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SERPs You Can't Understand
With this latest update from Google, we've been noticing some very odd things in the SERPs. Despite our best instincts and measurements of link quality, quantity and optimization, sites seem to be ranking in very strange orders. In the hopes of making greater sense of things, we wondered if you'd like to list your top search results that make no sense. No need to point out your site or those of...
The Long Tail of Lego & How their Site Gets it Right
I noticed this well thought-out post today from Chris Anderson at the Long Tail (which is a blog I've been mean...
SEO map
A recent thread in SEOChat brought up this extremely cool and fun tool - SEO Map. This is one wicked and excellent idea to utilize Google services to connect business and professionals to each other. If you are not listed, ...
Why MSN fails to conquer the world!
One of my biggest rants with MSN Search has been their weighting for physical location of webserver. It is totally incredible and beyond any reasonable measures. Before you read any further, it is important you know some background information. My company, ...
Bad Information from SEO-News
Following Nick's lovely recommendations for community building, I'll be doing a bit of link baiting in this thread. Actually, that's a lie; I'm just ticked off about this article from SEO News' Rob Sullivan about a conference call he had with some Google employees. I'll just refute...
Etsy - It's Froogle, but 10x Better
Shopping on the web has never been cooler. This site - Etsy - is appealing in a way that I haven't seen in a long time. They've combined many of the latest "Web 2.0" trends into the store and amalgamated thousands of sellers into an online...
Bug Me Not
BugMeNot is a nifty tool that acts either as a one-time viewer for content sites or a plug-in that lets you surf through without entering a username or password. It reminds me most of the grocery store checkers who simply swipe the store copy of the "...
Dilbert on User Interface Design
Scottie Claiborne, who co-authors the hilarious ISOS blog and who bought me lunch on her last trip into Seattle, delivers this stellar ...
Seattle's Wong Doody needs Web Site Help
I just joined the Ad Club of Seattle in the hopes of meeting some good people I can recruit away from the tradtional ad business into our nefarious circle (insert devious grin icon). As I was checking out u...
Admitting I was Wrong
It's never easy to admit to being dead wrong, but in this instance, it would be doing the SEO community a great disservice not to make my mistakes public. In a thread at SEOChat - More on Term Weight..., I abuse members of the notion that keyword density can be used to calculate the importance of a term or phrase in a given document....