Archive for January, 2007

Shoemoney manipulates vote! »

Jeremy Schoemaker asked his followers to vote for Jennifer Slegg in the “Queen of Search” vote over at marketingpilgrim, and surprise, surprise she suddenly got 53% of the votes. My guess is that most voted for her just because Jeremy told them:
WTF my friend Jen from jensense.com only has 2% of the vote on […]

Keyword Frequency in the “The State of the Union” speeches »

New York times has published a tool where you can dig into the frequency of a word compared to other words in President Bush’s State of the Union speeches from 2001 to 2007.
It is funny that he has never used the words “Internet”, “Canada”, “Mexico”, “France”, “web”. And that he has only mentioned the great […]

Get the next issue of Search Marketing Standard »

One of the most powerful women in search Donna Fontenot has written an article called From SEO to MAD SEO, which will appear in the Spring issue of Search Marketing Standard. A subscription for the next four issues are only $15 in the US and $20 for the rest of the World, but if you […]

Wordpress 2.1 is released »

The stable Wordpress 2.1 is now available for download. This is a release I have been looking forward to for a while now, but since it is past midnight and I need to get up in six hours, it would have to wait.

The SEO Book on Pirate Bay + random rant »

Aaron Wall is selling his SEO Book for $79 per copy, but the Pirate Bay is giving it away for free and so far it has been downloaded 961 times, it adds up to $75.919. Ouch! Then again so is the fate of so many others publishers.
How is it possible to protect copyrighted materials, the […]

Marketers Should NOT run Restaurants. »

I have always thought that chefs are best suited to run restaurants. A chef is a culinary expert and have the skills and training needed to manage a restaurant. However in my favorite forum, there is a respected member that are of the opinion that chefs should not run restaurants, a chef is according to […]

Wikipedia has added “nofollow” on external links. »

The Wikipedia is now offically unable to deal with the huge amount of spammers that target their articles, they have decided to add the rel=”nofollow” attribute to all external links! This is not a unexpected move, I had expected that Wikipedia would decleare defeat this soon. I sort of expected that the huge community of […]

It is time to bribe a DMOZ editor »

This is getting old, but I guess it is still worth mentioning. It is time to resubmit to DMOZ. Due to the massive server failure og last year, all unreviewed sites got deleted from the editing queue. As a concequence there are a lot of editors just sitting and waiting for new site suggestions. Before […]

SEO and Webmaster Podcasts »

I really have not had time to keep up with the SEO blogs and forums the past week or so, but I have found a for me new way of keeping updated on the main news: podcasts.
I have been downloading and listning to podcasts from webmasterradio.fm and emarketingtalkshow.com, and it is a great. I really […]

Money for Nothing and Squid for Free »

Not long ago I signed up with squidoo and created a lens. I never expected to make any money from it, but to my surprise I noticed that they had sent me a little more than 125$ via Pay Pal. Acording to the stats I created the lens November 14th, and last edited it December […]