AIMCLEAR‘s 2009 Daily Training Link Library

Search moves at the speed of light, so staying current is crucial.  This list of over 1,500 search industry articles, ideas, tweets, tool reviews, notes, snippets and snark is our 2009 internal agency-training library of  content. The AIMCLEAR team has embraced systemic review of this “Daily Training List” and it’s a cool part of the routine.

This mutual commitment to reading helps our shop keep a fresh awareness of current developments and is an important component of our training. We often discuss these posts as a group informally, and refer back to them as resources. I personally revisit the archive, send links to clients,  tweet, etc… It takes hours every day to read this much and we’ve found a lot of value in keeping discoveries in the link roundup format. Try searching this page for anything that happened in search last year and chances are you’ll find a useful resource.

We’ve decided to publish last year’s daily training notes for two reasons: First we want to gratefully acknowledge the bloggers and publications we depend on each day.  I’d like send special thanks to Barry Schwartz, the DailySearchCap,  SEOmoz, SearchEngineWatch & AllTop. Second, skimming the list of over 1,500 bulleted entries provides a sweet overview of our industry’s evolution in 2009.

2009 was an awesome year for our industry. Expansion, complexity, specialization and raw intensity increased exponentially, ratcheting up over the course of the year. Whew! Reciprocally a tremendous amount of content was produced by an ever increasing community of bloggers. Thank you! We’ll start with content from New Year’s Eve and work our way back to the beginning of 2009.

