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Thursday Roundup for the Week of 4/27/08

Rebecca Kelley

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

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Rebecca Kelley

Thursday Roundup for the Week of 4/27/08

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:

Two star links:

Three star links:

  • Here's an interesting concept: the Publicity Wheel is a site specifically aimed towards website promotion. From their site: "Each spin of the wheel, a featured website is collaboratively promoted via banners by the Publicity Wheel community. You will earn *publicity points*each time somebody clicks on a banner on your site. At the next spin, a new website is selected based on publicity points and promoted once again." I wonder how much traffic it'll send...
  • This blog discusses various Microhoo scenarios, including a hostile takeover, a higher offer, a walk away, Yahoo caving, and a white knight rescuing Yahoo.
  • The Soapboxxer is a new social networking site that allows users to post opinions on various topics and generate a discussion within the community. Since they're new, they're looking for some feedback on their website, so if you feel like hopping up onto a soapbox, this is a good venue to try out.
  • Wired Journal talks about the irrationality of free. It's amazing what lengths people will go to in order to score free crap (coughTamarcough). I personally hate most conference schwag, with the only exception being Google thermoses (because my boyfriend loves them) and t-shirts that will actually fit me (size small, in case you're taking notes).
  • Academic search engines bitch slap the commercial ones by saying that commercial search engines aren't discriminating like they are, so they provide higher quality academic results.
  • Apparently status is more important than cash. That must be why Rand pays me in "Rebecca's Awesome" coupons instead of actual dollars.
  • Keystone Business Solutions has a good offline marketing campaign. Too bad I don't play golf--hey Keystone, any chance you could brand a basketball?
  • Despite the recent Page Rank update, Performancing is still being penalized by Google. Internet.com and SE Roundtable both appear to still be penalized, too.

Four star links:

  • Nick Bostrom from the Technology Review posits why he hopes we never find extraterrestrial life. It's an interesting read and provides an interesting theoretical explanation of "why are we alone."
  • Google freakin' owns the UK. Their sites drive 1/3 of overall Internet traffic in the UK. I guess Bob's no longer your uncle, Google is!
  • This dude waxes poetic about the joys of collecting unemployment checks.
  • Seed Keywords Engine is an interesting new keyword research tool. You create a scenario for a search query and "watch your seed keyword list grow." Give it a try and provide your feedback and thoughts in the comments!
Five star links:

  • Radar Magazine publishes a bunch of letters this guy sent to various people, including convicted serial killers, celebrities, and politicians. The author had posed as a young boy in his letters; hence the coining of "The Billy Letters." The response from Charles Manson is predictably batshit crazy.

YOUmoz entries:

Best of YOUmoz:

New events added to the Events Calendar:

Upcoming events:

New additions to the SEOmoz Marketplace:

Featured job postings:

Featured companies:

United States/North America:

UK/Europe
Asia:

Featured resumes:

Happily employed:

  • A. Ledbe is a happily employed webmaster and writer who is also proficient on Wordpress and Drupal platforms and can program in HTML.
Looking for employment:
  • John Peterson is a marketing ops director at a Silicon Valley software company, but is currently looking for employment.
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Rebecca Kelley
Rebecca Kelley is the content marketing manager for Intego, a Mac software company. She also guest-blogs/freelances at various places and runs a couple hobby blogs for shits and giggles.

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