What's the Big Secret?
At Cre8asite forums, one of the more amusing threads today comes from new member severeidaho. His state is infamous for government coverups and FBI goings-on, so why not some secretive SEO: ...
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New Keyword Tool for Adwords
I just spent an hour or so at the new keyword tool for adwords. It gives you a nice list of variants for any search term that you type in. Different from the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool and similar to the Wordtracker related terms list. To find this tool, log into you...
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Evolution of SEO – what happens to handcrafted SEO in 2006?
IMO one of the most alarming trends in 2005/6 has been, and will be the automation of SEO related tasks. I agree, some tasks like rank checking deserve to be automated but out there are people who seriously combine phrases like "generated...
SEM Campaign Tips & Tricks
Let's say I was training a new employee on AdSense and Overture SEM campaigns, and I'd like to have some good online resources to point them to. What would you recommend? Yes, I know it's not technically a post, but it's a chance to use your hand coding HTML skills in the comment boxes ;)...
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Lexxe - Natural Language Search
At SEOChat, organicseo has posted a thread on Lexxe.com. I didn't have high hopes, but I performed several searches with very satisfactory results. The clustering technology is a good feature, and the s...
Don't Waste Your Money with Other Analytics Tools, Come to Google...
Google's new analytics setup looks impressively slick. That data, on the other hand, goes right through to big GG themselves, so all of you e-commerce nuts with cloaking, pop-ups, low co...
Contrasting SEO Ethics with Perception
The SEO ethics debate may be pointless, but it does spur a lot of activity. I noted a thread at SEOChat on the subject, where some disagreement between Fathom and I, along with a stereotypical quote from Mick has me reading: Rand: Never take on two clients ...
Good Advice for Consultants & Contractors
Steve Friedl, the man behind UnixWiz.net, has an older article on consulting that's worth reading. I pulled out some of the "maxims" that he writes about that stu...
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Screw the Sandbox the Jim Boykin Way
Google has been asking for this. SEO has a new angle and Jim (of Webuilpages) is the pioneer. No longer is domain registration part of smart SEO - it's all about buying an old domain and changing as little whois info as possible - preferrably just getting the login info for the registrar. Jim's got a post on the ...
Powweb.com - What are they Doing?
It has been brought to my attention that a server that maps to powweb.com is doing some unseemly bandwidth hogging. A friend (whose name will remain anonymous) clued me in to the following: Recently a series of bots from Powweb.com have been targetting websites with the sole purpose of accessing files simply to increase the bandwidth u...
Search Spies
If you like watching what the world is searching for, search spies (programs that output the searches that are being performed on the site in real time) are a fun resource. Over at SEOChat, Mick's asked the question and Jammer & Skipsel have provided very nice lists. There's quite a few: ...
Delicious and Digg
Although I rarely point to TW, as everyone here has already read their posts twice, there's an excellent comment on the thread about Digg that I felt worth publicizing. It comes from John Resig, who writes: The two 'Web 2.0' traffic b...
Rank Check Tool
Rod Coleman emailed me last night about his new rank checking and monitoring tool. It's free to sign up for 10 terms or $5/month for up to 75 terms. It checks the following engines: Alltheweb Altavista AOL...
5 Tips for SEO Businesses
Todd has some good references on operating your SEO business and I thought, in the spirit of teamwork, I'd address the same topic today with some recommendations of my own. Below is my own list of suggestions, based on experience (in both failure and success): Don't Underestimate your Value...