unless of course the Fed-Ex tape is coming via FedEx) but I just predict [...]

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Does Guy Kawasaki Need Marketing and Branding Help?

November 18, 2006

All right I’m going to say it right off the bat this post seems like an incredibly bad idea right from the start, I mean really does Guy Kawasaki really need to take branding and marketing advice from me? So I’m either going to go down in a fiery ball of flames or hopefully learn [...]

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Viral and Word of Mouth Marketing

November 16, 2006

Moderator: Todd Friesen
Speakers:
Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOMoz
Louise Rijk, Co-founder and Vice-President of Marketing and Sales, Advanced Media Productions, Inc.
Aaron Wall, Author, SEO Book
Lawrence Coburn, President, RateItAll, Inc.
First up is Louise talking about how big agencies look at word of mouth marketing. Who do you trust as part of word of mouth, consumer generated media, and [...]

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One Page Wonders

November 16, 2006

Jeff Libert, CEO, DirectoryCompany.com
Ted Ulle, Partner, The MEWS Group
George Kepnick, Co-Founder, DottedOnline.com
First up George Kepnick, what is a one page wonder, the most common example is one of th really long sales letter you usually see with ebooks or get-rich quick, however they also are just small sites that immedeatly have a call for action. [...]

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