Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Using Competitive Intelligence To Protect Your Brand Protecting your brand online is an ongoing activity. It requires hard work and due diligence.

Protecting your brand online is an ongoing activity. It requires hard work and due diligence. One area of concern is when others bid on your brand, or use your brand name in their ads. My current understanding of Googles policy is that its OK to bid on a competitive brand name, but it is not O

Our newest Search Engine Land column, Industrial Strength, launches today. Industrial Strength is written by search marketers responsible for managing SEO for huge websites and running massive search advertising campaigns. Topics range from handling technical challenges to working with multiple ke

Jesse from the Pink Cake Box sent me a screen shot of Google testing a different form of Google Sitelinks. Instead of showing Google Sitelinks under a search listing, Google was showing relevant blog posts from her blog. Here are pictures illustrating this: Click to continue reading...

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Banners For (SEM) Dummies & HTML Every Online Marketer Should Know In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools

Seth Godin recently published a post about the dead zone between being real and being polished: "Its the banal stuff in the middle that people dont read. And yet, 95% of what I see is precisely in the dead spot of the middle zone. " I firmly try to stay in the "real" category (largely because I c

I got mentioned in the media 3 or 4 times last week and just finished my last interview (at least for a while). It is hard when you get used to doing interviews with friends or talking to the media because it is easy to be unprepared for the other. With reporters you have to be guarded because they

I just got done talking with a pretty sharp reporter about some SEO stuff. He had done far more research than most reporters I talk to, but still had one big misconception about the field of SEO...thinking it was largely about mechanical processes, hidden text, and other such tricks. Market researc

On Sitepoint Clinton Lee wrote a 6 page high quality web site valuation guide. The New York Times recently published a great article about flipping websites, quoting my buddy Peter Davis. Shane Pike recently blogged about selling one of his sites to Internet Brands. The site he sold was the one tha

Because of the low cost of online distribution a company can quickly grow from being one of your affiliates, to one of your leading sales channels, to being the leading competitor. And once they grow into a destination you cant just cut them off without hurting your customers or your brand, as Ryan

Posted by randfishNo intro, just right to the content: #10 - Janes been on vacation for two weeks and weve gotten a bit behind with Q+A. #9 - Its the two slowest weeks of the working year (apart from Xmas), and the dev team is buckling down (as per Seths advice) to shoot for our October launch.

Posted by Danny DoverDisclaimer: This post doesn’t include any information about SEO. If you are looking for SEO related content, please read the normal search related posts on this blog. The SEOmoz community has always been a fundamental driving force behind this company. All of you (Moz C

Posted by great scott!This week Rand gets a bit technical with a whirlwind walkthrough of how the search engine link graph works.  Fully-qualified domains, pay-level domains, internal juice, external juice, domain trust, etc.  Its all explained in this fast and furious installment of Whit

Posted by rebeccaStories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: Soxialize came out with Tweet Pro, a service that allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by searching through posted messages and profiles using keywords yo

Posted by randfishThis tip is probably one of the simplest ways to gain links through conservation. A lot of SEO advice talks about double-checking links that point to 404 pages, as these are lost potential. If a link points to a page that doesnt resolve, its generally accepted wisdom that the eng

Sitting here with David Klein (mastermind behind the thinktank, who is selling an extraordinary door lock in the near future at Wordcamp playing wordgames - get the full scoop on them here. So here’s the game- post the answer here, and come pick up your prize from DK at the registration desk i

SES San Jose should be a great time. I’m slotted to moderate a session on SEO friendly design and development, as well as do a site review session. I’m glad I didn’t have to create a new presentation, because planning a party is tough! Anyhow - I hope you’ll make it, and [

Just a quick note to everyone to check out Shoemoney’s new Tools. I’m very proud to announce I’ll be on Jeremy’s Board to help out with the tools. They’ve got some great stuff in there already, and you can bet that Mr. Dillsmack will be coming up with some sick new st

Last chance to signup for the MarketMotive/ Search Engine Strategies Webcast tomorrow at 9am PST. You can read more about it here. Should be a doozy. Related PostsSES Toronto and MarketMotive - Competitive Webmaster Tools SeminarIve spent the last three weeks compiling the master list of competit

I did a couple of interviews at SMX Advanced in Seattle that have recently been published. Thanks to Tom Schmitz, the Seattle SEO, for the interview on Voices of Search - You can check it out here We talked about professional career progression, industry history, and other internet marketing tips.

