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Sandbox Dodging Recommendations at SERoundtable

Barry, Donna, PK, Ben & Myself (the moderators from the new SERoundtable forums) are covering sandbox escape strategies in our first ever "Ask the Moderators" series for the forum. Some good responses and good information in the thread. As Barry noted to me, with mod-only threads, the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher than...

Mike Grehan on Those in the Sandbox

NOTE: This post has been edited. It was originally written in haste and without foresight. My apologies to Mike, who has earned better than to be criticized publicly in such manner. Mike Grehan, who stands without doubt among the people I admire most in the industry, has a ...

Speculation on How Search Engines Apply Temporal Data

In my opinion, temporal based data is one of the most valuable kinds of information that feeds into a modern search engine's algorithm. With it, search engines know when terms are getting more popular, when new terms are being used by searchers a...

Google experiments mixing country specific and global results together

A recent topic in SC brought up an interesting update with Google: they are adding country specific results to global resul...

Ferry Halim's Orisinal

No relation to SEO whatsoever, but Ferry Halim, a graphic and Flash game designer whose work astounds me has put together what is, in my opinion, his most addictive game yet. If you've never been to Orisinal, get ready to spend the rest of the ...

Craigslist Blocks Search Engines

According to a thread at SERoundtable, a few million results in Google (and other search engines) from Craigslist have dropped out due to a change in the robots.txt. The change must be very recent, as I had used Google to search CL just a week before the holidays. It's an interesting strategy from the classifieds giant - If anyon...

Mick's Selling Syndik8

The infamous Black Hat SEO forums are for sale - Mick's done a good job building up the community there. Let's hope it stays in good hands. It sounds like offers should be $10K+, so make sure you're serious if you want to bid. The traffic and revenue details are also listed - I'd imagine it carries a valuable advertising spac...

Ordered My New Laptop Today

I ordered my brand new Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop today. I was swayed mostly by the widescreen SUXGA monitor, which allows for a resolution of 1920 x 1200, ...

Todd's List of 40 Predictions

Todd (Stuntdubl) has a great post today on his views for what will be hot in 2006 vs. 2005. I can certainly get behind most of his picks, although I'd love a definition for some of the more obscure ones like: algorithm variable hedge betting? web-copy language synonymy substitution? Algorithm variable...

Need for SEO Education

I'm finally back in Seattle after a very nice trip to Florida. On the plane, I was thinking more broadly about the SEO industry and how quickly demand is going to outstrip supply (note the high nu...

Passionate Users Blog

After being dissapointed in the past with where 9Rules was pointing me, I came across a truly worthwhile blog today - Creating Passionate Users...

Monday Morning SEO Quarterback

There's a lot in the SEO blogosphere worthy of reading today, and although I'm not usually one to post a roundup, it feels appropriate so, without further ado: Aaron's going crazy, posting like a madman this morning/afternoon on topics from political blog link-baiting to ...