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Twitter Lists are Teh Awesome

The power and responsibility of twitter lists in the search ecosystem

Twitter Lists are Teh Awesome

Twitter Lists are Teh Awesome

Wordpress SEO: How to Create Living URL’s

If you watched any of the congressional hearings about the newspaper industry where Marissa Mayer testified one of the concepts she brought up is Living URL's. The basic concept is a story lives at a single URL and gets added to/edited/updated over time.

Wordpress SEO: How to Create Living URL’s

Wordpress SEO: How to Create Living URL’s

Wordpress SEO: How to Choose a Permalink Structure

For this post we're going to be taking look at the optimal permalink and URL structures for wordpress. There are a lot of different options, and there isn't a one size fits all answer, however there are definitely better and worse choices you can make.

Wordpress SEO: How to Choose a Permalink Structure

Wordpress SEO: How to Choose a Permalink Structure

Wordpress SEO: Wordpress Security Why it Matters to SEO

From a security standpoint wordpress has always been a piece of swiss cheese, not very secure and with lots of holes in it. In this post I'll explain why, and look at some things you can do to protect yourself and mitigate the damage.

Wordpress SEO: Wordpress Security Why it Matters to SEO

Wordpress SEO: Wordpress Security Why it Matters to SEO

Wordpress SEO: How to Maximize Your Internal Link Strategy

Like a red headed step child no one pays much attention to internal links. In this post we'll take a look at some tools that help you link internally more effectively.

Wordpress SEO: How to Maximize Your Internal Link Strategy

Wordpress SEO: How to Maximize Your Internal Link Strategy

Google Looking for Lab Rats for Tracking Study

February 16, 2009

Here’s a link to craigslist where google is looking for some participants to test usability for some of their products. Looking at the spreadsheet there are few interesting points like:
be willing to install a small piece of software on your home computer that will log your web browsing & searches
This study requires that we identify [...]

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How TED Helped Me Understand Personalized Search

January 19, 2009

Long time readers here will know that I’m not a big fan of Google’s personalized search. However late last week I watched a TED talk and had a zen moment of clarity, and finally got personalized search. More interestingly I got it within the first 2 minutes of the presentation (shown after the jimp)

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Is Your Blog Advertiser Friendly

January 13, 2009

There are times when I’m maybe a little harsh on the lifestyle blogging community, but more than anything it’s a Judge Judy kind of tough love. What I really want is for people to grasp the concept that just because some people (who happen to be exceptional writers) are able to make money being lifestyle [...]

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Is There Really Such a Thing as a Social Media Expert

January 8, 2009

One of the common themes I see recurring in blog/websites articles are “How to use your blog to drive traffic”, “how to use twitter to engage your community”, and “how to use stumbeupon to bring you new RSS subscribers”. In some cases these posts do actually contain some useful nuggets of information, however as is [...]

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How Amazon Turned a Mobile Phone into a Cash Register

January 5, 2009

While there were numerous reports of Amazon being one of the few retailers who were positive this holiday season. One of the things that was didn’t receive a tremendous amount of press was the release of Amazon’s iPhone application. This program harnessed the power of the mobile platform, turning a mobile phone into a portable [...]

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Google Guide to SEO – Are Social Media Links on Death Row?

December 31, 2008

I was reading Google’s guide to SEO (pdf) , and it’s actually pretty good from a website or business owner perspective. However here’s a quote I found interesting, this is something they recommend NOT to do on social media websites:
involving your site in schemes where your content is artificially promoted to the
top of these services.
For [...]

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Who Else Wants to Make Money from Social Media?

December 30, 2008

Hi there. I suppose since this is a guest post, I should start with a little introduction. I’m Tim Woodin, and I’m going to talk about how to use social media to make money.
Firstly though, let me give you a bit of background info. About five years ago, I created a course on copywriting. I [...]

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Blogher 2009 Looking for Speakers

December 29, 2008

Blogher announced they are looking for speakers, looking for ideas for sessions and speaker nominations. I’m not sure why they can’t just say “call for speakers” like everyone else but hey that’s their thing not mine.
Anywho if you know of someone who you think should be speaking at the Blogher conference or have an idea [...]

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Re Inclusion Requests Only For Verified Sites

December 27, 2008

I’ve submitted more than one reinclusion request over the years, and the process was education in some ways (what you don’t think you can experiment with that too under the proper well planned and thought out conditions?). However I was looking at something in webmaster central recently and was reminded of something that bothered me. [...]

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Mapquest v.2: Google’s Attack On SoundClick.com

December 18, 2008

The Borgle is doing it again – after Google Maps ripping off MapQuest, Youtube is out to jack SoundClick.

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How Google Treats Trusted Sites Differently With Duplicate Content

December 11, 2008

One of the things that a lot of people don’t get about the new Google is the over-reliance on trust in the algorithm. It’s this over-reliance on trust that puts wikipedia at the top of so many searches. However if you have this trust it’s like having a laminated get out of jail free card [...]

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Philip Rosedale From Second Life on Information Retrieval

December 8, 2008

The following is a video from Philip Rosedale of Second Life speaking at TED. From a search engine and information retrieval perspective the video get interesting at about minute 9:00 . He poses the thought that things are going to change that the text web will eventually be replaced by imagery and symbology in virtual [...]

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So Where Have I Been and What Have I Been Up To

December 5, 2008

Blogging’s been a little lighter than usual the past few weeks as I was getting caught up, but now that my heads back above water, the regular blogging should kick back in.
Also by special arrangement I’ll be blogging weekly-ish over on DIR Journals you can check out my first post Tips for Optimizing for Universal [...]

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Blackhat Method for Increasing Your Twitter Followers

December 5, 2008

When I started my new website ViralConversations.com, I also started a new twitter profile. Since this was a brand new profile I was able to observe changes easily. As you can see from the screenshot below I am following 42 people but have 43 followers. The extra person who is following me as a person [...]

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Why Font Selection and Usability Matter on Your Product

December 4, 2008

So last night I was chatting with Rae about Partnering for Profits program on Copyblogger. I paid signed up and downloaded my PDF copy. I sent myself a copy of the PDF by email so I could read it on my iPhone. When I did I encountered a problem I see with a lot of [...]

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Danny Sullivan Naughty or Nice for Christmas

December 3, 2008

My friends over at Disney came up with this video that has the answer Danny Sullivan Naughty or Nice for Christmas

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Singing In The Rain

December 2, 2008

or
“How To Be Creative In 4 Steps”
Ever pay attention to the affiliate network ads that pervade the blogs-on-blogging-and-marketing blogosphere? If you have, then you know that they’re all interchangeable. Every network promises you “better payouts and unique offers.”

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New Ad Format For Image Search

November 28, 2008

Had to redact the terms (sorry) but here’s a new advertising format I cam across while doing image searchs

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Google Search Wiki – Like Forcing You To Eat The Heart of a Live Cobra

November 24, 2008

Last week Google announced the release of a new project known as the search wiki. This represents another step where google shows complete disregard for their users, ignoring what they want, and instead forcing them to participate in what can only be described as a plan that was never fully thought out and was ill [...]

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