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I had a chat late last night with Gary Price of ResourceShelf. He shared some sites that provide information that will make your spine shiver and your blood turn cold. Just look at what's available: First off, there's the relatively innocuous, but fun, FlightAware, which enables you to track the comings and ...
I ask those of you for whom the phrase "Web 2.0" is an anethma to refrain from judgement while you read this post and browse the site we've created. Afterwards, when you've had time to process it, I invite you to comment with as much passion (for or against) as you like. My first order of business with this post is to congratulate ...
RFPs (Request for Proposal) are industry standard in marketing, communication and other consulting service-type organizations in the business world. But lately, as I've looked over a dozen or so that have been sent my way in the past few weeks, I've discovered something intriguing about them... They're evil. The RFPs I've gotten (with the exception of a few wholly reasonable and...
I couldn't find a good recipe for Chinese Beef & Broccoli at Epicurious this weekend, so I headed to Google, where, lo and behold, they have what appears to be another new feature - query refinement via recipes. I may have just been busy when the search blogs reported on this, but I can't seem to find it in archives at SEW or SERoundtable, either, so maybe it is new. Screenshot below for &q...
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I've been wondering lately about whether comparing link attributes in HTML code would provide any value to the search engines. Testing's been done by SEOs in the past about the value of link titles (minimal if any) and rel attributes other than nofollow (nada), but I'm wondering about the target attribute, specifically. Currently, according to W...
Fred Wilson, a managing partner at two VC firms in New York, had a highly touted post on his favorite business model that a lot of SEOs and Internet marketers will be able to identify with: Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, a...
So SEW (and several other folks) pointed to a study today from Comscore & Google that shows a very high percentage of Internet surfing results in a latent, offline purchase. ...
I'm pleased to be able to break the news that Matt Bailey, formerly of the Karcher Group, has opened his own SEO & web marketing consultation firm - SiteLogic. Why is he going directly to the Recommend List? Because Matt is one of the smartest, fastest moving people in the industry. Matt's the type of guy who knows everything...
A little background reading first for those of you who are not familiar with what a Ponzi scheme is.I would assume most of you are doing your daily activities because you want to make some form of money and, you also hope that you'll be able to retire comfortably one day.That's an admirable goal and the Internet has spawned a...
Oftentimes, when I describe the concept of linkbait to clients, it's critical to also describe those folks who are the targets of linkbait - I'll call them the "Linkerati". Let's explore the culture of these most valued of web-dwelling souls: Bloggers - probably the most targetable and directly influenced folks, bloggers are an excellent so...
I know we don't usually cover news that everyone else has, but I couldn't help spreading the word on this band of snakes. From David Wallace: The company in question is Paramount Web Masters (www.paramountwebmasters.com). I'm am not going to link directly to ...
I was recently asked by a friend of mine why I still bother with my nefarious black hat activities.As he put it, I could spend the time I'm building throwaway sites to pump out some sites that get repeat visitors. Of course, he's always harping on this particular subject but I decided to go into a bit more depth this time and play with the numbers a little bit......
I'm thrilled to welcome Geoffrey, aka G-Man as the latest blogger addition to the SEOmoz team. G-Man has a strong technical background and is familiar with both the white and black hat sides of SEO. I'm looking forward to his uni...
I've been jealous of Danny Sullivan in the past, but never as much as I was today when I saw this: Now that's a home office setup. It may not look fant...