What do Houses of Ill Repute and Link Buying have in Common?
Over at WebHostingTalk, a very popular forum in the web hosting industry, there's a thread about buying links vs. earning them. The advice tends towards a ...
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I notice 3 unique DMOZ threads that are sending quite a few visitors to SEOmoz today. I want to welcome and thank all of the editors there who've made their way over. We may have our differences, but I realize that most of you are doing a great job organizing and classifying sites and maintaining what is still the best directory available. Hopefully, you're not too upset over my ...
Ian Turner's Been Found
Ian has been found - the details are at Threadwatch. He's in the Atlanta airport, delayed due to a lack of a passport and an especially prickly TSA. I haven't felt this relieved in a long time....
Blogging about Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days
Most people will recognize the name Morgan Spurlock from the famous documentary he made last year - SuperSize Me. He's also the author of Don't Eat this Book (a play on Abbie Ho...
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Greg Jarboe from SEO-PR Answers Questions at SEOChat
I've asked Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR.com, with whom I spoke on the link building panel at SES Toronto, to stop by SEOChat and answer some of the members' questions. Luckily for us, Greg has a couple of spare minutes today a...
Posting Light Today
Due to my work schedule being overwhelmingly busy today, I won't be posting much. I feel bad about this, since my loyal readers - you - have been kind enough to drop by. There are a few interesting things taking place in the SEO world that are worth reading about: Kim Krause-Berg is talking about...
Wall Street Journal Covers SEO
Sifish pointed me to an article at the Wall Street Journal's Startup Journal by Sarah Needleman - Three Myths on Boosting Search-Engine Rankings. It a fairly primitive stab at explaining how the industry operates, and once again it pushes the pervasive view that most search engine optimization comp...
Don't Click It
Alex Frank, a German web designer has taken on the unique challenge of re-building the interface of the web, by removing the mouse click from his users' repertoire of interactive tasks. His example site for this surprisingly innovative project is don'tclic...
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Donna's Google Scoop
Donna Fontenot has posted another fantastic scoop fresh from the WebMasterWorld conference. The post covers how a Google engineer explained to the crowd how Google might monitor and penalize sites that appeared to use surreptitious techniques to boost their rankings - primarily via link spam (although in this specific example, t...
Hard-to-Measure Conversion Rates
Some conversion rates are easy to measure - your site got 100 visitors from Yahoo! today and 3 of them bought your widget - a 3% conversion rate. Others, however can be very difficult to find. Promediacorp at SEW ...
A Legal Guide for Bloggers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a Legal Guide for Bloggers that walks us through the important issues of having a online journal of events. It notes what opinions are legal to publish, what can get you sued an...
Gonna Set it Straight this Watergate
To borrow from the Beastie Boys, Google's "crystal ball ain't so crystal clear". It appears that a successful sabotaging of a website is easier than one might hope. lots0 at Threadwatch points out that using the non-canonic...
Should there be a Google.us for the United States?
Ian (who has now been the subject of 3 posts at SEOmoz) McAnerin asks at SEW if Google should have a .us domain for United States based searches. After all, there is a Google regio...
SEO Browser
Ian McAnerin & Anduro Technologies have put together a very clever and useful tool called the SEO Browser. The site acts as an interpreter, giving you an opporunity to view a we...