Archive for April, 2008

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 30, 2008

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Twitter. Oh God.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Thanks to the prodding of Danny Sullivan, I am now on Twitter. God help me. It might mean the beginning of another Searchblog like obsession. I remember when folks said "you blog nearly every day? How do you possibly find the time?!" More when I learn more.

What are Some Questions to Ask an SEO Firm to Check their Legitimacy?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

If you were interviewing an SEO firm to see if they're for real, what questions would you ask them? A High Rankings Forum thread touches upon some of the must-know questions, and they're outlined below: How long they have been...

Search Conference Controversy Sparks Up Again

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Kevin Ryan of Search Engine Strategies spoke with Daron Babin and discussed the current state of the conference circuit with regards to individuals believing that they have been banned from either SMX or SES events. Danny Sullivan kindly transcribed the...

Which Advertiser Types Do You Put in Your Google AdSense Filter?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion on what type of advertiser would you automatically add to your AdSense competitive filter list. I.e. which type ads do you not want showing up on your site? Here are some of the responses: Adult...

Managing Duplicate Content In a World Where Google Can Crawl JavaScript

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Now that Google admitted to crawling JavaScript and forms SEOs and Webmasters need to be aware of how to manage even more duplicate content issues. In the past, a good strategy was to build out filter pages (filter by color,...

Google Promotes iGoogle Artist Themes

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Google is making a major promotional push for iGoogle (Google's personalized home page), with the new artist themes section. If you go to the Google home page, you will notice a special logo that looks like the logo on the...

Search Twitter in Realtime, and Get Free(ish) Content

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Summize is a conversational search engine which allows you to search Twitter in realtime. Useful for finding customer feedback even when people do not provide it directly to you. For example, I just found out that for some people the Rank Checker Firefox extension stopped working after the last update. ...

Search Twitter in Realtime, and Get Free(ish) Content

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Summize is a conversational search engine which allows you to search Twitter in realtime. Useful for finding customer feedback even when people do not provide it directly to you. For example, I just found out that for some people the Rank Checker Firefox extension stopped working after the last update. ...

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 29, 2008

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....