Google Directory Updated from DMOZ Data?
I know a segment of my readers are sick to death with anything to do with Google PageRank updates, and I haven’t even bothered mentioning the most recent update up until now… there wasn’t really anything newsworthy in it.
The Improved Reality of Parked Domain Traffic
For years many of us in the advertiser camp have yelled about the fact that vendors like Google AdWords lump domain traffic in with "search" traffic without giving you much control over the situation. A lot of this was justifiable yelling – but as with much about the content networks (and stuff that should be in the content network but was in the past classified as search), today’s reality seems to have improved.
A Look at Upcoming Search Industry Conferences
In the search marketing industry, face-to-face events seem to abound. If you’re a bit lost, here’s the beginnings of a rough working guide to the next 4-5 months in the field and what to expect.The Big:
Breaking Down Yahoo’s Social Landscape
Yahoo! has been a very influential provider of social services online for quite some time. Over the last few years they have either created or purchased online social sites, here is a quick breakdown of some of the major start-ups and acquisitions:
Microsoft and Yahoo Marketing Issues
Microsoft is spending a lot of money creating useful tools for advertisers, and when you go to their tools page they list contextual ads for "all the data mining". If they would just let me know what that ad placement costs I am betting I would be willing to pay more than that thin arbitrage site pays. But I would pay much less than what it would be worth just to keep their tool pages clean so they can help build market adoption.
Marks Post Link Bait?
I recently spotted a blog post by Adam Senour over at Walk My Path. The post outlines why Gene Marks is right on certain comments from the blog post. I must say I didn’t think I would find someone defending Gene marks comments like Adam has.
Scoble on TV Experience and CES
Last week I was on CNBC twice. Once on “Fast Money” and once on Donny Deutsch’s “The Big Idea.” The Fast Money segment has been torn apart on the Internet but Roger Ehrenberg of the Information Arbitrage blog had the most intelligent analysis of it.
Are You a Commodity for Google?
Many SEO Book readers have seen Google Trends before, but did you know that Google Checkout also has a trends feature?
Nofollow and Wikis
There is no such thing as a free link. No matter what the person who is selling you it tells you. And the web will always adapt to make it so. Even if its hard work.
Barry Schwartz posted Get A Free Link From Wired today on an SEO blog, noting that:
Search in the Third Dimension
The quote on the home page of SpaceTime is intriguing: "I think I’ve found a product that makes the Google interface look like it was designed by Apple." Rob Enderle, Enderle Group.