12/31

• Hitwise: Facebook More Visited Than Google on Christmas
• Facebook Upgrades Notes Application To Post Feed Images, All Facebook
• Not the least bit surprised that Digg Takes a Dip In Traffic, Half The Size Of Twitter, TechCrunch http://bit.ly/8mFYua
• Best of Search Conferences 2009: The Agenda, BruceClay.com
• 4 Comparison Search Tools You May Not Know About … But Should
• Collecta Launches Dedicated Real-Time MySpace Search
• LOVE this #PPC Philosophy: Look at conversions per impression instead of click-through or conversion rate http://bit.ly/7gm1LL
• Hitwise: Facebook More Visited Than Google on Christmas12/8
• The SEO guide to Google personalized search, huomah.com
• SEOs Freak Out: Google To Personalize All Search Results, Search Engine Roundtable
• Fascinating: Google Patent Granted on Duplicate Content Detection in a Web Crawler System, SEO By The Sea http://bit.ly/4B7yge
• Aaron Wall being Aaron Wall: “I Stopped Caring About Links (Well, Almost)” SEOBOOK http://bit.ly/5pcdeD 12/7
• The Anti-Social-Network Social Network, New York Times
• IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 hits the streets! (SEM 101), Bing Webmaster Center Blog
• Conversion Optimizer: The next generation (already here) of #PPC AdWords bidding, YouTube http://bit.ly/7YYtIS
• Looking Back at Linkscape’s Trillion URLs (and Announcing our Latest Index Update), SEOmoz
• Local search rankingfactors Outstanding resource aggregation and value-ad from Tom Critchlow http://bit.ly/53X17Y
• RT @mattcutts: I made a http://bit.ly/rtimesearch shortcut for when you want to do a real-time search on Google. #ses12/2
• Spotlight on new Google Analytics features: Analytics Intelligence and Custom Alerts, Conversion Room
• Google Ranking Load Time in 2010 + Last Gen’ GA JS Tags = NEW asynchronous tracker to reduce webpage load time 🙂 http://bit.ly/7e1spp
• Hulu Becomes One Powerful Search Tool with Additions of Advanced Search Options, ResourceShelf
• Killer Ass Hulu Advanced Search http://bit.ly/60Sn74
• Really Great Writing From @lisabarone Protecting Your Brand From Online Attacks,
• http://bit.ly/7zBX3f
• How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page, Techipedia
• Diagrams for Solving Crawl Priority & Indexation Issues, SEOmoz11/30
• Trim your Blog’s RPC ping list – http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/blogging-web-20/trim-your-ping-list-gain-performance – Very good article
• Caffeine is live for 50% of users at one Goog data center http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021246.html
• The Data center – http://209.85.225.103/
• Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress’ Picks Up, TechCrunch http://bit.ly/7fJ0Jk
• via @andybeal Two Simple Tactics to Improve Your Online Reviews
• Beware: Google AdWords Phishing Scam, AdWords Help Experts, Nasty Identity Thief Jerks Alert! http://bit.ly/8zV4Ly 11/25
• #PPC Landing Pages: Roles vs. Personas vs. Cognitive Styles http://bit.ly/8NEfrc
• The #AdWords Slap: Does Google Hate Your Business Model? http://bit.ly/5vxhtS
• Is Google is no longer pretending to be neutral as claimed? There is compelling anecdotal evidence. http://tinyurl.com/yhxbpcq11/24
• I Follow You + You Auto-Tweet Generic Spam Marketing Message 2 Me = I unfollow You IMMEDIATELY. Make it a PERSONAL Message dudes.
• Google’s ‘New’ Search Ad Formats
• Busted: Three Boneheaded Paid Search Myths
• Certainly Must-Read For SEOs via @dannysullivan “Under The Hood: Google News & Ranking Stories” http://tinyurl.com/ybgcfne
• Fascinating Data: Hitwise Upstream C licks Prior to Landing on NewsPaper Sites. Would
• Blocking Google Work? http://tinyurl.com/yhempev=
• Testing Google Versus Standalone Navigation Systems, NPR
• Stock in Garmin down 16 % since Google announced navigation app is free on Verizon Droid phone http://tinyurl.com/yd32ycs 11/23 Part 2
• Great post from Patrick Altoft: SEO Analytics Tools – 5 SEO Focussed Web Analytics Tools, BlogStorm http://tinyurl.com/yhepl4q
• LinkedIn Platform: Open for Business, The LinkedIn Blog http://tinyurl.com/ylo25v8
• Facebook Fan Pages Now Allow Location and Language Targeting, NowSourcing.Com
• Today’s Content was a DRUM  Beat 🙂 Tools to Speed Up Your Site – Ready for 2010, seogadget.co.uk http://tinyurl.com/ybwtr3l
• FLAWED! Google Admits AdWords Keyword Tool Presents Quirky Bad Data in Some Cases http://tinyurl.com/y96kfoy
• YouTube Visibility! Tips & Tricks to Be THE Video Elephant in the Room 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/yggcaw5
• YouTube Automated Captioning Changes Game For SEO, MediaPost
• Is it TRUE Lyris is killing ClickTracks JDC Agency Server Deals Without Bothering to Contact Agency “Partners” to Tell Them?
• Read & Weep Naysayers! @SEOmoz & @randfish mozRank/Trust Correlation Data To Rock Your FACE http://tinyurl.com/yldblvq
• Google Link: Command – The Meta Keywords-Style Dinosaur of “Advanced Operators.” http://tinyurl.com/ydmto7s
• Google Calendar Starts Testing “Sneak Preview”, TechCrunch
• Outstanding Post from Greg Sterling,: Reflections On Chrome OS From A Consumer Perspective http://tinyurl.com/ya4xtjd11/23
  SEMPO Releases Second Annual In-House Salary Survey Results http://tinyurl.com/yafr6c5
• Tutorial in setting up alerts: Playing with Google Analytics Intelligence, BlogStorm http://tinyurl.com/yapcwcg
• Carnivorous Bastards: YouTube Will Soon Block Access From Set-Top Devices, lifehacker.com http://tinyurl.com/yhnuug7
• Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: SuperTweet), scobleizer.com http://tinyurl.com/ycwg8u9
• To be Responsible, Read Refreshed Privacy Policy, Twitter Blog http://tinyurl.com/54s589
• It’s a Strange STRANGE World, New York Times Opinion “Boycott Microsoft Bing” http://tinyurl.com/y9vjsvl 11/20
  SWEET! RT @GrowMap: Copy Plain Text 0.3.3:: Add-ons for Firefox http://tinyurl.com/yj2sg6411/19
• How to Identify Indented Listings Opportunities, Search Engine Journal http://tinyurl.com/y96fd5r
• Awesome #PPC Tip: alternative to running search query report to see KW Clicks: http://tinyurl.com/y8nu9s9
• Take advantage of advanced reports, Inside AdWords
• EVIL! Tamper Data Firefox Plug: View & Fake HTTP/HTTPS headers & post parameters http://tinyurl.com/ynpnm8
• Google Disabling AdSense Accounts For Using Tamper Data Firefox Plugin, Search Engine
• Roundtable http://tinyurl.com/yb4qgrn
  What Are You TALKING About?
• RT @scottpolk: RT @brianchappell Are links are doing anything for new domain? Monitor crawl rates w/ WP plug http://bit.ly/2n5CyR11/18
  Use Google Speed Tool to Speed Up Site, RustyBrick
• You’re OUTTA THERE! Starting tonight, Google will begin permanently banning advertisers at an increased rate. http://tinyurl.com/yb5a42b
• 5 Simple Tips for Better SEO Value from Your Feeds, SEOmoz Outstanding Practical Info’ from @randfish
• Behavioral Targeting: Creating A Unique Experience For Each Visitor
• You Have to Read This: 10 Years Ago: The First Search Marketing Conference, A Retrospective http://tinyurl.com/y8g48ta 11/17
• Huomah / TheGypsy’s “weekly search cap” is awesome – http://www.searchenginejournal.com/a-week-worth-of-treats-for-seo-geeks/14761/11/16
• Welcome to YouTube, Univision!, YouTube Biz Blog
• YouTube Gem-Hidden Gems of Googlenew.mov, YouTube
• Search Taxonomies and Search Engines: Answering Questions vs. Indexing Webpages,
• SEO By The Sea Inevitable 🙂
• The Very First 3rd-Party Facebook API Ad Manager Launches http://tinyurl.com/ya4clq2
• Google’s FeedBurner Tagging URLs : Duplicate Content Issue, Search Engine Roundtable
• WOW, Some REALLY Advanced  Link Analysis Charts, SEOmoz http://tinyurl.com/yjl5cvj
• Help Google index your mobile site, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
• Analyzing the Relationship between Organic and Sponsored Search Advertising: Positive,
• Negative or Zero Interdependence?, SSRN
• How To Create Brand Awareness On Facebook
• Supporting A Global Brand Campaign With SEM, Part 211/15
• 1080p HD Is Coming to YouTube, YouTube Blog
• We Have No Index, No Follow, Canonical Tags: How About Specific Keyword Blocking, Search Engine Watch Blog http://tinyurl.com/ylxd8kd
• Retail SEO for E-Commerce And Consumer Products: 5 Tips, Online Marketing Blog
• Upgrade to AdWords Editor 7.6.1, Inside AdWords 11/13
• #GoogleAnalytics Very Useful New Feature Spotlight: Advanced Filters, now that @Lyris is killing ClickTracks
• Twitter Data Dump: InfoChimps Puts 1B Connections Up For Sale, Read/Write Web
• TechCrunch, Reddit Whores Out the Wisdom of the Mob http://tinyurl.com/yl8ekkx
• RT @leeodden: Add your Twitter lists to http://listorious.com/ and get some interesting stats & exposure
• FDA Grapples With Regulating Social Media Ads, Wall Street Journal11/12
• “For Google to apply their own 301s, hidden be that, is extremely dangerous for both Google and the webmaster.” http://tinyurl.com/yg4rpbw
• Study reveals issues with search ads — trust and usefulness, Chiefmartec.com http://tinyurl.com/y9ds7ce
• Real-Time Search Makes Move Into Mobile, MediaPost
• Local -Search-Geeks-Must_Read: # Google Maps Local Listing Ads: Details & Interface Review, Mike Blumenthal http://tinyurl.com/y9govr8
• New handbook for Google, Droid users, Seattle Times Newspaper
• Merry Predatory ChristmakahKwanz! Google’s gift: Free wireless Internet in 47 airports, CNN
• Money http://tinyurl.com/yb4gfod
• Good for Clients, From @gregfinn, SEL Post,  How To Quickly Customize Your Facebook Page
• To Attract More Fans http://tinyurl.com/ybjtlw3
• Google AdWords Adds New Alerts & Place Pages Performance Reports
• 11 Effective, Efficient Ways To Use Limited Time To Build Links
• blastam: Search operators for competitive research http://bit.ly/d41NB
• @Matt_Siltala #pubcon Google  FireFox Wasp toolSpeed Tests
  http://code.google.com/speed/
  http://www.webpagetest.org/
  http://code.google.com/closure/
• http://outspokenmedia.com/internet-marketing-conferences/competitive-intelligence-know-thy-competitor-well/
• PubCon 2009 Vegas Coverage Recap
• PubCon Live: Social Media Measurement and Signals
• RT @the_gman How to Create a Useful Twitter Retweet Bot http://bit.ly/3gAL29 #yahoo #pipes (via @seosmarty)11/10
• It’s about TIME 🙂 # Facebook To Increase Enforcement Of Anti-Scam Rules, TechCrunch http://tinyurl.com/yj8j9xs
• That’s Why We Get So Much #PPC Work:  Excuse Me, But Where Did Google’s Organic Search Results Go?, SEO Book  http://tinyurl.com/y85a4ynTesting Tools
• www.usertesting.com
• www.crossbrowsertesting.com
• http://rubiconproject.com/
• www.widgetbox.com
• Marketing Sherpa Landing Page Study11/9
• Disturbing: #PPC affecting organic results FINALLY documented  http://tinyurl.com/yhvoe6n
• Nasty Gmail Bug Erroneously Marks Unread E-mails As Read, TechCrunch http://tinyurl.com/yzbeega
• Can I use “nofollow” in JavaScript?, YouTube=
• 5 Useful Yahoo! Pipes to Monitor Your Brand, Search Engine Journal
• Hacked Website Spam Running Rampant in Google Search Results, Streamline Metrics http://tinyurl.com/ygeu6hw 11/4
• How to Fine Tune Your International Campaigns in AdWords, PPC
• Google Dashboard: Now You Know What Google Knows About You 11/3
• Introducing Google Analytics for Mobile Apps, Official Google Mobile Blog
• http://www.adamsherk.com/social-media/news-site-twitter-lists/11/2
• Facebook #PPC growing up, trying to make  Platform  stable & predictable  environment as
• possible for developers. http://tinyurl.com/yhp4wmv
• How Google Voice Is Growing, BusinessWeek
• RT @bgtheory: Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model http://bit.ly/2RDp3J
• Y’all knew it was coming… SearchEngineLand Google’s Additional Discovery Method: RSS and Atom Feeds http://tinyurl.com/yj3u7dr
• Yeah right whatever: Last #Google Toolbar PageRank Update FOREVER? http://tinyurl.com/y9eb3wu
• RT @jillwhalen: great by @audette smaller SEO agencies? perhaps better for you than larger: http://sphinn.com/story/132522 (via sphinn)
• RT @TomTsinas 76% of #small-business owners have not found #social networking sites generate business leads – http://bit.ly/EHMms
• 125.5 Million Americans Watched 10.3 Billion YouTube Videos in September by Greg Jarboe http://tinyurl.com/yaparah
• Are we GLAD About this??? How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession, TechCrunch http://tinyurl.com/yg52kyn 10/29
• Facebook Platform: A Roadmap for the Future, Facebook Developers
• http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=326
• Video SEO Tips – Getting Started, Online Marketing Blog