Moderator: Kevin Ryan, VP, Global Content Director, SES & Search Engine Watch Speakers: Amit Kumar, Director Product Management, Yahoo! Search Nagaraju Bandaru, Co-Founder & CTO, BooRah Erik Collier, VP, Product Management, Ask.com Tim McGuiness, VP of Search, hakia.com Scott Prevost,...

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Moderator: Rebecca Lieb, Contributing Editor, ClickZ Speakers: Dhana Pawar, Co-Founder & VP Products, Yojo Mobile Cindy Krum, Senior SEO Analyst, Blue Moon Works, Inc. Brian Wool, VP of Content Distribution, Localeze The "one web" premise of the iPhone generation of...

In a world dominated by behemoths like bud.tv, MySpace, and YouTube, how do mid-sized and smaller companies break through to generate online destinations that create buzz, encourage word of mouth and establish relationships with potential buyers? This session unveils the...

Non-Profits & Socially-Responsible Companies With Global Interests in a 2.0 World The Web has changed how we do everything, including giving back to our fellow man. What does the nonprofit world look like in the Web 2.0 world? Technology has...

Can I tell you how much I appreciate not having to do a keynote first thing in the morning? So much. Instead of an 8 am call for blogging, were sitting down for our opening keynote after lunch, which means Im actually awake for once. Im going to need to...

Personal favorite Kevin Ryan is moderating with Nagaraju Bandaru (BooRah), Amit Kumar (Yahoo! Search), Erik Collier (Ask.com), Scott Prevost (Powerset) and Kartal Guner (hakia.com). This session is packed. And I promised Erik that I would say nothing bad about him. However, I cant promise that I wi

This is going to be a great panel. How do I know? Look at the line up: Andrew Goodman is moderating this session with speakers Jennifer Laycock (Search Engine Guide), Fionn Downhill (Elixir Interactive), Justilien Gaspard (Justilien.com) and Chris Winfield (10e20, LLC). Lets play ball. Andrew start

I think last week I posted like three videos on Facebook. Who doesnt find themselves watching video after video, burning countless hours, and cracking up at narcoleptic dogs and spoof music videos on YouTube? I didnt think so. So lets take a look at the new wave of online video....

Day one, session one. Ive had a giant iced mocha (yay, caffeine!) and a bagel. Im ready to go. Also ready to go are our speakers Mary Bowling (SEO Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc), Brock Purpura (Etology), Aaron Shear (Boost Search Marketing) and Stephan Spencer (Net Concepts). Moderator David Sz

Ok so I’ve run most of my guest posts, I still have two or three to run, but they won’t be going live until after SES San Jose. So what did you think? Like em? Dislike em? Share your feelings in the comments. Constructive criticism is fine, being a dufus troll is not. if you [...]

The following is a Guest Post from Joe Hall. The internet is changing the real estate industry on a daily basis. And, not surprisingly, it’s the Web 2.0 innovators that are leading the revolution. Of course this isn’t the first time that new media gurus have redefined an industry. However, this time

One of the difficult things of trying to share ideas, or teach a concept to large group of people is the different levels everyone is at. What some people consider advanced others consider intermediate. The second problem is the larger and more diverse the audience, the more general and ambiguous th

Last week Giovanni Gallucci sent me a link to Viewzi which has some interesting search UI’s that I think advanced users might actually use. Unlike Cuil I don’t think they spent 30 million and ended up with a product that thinks the best picture for me is a picture of Elliot Spitzer. One

Many moons ago I wrote about how short videos are better than long ones, and I took lumps in the comments because I didn’t do a good job explaining myself and some readers took me far to literally. However I came across a video last week that allows me to explain myself a little better. I [...

I’m up to my ears in email from last week, but I had a great time down in Los Angeles and at SIGGRAPH: I’ll try to write up a little bit about the trip, but for now I’m gearing up for SES San Jose. Places to find me: - I’ll be on a keynote panel on Tuesday. [...]

I’m going to be down in Los Angeles for the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference next week, but I hope to have a little sightseeing free time. What would you recommend seeing or doing in Los Angeles?

