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Social Networks

HCards, Microformats and Address Data does it Matter for SEO

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A few weeks  ago @etnainteractive asked me a question on twitter about HCards and Microformats, and do they matter for SEO. I’m going to explain what they are for those of you who don’t know what thay is. I’m also going to be taking a bigger look at address data and SEO implications.

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So I Made it Onto Some Silly List

December 19, 2008

So while I was away I made it onto the Most Influential Online Marketers of 2008 list. Not that I don’t appreciate everyone who was nice enought to vote for me, and all the hard work that went into putting a list like that together, but I wonder about the culture we create and want [...]

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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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What Search Engine Conferences Should I Attend

May 16, 2008

One of the questions I get asked frequently is “which search conferences should I attend”. Seeing as conferences end up costing you between $3500-$5000 a pop when you include travel, lodging and meals I thought I’d share my experience.

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DaveR Twitter and the Disney Job I’ll Never Get

February 11, 2008

So I’m cruising through twitter this AM and I get a message from DaveR about a job he thinks he’s found for me. Now my first thought was Dave sent me a link to the Disney Chief Magic Officer job, which is very cool, but more of a ceremonial position more than anything else. However [...]

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We Don’t Need Less Robert Scoble We Just a More Filtered and Relevant One

October 15, 2007

Vanessa recently spoke about Twitter By Phone, Now With Default Scoble, and I agree with her it’s a problem, however what we really need to do is deal with the cause of the problem not the symptom.

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Digg Oddities and Bury Brigade

May 10, 2007

if you’ve been experiencing an unusually high vote count to get to the homepage or are getting buried more often than not in the past week drop me an email, and let’s compare notes.

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The Day the Digging Died

May 2, 2007

I was up late last night watching as Digg’s citizens fiddled while Digg burned, here’s my opinion on the matter.

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WebmasterWorld Social Media Tagging and Bookmarking Optimization

April 24, 2007

Since I received a few ‘hey are you ok it’s been more than 2 days since you blogged emails’ Thought I’d let you know I’m alive and doing well just buried under a mountain of work with some looming deadlines.
I was also just appointed moderator of the Social Media Tagging and Bookmarking Optimization forum at [...]

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Facebook Begging

April 19, 2007

Since I was recently deputized an officer of the Facebook SEO, SMO, SEM group (my real title is NSFW) I was informed my wall comments were lacking in diversity. Since well I am a whore and not in any way too proud or above begging, consider this an invitation to be my request being my [...]

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Linkerati the Pawns of Social Media

April 6, 2007

Last week on Lee Odden’s blog he made a post about Crowdsourcing and Subvert and Profit. However what I’d really like to talk about is comment made by Simon of Bon Prix since it’s something I hear/read quite often:

Social networking sites have their place, not everyone wants the entertainment 18-24 year old segment anyways, the [...]

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Search Engine Land Post

March 30, 2007

Be sure to check out my post on SEL Top 12 Ways To Win Friends & Write Magnetic Headlines

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Digg and the Auto Bury

March 28, 2007

After doing some extensive testing and empirical data gathering over the past two weeks I am 99% convinced there is a digg auto-bury feature. Certain domains are flagged to be automatically buried and removed from the normal voting system with as little as one vote and within few as few hours of getting in the [...]

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Does Digg Have an Automatic Bury Feature?

March 19, 2007

Last night someone submitted a story form my blog to Digg, however when I logged in this morning here’s what I found …

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New Digg Category Microsoft

February 26, 2007

So Digg announced a new category today Microsoft. Why not just call it the ‘Everything Except Vulnerabilities will be Buried Category’ instead

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MyBlogLog Boycott

February 23, 2007

Well MyBlogLog it was fun but I’m on the Boycott as well.

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Yes SEO’s Digg Hates You, They Really Really Hate You

February 20, 2007

In case you missed it SEOMoz had a piece on digg today Dear Digg.com: I’m going to save you a million dollars with three lines of code. Oh sure it bit sensational in title but the advice is sound, Matt tells Digg how to fix their “www” and non “www” cannocical issue. However some of [...]

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StumbleUpon Tool Bar Update

February 6, 2007

Interesting the way more and more toolbars and widgets such as Linkedin and Stumbleupon are now affecting page displays, and even the SERP’s. Think having a high/good stumbleupon rating is good for your site and makes you more clickable … I do

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Social Media – It’s the Backlinks Stupid

February 6, 2007

Since Google is giving away more backlink data, and I’ve been saying social media is really about getting the backlinks I thought It’s time to put up or shut up and show some stats.

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Are You A Master Link Baiter or Just a Flasher

February 6, 2007

You know what linkbaiting has been getting a bum wrap lately. Everyone from Nick W, to Eric Ward, to a majority of the readers at copyblogger. Well I’m going to take the unpopular and politically incorrect stance of defending link bait.

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