• 5 Tips To Save Money & Generate Additional Revenue with Ad Scheduling, #PPC Hero http://tinyurl.com/yj675bj
• Classic @stephanspencer in SEL, “The Science Of Scoring Your SEO” http://tinyurl.com/yfrjurd10/28
• Reading Debra Mastaler, SEL, DMOZ: A Solid Directory Or The Great Pumpkin Of Search? http://tinyurl.com/yz6aag7
• #Google Analytics, Google offers AWESOME free training and certification http://tinyurl.com/66kmdl
• Fall In Line: Understanding SEO’s Place In Company Ecosystem
• Big Brother apps’ peer Into Your iPhone For Scary Level Of Location-Based Creepiness, TechCrunch http://tinyurl.com/ygpmnsh
• iWeavr: Look for Related Pages and Backlinks, Search Engine Journal
• Where to get links? Naylor breathes SANITY into this persistent (& critical) SEO conversation http://tinyurl.com/yjcgrg9
• Yahoo To Launch Real Time Search, Too, TechCrunch
  “Crutches for lazy & incompetent  developers, & should be avoided like the plague!”
• http://tinyurl.com/yhc7rlf
• Preview the look of mobile pages with Google’s enhanced “Mobileizer” tool
• http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021026.html
• The ‘Vince’ update unravelled: does Google recognise brand equity? (pt 1), econsultancy.com10/26
• The Super Simple Guide to Setting Up Your First Company Facebook Page Without Blowing a Gasket – Part 2, Search Engine Guide
• Rest in Peace….Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/yj8ctzd
• About Freakin’ Time: Twitter Finally Removing Deleted Tweets From Search Results, TechCrunch http://tinyurl.com/yj8jfpy
• ORDER! ORDER! Tweets from the jury box: jurors using Twitter jeopardize trials, csmonitor.com http://tinyurl.com/yjyxsu9
• Sorry Virginia: Hiding an email address with Javascript just doesn’t totally work (from @mattcutts http://tinyurl.com/yzfkgp5
• Do or Do Not Hire SEOs Who Cold Call You? http://tinyurl.com/yfomm9r
• Extremely Useful SEOmoz How-To: Getting the Best From On-Site Search on your Website http://tinyurl.com/yztdctu
• Will paid tweets become the new paid links?, econsultancy.com http://tinyurl.com/yjp9h7m10/22
• Flickr adds people tagging http://searchengineland.com/flickr-adds-people-tagging-28320
• Google Social Search is coming: http://searchengineland.com/google-social-search-is-coming-more-on-google-twitter-28292 Danny Sullivan says it’s way cool
• Google & Twitter deal: http://searchengineland.com/google-twitter-have-a-deal-too-28258 Google (and Bing) will offer up real-time Twitter results in SERPS)
• This is pretty cool: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=161746147130 Gifts in facebook- you can send MP3s (that they can actually download) or donate to charity on someone’s behalf and have it displayed on their profile
• Public status’ updates integrated in Bing’s (beta) search results http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/6405566/Facebook-public-updates-go-live-on-Bing-within-two-months.html
• Tracked.com Launches Massive Structured Database Of People And Companies, TechCrunch
• The Emerging Art of the Social Landing Page, http://tinyurl.com/yk4s8de
• Search Engine Friendly Tracking With Hash Tags in URL, Search Engine Roundtable
• How to beat Crap-ass stinkin’ scraper jerks, a good list of tactics: http://tinyurl.com/yfoxeu4
• Quality Score is Based on Precise Match Not Exact Match http://www.bgtheory.com/blog/quality-score-is-based-on-precise-match-not-exact-match/10/20
• This article about new #GoogleAnalytics features rollout was very useful, bookmarked it for AIMCLEAR staff. http://tinyurl.com/yjb3wtp
• The New Twitter Hole That Probably Isn’t, TechCrunch
• Social Media Marketing Applications – 10 Proven Ideas, Online Marketing Blog
• Great stuff from @LisaBarone “How To: Be A Damn Human” http://tinyurl.com/ykq88eb
• Confirmed, Google (probably) personalizes results based on user IP locations. http://tinyurl.com/yfr4poo10/19
• Fascinating from SEOBook: “Brands vs Query Refinement: Is Google Using The Second Search?”
• http://tinyurl.com/yl7w29w
• http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/features.php
• RT @TheCommonHoster: A cool, short video explaining how Google Wave is revolutionizing email #googlewave http://bit.ly/4uTL2w
• Twitter Continues Flattening, But Is This A Real Measure, John Battelle’s Searchblog http://tinyurl.com/yglh5ry
• Google says don’t worry about bad incoming links: http://searchengineland.com/got-bad-incoming-links-google-says-dont-fret-it-2797410/18
  Breaking: Twitter Begins Lists Rollout, TechCrunch10/16
  Is TwitPic Taking Ads A Little Too Far?, TechCrunch
• Productivity hack from our friend Gab “How To Use Virtual Assistants To Eliminate SEO Chores” http://tinyurl.com/yjk2xl9
  Buy YouTube Promoted Videos Through Google AdWords
  RT @DerekEdmond: Ultimate List of #GoogleWave Gadgets & Tools http://su.pr/1oZA29 via @rajupp @Flipbooks @mayhemstudios @kim10/13
• Deep Post From @Tamar The NIGHTMARE Public Relations “Professional” and How to Stop Him http://bit.ly/heO79
• Chris Sherman RocksRT @dannysullivan: reading @sengineland article, Factual: Parting The Curtains Of The Invisible Web, http://bit.ly/2jRjaw
• Via @gregfinn SEL: Tips For Getting Your Fan Page Found In Facebook Search http://bit.ly/YpWEm
• Fabulous List Resource RT @RBeale: Top 100 Real-Time Web Companies http://bit.ly/1QcofW via @RWW
• @randfish INC. Headsmacking Tip #14: Offer Testimonials, Get Links, SEOmoz http://tinyurl.com/yzlfx7a10/12
• Twitter Search Refines Trend Searches To Give You More Real-Time Results, TechCrunch
  Bing SEO Strategies, SEO Book
• Facebook’s mounting customer service crisis, CNET News http://bit.ly/Alxqj
• Facebook Visits Increased 194 Percent in Past Year, Hitwise http://bit.ly/57Kos=
• Why Brent Payne’s PageRank Sculpting report is bogus  http://www.seo-theory.com/2009/10/05/why-brent-paynes-pagerank-sculpting-report-is-bogus/ 10/8
• Announcing SEOmoz’s Guide to Social Media Marketing, SEOmoz
• Nice little technique: Revealing a competitor’s long tail SEO success, BlogStorm http://bit.ly/MmERT
• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/technology/internet/07youtube.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
  Google Offers A Proposal To Make AJAX Crawlable10/2
• Great Grab RT @leeodden: RT @mmcdonald Google Alters Site Verification in Webmaster Tools http://ff.im/-96NFe
• Cool FireFox Plug Screen Capture Utility http://bit.ly/UnzuW10/1
• http://www.seomoz.org/blog/terrible-advice-do-seo-for-users-not-engines
• Google’s recent changes to Local Algorithm http://www.shagunvatsa.com/googles-recent-changes-to-its-local-algorithm
• Sudden Drop in Local Rankings for Various Businesses http://bit.ly/3xrpUY
• For Non-Coders 🙂 Facebook Just Made It Super Easy To Put Connect On Your Site, TechCrunch http://bit.ly/44Z9so
• AntiChrist? Facebook Offers Translation Tool to Other Sites, New York Times http://bit.ly/ZN6Wg
• Solid read for all levels: Where to Kickoff Your Keyword Research, outspokenmedia.com http://bit.ly/31fD37
• How can I merge two sites?, YouTube http://bit.ly/VE3U5
• 1 of the smartest dudes I know @JohnAndrews “  Always Be Link Building  http://www.johnon.com/704/alwaysbelinkbuilding.html
• Google’s cool new attribution twist, #PPC Ad conversions with no clicks. http://bit.ly/dSg7h
• Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally, Official Google Blog
• EEESH! Google Maps: A Near Death Experience – Why did my listing Disappear?, from @MikeBlumenthal http://bit.ly/30hhKJ
• Women, Teens, and Seniors Help Fuel 34% Mobile Web Spike, Nielsen Wire
• AdWords Removes In-Line Keyword Bidding (Max CPC column) from User Interface Default Settings? 9/25
• http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com/reconsidering-adwords-content-network
• http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=29299/24
• New: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) 2.0, Goes All Out With Social Media, ResourceShelf
• Google Subscribed Links Patent: Why Do Some OneBox Results Require No Subscription?, SEO By The Sea
• Tisk Tisk Tisk A Really Nasty Ad Slips Past Google, TechCrunch http://bit.ly/shBAT
  LinkExaminer: SEO Friendly Link Scanning Utility, Search Engine Journal
• RT @sarasgraham: RT @Aerocles Microsoft Enters the Social Media Monitoring Space http://bit.ly/1vao5b (via @ericelliston)
• This New Google Keyword Tool (beta) looks fun, http://bit.ly/EdYD4 9/23
• RT @leeodden: RT @Ron_Jones: HOW TO: Set Up a Winning Facebook Fan Page http://bit.ly/1iBXyO
• Sweetness: Cool Visualization: Twitter Trendsmap, Screenwerk http://bit.ly/15y7qe
• RT @Szetela: John Battelle And Danny Sullivan Grill One Another, Probing Search And Social Data http://bit.ly/TeUkc
• Great Grab RT imeldak RT @katzpdx: Microsoft unveils Bing analytics http://bit.ly/xKTUL
• scottclark A quick run through of SideWiki http://bit.ly/i8Bzb
• 4 Pitfalls of Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI), #PPC Hero http://bit.ly/4kCsJ8 9/23
• RT @leeodden: RT @Ron_Jones: HOW TO: Set Up a Winning Facebook Fan Page http://bit.ly/1iBXyO
• Sweetness: Cool Visualization: Twitter Trendsmap, Screenwerk http://bit.ly/15y7qe
• RT @Szetela: John Battelle And Danny Sullivan Grill One Another, Probing Search And Social Data http://bit.ly/TeUkc
• Great Grab RT imeldak RT @katzpdx: Microsoft unveils Bing analytics http://bit.ly/xKTUL
• scottclark A quick run through of SideWiki http://bit.ly/i8Bzb =
• 4 Pitfalls of Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI), #PPC Hero http://bit.ly/4kCsJ89/22
• bgtheory Gist is my newest favorite app. Let’s you track people & companies better than most tools > @gist > https://beta.gist.com/
• RT @w2scott: We just posted: Secret of Successful E-Mail Newsletters http://bit.ly/sCTIR 9/21
• Even Yahoo, show-biz skank of mainstream search engines, could not associate Matt Damon with the Waldorf shoot. http://www.aimclearblog.com/2009/09/21/situational-queries-google%e2%80%99s-vulnerable-blind-spot/
• Amazing Freakin’ Title!  Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should: Why DIY SEM Isn’t The Answer http://bit.ly/1tcc3K
• Google: Stop Suing Over The Meta Keywords Tag, We Don’t Use It
• From @andrewgoodman Seven Compelling Reasons That Now Is The Time To Ramp Up Paid Search  http://bit.ly/F8mSI
• What Google’s “Caffeine” Update Means For Paid Search Campaigns
• http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-voice-and-video-update-for-snow.html
  Corporate SEO Services, SEO Book
• 3 Big Secrets To Leading The SEO Herd SEO.com http://bit.ly/3K1XITStudy: Microbloggers are REALLY boring, CNET News http://bit.ly/fiLwW
• Omniture and comScore Announce Strategic Partner Relationship to Deliver Unified Digital Audience Measurement Service, comScore
• Integrate Phone Call Tracking and Google Analytics with Mongoose Metrics, Brad Geddes http://bit.ly/1RohSd 9/19
• Groovy–Google Offers Real-Time Bidding On DoubleClick Ad Exchange http://bit.ly/19F3xa
• Facebook’s Focus Is Friend Search; Bing ‘Sort Of’ Adds Value
• Google Formally Announces New DoubleClick Ad Exchange
• An Aert if You Use Google Docs and link to them from public websites, Parry Aftab’s Blog
• Google urges developers to focus on local searches, Mercury News http://bit.ly/KI3F9
• Are relevant links overvalued by SEOs?, Econsultancy
• Disgusting Google scam loose on Twitter, blog.arhg.net http://bit.ly/3dWbV
• Excellent insight on How Facebook as grown “revenue positive.” http://tinyurl.com/l9h5l6
• WordPress SEO: How to Create Living URL’s, Michael Gray
• Will Google’s Caffeine Update Really Change Search Results?, Read/Write Web9/17
• It’s nice to have Top Queries and URLs in Yahoo Site Explorer http://bit.ly/xmOuL
• Would Your Company Be A Good SEO Client?
• Online Video Must Differentiate From Television
• eMarketer recently published an article titled The Online Video Advertising Picture Clears Up which forecasts that online video advertising will represent 4.3% of online spend and 1.6% of television advertising spend this year, growing to 11% and 5.5% respectively by 2013. While these figures seem small, to achieve them requires 30% to 40% […]
• Link Buying: the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, SEO Book
• Does AdWords differentiate keywords by capitalization, underscores, or apostrophes?, Brad Geddes
• Link Jihad Continues Flaming: Twitter adds more Nofollows and robots.txt, David Naylor http://bit.ly/23zlEZ
• WordPress SEO: How to Choose a Permalink Structure, Michael Gray
• Phone Calls Come to Twitter., thenextweb.com
