Archive for June, 2008

The Ugly Side of The SEO Industry

Monday, June 30th, 2008

When people are angry they are anything but rational, so the amount of brand damage they can do for you is near limitless. Imagine if a person or small group has reach to a group of people entering your space, and tells them that you are unethical, a liar, worthless, ...

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30, 2008

Monday, June 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....

It’s All In The Question

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Kevin Kelly makes the point, riffing on Chris's ideas about the "end of theory."

Second Day Story on Ad Planner

Monday, June 30th, 2008

MediaWeek reports: After taking several days to digest the news, the digital media world has reached the conclusion that the launch of Google’s new media planning product isn’t likely to bring upheaval to the Web metrics business. And it probably doesn’t represent the feared first step towards total advertising—and ultimately world—domination ...

Is Google Crawling Absolute Paths?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

We've repeatedly recommended Google Webmaster Tools to help you assess problems with your website. It can help you figure out if you're having some problems somewhere and then you can get to the bottom of them. In a specific example,...

Is there a Minimum Number of Pages Required for Decent Organic Rankings?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

While SEO becomes more and more important, people try to find angles that they can exploit or take advantage of so that they can achieve good rankings. In one specific instance, High Rankings forum post asks if there's a minimum...

Search Engine Optimizers Should Back Up Their Statements!

Monday, June 30th, 2008

At SEO Refugee, Skitzzo talks about how the SEO blogosphere is starting to shift drastically and people are giving their opinions as fact. Instead of using jargon like "in my experience" or "as far as I can tell," they think...

Plurk Brings Micro Forums, Like Twitter Brought Micro Blogging

Monday, June 30th, 2008

A few weeks ago, I joined Plurk to mess around with the newest social media buzz. After playing around with it for a few weeks, I have really grown to enjoy many of its addictive features. The main thing I...

Use Google Ad Manager To Set Minimum AdSense eCPM

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Stuart McDonald posted a thread at WebmasterWorld explaining how you can use Google Ad Manager with Google AdSense to specify a minimum eCPM. You must keep in mind that you need to have other ads in your Ad Manager inventory...

Some Webmasters Are Banning Yahoo Slurp

Monday, June 30th, 2008

It seems like some webmasters are becoming fed up with the activity of Yahoo's crawl, Yahoo Slurp, relative to the amount of traffic Yahoo Search is sending the web site. In fact, some webmasters have taken the plunge and banned...