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- Pubcon Introduction
8:53: Tons of people here already, huge line of people still waiting to register, looks like we’re going to be starting 15 minutes late or so.
9:05: We’re starting, Brett says pubcon has more than doubled since last time. The exhibit hall isn’t going to be open untill tomorrow. Brett says there are 4 invite-only private parties, he tells us to go talk to our reps, and mentioned that Google, Yahoo, Text Link Ads and Ask all probably have…
- Gearing Up for Pubcon
Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be liveblogging (or is it live blogging?) Pubcon specifically the SEO and SMO sessions, so make sure you tune in here throughout the week. And if anyone has any requests, let me know, I’ll see what I can do.
- ReviewMe Leak
An unamed source sent me this a while before Review Me Too (seriously guys we want in on this sponsored posts thing too!) launched, but I sat on it, but now that the cat is out of the bag about a contest sponsored by the Review Me guys for their upcoming launch, I figure its about time.
So I think you may be able to get a head start on that $25,000 giveaway here.PS. Good thing Chris Pearson has a place to get away from it all.
- Parasite SEO and Reputation Management
A post made by Micheal Martinez over at SEOmoz. For a while a few words rolled around in my head:
You see, I happen to be very good at reputation management. That means I can propel 10, 20, 30 Web sites into the top results for all sorts of search expressions. And when you ask me for a link to site X, you tell me exactly who to knock down. If I were to do this to you, I’d take your competitors down, too.
Aside from being a tad boastful…
- What is Content Development to an SEO?
Yeah, once I said content is dead, resource is king, but, there is still the issue of the text designed on pages designed to rank well, not nessecarily the ones designed to get the links. Say what you will about the dead myth of density sweetspots, there is data to provide at least rough statistical guidelines to both ensure that content does not look spammy and that it is textually relevant to the query being optimized for.
Depending on the…
- Friction, Inertia and Social Media Optimization
Social Optimization (or SMO, short for social media optimization) is the process of engineering a marketing message for social networks and media. Social media based websites are the perfect vectors in functionality and purpose for the spreading of viral marketing creatives, and now they have the traffic numbers to become serious tools.
The old what makes an idea viral issues apply here and like other web usability problems they can be broken…
- Been Thinkin’ ‘Bout Vertical Creep; A List
As the search engines, most recently Google, add new types of content or vertical specific search functionality and selectivly place those results above the traditional one-algo-fits-all results they are creating many different ways to be the first place result. I would expect that in at least some cases image or product specific search results in Google’s little vertical search “one box” (especially when placed above sub-par organic SERPs) gets…
- Image Search Optimization
I’ve been looking into optimizing images for the various image search engines and I’ve found 4 major points to address:
- Keywords in file images
- Keywords in ALT tags
- Keywords in caption text below image
- Image size
It seems at least Google’s image search uses image dimension to identify duplicate images, so if you’re working with an image other sites also use, it would be helpful to modify the image size by a few pixles, so as to not get…
- Social Media Optimization: A Buzz Timeline
- 8/25: I post my list.
- 8/29: Danny Sullivan “announces” it.
- 8/29: Randfish offers up his list.