• Social Media Tips For Optimizing Time Spent By Marketers, Online Marketing Blog9/16
• CNN (Not Yahoo!) Microsoft, Google expand search-engine tools http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/16/visual.web.bing.google/index.html9/15
• Time to dig into PostRank
  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postrank/
  http://www.postrank.com/publishers/wordpress
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twimp-wp/
• http://www.techprone.com/top-69-wordpress-plugins-for-twitter/
• As a resource, check out SocialBlade to see how users are behaving at Digg.com. You can view daily, weekly, and monthly trends and activity levels. This can be very helpful in deciding when to submit and promote content.
• Timing Is Crucial To Maximize Exposure With Social Media
• Great State of the Art Directory LInk-Value Update http://bit.ly/3N5jCS
• Have a look at the inbound link graph for michaelgray.name. He’s figured out how to post dupliate content without cheating J.
• Mobile Marketing: How Location Changes Digital Experiences, Ad Age http://bit.ly/24VH7V
• US Twitter Usage Surpasses Earlier Estimates, eMarketer
• 300 Million and On, Facebook
• Spamming Twitter trending topics, David Naylor
• RT @NannyTweeting: RT @chrisbennett @blvdstatus Keyword Vitals is live and changing the way we track keywords, http://bit.ly/3BFxAq 9/11
• 5 Tips on passing the AdWords exam http://www.ppchero.com/5-tips-on-passing-the-google-adwords-qualified-professional-exam/
• How to use Twitter’s Advanced Search Features9/10
  HMMM Google DOESN’T look at the length of a domain registration?  http://bit.ly/19i69P
• 5 Tips To Achieve Alignment Between SEO Keyword Strategy & Content
• Under Pressure To Adopt A Bid Management Solution? Just Say No.
• Google Voice Finally Marries SMS And Email, TechCrunch
• Organic SEO As Another Marketing Channel
• HTML 5: A Dream Come True For Video SEM
• 17 Ways Search Engines Judge the Value of a Link, SEOmoz http://www.seomoz.org/blog/17-ways-search-engines-judge-the-value-of-a-link
• Coming soon: Finding your friends on YouTube, YouTube Blog9/9
• Coming Soon: Paid Search Without Keywords (destruction of the PPC long tail)
• A Look At The Travel Industry On Twitter
• How To Avoid Getting Your Search Rankings Trashed By Malware
• Mashable, seriously comprehensive Google Wave Coverage: http://bit.ly/J7Q9y
• dsBot-Google: Tracking AdWords #PPC Landing Page Quality Score Bot http://bit.ly/iDqLX
• 9 Ways of Optimizing your Site for Image Search, Pandia
• 75% of SEOs Feel Google Loves Keywords in the URL, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google reacting slowly to changes, David Naylor
• Twitter as a Job-Searching Tool, Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204584404574393102737256542.html9/8
• Idearc Brings True Local Search To Twitter
• Adding Testimonials to Your PPC Ads Can Help Increase Click-Through Rates, PPC Hero
• Directory Submissions: Still a Tool for Gaining Traffic and SEO Help, Search Engine Journal
• How to Diagnose the Reason of Google Penalty, dailyseotip.combhttp://bit.ly/Xzouc
• How To Use Google Analytics Motion Charts To Maximize Results http://bit.ly/JxiBf
• CrowdEye Twitter Search Upgrades With Google-Like Features
• Outstanding SEO Guide to CMS capabilities from @stephanspencer http://bit.ly/nHalq
• @lisabarone rocks: Why Yelp Is Awesome For Small Businesses, outspokenmedia.com http://bit.ly/yGgUk
• What You (Probably) Don’t Know About Redirects, McAnerin
• Google Crawls Robots.txt Files Daily, Search Engine Roundtable
• What Do SEOs Know?, SEO Book
• What should I watch out for if I redirect mobile visitors?, YouTube
• Oh Freakin’ Idiot Joy: USocial Will Sell You Twitter Followers, Facebook Friends, Ad Age http://bit.ly/jUkxF
• The Big List of Social Aggregators, Search Engine People
• Track SEO rankings and Sitelinks with Google Analytics II, yoast.combelasco
• @aimclear hey marty thought you might like the new tool we just Jus released  – Insights for Analytics http://bit.ly/BVjoQ9/7
• Link Diagnosis Launches New Tool: A Review9/3
• Using Classic PR Techniques To Support Brands In Social Networks
• Top of the morning Tweople! It’s a great day to be alive 🙂 Report: Google readying its checkbook, CNET News http://bit.ly/3VHQW
• Tra la la: Waiter, There Is a Fly in My Soup (and I Have an iPhone), New York Times http://bit.ly/Kgfc
• Yelp Is Growing 80 Percent A Year, While Citysearch Remains Flat, TechCrunch http://bit.ly/2gitz
• Why Real Professional SEOs Advocate Page Title On Page Heading Variation, SEO Book http://bit.ly/kESHj
• YouTube in Talks to Stream Rental Movies, Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125192241524880801.html
• Twitter Tracking Outbound Link Clicks, eKstreme.com http://bit.ly/xhMdh
• Using Reverse Dictionaries for Keyword Research, Search Engine Journal
• Conspiracy Theories – Google, David Naylor9/2
• Preview Your Google Rich Snippets With Google Webmaster Tool
• Google Penalizing Category Spamming – What are the Standards?, Mike Blumenthal  http://bit.ly/18UBZi
• Did Google Street View spot rapist/kidnapper Garrido?, Boing Boing http://bit.ly/xzA8L
• Some Popular SEO Experts Don’t Know Crap About SEO http://bit.ly/19zUSB9/1
  This post contains tactics that may be considered black-hat. SEOmoz does not condone these practices http://bit.ly/2Z7sQJ8/31
• How To Construct Rational Landing Page Tests
• 6 Things to Expect if Google Decaf Gets a “Caffeine” Boost http://bit.ly/PzppI
• URL Capitalization and SEO: How Much Does It Matter?, Search Engine Journal
• Straight from Matt Cutts Mouth: What factors influence video results in Universal Search?, YouTube http://bit.ly/apIrP
• Katy Bar the DOOR! Massive Twitter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability, David Naylor http://bit.ly/3gnTn
• PPC Agencies Promising/Forecasting Results, Rimm Kaufman
• PPC Landing Page Optimization | Why PPC Marketers Need To Be Sneaky Bastards, SEM Geek
• SEO goes back Underground in 2009, John Andrews
• Useful post from our friend Gab Goldenberg SEO Mythbusters: “Do You Need Lots Of Content?” http://bit.ly/Cuq2D
• RT @briancarter: Twitter Rocket’s system grows REAL followers to your Twitter account that drive traffic to your links. http://bit.ly/1gkiDn
• 9 Problems With Paid Search, 9 Real Tactics To Solve Them 8/25
• Szetela Top 10 Reasons Why Your Ads Aren’t Showing in Google #AdWords: http://bit.ly/ppS3O
• My Favorite Link Building Lie, NY-Times
• Wikipedia Will Limit Changes on Articles About Living People, New York Times
• Why Craigslist Is Such a FREAKIN’ Mess, (the dead people maybe?) Wired http://bit.ly/4tqhoZ
• Google Advertising Professional Accounts Can Now Be Transferred, Search Engine Roundtable
• How to Remove Redirects from Google SERPs, Search Engine Journal
• Creating an SEO Content Inventory, SEO By The Sea
• Great stuff from Bill Slawski, SEO by the Sea and SEO Content Inventory Worksheet http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=2832
• SEO & Print URLs, Search Engine Roundtable
• Outstanding comparison of Bing & Google optimization considerations http://bit.ly/15o3L7
  eeodden Sweet linkbait from Amex OPEN: 101 tips from 50 small business bloggers (actually pretty great tips) http://bit.ly/kFMvb8/24
• Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out http://bit.ly/jW2Aq
• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/business/23digi.html
• Just excellent, Five Google Analytics FAILs, The ROI Revolution Blog http://bit.ly/ME0TJ
• Yowsa! 15 Plus Twitter Tools and Apps for Neighbourhood (Your City), TechMynd http://bit.ly/yW4pR
• Just discovered from @Jillwhalen 85 Reasons Why Website Designers/Developers Keep SEOs in Business http://bit.ly/2pQkT9
• Email a task list, Official Gmail Blog
• Love what I’m seeing “Yelp Launches Blackberry App with Bing Maps, http://bit.ly/hyAo7
• The Real Live Search – Bing API experiment, istartedsomething
• HMM, Google seems to be indexing Bing Results http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020629.html
• How To Buy SEO Services, SEO Book
• Note: Facebook wants to be the publishing hub…ummm, we don’t OWN Facebook. We need to control the publishing hub. http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=1230068721308/21
• Beware: Rogue Facebook apps steal log-in data, send spam, CNET News http://bit.ly/11bG95
• http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/08/20/google-maps-customer-service-hall-of-shame-what-goes-on-in-your-neighborhood/
• Amen @graywolf  How Google Calendar Can Screw Up Appointments When Changing Timezones, http://bit.ly/18hr2f8/18
• The Social Media Promotion Checklist For Internet Marketers
• How To Handle An SEO Setback
• A Case Study: Using Contests To Build Links8/17
• A Closer Look At Local Search Ranking Factors
• YouTube Emphasizes Search In New Design
  http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/how-the-associated-press-will-try-to-rival-wikipedia-in-search-results/8/10
• Done Deal: Facebook Buys FriendFeed
• 5 Tips For Getting Good Paid Search Clients
• Google’s Search Suggestions Change On Second Search
• New tools for Google Services for Websites, Official Google Blog
• Is There Such a Thing as a “Virtual” Backlink?, Search Engine Journal
• Increased Bid Transparency with Google’s Bid Simulator, PPC Hero
• How to Turn Off Personalized Search in Google Chrome, Michael Gray
• Increased Bid Transparency with Google’s Bid Simulator
• Many, Many Google Users Get “We’re Sorry” Page, Search Engine Roundtable
• Get detailed site analysis to solve problems (SEM 101), Bing
• Learn SEO for Adobe PDF Docs, Search Engine Journal
• Optimizing your Website for Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine, HyperArts
• Yahoo|Bing and SEO, Bruceclay.com.au
• SEO Tools You Can Use Today, outspokenmedia.com
• Public Relations Pros Must Know Social Media, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
• Does Google Know What Websites You Own http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/google-know-own/
• http://www.searchenginejournal.com/backlink-checking-research/12146/8/5
• Is Google Killing General Knowledge?, New York Times
• Google Maps LBC: How to make % Complete = 100%, Mike Blumenthal
• Title Tag and Meta Description Length for Google, Yahoo, Bing & Ask, SageRock http://bit.ly/IP2PC8/4
• Google Launches Content Powered YouTube Promoted Video Ads http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-content-powered-youtube-promoted-video-ads-23562
• Stop Saying Sorry, Start Getting Really Social
• Everything I Need to Know About PageRank I Learned in Kindergarten, The Search Agents http://bit.ly/74BdY
• Terrific Resource: August 2009 Google Webmaster Report, Search Engine Roundtable http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020531.html
• Is Bing Ignoring The NoArchive Tag?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Optimizing the Page Search Results Snippet: On-Page Tactics, Search Engine Journal
• Ignoring Social Media Makes You Mute, Not Invisible, outspokenmedia.com
• Social Media Optimization: 16 Rules Revisited, Online Marketing Blog8/3
• http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/07/the-30-free-seo-tools-you-must-know.html
• How To: Excel at Excel for SEM Applications, Part 1 MUST READ
• Is Googlebot Skewing Google Analytics Data?
• PPC Lessons From The Catalog Industry
• The FTC Takes On Targeted Web Ads, BusinessWeek http://bit.ly/1paZ7
• How user data, links & document scoring may be used in the “brand” algorithm, BlogStorm http://bit.ly/96xtG 7/28
• Why SEOs end up being responsible for big brand social media http://bit.ly/FjOb9
• What is a Natural Link Growth Profile?, SEO Book
• Status Search: A Search Engine For What Your Friends Are Saying Online, TechCrunch 7/27
• Google AdWords To Add Addresses On Ads: Location Extensions
• How To Excel At Excel For SEM Applications, Part 5: Master Pivot Tables
• http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020451.html
• btabke Looking more and more like some sort of Google Update has occurred.
• http://izurl.com/4IV seems narrow and niche…
• Szetela 5 Ways to Reach Social Media Audiences via Paid Search #PPC and Sponsorship Tactics: http://bit.ly/M4ftL
• Publish Tweets to WP Post http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/readme?project=twitter-tools
• Possible SchmoozeFest SJ Party Venues
• http://www.sonomachickencoop.com/
• http://www.britanniaarmsdowntown.com/

