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Daily Search Blog Roundup, April 2, 2007

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Danny says it’s time for old media to start linking out. I’m applauding – so loud you’ll probably be able to hear it where you are sitting. Linking out is just plain good manners. Failing to link out is just plain rude.
Zoom.info is a business search engine. They claim they have launched the “first market ready semantic search engine”
I’m calling April 1st on this from Yahoo!. Since when is Gay Rodeo underground?
Why journalism matters. “What happens when you have thousands of people wielding the power of the press without any shared principles or standards?”. I don’t think a “blogger code of ethics” is going to go anywhere, though. The co-called “blog problem” is that blogs aren’t journalism. Blogs are conversation, and conversation is messy, opinionated, and off-the-cuff. I liked Aarons take on it.
This is way off topic, but if there are any musicians/home recording enthusiasts reading this, and you’re after a fully-featured DAW that doesn’t suck, then check out Reaper. It’s free. It’s made by the guy who brought you WinAmp.

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Daily Search Blog Roundup, March 30, 2007

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

How to work no-follow. “Just because a person came to a site through a no-follow link doesn’t mean they won’t link to you using a clean one”
Pay-per-post detractors. Amusing rant.
Barry takes a look at Google Pay Per Action.
This made me smile.
Google suggests you swim the ocean.Â It should take you 3,462 minutes. At least.
Does MySpace “earn” 30 Million per month in Adsense revenue?
Story about receiving the yellow card from Google.

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Daily Search Blog Roundup, March 28, 2007

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Search Engine Smack Down. General knowledge quiz. With beatings.
Unlimited email storage at Yahoo.
Does Google Adsense support revenue sharing?
PageRank change could be a canonical issue. Here’s how to deal with it.
Google Screen-saver.
This just hurts.
Entrepreneur shot during beta testing. True hardcore.

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Daily Search Blog Roundup, March 27, 2007

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Jason Calacanis in “SEO is not rubbish” shocker.
Google Vs MySpace. Who really out-maneuvered who?
Is Google a Semantic Search Engine? The short answer is “no”.
Adwords Editor. Top 10 Feature List.
Link love from Google Custom Search Engines. Also, a useful Google Custom Search directory.

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Daily Search Blog Roundup, March 26, 2007

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Google not building a mobile phone. Just software. So they say.
Seven biggest Google mistakes. It’s difficult to tell if Google is another AltaVista, or another Microsoft. “Mistakes” aside, I think they’re closer to becoming another MS, rather than another AV. A company with that much money can afford to make mistakes, and still prosper.
The Google Gadget effect. Use Google Gadgets to drive traffic.
Google PPA screen-shots. I look forward to Google rolling this out.
Google Checkout now appearing on some Gmail interfaces?
Speculation: Google not using federated search? Brings up the legality-of-caching-date debate.
Google testing new navigation links. Moving the links on a serp page to top-left.
Top Wikipedia employees quit. Rumored to be over governance issues.

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Daily Search Blog Roundup, March 23, 2007

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Google move some less important people to other buildings. Slow news day, obviously.
“The highest possible signal-to-noise ratio is desirable in design“.
Google Customized Search engines now allow you to show top search queries.
Yahoo has appointed a click-fraud guy.
Google unveil Plus Box, a + icon which allows you to find out more information about a search result.
Highrise. An an online contact management app.
Some corporates are amateur-hour spammers. And proud of it.
Think of linkbaiting as icing on the cake, don’t ignore the basics. Great advice. Also features slug pictures.

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Daily Search Blog Roundup, March 22, 2007

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Google picks up more market share in February. Google 48.1, Yahoo 28.1, and MSN 10.5.
In related news, MS are reportedly paying people to use Live.
Yahoo “very happy” with new ad system. “We are very excited and very happy and smiling broadly”. Clearly something in the kool aid at Yahoo.
Who, really, is the world’s most famous blogger? No one really knows, but these places might offer a clue.
Azoogle Ads reportedly being investigated for “Unfair and deceptive trade practices regarding online ringtone offers”.
KinderStart case against Google dismissed. Hey, whaddayahknow – turns out past rankings are no guarantee of future rankings. The irony? Kinderstart is displaying Adsense.
Is content still king? No. Why the content aggregation business will be the only real media businesses left.
Ten ways to make your blog more appealing to advertisers.
Could you predict Google’s future moves by watching domain registrations?
Google testing new Adsense layouts. Google branding appears quite prominent.
Can’t find the link for the new Google personalized themes? A bug, apparently, only affecting some people. Should be fixed in a few days.
Great set of Adsense tips and tricks. I really like Smashing Magazines cool lists.

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Daily Search Blog Roundup, March 21, 2007

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

“Twitter is dumb, but will work, because we are nosy“. It would also help if they got their technical problems sorted out.
Woman sues, of all places, the Internet Archive. For spidering. Raises the whole opt-in, opt-out debate again.
Kevin Ferderline starts his own search engine. Search for advertising with Kevin? Oh, for christ’s sake…
Social networks are dating sites. They just look different.
Eric Schmidt Interview. “…automating advertising businesses that haven’t been automated before…get into the targeted advertising business…”. Excellent interview.
Web 2.0 deflating. What happens when the hype dries up.
Top technology trends for 2007. Of interest to marketers, peer-to-peer video.
Google introduce personalized themed home pages. There are six themes to choose from, and the themes update according to the time of day.

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Daily Search Blog Roundup, March 20, 2007

Monday, March 19th, 2007

The A-List means nothing. Rather confused post from Jason Calacanis, who goes on to define how to be “A-List”.
30% of competitive searches found to be spam. Cool new SEO term in the making: “spam density”.
Wordpress has released an SEO Title Tag Generator that lets you over-ride a posts title tag.
Is there an auto-bury feature in Digg? I’ve noticed that, too, Michael. The code probably now reads: If known SEO-related domain, then bury.
The realistic entrepeneurs guide to venture capital. “It’s no use being slightly better than someone else”.
Is Google building a nationwide wireless network? Why not, they’re integrating everything else.
Google/YouTube in take down, put back up, take down, saga.
Why Viacom should chill out. And stick to knitting.

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Daily Search Blog Roundup, March 19, 2007

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

You thought you had spam problems. TechCrunch receives 15,000 spam comments. Per day. That no-follow plan really worked well, didn’t it, Digerati? Should have invited SEOs along, really….
Speaking of Techcrunch, they’ve just appointed a new CEO. The terms “CEO” and “blog” just sound strange together.
Google Webmaster Central now reporting anchor text phrases. Nice.
Ex-Microsoft employee, Robert Scoble, thinks Microsoft Search “sucks”. Which is kinda obvious.
What were Ask thinking? Anti-Google campaign backfires.
Directory of blogs by birth date of the author. Most authors fall in the 20-30 range.
Should you sell your SEO services on a performance basis? Examination of the pros/cons.
How Google might decide the quality score of blog postings. Very interesting outbound critera, such as linking out to “quality” bloggers.
SquidOffers, from Seth Godin. A cross between Digg and Adwords. Interesting. Not a new idea. But interesting.

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