The New Portals
This is a really interesting observation: “For the last several years, Yahoo, MSN and AOL have all suffered a declining share of pageviews, but that does not mean the portal is going out of style. Rather it has been redefined, first by Google, and now by Facebook in potentially even more profound ways.” “Facebook has a new answer to the …
Noise Level
SEL is great, but this list of options on the bottom of their RSS feed posts always makes me grin. It’s so….exhaustive! The only option that appears to be missing is “F**k This”….I guess “Fark It” is close enough, though.
Mahalo: Jason Calacanis Launches A Directory
Biggest non-secret in the search industry – Jason Calacanis launches a new human powered search service called Mahalo. A directory, in other words. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I like directories. I run a few of my own. I’m not sure what I was expecting. Something new, perhaps. What we’ve got is About.com crossed with Yahoo Directory. It …
Matt Cutts Mostly Links To Himself. And Google.
Very cool analysis. Matt keeps the link love in-house. And sleeps between 2.00am and 7am. Apparently. More interesting analysis of top blogs, and linking structure, here. “Engadget: So, here are the major takeaways: Engadget is very big. Damn big, infact. I use too many infacts. They got more about 100,000 comments in a single month by giving away, among other …
Tropical SEO
I’m really enjoying this blog by Andy Hagans. If you’re and SEO and you’re not reading it already, you should. He waxes eloquently about SEO and entrepreneurialism. Anyone who runs their own business can relate to these stories, and anyone who is thinking of going into business for themselves can get an insight into what they’re in for: “My younger …
Ralph Is Back…
Great guy, hugely knowledgeable SEO, and owner of the best beard in search, Ralph Tegtmeier aka Fantomaster, has resurfaced and started posting again – after a two year hiatus. He’s offering readers free links. Go say hi. “So: We’ll resume blogging alright now, though maybe not quite at the old rate which was a lot of fun but simply too …
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