Bookmarklets are very handy pieces of JavaScript code that you can bookmark. In HTML, if you want a link to open in a new window, you’d write it like this: <a href=”http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/” target=”_blank”>Matt Cutts</a> Go on, try it on this link

This summer several people in Google’s quality group have pulled back the curtain on how people think about search quality at Google. We’ve had Udi Manber give an overview of search quality and the groups that work on it. Then my office-mate Amit Singhal discussed some of our principles

Every few months I like to give people an update on where I expect to be over the next few months. I apologize in advance if I have to decline other speaking invitations, but I’m genuinely trying to travel less and speak less these days to get a better work/life balance. Here are my tentative

A truly effective online marketing strategy can only be realised by having clear focus and direction. Build into the mix internal politics that many companies have with budgets and decision making and direction can soon be lost, leaving some in a marketing conundrum. The search marketing consultan

The truth is out there somewhere and with the Big Foot Press Conference today we will hopefully know the results of the DNA findings. Multiple tests are being carried out and will be announced. What happens if the Bigfoot story is confirmed as true ? What happens if the story is false? Will there be

Google is doing some strange things, for eg yesterday we ranked No.1 in the .com for “Liz Taylor Murdered” now the page in the serps is at….wait for it no.63. Perhaps other blogs are much better and more specific, or give more valued information. How is Google discerning the ranki

Yes that’s right it’s already the 2nd anniversary of the Microsoft adCenter launch in the UK. The mighty Microsoft gave life to the adCenter search Ads 2 years ago today. One thing you can say about Microsoft is they always support any product launch fully, dedicated teams located in L

Yet more link bait this week ? Throughout the course of the last week we have been picking up on stories which may be true or false. This one is “Liz Taylor Murdered” and seems to have been started by E-mail spammers as if it has come from msnbc.com news. The breaking news headline claim

A linkbait doesn’t need thousands of links to be successful, a few dozen high quality links can be more than enough. Of course, a mix of quantity and quality would be the ideal situation, but that’s pretty hard to accomplish. Today, an article in a newspaper pointed out a piece of resear

Sorry, short post this week Tom Critchlow mentions a link building technique that is easy to use AND can be very effective Matt McGee shows what a small link building push can accomplish Micheal Gray teached advanced link building and explained why PageRank will never die Eric Sopp lists three re

When I started this blog little over a year ago, I set only little expectations. No specific targets but having fun writing about SEO and link building and improving my (English) writing skills. Although my writing skills remain far from perfect (I’d give myself a “that’ll do”

Thomas Schmitz made an interesting list of everything you wanted to know about inbound and external links. He not only explains why links (and which links) are important, but he also threw in a few nice examples that turned his post into a solid introduction to links. And also: Pete Wailes compile

Most people see spam as nothing but annoying. However, like I’ve mentioned before, there are lots of things you can use spam for. You’ll receive spam no matter what you do, so why not use it in your advantage? You’ve probably received the CNN Daily Top 10 email just as often as I d

I’ve been getting several emails asking when/if we were going to update our dofollow plugin for WP 2.5. Dax just got it finished. You can download it here. 

I’m thrilled to finally be able to announce that we have completed a merger/acquisition deal involving National Relocation and PropertyTown. As is the case with these types of deals, I can’t disclose specific numbers, but I can provide the basic components of the deal: National Relocation will pa

My original post on the Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World contest generated quite a few comments. A good chunk of them were a couple of individuals talking smack at each other, but there were a few others that are worth discussing. Towards the end of the comments, Paul posted the following: We

The DoFollow plugin found on the download page broke after a recent update. I finally got around to uploaded a new version.Let me know if there are any problems.

No, this post isn’t a plug for my favorite real estate agent. This post is about yet another SEO Contest. “The Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World” contest is being sponsored by Real Estate Webmasters.  Having recently been released from Google jail, everyone in REW land is pretty excited,

The ability to annotate pictures, songs, video, and web pages is growing as site owners attempt to find new ways to build communities and attract visitors to their sites. Enabling people to add their thoughts and opinions, their words to a page means that a site can grow and evolve with the commu

One of the challenges that a search engine like Google faces is that in order for it to be useful globally, it needs to provide search for an audience that speaks many different languages. It’s not surprising then, that the search engine has delved into learning as much as it can about many la

When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search? For example, let’s say that you are looking for a new pair of sneakers to go jogging in, and you want to find the right combination of comfort and [..

