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Feed Reader Suggestion

December 21, 2006

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

December 21, 2006

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

December 21, 2006

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 « 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

December 21, 2006

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 » SEO article in Newsweek
Josh, with Yahoo, you’re paying for the manual review of a site by an editor–it’s [...]

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If Google Ran The World

December 20, 2006

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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Search Engine Glossary Review

December 15, 2006

SO I was asked to take a look at Aaron Wall’s Search Engine Glossary over on SEOBook.com

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Interview with Merrick Lozano of PRLeap.com

December 14, 2006

I know everybody says it but one of the most important parts of Pubcon is the networking. I met Mario and Merrick Lozano of PRLeap and had a great time “talking shop” one night. Merrick was nice enough to do an interview and answer a few questions about himself and his company.

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Chris Winfield Blogging at SEO Buzz Box

December 13, 2006

I met Chris at Pubcon in Vegas where he was live blogging some of sessions on his regular site 10e20.com. I also went out for drinks with him this past Monday night in the city (when people from NY say the city they mean Manhattan, any other use of the “the city” to describe a [...]

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What is a Compilation Post

December 13, 2006

I came across a post today that was actually pretty interesting. I’ve been trying similar things but I think this execution was really good, for lack of a better name I’m going to call this a compilation post.

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Bruce Clay Blog Needs Comments

December 12, 2006

All right you know there aren’t many times Matt Cutts and I are 100% agreement over anything, but like he says

Bruce Clay Blog. I know I know, it didn’t really start in 2006, but 2006 is the year it became a must-read. Lisa and Susan, get them to turn on comments over there, will [...]

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SEO Bookmarklets

December 11, 2006

Since I had a few requests for bookmarklets I use here are a few. If you like them click on the link and drag it to your bookmark toolbar.

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Minus 30 Penalty from the Webmaster Central Control Panel

December 10, 2006

Just for kicks I thought I’d post a picture from a site that’s suffering from the minus 30 penalty from the webmaster central (aka Google Sitemaps) control panel. The keywords have been sanitized but looking at the right panel is actually rather amusing. For the super-curious the one that is ranking at #29 is an [...]

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eBay Subdomain Spam

December 8, 2006

In an effort provide google with some quality feedback from an actual user looking to buy a product and being extremely disappointed at the results I got, I’d like to point out [Digi Glam Makeover Gift Set]. Please someone explain to me how all of those eBay results are helping me.

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Search Engine Land Strong Out of the Gate

December 7, 2006

Nick Mentioned this in his December 6th podcast but I think it’s important to note and hopefully get him a few listeners by dropping another link. Search Engine Land is really making Search Engine Watch look like the keystone cops during a chinese fire drill. Smack dab in the middle of SES Chicago Conference, as [...]

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Megite Aggregator

December 7, 2006

I’m starting to see referral traffic from Megite.com pretty regularly. I’m also testing it out in my feed reader, and as a concept I’m liking it. In practice it needs a little tweaking, the same stories keep popping up all day even though I read them. It looks like this is happening when they add [...]

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did it

December 7, 2006

Did-it.com
Did-it.com

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MSN LinkForward Bookmarklet

December 6, 2006

If you happened see any of the site review clinics at pubcon you might have wondered how do people look things up so quickly. Lots of people use bookmarklets for quick and dirty type searches. For example say you wanted to to know who a site links to using the new MSN [linkfromdomain] command. So [...]

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CNN Doesn’t Get The Web or Viral Marketing

December 5, 2006

So I come across a story on CNN about how a toy company used YouTube to create a Viral/Word of Mouth Marketing Buzz for a new remote control helicopter. Did they embed a youtube video … did they even include a link to any of the videos … did they even include a url in [...]

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Jason Calacanis

December 5, 2006

In a keynote address today Jason Calacanis said “SEO is bullshit, if you generate a web page with good content Google will rank the page properly” Let’s see if that’s true.
Jason Calacanis – The Weblog
Jason Calacanis – Weblogs, Inc.
Jason Calacanis – via Wikipedia
Jason Calacanis – via JenSense.com
Jason Calacanis – Gothamist
Jason Calacanis – Technorati
Jason Calacanis [...]

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The Wiggles and Understanding Your Market

December 2, 2006

If you’ve been around small children who are under the age of 8 you’ve probably heard of The Wiggles. For those of you who haven’t they are a group of four men who sing, dance and frolic entertaining kids with some highly infectious stick in your head all day songs.

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