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The Wall Street Journal is covering John Scott's V7ndotcom contest today on the front page of the Marketplace section. You can also see a link to the story on their technology page (but a membership is required to read). There's a screen capture here (via ...
I thought this site summed up the Internet's general feeling towards Valentine's Day. I'm not particularly against the day - it's always nice to go out to a fancy restaurant in a nice suit. I just wish it weren't so crowded or hard to get reservations... ...
UPDATE: I've updated this post on November 13, 2007 to add a link to this PC World story detailing additional reported complaints against Internet Advancement by their customers here in Washington State. The original post is below: I...
Larry & Sergey better watch their credit cards. Travis reports on Cre8asite today that Googlebot signed up as a new customer at an e-commerce site he manages. From the post: I d...
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Irishwonder pointed me to his blog post on the subject of readability indices. He's referencing a nifty little tool that you can use on your own pages as well as comparing the readability levels of various SEO/M industry blogs (we're ranked 3...
My friend Scott Fish dropped me a line on this neat little opportunity to pick up domain names at a very nice price: On Tuesday, the 14th between 4pm est until 5pm est Dotster.com is giving away $1...
I've been referencing a lot of folks to our recommended list lately, but we're finding that many come back without a satisfactory target, particularly when they're seeking local folks. I thought I'd ask the readers if they have recommended lists of their own with SEOs, web developers, designers, marketers, hosts, etc. that could be used to help expand whe...
I like the idea behind this button site. From buttons for sushi and coffee to wishlists, geographies and politics, they've got a very wide selection. Take this concept, apply it to other graphics, text, content, games, programs, etc. and you've go...
Alan Bellows' Damn Interesting is practically an entire collection of pure linkbait articles - the kind that not only make for good reading, but have to be linked to, emailed, and searched for at friend's houses in order to show them what they're missing. Just a quick dissection of how he does it so well: It's not just him - there's a...
SEMPO (the "other" SEO organization) is setting up voting today for the board and president. You can run over to ProMedia where Avi has set up an informal, anyone-can-vote poll on the subject of the presidency. It's interesting to see who's on there. I'm honestly amazed that half of the folks on the list have time to manage the organization ...
Not every website, company or project needs an SEO. I know this seems blasphemous, but it's very true. There are a few critical elements you need to secure before you can be confident that an SEO firm or link building staff is uneccessary: Offer Something AmazingIf you have content, products or services that are so fascinatingly cool that they demand ...
In order to move past the very sad day we've just had here in Seattle, I've got an entirely new, off-the-wall subject. Via Plankie's post at HighRankings, I came across some nifty...
eKstreme at Cre8asite pointed to his site's feature on the PHP code needed to create buttons for auto submission to the three social bookmarking sites. Very nice of you to share, eK!...
Mike Davidson, of Mike Industries (and CEO of NewsVine), has done some research into whether invalid code, nested tables and some other HTML factors can affect rankings at the search engines. My favorite bit: ...