Has Blogger Been Hit by an Autogenerating Account Bot?
Over the past few days I’ve been receiving a wave of blog spam from SEO lab – all of it to blogspot accounts – and all built around hyphenated money keywords ending in a seemingly random 2 or 3 alphanumeric characters.
For example:
college-loans-zet.blogspot.com
free-slots-lol.blogspot.com
flexeril-huf.blogspot.com
Kids Do More Than Play Games Online
For children ages 6-11 the most common online activity is playing games with 48 percent saying they had done so at least once in the last month according to new data from Experian Simmons. While that is not a major revelation what is surprising is that 21 percent said they had used the Internet to do homework and research.
Google Has Poor Networking Skills
Working with TV networks to get their content on YouTube has been harder for Google to figure out than any technical challenge it might face.
Companies and Marketing 2.0
Just saw on Twitter that Emily Chang had posted about RSS feeds for archiving your own personal history.
Vista Express Upgrade Not On Schedule
There was only one decent reason to buy a PC in the months leading up to the launch of Windows Vista: the Express Upgrade program, which gave buyers of new PCs with Windows XP a free or cheap upgrade to Vista. The "Express" part of the upgrade is turning out to be a bit misleading for Dell customers, with the upgrades arriving on a first-come first-served basis in as many as 6-8 weeks, plus a website that’s experiencing nasty downtime, bugs, driver issues and other kinks.
Missing the Point: Blog Post Themes
It happens to all writers at one time or another. It may be an occupational hazard that occurs when fingers tap keyboards. A reader will misunderstand the point of your blog post. There may even be issue taken with a very obscure part of the article. Instead of debate taking place over the main theme of the column, some obscure section may find itself the topic of various interpretations.
Google Acquiring Video Game Ad Company
Google has agreed to acquire Adscape, a company that puts ads inside of video games, for $23 million. Google had missed out on Massive, a company Microsoft picked up for $200-400 million about a year ago, and is going to have to settle for the much smaller Adscape, which it will have to build into a bigger player. Judging by Google’s great success with dMarc, I’d assume nothing at this point.
Out SEO the Competition
We all know SEO assists a site to perform better in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), but the reasons people SEO can differ.
OpenID – The Good and Bad
I’ve had some interesting conversations with people lately regarding OpenID. What is OpenID?
Google Allowing Misrepresented Result Snippets
I’ve asked Google if it’s a "sneaky redirect" per their webmaster guidelines to send some users to a registration page that does not contain the words available in the search results page snippet (the words you searched for).