Archive for August, 2008

Twitter/Summize search flaky?

I’ve started to post more on my twitter account recently. Less than two weeks ago, Twitter bought Summize. Good for them; I like both companies. But http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wordpress+mattcutts should return this entry in Twitter’s search results. I don’t see it in Twitter’s search results: What’s the story, Twitter/Summize folks? I can’t escape the feeling that […]

Ryanair’s Howard Millar on How To Not Succeed Online

Where it comes to succeeding on the web SEO is only part of the picture, and not always the most important thing depending on your industry. Running a successful online business requires good client relations, good vendor relations, and possibly finding as many income funnels as possible. Unless your Ryanair, or your CEOs […]

Why Alert Competitors to Your SEO Strategy?

Why you should not announce your marketing strategy as being related to SEO, even if it is. Continue to read more…

Viral Marketing Idea Friday - Online Shoe Store

I had a great viral idea the other day when my son came home with a shoe full of sand (see picture, because I really mean a SHOE FULL!!). This picture I am showing you is the sand that came out of only ONE of his shoes from a day of playing on the […]

Preparing for Improvements in Mobile Search Algorithms

Mobile devices are so popular nowadays that the traffic that mobile search brings can no longer be discounted. Because of this plenty of websites now offer mobile versions of their website. If you already have a mobile site though you should make sure that you stay informed about the changes/improvements done by search engines in […]

The Importance of a Human Readable HTML Sitemap for a Web Directory

A human readable sitemap is nothing else than a page, linked from the homepage, that is linking to all pages of your website. This kind of sitemap seems to be very important for search engines (even if it is called “human readable sitemap”).I have recently decided to add one to the Linkrain Web Directory, which […]

Scrapers and the Duplicate Issue

We’ve all been warned again and again about the problems that duplicate can bring. However, the truth is that nowadays it is not really such a big deal anymore. This doesn’t mean that you should start plagiarising other people’s stuff and simply offer duplicate content on your site. What this does mean is that you […]

MSN Plan To Tell You When You’re Spamming

Oilman reports from Searchification, the near unpronounceable name (well, after a few beers) of Microsoft’s demo for improvements to their search engine. Lots of interesting stuff in here, but this bit caught my eye: “Webmaster Tools account will support up to 150 sites and will use validation the same as Google or […]

The Secret Book/Movie/DVD Scam: Blindly Seeking Material Wealth = Tragic Failure

The people behind The Secret were recently caught up in legal turmoil. Continue to read more…

Google Goes Shopping - Purchases Russian Service “Begun” for $140 Million

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