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Roundup Thursday for the Week of 7/27/08
Rebecca Kelley

Roundup Thursday for the Week of 7/27/08

Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: Giles Bowkett examines what it's like to be "Internet famous." I'm not exactly sure, but I think it involves cheezburgers. SEO Black Hat is offering seats to this year's SEOktoberfest. Want to party in Munich and pick the brains of some of the best super affiliates and black hats around? If so, contact Black Hat and let him know you want in. It's a pricey ticket (5,000 Euros, or roughly a firstborn American child), but he's giving away one free seat if you blog about the event and send a trackback. Hmm, guess that means that this roundup mention is my raffle ticket. Hrm. I don't know how much affiliat/black hat stuff I can wrap my head around, but a trip to Munich sure sounds nice! ;)

I Have A Question: The Best Of Q&A
Jane Copland

I Have A Question: The Best Of Q&A

There is a very large group of vocal, active members on SEOmoz whom we hardly ever see on the blog. Most of them rarely write YOUmoz posts and comment infrequently. However, they spend a lot of time in the same area of the site where I spend the majority of my time: SEO Q&A....

Roundup Thursday for the Week of 7/20/08
Rebecca Kelley

Roundup Thursday for the Week of 7/20/08

Three star links: * Great news for Internet marketers and e-commerce: more shoppers are purchasing goods via the Internet because of the high gas costs. * The New Atlantis exposes the "myth of multitasking." Well, there goes my built-in excuse to Rand whenever he asks me why I'm browsing Etsy instead of doing site reviews. Crap. * Interesting opinions here: Paul Graham discusses pooled-risk company management, and 37signals disagrees with him, saying you don't need to sell your company in order to have financial freedom.

Roundup Thursday for the Week of 7/13/08
Rebecca Kelley

Roundup Thursday for the Week of 7/13/08

Three star links: * 10e20 brings us "The Ultimate Guide to Decoding Digg Speak." It's both amusing and surprisingly thorough. Pretty handy if you're an SMM noob and need to know what "those crazy kids" are talking about. * Now we know why your socks keep disappearing when you wash them...they make a good snake sweater! * Here's an interesting article about how the "Google generation" thinks differently. Generation Google appears to prefer multi-tasking, networking, multiple media sources,and images and video over text, while "digital immigrants" prefer the opposite. Interesting stuff.

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Roundup Thursday for the Week of 7/6/08
Rebecca Kelley

Roundup Thursday for the Week of 7/6/08

Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: * The best SEO training money can buy (hey, we do have to wade through a lot of shit in order to achieve top rankings...). * Apparently Yelp is shutting down accounts it thinks are "trading glowing reviews with other business owners." It's a tricky situation for Yelp since they obviously want to keep the quality and sincerity of reviews up, but they don't want to mistakenly witch hunt innocent people. * Finally, a video of search engine spiders crawling the web.

Awesome Accomplishment Roundup Thursday for the Week of 6/22/08
Rebecca Kelley

Awesome Accomplishment Roundup Thursday for the Week of 6/22/08

Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Three star links: * Want to learn how to do 100 pushups? This site gives you a nice training program that's bound to turn your T-Rex arms into hefty guns in no time. * This Wired article says we need to ask ourselves "What can science learn from Google?" Oh geez... * Google announces the launch of Ad Planner, which provides site data for publisher sites you might want to place your ads on. And next week Google will announce ShowrStalkr, in which they spy on you while you're showering and inform you of any areas you've neglected to soap up. * Hey, check out how trendy SEOmoz is! Suck it, Cutts!

Great Expotations: My SES Top 11
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Great Expotations: My SES Top 11

My first Search Conference wasn't quite what I expected, and that's not a bad thing either.Some things I learned from SES Toronto:1) Panelists love to name drop.2) Panelists can't stop talking about the golden triangle.3) Panelists love to help the community (I think this is a truism with most, if not all Search Marketers though).4) Somet...

Super-Sized Roundup Thursday(ish) for the Weeks of 6/1/08 and 6/8/08
Rebecca Kelley

Super-Sized Roundup Thursday(ish) for the Weeks of 6/1/08 and 6/8/08

My apologies for the missing roundup last week--it was SMX Advanced, and we were pretty busy with conference happenings. I've combined news and whatnot from last week into this week's roundup, so please forgive the extra bloatedness of this week's post (there's no such thing as Alka-Seltzer for blogs, is there?). Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: ...

The Beginner's Checklist For Search Conferences
Danny Dover

The Beginner's Checklist For Search Conferences

J. K. Rowling (She wrote a little book called Harry Potter) recently gave the commencement speech at Harvard University. She spoke about the power of failure and the incredible potential of imagination. It was a great speech that left me with one powerful lasting gem. She pointed out that humans are unique in their ability t...

SMX Advanced Recap (The R. Kelley Version)
Rebecca Kelley

SMX Advanced Recap (The R. Kelley Version)

It's hard having a conference in your own backyard. Everything feels so much more stressful--you have to drive back and forth from the conference to your place and back out for dinner and networking events, you have underlying priorities that are hard to miss (I missed the kickoff networking event at the Sculpture Park due to an open water swim clinic), you have spouses or family members you have ...