Yea, perhaps I’ll drag myself into the city in time to see the 9AM keynote by Malcolm Gladwell. I’m not sure exactly what he has to add to the whole thing. I did read his book, The Tipping Point, a …
Pubcon Boston in the AM
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//Pubcon Boston Link Building Clinic
//I attended the Link Building Clinic session at Pubcon Boston 2006, Tuesday morning. The format is that members of the audience volunteer up their websites, and the panel members (Rae Hoffman, Eric Ward, and a couple others I seem to …
Maine finds PPC
//This is an interesting blog post about the Maine Office of Tourism and their bull in a china shop like blundering into the world of Search Engine Marketing. To be fair, I think at least half of the blame goes …
Class Action on Google to Cease Anti-Competitive Behavior
//I just saw this posted. Seems a company called KinderStart thinks that Google has banned it. The company is suing for damages, of course, but also seeks to get class action status on behalf of all websites that have been …
Squidoo
//For an interesting experiment, I’ve started up a collection of Squidoo “Lenses” on a bunch of topics. I randomly chose a bunch of topics at Squidoo, for the sake of experimentation, but tried to keep them at least loosly related …
Wikipedia and Link Spammers – A “How-to” Guide
//I recently witnessed someone at Wikipedia.org placing dozens of links to his own website. It’s not all that unusual for someone to place a link to their own website on the Wikipedia site, but generally the links get removed. The …
Yahoo! Slurp – Please do what Google is doing
//Matt Cutts posted this on his blog, which is pretty much exactly what I remember him explaining in a session at Pubcon. It does explain why I’m seeing less of the Googlebot at my sites recently, and I’m very happy …
Google Bowling
//It had to happen, someone come out with a good article about it. Google Bowling is NOT a topic that’s going to make Internet Marketing a more pleasant topic. It’s one of those times when I think that this guy …
How to Sabotage the Competition in Wikipedia
//Wikipedia editors need to be aware of some of these insidious schemes that the less ethical search engine marketers are doing. After my last post about Wikipedia, I hope there are some editors keeping an eye on what I’m …
Thanks Jim Boykin
//I attended Webmasterworld’s Pubcon conference Tuesday and Wednesday. I attended as many of the sessions as I could, including all the ones on link building. The presentation by Jim Boykin was head and shoulders above the rest. Jim specifically asked …