When someone searches at one of the major search engines, they often type in keyword phrases, composed as if they were written for human readers. Those phrases may contain words or phrases that show up very frequently in pages on the web, and have little to do with the information being sought by t

Does it matter that Google knows about a trillion Web Addresses? Is it important that new search engine Cuil has 120 Billion pages indexed, according to them, “three times more than any other search engine”? The more pages that are known about by a search engine, the more difficult it

After a summer of high gas prices, Carmax.com is helping consumers find used cars that are easier on the wallet. Theyve launched a new search feature that allows car shoppers to search their inventory by MPG or miles per gallon. Theyve also added an MPG "quick link" feature, enabling site visitor

HelloMetro has also won trademark approval for the term Hyperlocal. HelloMetro now uses the term to describe their search results on HelloLocal.com and hopes to maximize the term in the internet advertising space. If the industry isnt careful, even more of these widely used terms could also become

Facebook competitor ConnectUs co-founder twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, placed 6th in mens pair rowing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Their time was 7:05.58 on a 2,000-meter course. Australia won the gold with a time of 6:37.44. How they find time to train and run a startup is beyond me. Th

If you want to go global or develop your content in other languages, youre likely in need of a good translator. But just copying and pasting text into an online translation page isnt going to do the job. You need human intelligence that knows the culture of the audience youre aiming to reach. Ro

VeriSign has announced that their SSL certificates will now support International Domain Names (IDN). These domain names display website addresses in local language characters such as Kanji symbols in Japan. This will come as welcome news to those who are looking to globalization marketing efforts o

Todays AdWords challenge question. Level of difficulty: abbottsys testing ;-) I copy an AdWords ad from a Google SRP and paste it into an (html)

Hello All, I have seen multiple sites that use scripts when linking out in order to track clicks. The URLs on these sites have scripts on them that

When your website is ranking #1 or 2 on SE do you still need to update or link build your website?

Hi there, we have 2 websites that relate to the motor vehicle industry. On website No. 1 we have a link at the bottom of each page (45 Pages) with

hie, once when i joined google adsense i didnt have more idea about it. so they disabled my account ! so i create one more adsense account. second

Small, tight ad groups are the key to getting double-digit click-through rates. See exactly how the pros break down long keyword lists into powerful ad group packages. ...

Weve seen a natural progression from back rooms to boardrooms -- from the basement to the mainstream. SEO has not simply shed its dubious roots; it has become a legitimate, reputable component of a proper client marketing mix. ...

If you need some lift, start dropping pages into Google Knol and Google pages. They show up in the organic results faster than you can get them through Webmaster Central. ...

Entering contests, being a finalist in contests, and especially winning contests is link nirvana. Win or lose, a contest has endless linking potential. ...

As a lead-up to SES San Jose, weve got some tips and thoughts to help promote and get you through the event. Its a great opportunity to really dive in and learn about the SEM world. ...

I often receive emails telling me about a new search engine. Unfortunately, most dont make any improvement on the established options. This one is actually useful. Its called NewsFlashr. Its a meta news engine - with a sense of humour.

Many web publishers deal with content theft. It can be frustrating to have your work scraped and republished - and worse - have that content plstered with ads and outranking you! So how does Google deal with the problem? Interesting article: "When encountering such duplicate content on different

A warm welcome to new advertiser Submit2Please.com. Please support them, if you can. They offer a full-service submission and link building service, which includes directories, social bookmarking, press release distribution service, and more. Submit2Please have been established since 1999.

