Links of Interest
A few cool links found while roaming around the web.
Is Your Content Solving Symptoms or Fixing Problems?
Content that asks why actually solves problems and creates real value.
Inclusionary Statements - Are You Willing to be One of the Best?
One of the things that a lot of thought leaders do is inspire people. It is easy to believe when they give you something to believe in.
You Must Build a Destination if You Want to Create a Fully Valued Sustainable Business Worth Buying
Many of the parasitic business models built on other networks lack staying power and end up selling for a small percentage of what their real intrinsic value would be if they built a destination.
Why Google Guidelines Sometimes Depart From Reality
Blog post comparing Google to the Federal Reserve. 
The Less You Know, the Happier You Are
Recent University of Iowa research concluded that blissfully ignorant shoppers are happier with their choices.
How And Why To Monitor Google Rankings (Search Engine Journal)
Why to constantly keep track of your targeted SERPs? When done regularly and properly, this analysis may help you with your most important SEO campaign challenges. By tracking your targeted keyword search engine results, you will: learn new emerging SEO techniques; keep track of your well established competitors; timely spot your new competitors and their tactics; watch […]
Digging into Social Media Optimization
In this second part of a three-part series we will continue talking about how to avoid being buried by Digg. Then we will discuss how to create viral applications for Facebook and MySpace and look at the looming commercialization of the art of friending. Finally we will look at the commercialization of the blogosphere which is far more inevitable than the commercialization of other social media though not necessarily less derided by several armchair analysts….
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SEO Analytics: SEOmoz & Enquisite (Search Engine Roundtable)
The other day, SEOmoz released what they named SEO Analytics . The beauty about this package is that nothing needs to be installed on your site, all this does is watch the search space for signals on your domain. It really does not track rankings or traffic, it does however track links, search engine saturation, mentions and more. Here are some screen captures via SEOmoz: Google Mentions: …
Re: Sex changes and prison
The US will respect any sex changes and send you to the appropriate prison.
Google will tell you all you need to know 
Why Google Guidelines Sometimes Depart From Reality
Blog post comparing Google to the Federal Reserve.
You Must Build a Destination if You Want to Create a Fully Valued Sustainable Business Worth Buying
Many of the parasitic business models built on other networks lack staying power and end up selling for a small percentage of what their real intrinsic value would be if they built a destination.
Can You Build 1,000 True Fans?
As free and infinite competition erodes the value of weak connections, a key to sustainably selling art is to reach out to 1,000 true fans.
Striving to be (Below) Average…
Google Analytics allows you to benchmark your site against a random sample of sites in your industry.
Is Your Content Solving Symptoms or Fixing Problems?
Content that asks why actually solves problems and creates real value.
The Less You Know, the Happier You Are
Recent University of Iowa research concluded that blissfully ignorant shoppers are happier with their choices.
Why Does Yahoo! Search Lag Google & Microsoft in Ranking Newer Websites?
Can you rank a new site in Yahoo! for terms like insurance without getting it nuked in Google? What makes Yahoo! so much slower at ranking new sites than the other major search engines?
Why Google Guidelines Sometimes Depart From Reality
Blog post comparing Google to the Federal Reserve.
Brian McCullough Internet Marketing and Public Relations Consultant — First Official Podcast on Personal SEO and … (PRWeb)
Visit bpmccullough.com/blog on Wednesday March 19th to view their first official podcast. The first bpmccullough.com Podcast will cover personal SEO, it will be outlining how anyone from a normal person to a corporate CEO can get the best results on Google and Yahoo by just doing a few simple things online. (PRWeb Mar 6, 2008) Read the full story at …
Hot SEO Jobs : Hotels.com, TechWeb & Classmates.com (Search Engine Journal)
This week, on the SEJ Search Marketing Jobs board, three large online brands posted openings in SEO management roles for search marketing and search engine optimization specialists who are looking to move on with a high profile online publishing role; Hotels.com, TechWeb’s InformationWeek.com & Classmates.com. Here is a run down of the positions : Classmates.com SEO Manager […]
Poll: Is SEO important to you? (About.com)
Sometimes it can seem like SEO is the only viable way to get better pageviews from your customers, but there are lots of other ways as well. You can: pay for…
Brian McCullough Internet Marketing and Public Relations Consultant — First Official Podcast on Personal SEO and … (PRWeb)
Visit bpmccullough.com/blog on Wednesday March 19th to view their first official podcast. The first bpmccullough.com Podcast will cover personal SEO, it will be outlining how anyone from a normal person to a corporate CEO can get the best results on Google and Yahoo by just doing a few simple things online. (PRWeb Mar 6, 2008) Read the full story at …
Weekend Reading
Here are some interesting articles and websites I recently came across.
Inclusionary Statements - Are You Willing to be One of the Best?
One of the things that a lot of thought leaders do is inspire people. It is easy to believe when they give you something to believe in.
