Archive for November, 2008
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
eBay has recently seen a sharp drop in traffic as they cut their affiliate stream and Google ad spend.
When you are a default category leader you no longer compete against others in your category. You compete against other categories. Google and Amazon.com understand that. Microsoft maybe. eBay no. ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
"All Truth passes through Three Stages: First, it is Ridiculed...
Second, it is Violently Opposed...
Third, it is Accepted as being Self-Evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1778-1860)
A business model that contains subtle white lies that are familiar and easy to like is often far more profitable than a business model built around attempting ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Facebook had a "malfunction" today that reset all my email notifications. All of a sudden, I am getting Facebook notifications in my email inbox about all manner of things.
A conspiracist will claim this was on purpose. I'll explain why in the next post.
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
The Inside AdWords blog announced the beta launch of Google's Search-based Keyword Tool. To some degree the tool is a Compete.com knock off, but with a number of exceptions
this tool is free
Google has more search data than Compete.com does
this shows bid prices and search volume estimates next to keywords (like ...
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Here are some interesting links of note.
Danny Sullivan whinges about all the flavors of spam killing the utility of the web.
John Andrews on the absurdity of calling affiliate links spam.
Slightly Shady SEO looks at Google's user data empire.
Andrew Goodman on why you have to target a tight niche to build ...
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Friday, November 28th, 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....
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I am posting the video early in celebration of the special weekend. I spoke for a while on why SEO's should be careful when using a site command. I also spoke a while about link building companies...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
Hope you guys had a great yesterday and a happy day today! Most of you I know aren't actually working, but some of us are, and we're going to make sure you're well-entertained today in what happened this week in...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
Google has announced new technological strides: they have been able to sort 1 terabyte of data across one-thousand computers in a mere 68 seconds. (Previously, the same record of 1TB was across 910 computers and took 209 seconds.) For one...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
According to Nielsen as reported by CNET and according to comScore as reported by BusinessWeek, Google search shares went up for the month of October. Nielsen reports that Google's search went up 8.1 percent (to a total of 61.2 percent)....
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