1. Banned on Google

    3 weeks, 4 days ago

    We are getting this message more and more these days due to more staff on one IP address searching Google I guess, at least I have a reason to stop seeing if my adwords are running at the moment .. dunno if it’s a Plugin or not, but it looks like it’s another Microsoft Live […]

    Dave Naylor

  2. Online Bingo ad’s on TV - Jackpotcity Bingo this time

    3 weeks, 4 days ago

    Has an SEO I have seen lots of different things but the thing i love most is TV !! , honestly it’s better than been #1 on Google for Viagra, the traffic spike are big and are always branded, in the UK you get more traffic for Foxy Bingo or Gala Bingo when they are […]

    Dave Naylor

  3. Dupe Content Google Thinks They Have It Licked

    3 weeks, 4 days ago

    So according to the google blog they think they have the duplicate content problem under control, I remain less than convinced. Here’s my original post, but as of right now google is giving everyone but me credit (screen shot below) lets see what happens:

    Sponsor:: Interested in seeing your message here, contact me to find out […]

    Michael Gray

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  5. SEO Servers Grunt

    3 weeks, 5 days ago

    Many hosts offer supposedly “advanced techniques” for interaction with the search engines. But what real benefit do these add-on packages and features really have ?  Whilst I accept unreliable connectivity and lack of basic hosting capability can have massive impact on website success, I would still be dubious about hosts that offer “instant ranking success […]

    Dave Naylor

  6. Presumed Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    3 weeks, 5 days ago

    A few years back when I came up with the idea of ReviewMe (prior to Pay Per Post launching, but we were slow to market) I felt there was a need for bloggers and advertisers to be able to interact. Largely because I was getting more email than I could handle, and largely because I kept seeing blogs gain momentum in the marketplace.

    Recently Patrick Altoft from Blogstorm announced an email group for buying blog placements, and a service which allows you to buy Blogroll links named Blogrolled quietly launched.

    But the paying for reviews idea has been a harder sell than I appreciated. Even social scientists 10 times smarter than I am have struggled with making ads go viral. When you directly pay for exposure it is seen as inauthentic. Take the same concepts and run them through a public relations campaign and you are a genius.

    The downside of paying for direct exposure & editorial got a bit more exposure this week. A lead generation company named EPerks bought a review on Vlad Zablotskyy’s blog through Sponsored Reviews, and generally got a good review. But then people commented on that review, which lead to a follow up post called ePerks - a scam or a gem?. That post got 163 comments, ranks #2 in Google for eperks, and lead to a lawsuit.

    Mob mentality is never nice, but when you sue people (especially bloggers) it is easy to create more than enough collateral damage to offset any potential gains. The message being spread (complete with logo, donation buttons, and viral components) is defend free speech online. That is a hard meme to stop.

    Lots of links will flow, but unfortunately their brand is destroyed. Perhaps they can later 301 redirect their site, but the PageRank is probably going to be worth less than the negative karma associated with the conflict.

    Compare the above scenario with having a blog in the marketplace and building fans one at a time. Sure connecting with people one at a time is slower, but it is much less risky too.

    Aaron Wall

  7. Joost is Dead

    3 weeks, 5 days ago

    Panic not, our favourite Dutch Wordpress geek is very much still alive and active in the SEO community. So much so in-fact he has made great headway with an all new blog experience. A re-design, a .com move, name change and entire re-direct. Meet Yoast.com.
    DaveN first introduced me to Joost de Valk some time […]

    Dave Naylor

  8. Yahoo! Content Ads Exceptionally Irrelevant

    3 weeks, 5 days ago

    After hearing a few people mention the NBA finals I went over to Yahoo! Sports to check it out. The Celtics are ahead of the Lakers 1 game to 0. Given the history of that rivalry it is no surprise that decent NBA Finals Tickets are selling for over $1,000 and courtside tickets fetch $20,000 or more. Yahoo! paid the editorial costs to create great content relevant for this high profit margin niche, and what do they do with it? They waste it.

    How are these ads relevant to an article about the NBA finals? Mind you this is Yahoo!’s own editoral content located on sports.yahoo.com, so it can’t be hard to make an algorithm a bit more relevant than that.

    Given Yahoo!’s irrelevancy it is no wonder that they are heavily reliant on arbitrage and syndication - they need those players to add relevancy to their broken ad platform. At least the people who are paying for the clicks care about a relevant experience, though one would imagine Yahoo! could earn more with an honest attempt at relevancy.

