Archive for January, 2008

Site of the Month - August 2007

Well done to Concept Coverings for site of the month August! “The UK’s leading source for Digitally printed wallcoverings, fabrics and many more products at an affordable price.” - from site. They have stuck to the W3C standards and their design is clean and simple. Navigation is easy and the colourful […]

Deconstructing Google snippets

Most SEOs think the path to better snippets is writing a compelling, keyword-rich meta description tag. But that’s only part of it.
Meta descriptions aren’t going to help your rankings, but it’s worthwhile spending time on them because they can — and often do — make their way into the snippet.
But did you know […]

Reliable Web Hosting

Gone are those days when you needed to pay 4-5$ pm for hosting your website. These days web hosting has become extremely affordable with the reseller accounts in practice.
Gone are those days when you needed to pay 4-5$ pm for hosting your website. These days web hosting has become […]

The NewsGator Interview: RSS for Online Media and Branded RSS Readers

In part 2 of the RSS interview with Greg Reinacker of NewsGator find out how online media can take advantage of RSS beyond publishing RSS content. Continue to read more…

Open Source Ad Management Firm Aims for U.S. Expansion

Openads plans to use a $15.5 million second round investment for product development and support. Continue to read more…

SEO: A Job Or An Addiction?

I was chatting with one of my clients today and he was noting how their site has been holding steady for a while in the top five and how he’s now nervous about updates. Funny, you look forward to them when you’re not in the top 20 and you fear them when you enter […]

How to Spam Google and get away with it.

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Could Google Become the Ultimate Commodities Trading Platform? And Are You a Commodity?

Many SEO Book readers have seen Google Trends before, but did you know that Google Checkout also has a trends feature? Google has those touch-points, email data (now with a mailing list feature), AdWords bid data, conversion data, analytics data, and search referral data.
A recent research paper reviewed Google’s internal Prediction Markets [PDF]. Three […]

Tired Of Digg? Sp(h)inn It

Tired of Digg’s attitude to all things SEO? Danny Sullivan has launched a social media site called Sphinn. Or Sp(h)in(n). “Sphinn is a social site for search and interactive marketers. It’s designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in […]

Back online, and my Davos answer

I’m back online. My email isn’t quite as out of control as last year, but it will take me a few days to catch up on things. Going offline for a week was nice, and I’d recommend it to anyone, especially if you have a wonderful companion to help you savor the time off. Here’s […]