Blog Entries tagged 'google'

Whois Promote-My-Site Defensive Posting

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

[Bump and update: two hours after posting and we have the number one slot for our own whois search. Neat.]

This is not yet another weary re-telling of the Google Blogscoped article on whois this morning. I am sure our readership has an almost 100% overlap with the blogscoped guys. I am also sure that at least a few "SEO Bloggers" will duplicate the articl [...]

We Rank On Baidu

admin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Ever used Baidu? I haven't because, well, my Chinese is not much better than my French or my German. And without even cognates from five years of Latin to guess my way around a site, heck, I don't think I've ever used it.

And, yes, yes, I know that there are more internet users in China than there are people in the US, blah, blah, blah. I am focused more on the fact that [...]

Who Cares if Google Punishes Digg

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0100

In one of this week's hottest Sphinn stories, Google to punish pagerank for Digg stories, it is clear that people are really focused on the readers, links, and prestige of Digg and the other top-tier social networking and social bookmarking sties.

Which is fine but the level of upset makes it clear that a lot of people don't have any real diversified portfolio of links and [...]

Airplane Plumber SEO School

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I was on the plane coming home and the cat next to me in first got to talking. It seems his son (11th grade) had put up a website extolling the virtues of his plumbing business and they'd actually gotten a customer from a google search the day before.

Needless to say, he thought this was pretty trick. Over the last 20 years he'd spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on yellow pages, bus signs, bench-backs, high-school yearbooks, little-league teams, etc, etc. He said that he [...]

All Your Google Docs Are Belong To Me

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We put up a post yesterday with a cool table of information about social websites and, because I hate having to scrape stuff off the web, we used google docs to store the information. But that is all we'll use google doc's for - because it has kreppy features and google has, or so it seems, reserved the right to use your "private" documents for whatever they please.

Horrible Lack of Functionality

First the functionality. Let's just say if my options were [...]