    Aaron Wall

  9. SMX Advanced 2008 Recap

    3 weeks, 5 days ago

    Now that I’m back from SMX advanced and have had a few days to catch up I’ll share my thoughts.
    I had some client meeting to take care of, and some interviews and videos to shoot, so I didn’t get to as many sessions as I’d like to but I’ll talk about what I did see.
    Microsoft […]

    Michael Gray

  10. Really Facebook You Still Don’t Get it Do You

    3 weeks, 5 days ago

    C’mon Facebook I really thought we had moved past this

    It’s not that I care that you are telling everyone I bought tickets to Kung Fu Panda, it’s that you assume that I want you to by default. These programs should be opt in not opt out out. Yes I know almost nobody would do that […]

    Michael Gray

  11. Gmail and LinkedIn Can’t We All Just Get Along

    3 weeks, 5 days ago

    You know it would really be nifty if Google, Gmail, Google Apps, and Gmail for domains were able to merge/sync contact data with LinkedIn really easily. It would be super nifty if there was a nice automagic script that did the hard stuff for you (you know the way computers are supposed to). It would […]

    Michael Gray

  12. Google Reader Dupes & Dungeons & Dragons

    3 weeks, 5 days ago

    Hey Mihai Parparita Google reader has really gotten better at the dupes thing but today … wow this one just went crazy. I’m sure it’s something Wired is doing wrong, but I’m hoping you can be smarter than them and fix it, cause as interesting as it is to know D&D has updated and it’s […]

    Michael Gray

  13. What Are Your Favorite Foreign SEO Information Sources

    4 weeks ago

    I have worked with some large multi-national brands who had multi-lingual sites, but they typically hired us for English optimization, and never really asked for much more than general advice and strategies (internal link flow, subdomains vs unique domains, etc.) when it came to other languages and cultures. I noticed a few differences between Google.com & International Google results while traveling, but I still only analyzed stuff that was published in English.

    What are the best informational sources for SEO in Japanese? SEO in Chinese? SEO in Spanish? SEO in your language or region? How do you feel SEO in your area differs from the SEO advice you read from those of us who operate in the English US marketplace? I also would love to publish a guest article for each language.

    Aaron Wall

  14. Why Does Gmail User Agent Cloaking

    4 weeks, 1 day ago

    Have a Gmail account? Log in unless you’ve set your preference otherwise you’ll get the AJAX UI. Now change your user agent to Googlebot, and refresh your page, it automatically loads the HTML version instead of asking you if you want the HTML. What’s up with that? Why would GMail need a UA detection branch […]

    Michael Gray

  15. Free Voucher Codes, Discount Codes & Promotional Codes

    4 weeks, 1 day ago

    Seeming I’m pretty much out of the Affiliate Marketing game, I think I will share some thoughts, has the title of this post says those are my 3 keywords I would be pushing hard on at the moment :
    1 - Free Voucher Codes
    2 - Discount Codes
    3 - Promotional Codes
    when we are in […]

    Dave Naylor

  16. SMX Advanced Interview

    4 weeks, 1 day ago

    So while I was at SMX Advanced I did an interview with Virginia Nussey of Bruce Clay for webmaster radio you can listen to it in the SEM Synergy Archives. It’s short only about 8 minutes, or so the second half of the show has Derrick Wheeler of Microsoft talking about how he helps SEO’s.
    Hope […]

    Michael Gray

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  18. Will Wikia Search Turn Into Spam?

    1 month ago

    Wikia recently announced that their search service was finally almost worth using. It is easy to rate and vote sites up to the top of the search results. When they have limited marketshare they will not get much spam. As they start building marketshare will they be able to get enough people engaged in the project to fight off spam? And who defines what is spam anyhow?

    You can comment about the results, rate a result, spotlight it, and add images to it. With over 100 edits so far today, SEO has to be one of the most frequently edited pages. I am not sure if voting is cumulative, but please vote for SEOBook just in case. :)

    Here is an image of a couple results for SEO. Notice how I put my logo in the SERPs

    If this project gains any momentum and they provide a list of most frequently edited search results you can expect that to be a nice list of commercial keywords, much like Mahalo!

    Wikia Search also offers a nice keyword suggestion tool in their Bloom tool, which shows related search queries based on an input query.

    Aaron Wall

  19. Maile Ohye I hate to Disagree

    1 month ago

    so that i’m not taking this out of context full article here : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-google-defines-ip-delivery.html
    Sunday, June 01, 2008 at 11:06 PM
    Written by Maile Ohye
    The key is to treat Googlebot as you would a typical user from a similar location, IP range, etc. (i.e. don’t treat Googlebot as if it came from its own separate country—that’s cloaking).
    That’s […]

    Dave Naylor

  20. HP Live Microsoft Search

    1 month ago

    Reference- Microsoft live default search engine deal with HP
    Is setting up a default search engine on new PCs the best way to attract more people to it? Perhaps there maybe the thoughts if its rammed down your throat you are more likely to be defiant and use an alternative. Would it be better to have […]

    Dave Naylor


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