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A few of these services have been popping up of late. The business model described here. These services aim to provide high end advice that wouldnt be possible under a free publication model. Ive been handed the keys to two such offerings, SEOBook and MarketMotive. Knowing the guys behind these

I’ll admit, blogging is going to be a little light this week. Jordan’s still taking a well-earned rest and I’m getting on a plane today for SES San Jose. Don’t fret! I’ll still blog, and will even post exclusive photos from the conference. You may also want to follow me

OK, pay attention! With many folks offline at various conferences this week, this is your chance to secure one of only 25 seats for a very exclusive conference: the Aloha Social Media Summit. Picture this: You, me, the Om Malik, Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter), Peter Shankman (the Help a Reporter

It’s a new week, it’s a new Google law suit. This time, it’s GraphOn hoping to get a little publicity by suing Google for patent infringement. Software maker GraphOn has filed suit against search giant Google, alleging that Google’s Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites, and YouTube

There’s a new Viewpoint column about Twitter, over at BusinessWeek. Before I go on, it’s important to note that Viewpoint’s are guest columns, not written by normal BusinessWeek staffers. Anyway, "The Trouble with Twitter" takes an in-depth look at the money woes at Twitter

Today’s Pilgrim’s Picks are actually a Linky Goodness, because we all miss Jordan–and it’s been far too long since we had some LG. AOL has acquired Socialthing, an aggregator of social media feeds. I’m guessing it couldn’t afford the more popular FriendFeed. Spea

Yahoo hopes to spark a movement of online applications that know where people are and provide new services to them and to friends, with Tuesdays public launch of a geographical location platform for users and developers called Fire Eagle.

Google has made changes to its popular Google Reader news and blog Web reading application adding greater control over how information is shared among online friends.

Anyone will now be able to use Googles AdSense advertising network to earn money using feeds from FeedBurner, which it purchased for some $100 million in 2007, with the public launch of the AdSense for Feeds program.

AOL has moved to expand the reach of its online advertising system Platform-A with the launch of a new third-party mobile ad network managed through its Third Screen Media arm. Tacoda clients will also be migrated to Platform-A.

Googles chief evangelist Dr. Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol that underlies the Internet, has suggested ISPs use transmission rate caps to manage increasing network traffic rather than systems that impose volume caps and over-usage fees.

Why do companies frequently use social media to apologize for more traditional forms of customer service that garner complaints, instead of propagating these rapid-response techniques across their traditional customer service and support environments?

Crawling and indexing are different processes but related. Here is a brief description of each along with a look at some related timelines.

What the Intrapromote staff are reading this Summer.

I may be late in seeing this, but I recently noticed Google is sporting a new Cache file look for sites. The new cache files for sites look like this:...

Last week a colleague and I took our re-certification exams for Google Adwords and we had an interesting experience. Over the last two years there have been countless improvements and additions to Adwords so I was kind of excited to come out of the trenches and learn about some of the newer offer

On Monday, I’ll be presenting at Search Engine Strategies San Jose on Igniting Viral Campaigns: In a world dominated by behemoths like bud.tv, MySpace, and YouTube, how do mid-sized and smaller companies break through to generate online destinations that create buzz, encourage word of mouth a

Modern blog platforms, like Wordpress, make it easy for anyone to write content for a website without much knowledge of HTML or CSS. You can simply use a WYSIWYG (the Visual part to HTML/CSS code) editor. It is definitely a great way for non-technical people to write and format content. Here are a

Contests, especially user-generated ones, have the ability to drive significant traffic and links to a site. For example, there are many sites like Contest Hound and Contest Blogger, that share information about various available contests. Many participants connect with contest for the following

R U a Digg n00b that gets pwned by 1337 Digg Commenters? Well RTFM so teh next time ur comment won’t be an EPIC FAIL! On Digg, having something to say is only half the battle, knowing how to say it is the other half. This guides you to dissect the jargon, people and [...]

Have you ever wondered how videos show up in web search engine results? How do videos get hundreds of thousands to millions of views on YouTube? Who’s watching my videos? Well, with a little hard work on optimizing and networking your video content and a helpful tool called YouTube Insight, you can

We’re on a roll this week during SES San Jose 2008 with our next tip in a series of how to “Get the Most Out of Internet Marketing Conferences“. Previously a Vice President and Editor in Chief at ClickZ for 7 years, Rebecca Lieb serves as an Editorial Consultant to the ClickZ netw

Our third set of internet marketing conference tips come on day one of the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose and are appropriately from Kevin M. Ryan, Vice President, Global Content Director, Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch. Kevin Ryan has been involved with numerous c

Here’s our second tip in a series of posts during the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose on “Getting the Most Out of Internet Marketing Conferences“. This one is from Brad Berens, Global Content Director for the esteemed ad:tech conferences and iMedia Connection. Brad