7/24

• Yahoo wants a slice of next-gen “smarter inbox” http://bit.ly/bwIg1
• Developer Impressions Of Google Wave: “Real-Time Email On Crack”
• Click Fraud Rise Or Fall? Click Fraud 22.9% Or 12.7%
  What Is The Role Of Video For Yellow Page Publishers?
• Whoa, “The Google-Cash-Swapping-Orgy Blimp – 23andme, Gawker” Title of the day already http://bit.ly/kHi7Q
• vdcseo RT @Ron_Jones Twitter Launches a Twitter 101 Guide for Business http://bit.ly/M9uDF Go direct to article
• How to become a Google certified SEO : http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020451.html 7/22
• Keyword Bidding Counterpoint: It’s Not Automation That’s The Problem
• Google wants to quit refereeing the fight & NOT making money, Now they HOST the fight & get paid. http://bit.ly/odfeH
• Digital activism on YouTube, Official Google Blog
• Grubbing Links from Your MOM is a LINK BUILDING STRATEGY??? REALLY???? http://bit.ly/jPLVr
• Another Interesting Questions Engine http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions/questions?seed=piano&commit=Search
• Google: Location Specific Queries Now Requiring More Location Specific Links?, Search Engine Roundtable
• If true, this data is a HUGE SEO deal.  The Value of Image Optimization – Further Testing http://bit.ly/W1cGu
• 8 Photo And Video Sharing Tools For Twitter You May Not Have Seen, www.twitip.com
• Google Analytics goal conversion funnels across subdomains with regular expressions, David Naylor
• THANKS Naylor 🙂 Analytics goal conversion funnels across subdomains w/ regular expressions http://bit.ly/yIkoz 7/21
• How To Research, Create And Distribute Highly-Linkable Content
• Excellent ordered approach for systemic link acquisition. Worth the read. http://bit.ly/k4HxS
• Five More Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should
• 3 Aggregation Tools For Tracking Tweets
• Google Wave Begins To Swell With Developers; Wider Release This September, TechCrunch
• http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/14-dofollow-backlink-resources.html
• Will Scott @w2scott 5 Ways To Track Phone Calls Generated From PPC Clicks http://bit.ly/vGxyC (by very smart guy @bgtheory)
• leeodden Advice for PR on how to respond to a negative blogger http://is.gd/1FqWX
• 5 Ways To Track Phone Calls Generated From PPC Clicks
• Leveraging Competitive Intelligence For Link Building Campaigns
• Should You Geotag Pages For Local SEO?
• Bing, Yahoo! Search and Ad Sales Efficiencies, Hitwise (Nice breakout of demographics of Yahoo and Bing users)
• Google Maps suffers Brain Fart: “The Cluster” works in mysterious ways, Mike Blumenthal
• Google Voice: Trouble Calling for Skype?, BusinessWeek
• How To Get Quality Back Links The Top Competition Has, Hobo
• Checking for Broken Links and Link Rot and the Importance of Good Site Architecture, Michael Gray
• head’s up on <head> tag optimization (sem 101), Bing Community
  Same old stuff with a few extra tools 10 Steps to Advanced Keyword Research, SEOmoz
• Getting an SEO Copywriting Job, SEOmoz
• Web Community Building: Making It Thrive, Online Marketing Blog6/17
• For fun- future SEO’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd6-n7MhVg8
• RT @graywolf: RT @DaveNaylormy issues with the rel=canonical tag and Affiliate links http://bit.ly/XkbwD
• http://searchengineland.com/is-twitter-sending-you-500-to-1600-more-traffic-than-you-might-think-22696 6/16
• Fabulous SEL Local Search Post from @davidnihm Required Reading-http://bit.ly/12sWTV
  8 Dimensions Of Excellent Landing Pages
• Google Sets and Google Squared are interesting free tools that will allow you to quickly identify elements of a set.
• Yahoo!’s Rich Ads In Search – Are Video Ads Golden? Yahoo’s Rich Ads in Search (RAIS) combine paid search with rich media to further engage consumers within Yahoo search results. These ads provide an effective and clever approach to cross-channel marketing. With these new ads, advertisers are given the opportunity to market their business beyond the typical paid search ad copy. Their Yahoo paid search […]
• Google For iPhone Adds “My Location” Feature
• comScore Releases June 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings, comScore
• 10 Easy Ways to Optimize Your PPC Landing Pages & Increase Conversions
• How Search Engines May Decide Upon and Optimize Query Suggestions, SEO By The Sea
• Choosing a Web Host Provider That Won’t Jack Your Rankings, Part II, Search Engine Guide
• LinkedIn Drills Down Into People Search With New Beta, TechCrunch7/15
• How to Use Dynamic Keyword Insertion in AdWords -AdWords Help
• Google quietly tells newspapers to piss off, seriously snarky. http://bit.ly/Yj2W7
• Google Voice For Mobile: One Number To Rule Them All
• How Does Moving a Keyword Effect Your Quality Score in Google AdWords?, PPC Hero
• Facebook Launches 3 Powerful New Targeting Features for Facebook Ads, Inside Facebook
• Jeez Louise, Facebook is up to 250 million users, CRAZY http://bit.ly/CBQEx
• Google Adds Creative Commons Filter To Advanced Image Search
• What Is Real Time Search? Definitions & Players 7/14
• 7 deadly sins of landing page design, Inside AdWords
• http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=31302#
• Local Ads Moving to Social Networks, Borrell Associates
• When Social Media & PR Matters More Than SEO, Small Business SEM7/13
• toddmintz RT @DavidWallace: RT @wilreynolds If you read 1 thing today that will help your linkbuilding for years to come… http://cli.gs/L1ubmh
• Leverage Bing’s synopsis feature http://bit.ly/DOIMz
• Using User Generated Content To Enhance Conversion-Driven SEO
• Best Practices For Auditing An SEM Account
• Report: Search Ad Spending Stabilizes While Bing Gains On Google, Yahoo
• Bid Management Misconception #2: “Bid Rules”, Rimm Kaufman
• Quality Score: 3 UnFrequently Asked Questions, Search Engine Journal
• Subscribers Are A Vital Element Of Your Growth Strategy, Online Marketing Blog
• URL Structure: The Closer to the Root – the Better?, Search Engine Journal
• Jeremy Abelson: Embrace For Impact: Alex Bogusky Discusses Social Media and Long Term
• Changes in the Media Landscape, Huffingtonpost.com 7/8
• 
  7/7
• Szetela Using Google Analytics and #AdWords Website Optimizer Together — in 60 Seconds: http://bit.ly/AFUcT Useful if you have control of the landing pages – which we totally WILL soon.  A/B testing on Website Optimzer.  This should be part of the initial research done for PPC campaigns.
• Neat trick to export all (over 500) keywords from Google Analytics, do regular export but add “&limit=40,000”.  Add your Google Analytics code to display ads and get GA data from whatever sites the ad appears on (gray hat?).
• Automated Keyword Bidding? More Like Automated Money Sink
• FriendFeed Joins The Real-Time Search Race
• The Freebie Party is OVER! Creating a Gmail Account Requires SMS Verification http://bit.ly/Kawwd
• Social Network Marketing Meets Small Business, Small Business Comput8ing
• PPC Checklist (for moderate AdWords management), KoMarketing Associates
• Search engine might consider number of times searcher may select image in search results http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=1960
• Sweet SEORoundTable roundup of recent Google changes to Webmasters http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020336.html
• SEO Audits: What You Need to Know, outspokenmedia.com
• Whiteboard Friday – Crawling & Indexing, SEOmoz
• How do meta geo tags influence the search results?, YouTube
• Tips on Hiring and Getting the Most Value from SEO Consultants, Online Marketing Blog http://bit.ly/UNddS
• 12-Step Social Media Guide: Put your Local Business on the Map, The SEO Scoop
• Update on New Channels, YouTube Blog
• Finding Duplicate Content with Free Tools7/2
• Szetela Break Out Your Yahoo #PPC Sponsored and Content Keywords with the Touch of a Button: http://adjix.com/fnk2 This is the short url to linkedin7/1
• Setting YouTube Movies to Enable Revenue Sharing, Barry Schwartz
• Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google, Wired
• How to Effectively Train an Internet Marketing Staff, Search Engine Journal
• How to Track Your Reputation or a Keyword in Multiple Resources via One Unifed Feed, Search Engine Journal
• 16 bitchin’ commands and shortcuts for Twitter, Econsultancy
• Social Media Profiles for Online Reputation Management, Search Engine Journal
• 5 Lesser Known Video Search Engines, Search Engine Journal
• This freakin’ Rocks. Tag clouds for books 🙂 http://bit.ly/2Czz3c
• Chicken or egg?  Content optimization vs. content development
• 5 SEO Tips For Nabbing International Search Real Estate Search results page is as competitive as ever as marketers try to nab as much as possible. But accomplishing this in foreign markets can be challenging. For example, even if you have a dot-com version of your website that ranks […]
• Good Post making links work for you (sem 101), Bing Community
• Really? #PPC Separating Your Matches Types into Different Campaigns is a Bad Idea, PPC Hero http://bit.ly/aQGRC
• How to pack a punch: PPC copywriting tips and pitfalls, Econsultancy
• How search volume data may be used to determine brand authority, BlogStorm
• A link from the front page of a small site may be better than a link from an inner page on a large site  http://bit.ly/11QPJD
• FriendFeed Feels Pretty, Oh So Pretty, TechCrunch
• Achieve High Rankings by Using Your Existing PageRank as Leverage
• http://sphinn.com/user/view/profile/theGypsy 6/30
• Google Slides On Ranking Issues
• http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/link-from-yahoo-breaks-traffic-records-at-new-york-times/
• Teenage Entrepreneurs, Building Their Own Job Engine, New York Times
• Google Scams Getting Worse, Search Engine Roundtable
• Sixth Lawsuit Filed Over Google AdWords, Plus an Assault on Google’s Organic Search Results–Ascentive v. Google, Eric Goldman6/28
• AdWords Conversion Tracking: How To Optimize Your Account 10x Quicker
  Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could get data 10 times faster so you could make your bid & ad decisions in days instead of weeks or months? If you are presently only tracking sales conversions in AdWords, there may be a better way
• How To: Excel At Excel For SEM Applications, Part 3 In this continuing series (part 1, part 2), I’ve shared some tips and tricks specifically for the search marketing professional using Microsoft Excel. The feedback has been great (thank you!), so I’m going to expand these posts to not just include tasks associated with SEM, but into a mini-Excel training course for search marketers […]
• Tips and Tricks: Set up shop in the Local Business Center, Google LatLong
• ALERT! THere is an alarming amount of click fraud at Facebook http://bit.ly/uenGf
• Google AdWords Session Based Broad Match?, SEOptimise
• Google Search Query Report, SageRock
• Search Marketers: Time To Move Marketing Budgets To Bing / adCenter, Search Engine Roundtable
• 5 Ways to Improve your SEO Landing Pages, SEOmoz
• CSS Image Replacement, what’s up Matt?, Yoast
• New tools for webmasters in the bing toolbox, Bing Community
• SEM Training Strategy: Overcoming Common Mistakes, SEO Book
• SEO Checkup Tool Added To ShoeMoney Tools Suite, ShoeMoney
• Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
• The Internal Battle For SERP Supremacy, Search Engine Journal
• Whiteboard Friday – Correlation, Causation & SEO, SEOmoz
• Why Google May Shorten Your Long URL in the SERPs, Search Engine Roundtable
• Will I be penalized if my URLs all have the same priority?, YouTube6/25
• The Link Builder’s Guide To Analyzing SERP Dominators For Link Opportunities This article walks you through the tools, processes and strategies for identifying the most powerful players in your keyword space and then analyzing their link sources and link building tactics.
• http://searchengineland.com/26-people-who-mislead-you-on-twitter-21561
• Google’s Matt Cutts On “Over Optimization”
• Display URL: Traffic Tricks Used By Brand Hijackers
• Query refinement for “Words with More Than One Meaning,” SEOByTheSea http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=1557
• increase in  number  feeds  hacked & used to redirect subscribers to icky spammer sites. http://bit.ly/Id9Uh
• The 12 Skills That Have Served Me Best in My SEO Career, SEOmoz
• WordPress Labs Launches SEO Blogger Keyword Research Firefox Extension, SEO Book
• Tasty Bit: Guy Kawasaki Twitter Hack Spreads Porn Trojan, PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/167253/
• Shopping Search 2.0: Finding Deals & Coupons On Twitter
• Google Account Recovery via SMS, Google Operating System
• WSJ publisher calls Google ‘digital vampire’, Crain’s New York Business
• Bing Brings More Conversions at Lower Costs, The Search Agents
• Check out Twist, shows KW trends in Twitter over time, limited tolast 30 days. http://twist.flaptor.com/
• iPhone 3GS boosts mobile YouTube uploads by 400% http://bit.ly/1g9i3R
• XML Sitemap Assisted Redirect
• The 6 Types Of Annoying Social Media Promoters
• How Facebook is Gunning for Google (And Killing SEO), Copyblogger
• Yikes, Could it be TRUE? 🙂 Bing Gains More Ground, Efficient Frontier Insights  http://bit.ly/16c43q