SEO Training Offered in Columbia, South Carolina Presented by Professional Search Engine Optimizers and Internet … (PRWeb)
The Search Engine Academy of South Carolina (SEAofSC) announces Personalized SEO Training for Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing coming to the Columbia, SC area. The 3 Day Workshops are held at Gibson Commons in Lexington SC. Training is offered by Leading Professional Search Engine Optimizers and Internet Marketers. (PRWeb Mar 7, 2008) Read the full story at …
Excessive Creativity
Recently a number of people offered some great link building tips.
Is Your Content Solving Symptoms or Fixing Problems?
Content that asks why actually solves problems and creates real value.
Striving to be (Below) Average…
Google Analytics allows you to benchmark your site against a random sample of sites in your industry.
You Must Build a Destination if You Want to Create a Fully Valued Sustainable Business Worth Buying
Many of the parasitic business models built on other networks lack staying power and end up selling for a small percentage of what their real intrinsic value would be if they built a destination.
Dedicated vs. Shared IP Addresses and SEO (Search Engine Journal)
Is having a dedicated IP address critical for achieving great Google rankings and if an IP address is shared among many sites, is the PageRank for each site diluted? This is, believe it or not, still a very common question in the SEO world, despite the search engines addressing these concerns. Over at DigitalPoint a reader […]
Google Android
Out of all the companies Google has acquired the purchase that led to what we are going to talk about today was of a small little company called Android Inc. This company wasn t even around two years before Google swept them up. Of course this only added fuel to the fire that Google was going to get into the cell phone market. This is what I am here today to talk about — Google s Android….
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Re: Advertising banners in a Windows desktop software?
never heard of such thing afaik…
I see in that too much fraud opportunity
Make Money by Domain Parking
GoDaddy has set up a new service whereby webmasters can earn a profit based on clicks to their parked domains.
The program is targeted at owners of small amounts of domains in their portfolio. GoDaddy serves ads that are based on the domain name, and the analysis of what people click on and search for in the site.
This new service, CashParking, not only helps webmasters make a few extra dollars, but provides another means by which websites and companies can get search related traffic through links on unique domain names that are not as yet built out.
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Why Does Yahoo! Search Lag Google & Microsoft in Ranking Newer Websites?
Can you rank a new site in Yahoo! for terms like insurance without getting it nuked in Google? What makes Yahoo! so much slower at ranking new sites than the other major search engines?
Interview of Nicholas Carr on The Big Switch, Blogging, & the Internet
I recently finished reading Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch, and as a longtime fan of his Rough Type blog asked if he would be up for doing an interview. He said sure, and here is the interview.
Inclusionary Statements - Are You Willing to be One of the Best?
One of the things that a lot of thought leaders do is inspire people. It is easy to believe when they give you something to believe in.
Re: Costa Rica Crime Wave Target Online Gambling Ops
Interesting.
Re: Tip on a GERMAN adult aff thats actually worth it ? danke
typisch deutscher kack. stornos und kein paypal etc, nur überweisung/scheck. nein danke.
Matt Cutts Answers some questions on Google Video Google’s Matt Cutts answered some questions recently on Google Video. Check these videos out if you are really into search, Matt has some good thoughts down. Cutts went over the Qualities of a good site, SEO myths, and Optimizing for Search Engines or for Users. The videos were freshly shot this weekend, and are the personal views of Matt, and not necessarily of his famous employers. Excellent Read.
[via Philipp Lenssen]
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Re: Piqq (formerly DiggBoss) now working Propeller, too
fish piqq i signed up but it gives me invalid password, i need a invite, if someone could msg me it?
Top Keyword Terms Companies are Buying
Nielson Netrating has done some homework and developed a list on the Top 25 Companies By Sponsored Link Impressions list.
Its a pretty interesting list that shows the top 3 keywords that are bought by some major companies.
Here is a sample of that list:
I think by far, Amazon.com has the best list.
Clickz has some other charts from the report that show the Advertising Breakdown by Industry, Advertising Breakdown by Ad Unit Types, and Top 25 Companies by Sponsored Link Impressions.
[via ZDnet ]
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Search Engine bid management
There is a new tool on the market for automated search engine bid management. It has been developed by Efficient Frontier and Enlighten.
The tool will help in making the bid managements process more scientific and more efficient when dealing with the most complex paid search campaigns.
Efficient Frontier is focused on delivering advanced technology for search engine marketing performance. With that ability teamed up with Enlightens ebusiness knowledge, it might be something to add to your arsenal.
The search engine bid management tool is currently only available to customers of Enlighten. If anyone has any experience with it, or more info on it, please feel free to post your insight in the comments.
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SEO Evil? Not To Vanessa Fox (WebProNews)
Erstwhile Google Webmaster Central product manager Vanessa Fox reached back six months to discuss a perception about her famed former employer and search optimization. read more
