By sorvoja on Nov 30, 2006 in Rants | 2 Comments
Jill Whalen just called me a quack. She has published a list called : “10 Signs That Your SEO Is a Quack”, and I am matching 3 of these signs. Great, I am a quack. If you have not done so already then you better read the whole thing over at her site before reading [...]
By sorvoja on Nov 29, 2006 in DMOZ | 0 Comments
Treat this as a rumour, but I have been told that all editors will be allowed to login to the dashboard over the weekend. AOL has allegedly implemented many improvements to the backend of the directory. On top of that the directory will run on new servers with a live back up system. It is [...]
By sorvoja on Nov 29, 2006 in Blogging and making money online | 5 Comments
I read more than 70 blogs, or atleast I try. These are blogs about web development, design, social media, SEO, marketing and a few personal blogs. Most are written in english, but a large minority is written in Norwegian or other scandinavian languages. They are all very good that’s why I read them. The blogs [...]
By sorvoja on Nov 29, 2006 in Rants | 0 Comments
I went to a party last Saturday, not a huge party just a friends birthday where we sat around drinking beer and talking. Then of some reason the word dropkick came into the conversation. What does drop kick really mean. Someone suggested looking it up using the computer that managed the music. Great! Would she [...]
By sorvoja on Nov 27, 2006 in Rants | 3 Comments
I am sick and tired of SEO’s that claim to be marketers.
A Internet marketer is trained in making assessments, research the market, identity development, building brand awareness and so on. It is not something you could learn in a week end, you need to spend at least five years getting a master degree in that [...]
By sorvoja on Nov 25, 2006 in Tips | 2 Comments
Somebody contacted me through my myspace profile and asked me why buying old web sites are better than starting out with a fresh site and domain. There are probably hundreds of reasons, however there are two SEO scenarios where the value is, at least for me obvious.
First we got the “sandbox”, the sandbox effect could [...]
By sorvoja on Nov 23, 2006 in DMOZ | 0 Comments
As of now all URL’s in the Open Directory Project redirects to a AOL subdomain. The directory is still there and this might just be temporarly, but still.
[tags]AOL, DMOZ[/tags]
By sorvoja on Nov 21, 2006 in Tips | 1 Comment
There are a lot of old web sites in the world, some of them are even on free hosting accounts that has been abandoned. It is possible to buy web sites that no longer have any value to the owners for almost pocket change. Let the average Joe choose between 100 US$ or keeping a [...]
By sorvoja on Nov 18, 2006 in DMOZ | 1 Comment
At this stage it it still just a rumor, but there are reasons to believe that DMOZ will suffer the same fate as Zeal. DMOZ has been dieing for a while, AOL knows it, and educated webmasters knows it. This has gone on for years.
However it is not possible to kill DMOZ right away, DMOZ [...]
By sorvoja on Nov 18, 2006 in Random crap | 0 Comments
Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn’t use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but rather has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips.
This is just so cool, some guy has actually gone to the trouble of building a computer from scratch! Not only that he also made his own CPU [...]