6/22

• How You Can Use SEOmoz in your Sales Process
• SEO Best Practices: SEOmoz’s New Policies Based on Updated Correlation Data
• The Common Tag – As Useless As Meta Keywords?
• Wikipedia Getting Video in A Few Months
• NoFollow Funeral Party
• It’s Official: Wikipedia Is A Google News Source
• SEO Tips For Building Your Personal Brand
• Yahoo Debuts SMB DIY Display Ad Builder
• How Do We Plug the Nofollow Leak? Very well done, gets interesting around 12 minutes in. http://bit.ly/DMfvP
• 10 Link Bait Tips, Cornwall SEO 6/19
  RT @SebastianX Do Twitter searches for your post titles to find plagiarism in real-time6/18
• Collecta And CrowdEye Join The “Real Time” Search Club
• Yahoo Supports Even More Structured Data In SearchMonkey
• Revisiting Themed Links, SEOmoz 6/17
• RT @fantomaster: RT @slominski: The API revolution
• http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/06/17/the-api-revolution/
• “AnswerFarm” database has tripled in size, from 100 million Q&A pairs to 300 million http://bit.ly/jeXwA
• PPC Segmentation: 4 Tips To Better Target Customers
• Linkscape Index Update: Now with More Visualization, SEOmoz
• Mr. Matt says that “directories like Yahoo” that “add editorial value” are not “paid links.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pu1YWcIh04
• Find Competitor’s Top Performing Keywords, PPC Hero
• Phase 4 Of Facebook’s Systematic Attack On Twitter: The Everyone Button, TechCrunch6/16
• RT @RuudHein: @JordanKasteler thanks for your Google Influence Rank analysis http://bit.ly/bdqAg Excellent post
• RT @beebow: intrigued, & checking out: “Could Your Social Media ‘Expert’ be a Fake? http://su.pr/2rqOcn via @aimclear @seosmarty @the_gman
• READ ALL OF THESE JordanKasteler New PR Sculpting blog coverage: http://bit.ly/2FYqvl http://bit.ly/o4zN0 http://bit.ly/ecsQ0 http://bit.ly/tPT7v http://bit.ly/YJbuB
• How to Invalidate Wikipedia Articles, Michael Gray
• Google Maps: Spammers find a way, Mike Blumenthal
• 3 Tools to Combine Bing and Twitter Search Results, Search Engine Journal
• SEOBook: Dumbass SEO That = Choosing 2 Buck Chuck in Blind Wine Tasting http://www.seobook.com/worthless-hype or Dude, MOST of the SEO Market Misses Big Changes
• Cybercriminals have adopted SEO tactics  http://bit.ly/14hAzV
• Google’s pending patent basically applies their same principles of search to social. http://bit.ly/vAsgY6/15
• http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page – So, I am going to learn about these – Matt 6/14
• An Update on Sitemaps at Google, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
• Twitter SEO: 4 Simple Tips to Help Your Twitter Profile Rank, Search Engine Journal6/13
• Terrific post from @shimonsandler on KW Tool Reliability. http://www.shimonsandler.com/most-reliable-keyword-tool/
• aimclear (Thanks Jim 🙂 Pagerank is Dead. Sculpting is Dead. Trust is Alive….in my eyes. http://tinyurl.com/nc2zqh Post By: @webuildpages
• DUDE! The Top Ten Reasons Your SEO Sucks! http://bit.ly/GIwra
• What are you going to do next year when the Internet is liberalised?
• Can The SEO Industry Switch To A Pay-for-Performance Pricing Model?
• New Google Webmaster Tools Now Live For All Users
• Local Business Information and Store Locations, Google Base Blog
• It’s probably a good idea to brush up on your understanding of Siloing as a natural form of limiting pagerank distribution.
• SMX Advanced Pagerank Sculpting and Javascript Linking, Michael Gray 6/10
• Google Adds Change of Address To Notify Google Of Domain Change
• How Google Suggestions Should Handle Adult Related Sites?
• Google Adds Reconsideration Request Status Updates
• Seach Engine Robots Sharing Cookies?
• SEO & PPC learnings from SMX Advanced
• Evaluating Reliability of 4 Keyword ToolsWhy Alt Tags are Important
• Benefits Of Geo-Targeting A National PPC Campaign
• Google Details Information Sources for the Business Listing “Cluster”, Mike Blumenthal
• Introducing Microsoft Advertising Intelligence, adCenter Blog
• Search Engine Robots Sharing Cookies?, SEO By The Sea
• http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/which-is-better-underscores-or-dashes.html6/9
• What You Need to Know about Google AdWords’ New Conversion Tracking Metrics, PPC Hero
• One of the newly visible metrics within the updated Google AdWords interface pertains to conversion tracking. Today, we will explore the difference between the “Conversions (many-per-click)” data and the “Conversions (1-per-click)” data.
• Cornell Removes Restrictions on Public Domain, 70,000 Images Added to Internet Archive Collection, ResourceShelf
• Yasni – Feature-Rich People Search Engine, Search Engine Journal GREAT
  http://outspokenmedia.com/seo/google-profiles-seo-as-criminals/ GREAT
• How Google Profiles SEO’s, Michael Gray
• 7 Rules for Writing URLs, Small Business SEM
• Avoiding WordPress Duplicate Content
• Dangling Pages – WebProWorld SEO Forum
• What Do SEO/SEM People Put In Robots.txt Files? – Shaun Anderson
• WordPress robots.txt SEO – AskApache Web Development
• Internal Linking – META nofollow, rel nofollow, robots.txt Confusion thereon – Josh Spaulding Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for blogs is often not done effectively and posts rank below where they should be in keyword searches.  One particular problem can be hanging/dangling web pages created by the blogging software coupled with inappropriate use of robots.txt files and tags.  Such hanging web pages can act as sinks or black holes for PageRank, a key factor in the Google search algorithm.  This article provides a simple explanation of the issues involved and appropriate solutions.
• How To Give Away Stuff And Make Money Doing It, SEO.com
• Large Site SEO: How to Waste Your #1 Ranking with Bad Formulas, Search Engine Journal
• Better stay up to get your Facebook UserName on 6/13 at 12:01AM http://bit.ly/172uUT
• Content Marketing Strategy and Social Media, Online Marketing Blog
• AdCenter Labs Audience Intelligence Tool http://bit.ly/5Ryah
• Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due great post on getting around the fact that javascript baffles analytics. Find the missing 20%
• Twitter To Offer “Verified Accounts” Finally, Twitter’s making a move toward verified accounts — with the news coming out from the service in response to reports it had settled a lawsuit with the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, Tony La Russa, over how someone apparently impersonated him on the service. Twitter denies any settlement. Earlier today, St. […]
• Similar to our [AIMCLEAR‘s] approach Improve Internal Linking with an Anchor Text Glossary, Daily SEO Tip
• Common sense Tips to get Domain Diversity (with the anchor text you want), SEOmoz
• Wikipedia Invades Google News, Michael Gray
• Paid Twitter Streams Are Here: Super Chirp, TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/07/paid-twitter-streams-are-here-super-chirp/
  Here’s how Super Chirp works.
• 3 Free Live Traffic Trackers for Social Media Campaigns6/6
• Thesis is a WordPress Framework Not a Design and Why That Matters for SEO6/5
• Be careful of updating to the new AdWords Editor, Brad Geddes
  Google Updates AdWords Editor (Version 7.5.1)
• Fine Tuning Your Search Campaign To Today’s Economic Environment It is no surprise that the recession has affected online consumer spending habits. In lean times, people are more apt to curb spending and seek out the best bargains. From a search perspective, it is now more important than ever for marketers to adapt their campaigns to these changes in consumer behavior to better optimize […]
• Google Local Business Center Adds Detailed Analytics
• Plan on hearing much more about this as SEO becomes API-programtic,  serves users and search engines. http://bit.ly/IuRMp
• Has Google Maps Switched From PageRank to “BizRank”?
• Facebook Payments Alpha Test Now Live in 3 Apps, Inside Facebook
• The file formats keep on coming! Announcing .xlsx and .docx support, Official Google Docs
  Another Lawsuit Over Google AdWords–Stratton Faxon v. Google, Eric Goldman
• http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-local-out-of-date-riddled-with-spam-but-absolutely-worth-it
• Dude, you suck because you don’t have a process… http://bit.ly/dnqIU
• See a 302 Google Hijack In Action, Search Engine Roundtable
• Study: Young adults haven’t warmed up to Twitter, News.com
• The Online Reputation Management Guide
• Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://outspokenmedia.com) my network | add to My friends
• Using Competitors To Build Links, Search Engine Land
• Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider, Search Engine Land
• Building Directory Links: The 90’s SEO Technique That Still Works, distilled
• JavaScript Links Now Passing PageRank & Anchor Text, BlogStorm
• Search billions of documents with the Google Search Appliance 6.0, Official Google Blog
• Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live & Hotmail blocked in China, Multilingual-Search.com
• Capturing the Value of Content Marketing, Search Engine Land