With Search Engine Strategies San Jose just around the corner, I thought it timely and appropriate to share insights on how you can get the most out of marketing conferences. TopRank is very active attending, speaking and blogging a variety of internet marketing events, conferences and workshops. Th

I promised myself I’d slow down on conference speaking last year and while I’ve turned down more offers this year than ever before, (and been turned down myself the one time I formally pitched) some really great opportunities have popped up. Here are the upcoming conferences I’ll b

SunCity SEOcon was traditionally an underground Arizona SEO meetup that happened in the heat of the summer, during the day, to enjoy splashing around with cold beers, some good ole BBQ, and to pick the brains of local search marketing experts. Year after year we had a blast. This year, we opened it

Having your identity stolen is far more damaging than just losing money. I never realized how much of a tangled web finances and real life obligations where until I had to rebuild that web from scratch. When a thief cleared out my checking account from 5 different Bank of America branches using a fa

I used to think identity theft was just an over-hyped gimmick to get people to pay for credit reports and monitoring. That is, until my checking account was cleared out. Turns out, most major banks are not well equipped to handle ID theft, or even your money for that matter. A month ago I [...]

On 5 separate occasions Bank of America handed money from my account to a criminal with a fake ID. His signature wasn’t even remotely close to the hundreds, no thousands of signatures that Bank of America has on file for me. They handed him almost 26k one day, and later on that day, another $1

Patrick Sexton, if that is your real name, I am in Phoenix. And it is possible to contact me through this site. I tried to comment on YOUR POST but as it turns out, comments are not allowed. What are you afraid of? There is also no contact info on your site. I [...]

After nearly a month away from the blog, Im not necessarily back to where I want to be, but its time to be done with the pity party, kids gotta eat, mortgage(s)(s)(s) gotta get paid. First, thanks to you all for the many kind words, plus the excellent link building questions. I will answer them o

Its been an eventful Spring and Summer. In April my father David Ward passed away, in a miserable sort of slow-motion way, and on his birthday of course. Dad had a great life, considering it ended (and started) terribly. He was from Duluth MN, and had polio as a child. He finished high school from

By Eric Ward Regular readers know Ive been building links since the launch of TheTitanicJustSank.com, or close to it. This wasnt by design. I just had the bad/good luck to lose my advertising job at the right time; Early nineties. I needed something new to do, I went to grad school, and the Inte

Ive contributed to several Link Value Factors type articles, including SEOmozs and Wieps, and was glad to be included by Rae Hoffman in her awesome Link Development Experts Group Interview. I always have a tough time providing the kinds of answers that would be useful without being so long as to

If your site is listed in the Yahoo directory, and you didnt pay for it or you got in back before they charged the review fee, then IMO you leave it alone. Make no changes and enjoy the free ride. I have two Yahoo directory links for two of my sites, both grandfathered because they are ancient.

I’m thrilled to officially announce the beta release of a project that has more or less consumed all of my energy this past year and a half, BOTW Local. Now weighing in at 16.5 million pages, this site has been by far the most intricate and most complicated project I have ever worked on. Our [...]

While in Seattle I met up with Jim Hedger of Webmaster Radio and answered some questions about LA Mixers, the newest mixer to hit the Los Angeles scene and one of the fastest growing groups on Facebook. (If player does not work, click here) Webmaster Radio LA Mixers Learn about an ex

Ryans bust caught on YouTube. This is what happens when you double book sales! Moral of the story, companies like Dunder Mifflin probably don’t need Web 2.0 social websites. What a hilarious idea, social for the paper company. (Somewhat reminiscent of Charlie Sheen playing Bud Fox in Wall St

I received an email from IndexTools informing me that my accounts with them are now free, thanks to Yahoo acquiring them. So moving forward from here and upon your acceptance of the Yahoo! Master Terms & Conditions and Program Terms the product will be provided to you free of charge. Thats g

Wow, this is quite amazing. The father called out some countries I would have a hard time finding so quickly. The fact she has a map in her room is brilliant parenting work. Post from: Adam Sussman Lilly The World Map Master

Every now and then I play with blog search to see what other people are saying in the SEO industry. Lee Odden’s big list of SEO blogs captures just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to SEO blogging. You seldom find anything really useful in the search results. In fact, most of [...]

