Comments on: View 400+ Respected SEM Blogs Slide Show

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:19:27 +0000

Nice idea Marty. Anything that helps keep one in touch with who is saying what and where with the added benefit of it being filtered by someone who knows what’s worth reading is always a good thing in my book.

Cheers

Rob

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:08:02 +0000

What a wonderful idea Scott.

By: Scott Clark

Scott Clark — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:00:33 +0000

Finally, a way to read blogs and still hold onto my coffee. Marty, let’s talk about creating a text to speech version of this so we get a SEO blog radio station.

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:56:55 +0000

I like it that way too Derek. I just sort of run it all day and stop to read posts as they appeal to me.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:25:07 +0000

Marty, I think this is a great resource to keep current on the top blogs in the industry. As you mentioned, using an RSS reader makes it very easy to miss the visual experience of a blog and I really do think there is a good deal of value to be found there.

I’ve been trying to use this crawl when I have a little bit of down time at work. It prevents my RSS reader from being swamped with feeds but still gives me a snapshot overview of what is taking place at a variety of blogs.

Thanks for sharing!

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:34:31 +0000

Adam, There are some great lists out there including the TopRank Big List, and AdAge Power 150.

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:40:01 +0000

Andy, Thanks as always for stopping by. You would have noticed it in previous weeks had we not blocked the referral at the browser level prior.

1 We checked every blog in the DB and removed any which have frame-buster code.

2 There’s nothing artificial of our use of this crawl. It only saves our typing in the URL or clicking on a bookmark facilitating dialog at the same time. It helps our team multi-task in the mornings. It’s an honest tool SO the ad servers will just have to figure it out.

We’re adding a link to request blog removal from the crawl, which we will happily honor for any blogs who don’t like it. There’s no need for anyone to block the site. We just won’t look your blogs in our morning meeting.

…and yes it is an autosurf script…and it’s not private

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:03:25 +0000

I have actually noticed this in my stats over the last couple of days.

A couple of things to be careful of

1. Some blogs run code to break out of frames
2. It is a little naughty on the ad servers, because they would look on these as artificial page views.

It is effectively the same as a private autosurf script

These things don’t affect me, but then I don’t run Adsense

By: Adam Taylor

Adam Taylor — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:58:41 +0000

Well that was quite overwhelming.. Is it possible to provide a list of the blogs in the slide show? There were quite a few I’ve not seen before I’d like to check out properly.