5/30

WordPress Security tip: add .htaccess in /wp-admin

• AuthUserFile /dev/null
  AuthGroupFile /dev/null
  AuthName “Access Control”
  AuthType Basic
  <LIMIT GET>
  order deny,allow
  deny from all
  # whitelist home IP address
  allow from 123.45.67.89
  # whitelist work IP address
  allow from 123.45.67.98
  </LIMIT>
• I printed yesterday’s post from Aaron Wall, to read on #SMX advanced flight. Freakin’ awesome. http://bit.ly/15jbY5 5/28
• Meet Bing, Microsoft’s New Search Engine
• State Of Search: Google Will Stay Strong Despite Bing & Yahoo
• Does Including A Physical Address On Your Website Help Rankings?
• Google Maps: Updated Quality Guidelines for Business Listing, Mike Blumenthal
• What are your views on PageRank sculpting?, YouTube
• Google Adds Impression Share Columns to AdWords API, Search Engine Roundtable
• What’s The Real Value of Brand PPC?, Search Engine Journal
• Google May 2009 Toolbar PageRank Update, Search Engine Roundtable
• Grey hat SEO: making your subscriber-only content visible to Google, Econsultancy
• Search Demographics: Understanding Keword Search Query Intent, SEO Book
• Should You Fear Changing Your Best SEO Performing Web Page?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Omniture Releases Analytics Tools for Facebook, Inside Facebook
• 10 Ways to Diagnose a Google Penalty
• http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=miamiadschool.com 5/27
• Yahoo Image Search Adds Creative Commons Filter The Yahoo Search Blog announced they have added a very useful search filter to Yahoo Image Search. The filter is known as the creative commons filter and it allows searchers to find images that can be reused for commercial reasons or that can be modified (remixed, tweaked, or built upon) with restrictions set by […]
• How To Protect Your Brand Under Google’s New Trademark Policies
  If you are a Google Adwords customer you may have read that the Adwords’ trademark enforcement policies are going through a big change which will impact the control that you have over use of your brands on paid search. The new policies will impact you starting on June 4th and June 15th, 2009. Earlier this week […]
• Indispensable Link Building Tools, Wiep.net
• Danny Sullivan on Tricky Issues in Local Search, GetListed.org
• Fabulous read: Indispensable Link Building Tools, Wiep.net http://bit.ly/mMq4l
• SEO Scammers/Spammers Worse In This Rough Economy?, Jaan Kanellis
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
• Best Practices for Optimizing URL Structure, Shimon Sandler
• KeywordSmash Free Keyword Research Tool Launched, Bill Hartzer
• Rewriting the Beginner’s Guide Part X: Measuring and Tracking Success, SEOmoz
• FeedStats: FriendFeed Stats For You and Your Friends, Microblink5/26
  Twine is the greatest example of blackhat SEO in it’s worst meaning. http://bit.ly/mdhCl M-attCu-tts Personal  NightMare?  http://bit.ly/mdhCl
• It’s a SHAME that Google Validates such CRAPPY behavior http://bit.ly/mdhCl
• yoast SEO Link Analysis works again: http://cli.gs/3ZyeTd Get it here: http://cli.gs/WQ4yue I also updated GA for WordPress: http://cli.gs/gAJmUy
• RT @randfish: A Must Read – RT @davidmihm: 2009 Local Search Ranking Factors results just released: http://bit.ly/lsrf
• Search + Display Advertising = Reduced Cost Per Acquisition
• http://searchengineland.com/the-big-list-of-search-engines-their-employees-on-twitter-16727
• 14 Key Requirements For A Search Friendly CMS
• Facebook’s Valuation Heading North Again. Up To $10 Billion Now., TechCrunch
• Microsoft Aims Search Guns at Google With Bing, Ad Age
• http://technologizer.com/2009/05/22/how-long-did-it-take-for-the-world-to-identify-google-as-an-altavista-killer/
• iPhone apps are Google’s biggest threat in mobile search, Tech Republic
• Too Busy to Improve Your PPC Campaigns? Here Are 3 Simple Tasks That Will Change Your Mind, PPC Hero
• Google vs. the Real-Time Web, gigaom.com
• http://www.seomoz.org/blog/if-i-could-go-back-in-time-give-myself-some-advice-this-would-be-it
• Most Webmasters Will Use Google’s New Rich Snippet Markups, Search Engine Roundtable
  http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippets.html5/25
• How Will Google’s Recent Trademark Changes Affect You?Using Ad Text to Find the Right Clicks, PPC Hero
• ‘Gumblar’ PC virus is targeting Google users, warn experts, The Guardian
• Keeping an Eye on Collecta: Real-Time Search Engine to Launch Soon, Read/Write Web
• Google Mobile Keyword Tool, SageRock
• How to Optimize 5 Types of Website Navigation, Shimon Sandler
• Get More Visitors to Your Website, Without Ranking Higher, SEOmoz
• Keyword and Niche Research with Yahoo! Answers, Daily SEO Tip
• Whiteboard Friday – Embedded Content, SEOmoz=
• Tweeting Your Way to a Job, New York Times
• Tracking Transactions back to the Initial Referrer with Google Analytics,
• Insight, now downloadable, AdWords Agency Blog=
• 4 ways to make long-tail search deliver, www.imediaconnection.com
• Twitter Surges Past Digg, LinkedIn, And NYTimes.com With 32 Million Global Visitors, TechCrunch
• Two More Small Businesses Making Twitter Work, Small Business SEM
• http://twitterfeed.com5.22
• Daily SEO Tip: Make the Most of Google Advanced Date Operator’s
• http://viswiki.com/en/ – I like this as another perspective on the keyword research process – matt
• http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=106387 By shifting programming from television to the Web, TV networks are on a “slippery slope” that puts the combined $300 billion market valuation of the industry at risk, By shifting programming from television to the Web, TV networks are on a “slippery slope” that puts the combined $300 billion market valuation of the industry at risk
• RT @aimclear Starting new Twitter Profile? Get 29 automated reciprocal follows (+20 2nd degree) + get auto-retweets. http://mlb.mlb.com/team/
• RT @aimclear Tweet the city name and the # MLB baseball team (as written) http://mlb.mlb.com/team/
• New Google Blog Targets YouTube’s Big Brands & Advertisers The integration of Google Analytics will give partners much deeper information than YouTube Insight, including things like how long visitors stay, bounce rate, repeat visits, and where their viewers are located.
  Google: The Internet’s Organized Crime Family, Eric Lander http://www.ericlander.com/706.html
• Common Problems with Street Addresses on Web Sites, GetListed.org
• Redirecting your feed to maximize revenue potential, AdSense for Feeds
• What To Look for if Your Volume Tanks on the Google Content Network, PPC Hero
• Google Suggest Improves, Google Operating System
• Yahoo Search, As We Know It, Is Over, TechCrunch
• Canonical Tag Not Yet Reliable, www.stephanspencer.com
• URL Rewrites and 301 Redirects – How does it all work?, SEOmoz
• 21 Twitter Directories and Follower Finders to Expand Your Twittersphere, Jason Bartholme
• There Is No Social Media Kit, Altitude Branding
• Tweeting Too Hard: A site for shaming the twitteringly self-important, VentureBeat http://bit.ly/XKIde
• How Google detects paid links in websites5/20
• Wolfram Alpha Is Already Monetizing Search Results
• How to Use Google Docs Folders as Labels, Google Operating System
• Hierarchical navigation and other new features for Google Sites, googleappsposts.blogspot.com
• The nightmare comes true, somebody else logged into Google as YOU! http://bit.ly/FIxnd
• Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue, Reuters
• Official: Twitter will launch ‘premium’ business tools by the end of this year, thenextweb.com
• Google Maps: Local Business Center Online – Merging Problem Improved?, Mike Blumenthal
• Smash a Brick into the face Link building, Cornwall SEO
• Adding User Behavior to SEO Considerations, BruceClay.com
• Wolfram Alpha, yet another pretender to Google’s throne., www.slate.com
• Redefining FriendFeed, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
• Amazingly valuable post from @lisabarone Creating Your Social Media Plan http://bit.ly/SqHMx
• 11 Striking Findings From an Eye Tracking Study, ProBlogger
• Be Wary of Shady SEO Deals, www.seo.com
• Do I Have a Google Penalty?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Rules of Thumb for Choosing an SEO, The SEO Scoop
• Web Analytics Tips & Tricks: Back to Basics: Graph mode, Google Analytics Blog
• Google Analytics Mega-Post: 23 Google Analytics Tips and Tweaks, Search Engine People
• http://www.reuters.com/article/GlobalTechnology09/idUSTRE54H5CP20090518 Twitter, a two-year-old, venture capital-backed company that lets people send 140-character messages, or Tweets, has enjoyed explosive growth in recent months. Visitors to Twitter jumped 83 percent in April from the previous month, to reach 17 million, according to comScore data.
• http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=107055 “In online advertising, a conversion occurs when clicking your ad leads directly to user behaviour that you deem valuable, such as a purchase, signup, page view or lead. Google provides two sets of metrics in your reports to help you understand better how many conversions resulted from clicking your ads. Conversions (1-per-click & Conversions (many-per-click)

