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WebmasterWorld’s Brett Tabke Speaks On Rogue Spidering Woes, Plus The Need For Expanded Feeds
Brett Tabke from WebmasterWorld dropped me a note about a new thread where he’s answering many questions about WebmasterWorld banning all spiders, while Barry over at Search Engine…
WebmasterWorld Out Of Google & MSN
Well, that didn’t take long. I wrote on Monday about how WebmasterWorld head Brett Tabke decided to ban all search spiders including…
Boser On Reciprocal Links & Whether Inbound Links Can Harm
Greg Boser in The Truth About Reciprocal Link Networks on his new blog looks at how a former client built up 7,000…
WebmasterWorld Bans Spiders From Crawling
Wow. Brett Tabke drops the nuclear bomb of banning all spiders from WebmasterWorld. He explains here that heavy rogue spidering is the…
Major Security Flaw With Google Sitemaps Stats
David Naylor points out, as does this WebmasterWorld thread spotted via Threadwatch, a pretty surprising security oversight with Google’s new Sitemaps stats…
More Bloggers Switch
Apple’s market share has risen a percentage point this year, from 3.3 to 4.3 percent of the PC market share. The rise…
A Painful New Ad Unit
AdBrite is offering a page takeover unit called “Intermission” that it hopes “makes more money for publishers, and gives more exposure to…
Midweek Blog Potables
Audience fragmentation is a myth. Vin Crosbie tears it up. “Write your name in all your clothes.” Everything Organic needs to know…
Andrew Sullivan Goes to Time.com
Another mainstream moment for blogs. Center-left political blogger Andrew Sullivan moves over to Time.com. They’ll be selling his ads and handling all…
HotNacho On The WordPress Spam Saga
WordPress Spam Scam Explained is an undated article giving the Hot Nacho side of the Wordpress spam saga from owner Chad Jones.…
eBay Unveils Service With New and Historical Info About Popular Search Terms
Search engine marketers might be interested to learn about a new service from eBay that launched yesterday. It allows subscribers (three different…
Viral on TV
Viral video is rampant on the Web, but do the short clips make good TV? This Thursday Bravo will air “Outrageous and…
Moving To Trusted Links & Change The Link Election Model
Thank you, Aaron. That’s for taking the research paper (PDF file) about detecting link spam that Gary wrote about earlier and breaking…
Black Hats Going White?
A reporter asked me recently if the black hat and white hat branches of SEO are getting further apart these days. I…
Amazon Touts Offline Local Films
Just got an e-mail from Amazon.com promoting the feature film “Bee Season’s” opening tomorrow. It’s also promoting a new opt-in service: local…
A Bad Reciprocal Link — And Reciprocal Link Request
We’ve been having quite a discussion about reciprocal links over at the Search Engine Watch Forums in our Reciprocal Linking Dead…
Answers.com Adds New Content to Database
Word from Answers.com that they’ve added several new reference selections to their already impressive collectin of free tools. New this month: +…
Denton’s cynicism
Like his bloggers, Nick Denton is popular for his cynicism. Before his ad:tech panel yesterday, he told me there’s nothing he’s very…
Tapping Google’s Patent To Push Domain Registrations
GoDaddy References Google’s Patent is a nice one from Aaron at SEO Book looking at how one domain registrar is making use…
A New Report on Estimating Link Spam
Here’s a new 21 page (pdf) technical research paper from the Stanford InfoLab that takes a look at link spam. It might…
Search Engines and Reputation Management
Many companies cry foul when competitors or activists manage to get top search rankings with negative or false information about the company.…
Back to Basics
Everybody knows what they need to do in order to fix their Web site, they just don’t do it, according to Jim…
ad:tech Kicks Off
It’s open and it’s crowded. With 8,300 registered attendees, 60 sessions and 230 speakers, Conference Chair Sue Bratton has called ad:tech New…
How About We Meet After ad:tech?
We’re booked. Wall-to-wall, end-to-end. Yet invitations for events, parties, briefings, meetings, announcements and panels keep pouring in. Publicists who have clients who…
Breakfast Conflict
There’s plenty of invites from “off-the-show-floor” events coming in from various companies wanting to make more of an impression than a booth…
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