So once again we have people posting in the pointless debate over the impending death of search engine optimization. The latest craze in crazy assumptions seems to be that since more companies are hiring in-house optimization specialists the demand for out-house — er, outside specialists must

“I want a new drug. One that won’t make me sick. One that won’t make me crash my car — or make me feel three feet thick.” The SEO industry needs to sing that song with just a very minor tweak in the lyrics: “I want a new link. One that won’t make me beg. [

I was going to write another “rel=’nofollow’” rebuttal but, let’s face it, the Ministers of Misinformation are out in force and the SEO community no longer seems to be interested in the facts. Okay, that means I discovered a really biased, wacky explanation of the use

The following tables are based on Compete’s estimated U.S. visitors for the selected domains. The domains listed here were included in the June 2008 Real Search Market Share report because Compete estimated a minimum of 100,000 visitors for each. The report is divided into three tables: Algor

Well F@%k up the competition Looking for new ways to rise above the pack? Here at AI we say; "If you cant beat `em - destroy `em!" Youve heard of reputation management services, but do you know about our anti-reputation management programs? Were the company that keeps the rep manage

Social news networking? Talk about a mash-up Just a quick note mention SocialMedian (http://www.socialmedian.com/) - a news aggregate, social voting and networking mish-mash that I am playing with (hat-tip to Nick Wilsdon (http://nickwilsdon.com/socialmedian-review-social-media/)).... As always I

Building a better search engine We all know about the latest Google killer by now right? You know, Cuil (http://www.cuil.com/) (pronounced `cool)... the relevance based search engine that boasts more pages in its index than the mighty peeps at the Plex? While there has been no lack of FAIL fl

Well Im a day late, but it was a crazy kind of week.First off in the news I wanted to mention a few of my own travels such as a pod-cast interview with Garrett (http://www.yourseomentor.com/seo/monday-interviews-with-dave-harry) over at Your SEO Mentor, which was a bunch of fun (thanks for having m

What is the best way to learn SEO? Today I launched this years version of my how to learn SEO over at one of my part time gigs at Site Reference. If yer looking for a mighty link fest of How to learn SEO (http://seo.site-reference.com/how-to-learn-seo-in-2008/) - theGypsy on Site Reference As S

I read about Morgan Freeman being involved in an auto accident last week and his subsequent surgery so I was pretty surprised to hear him congratulate Michael Phelps on his record number of gold medals in the commercial below. Did the man do the voice over from his hospital bed? Highly unlikely whic

A man named Joshua Spickler left a comment on my post Google Wants To Know About Incompetent SEOs (just below this one)Heres what it said:I really wish you posted more often. I find your blog to be one of the lesser known gems out there in the SEO blogging community. August 05, 2008Im not going t

Google recently changed its "Whats An SEO" page, they blogged about it on the official blog June 30. On July 1, Googler John Mu posted this in GoogleGroups, Suppose a webmaster were to come to you and ask for advice on finding someone who can help optimize his site for search engines. How would yo

Dear Matt Cutts:I hope this finds you well.Im writing to ask a question about anchor text and if you count the anchor found in a second link on a page. Theres been a lot of discussion on this topic recently, its an important point and one a lot of people want more information on so... since its

In marketing, its all about perception.In link building, its all about authority.So how do you mirror the two for links?If youve ever done any link building you know you have to either ask for or create something to attract links, they just dont drop out of the sky. Regardless of what method you

Todays guest article comes to us from my friend and long-time HRA subscriber Jim Spencer, founder of JBS Partnersnbsp; a website design and marketing firm in Winchester, MA, that serves small business and solo entrepreneurs. I met Jim in person at a SEMNE (Search Engine Marketing New England) even

So, Im a total toad! In the last newsletter, I mistakenly sent Karons special discount offer on the latest version of her Writing With Keywords book only to the text-only newsletter subscribers and not to the HTML ones...duh. Since the HTML readers make up more than 2/3 of the readers, Karon h

Forum member doogie88 was looking for a website where he could do a reverse DNS lookup.nbsp;

Been busy around here still. We have our August SEO training class on Friday and are looking forward to that. Each group of 6 online marketers always brings a new perspective on things.

Holy smokes...I just realized July is nearly over. Besides the fact that time is slipping by way faster than usual, the 31st of July also means that the High Rankings Forum is now 5 years old!