5/19

• Headsmacking Tip #13: Don’t Accidentally Block Link Juice with Robots.txt, SEOmoz
• Microsoft Kumo Features Being Tested In The Wild?
• Hitwise: Natural Search Referrals On The Rise As a followup to last week’s report that fewer searchers are clicking on paid ads, Hitwise has released a follow-up report showing that organic search referrals are on the rise.
• Important Questions You Should Ask About Where Search Is Headed As goes search, so goes paid search, at least in the sense that nobody would click on paid links near search results unless compelled by search engine results in the first place.
• AdQuants: Top Local Search Advertisers Are Traffic Resellers Analytics firm AdQuants has compiled some very interesting data on the local search market. It’s based on the company’s crawling of the major search engines in “250 US metros with approximately 300 local keywords spanning the spectrum of local service providers and retailers.”
• Google Outage Shows the Cloud May Not Be Enterprise-Ready, www.eweek.com
• How a Search Engine Might Determine Whether a Search Involves a Geographical Intent, SEO By The Sea
• Longer Queries Driving Down Ad Impressions? How About Bankrupt Advertisers?, TechCrunch
• The ROI of PPC Beats Most Advertising Opportunities, Search Engine Journal
• Wolfram|Alpha and Screen Scraping, negatendo.net
• Wolfram Alpha Computational Engine, Business Insider
• Caution! rel=”nofollow” Discussion, www.seo.com
• 4 Actionable Tips to Optimize Links in an Email Message, Search Engine Journal
• Google Updates Backlink Data in New Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
• This Is Getting Ridiculous: Cat Amasses Half A Million Twitter Followers In 3 Months, TechCrunch
• Twitter’s Real-Time Uselessness Proven by (Mistaken) Gay Marriage Hysteria, gawker.com
• Why Twitter’s Engineers Hate the @replies feature, www.25hoursaday.com
• Announcing the Wolfram|Alpha Community!, Wolfram|Alpha Blog
• Does social media activity really help SEO?, econsultancy.com
• Israeli intelligence issues Facebook warning, San Francisco Chronicle
• Twitter Proves Its Worth as a Killer App for Local Businesses, Ad Age5/18
• Google AdWords, PPC Industry Becoming Far More Cut Throat http://bit.ly/dp4a8
• leeodden RT @developit: Twitter Proves Its Worth as a Killer App for Local Businesses http://adage.com/u/C63xcb
• leeodden RT @massimoburgio Linus Gregoriadis (Econsultancy) social media used for marketing: Facebook 65%, Twitter 49%, YouTube 39%5/17
• fantomaster RT @missmcj: How to make a web spider – easy peasy  http://bit.ly/wgpvc 5/15
• Is Your Paid Search Account Structure Optimal?
• Search Behavior: The 4th Building Block Of Search Engine Optimization
• Quietly, Google Updates Its Blog Search Algorithm
• Google To Allow Trademarks To Be Used In AdWords Copy In US
• Up Close With Google Squared & Some Wolfram Alpha Thoughts One of the more interesting things to me that came out of the Google Searchology event this week was “Google Squared.” It’s a new search tool launching later this month that tries to build spreadsheet-like answers to anything you search for. I had a few screenshots from the event that take a deeper look that I wanted to share, plus how it compares to the forthcoming Wolfram Alpha fact engine.
  http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090514/google-outage-caused-by-asian-traffic-jam/
• Class-Action Suit Against Google Cites Order of Ads, New York Times
• Mobile Search and SEO, www.bruceclay.com.au
• How to Leverage Google’s Trademarked Term Bidding Policies, PPC Hero
• http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-4-steps-of-social-media-marketing.html
• Local Search Ranking Factor Statistical Research
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/12/AR2009051201743.html 5/13
• Duplicate Content Visualized (one stop shop for beginners)
• Bot Herding: Ultimate Tool for Pagerank Sculpting5/12
• http://www.seobook.com/interview-ralph-tegtmeier-aka-fantomaster
• Organic traffic should be measured by its impact on revenue http://bit.ly/tQNNL
• Google Search Now Supports Microformats and Adds “Rich Snippets” to Search Results
• How To Pitch A Performance Search Engine Marketing Agency
• Wolfram|Alpha Examples, Wolfram|Alpha Blog
• Tweetmeme Launches The Second Real-Time Tweet Link Search — This Hour, TechCrunch
• Do You Use Your Brand Name in the Site Title Tags?, Search Engine Journal
• Google’s Paid Search Human Evaluators, SEO By The Sea
• Small Google May 2009 Update?, Search Engine Roundtable
• New: Link Google AdWords Conversions To Google Analytics, Search Engine Roundtable 5/11
• HERE it is 🙂 Google: 25% Of Queries Are New & Adding Question Engine
• Washington Post: WaPo and Google discussing ‘informal collaboration’
• JamisonKelly RT @inkwest: The Ultimate Guide to .htaccess Files http://bit.ly/mBniS (man, I am a geek)
• Google’s Searchology Day: Webcast Tomorrow WHAT: Live webcast of Google’s upcoming invitation-only Searchology™ press conference to be held at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters. WHEN: Wednesday, May 16th, 9:30am – 12:30pm PDT WHY: Google to highlight the latest news on search innovations. Featured speakers will include Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience; Udi Manber, VP of Engineering; and Craig Silverstein, Technology Director
• Google News Clusters Changes User Interface & Features
• PPC Agencies: Not One Size Fits All
• Attribution Alchemy: Mining Your Sales Funnel
• Twitter Is A Local Search Power Tool
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/08/nuts-twitter-inventor-about-to-launch-his-next-project-code-named-squirrel/
• “Google is to privacy and respect for intellectual property rights what the Taliban are to women’s rights”
• Yahoo sued over failing to delete false profile, TechRadar UK
• Google in Talks with New York Times, Washington Post, AllThingsD
• Survey: one in five US households are cellphone only, Ars Technica
• Link Building Tips for News SEO, Online Marketing Blog
• 3 Strikes and You’re Out: How to Get More PPC Impressions Safely, Search Engine Journal
• Learn How to Import Your Google Analytics Goals into AdWords Conversion Tracking, PPC
• Getting Core Paid Search Analytics Right (Part 1)
• New Search Service Aims to Answer Tough Questions, New York Times
• Make the Most of Advanced Google Date Operator, Daily SEO Tip
• mozRank and PageRank for Metrics Driven SEO, SEOmoz5/10
• Official: Wolfram Alpha Launches May 18
• Designing For The Subconscious Min
• Ugly Chapter in Yahoo!’s History Revisited, ABC News
• Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google
• Google Maps: How to Remove Duplicate Records in the Local Business Center, Mike Blumenthal
• Connect Your Google Analytics Goals to Your AdWords Conversion Tracking, Brad Geddes
• Microsoft’s new search – Built on open-source, The Register
• 3 Models of Value in the Real Time Web, Read/Write Web
• Authority FTW: Blog Posts in Google Universal Search, Small Business SEM “But when it comes to pulling blog posts into “universal” search results on Google.com, timeliness and freshness apparently mean nothing.”
• Predictive Search Query Suggestions, SEO By The Sea
• Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler. Twitter Dominates Results., TechCrunch
• How Links in Gmail Might Be Used in Google Algorithm, Search Engine Journal
• Many Effective Online Marketing Strategies Are Old & Obvious, SEO Book
• Matt Cutts Uses His Blog To Mess With Google Search, Search Engine Roundtable
• Pull PR and Newsroom Optimization Tactics, Online Marketing Blog
• Website security as SEO, Econsultancy
• Whiteboard Friday – Expired Content, SEOmoz
• Lawn Care Marketing | Market Your Lawn Business Online, outspokenmedia.com
• SEO Competition Report: Essential Checklist
• http://www.pitstopmedia.com/sem/google-analytics-keyword-positions
• Tracking Keyword Ranking Position with Google Analytics
  
  5/8
• Google Analytics Tip 2: tracking visitors on different domains or subdomains 5/7
• A Guide To Video Search Marketing For Small Businesses
• Search Marketing Industry Feeling 7% Unemployment?
• http://searchengineland.com/twitter-search-to-crawl-links-add-ranking-algorithm-18781
• Google Analytics Adding Two Advanced Features
• Google Testifies Before Senate About State Of Journalism
• Google: American phenomenon and antitrust target, Reuters
• Advertising through Mobile Paid Search, Pay Per Call, LinkedIn, SageRock
• Optimize Your Mobile Website And Stop Losing Money!, The SEO Scoop
• Link Building from A to Z, SEOmoz
• 10 Important PPC Budget Management Tips That Really Work, Search Marketing Sage
• Upcoming Budget Optimizer Changes, AdWords API Blog
• Three Reasons Why Twitter Will NOT Index the Links You Share, Read/Write Web
• 3 Ways Companies Sabotage Their SEO Investment, Online Marketing Blog
• FriendFeed is absorbing more Twitter users, and that’s good for Twitter, VentureBeat5/6
• Google AdWords Opens Up Trademarked Bidding To Most Countries
• AdWords Bid Management: Advanced Tactics
• Don’t Forget About Us, The Web Directories
• Cool New Link Tools And… SEO Discounts!
• Use Google Apps seamlessly with corporate BlackBerry smartphones, Official Google Mobile Blog
• 2 Ways to Compare Link Power of Two or More Sites, Daily SEO Tip
• 8 Geo-Targeting Dos and Don’ts You Need to Follow, PPC Hero
• Improving efficiency and results with the new AdWords interface, Conversion Room
• Why You Can’t Trust Keyword Research, Search Engine Guide
• 10 Things You Can Do To Optimize for Image Search, Search Engine Journal
• Conduct Your Own SEO Site Audit – Part 2, Search Marketing Standard
• Keyword Research for Optimized (SEO) Public Relations, Online Marketing Blog
• Tweepz: A New Search Engine Powered by Exalead’s Technology that Searches Twitter Profile Data, ResourceShelf5/3
• RT @thelostagency: rt @mjleonard How To Track Flash In Google Analytics (GA) http://is.gd/iUU0
• RT @Szetela: Strategic SEM Planning for the Real World: http://adjix.com/atae5/2
• http://lachamba.com/2009/05/02/twitter-adds-meta-descriptions-to-user-profiles/
• How To Build Accurate Models To Solve Attribution – SMN Webcast Tuesday, May 5
• Beyond Keywords: Multi-Variable PPC Targeting keyword x engine x match type x geotargeting x dayparting x creative x landing page
• Yahoo Analytics Now Available To Yahoo Advertisers BTW, Yahoo analytics is the old IndexTools, supposed to be wonderful.
• Most SEOs Use Interns For Link Building, Search Engine Roundtable
• Get Found in Your Own Neighborhood! 5 Ways to Increase Your Local PPC Performance, PPC Hero
• New rich media production tool from DoubleClick, AdWords Agency Blog
• See Wolfram Alpha in Action: Our Screenshots, Read/Write Web
• Public Relations Activities That Affect SEO, Online Marketing Blog
• SEO Tip: NoIndex Or 503 Site Coming Soon Pages, Search Engine Roundtable
• Whiteboard Friday – Dangers of Nofollow, SEOmoz
• Google Maps Now Merging Competitors Business Listings 5/1
• Whiteboard Friday – Dangers of NoFollow
• Want a DMoz Listing? Become an Editor!4/30
• storyspinner Creating a Custom Twitter Background http://tinyurl.com/cad7l8
  Follow @TheNanny612 @graywolf @dannysullivan @szetela @fantomaster @sarita @rustybrick @ruudhein
• WOOT @streko ‘Twitterjacking’ — Fox News BABY 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/csgl9h
• @JordanKasteler, SEL webmaster  @MichelleRobbins, @KeriMorgret  really well known conference blogger
• @JoannaLord amazing chick
• SEO & IP – Very interesting -  Matt 4/29
• AIMCLEAR Blog Post ideas: “Confessions of Social Media Marketing Fanatic,” “Social Media Marketing: Dive Down Deep”
• Twitter Spam: 7 Ways to Spot Slimy Fakes,” “Social Media Marketers: Best Bloggers in the World, “
• “Social Media, Authenticity & the Anit-Diva Phenomena,” “ORM: Don’t Get Caught with Your Pants Around Your Ankles.”
• debramastaler RT @tweetmeme 12 Steps for a DIY Site Review | Internet Marketing Blog http://bit.ly/70twj4/28
• CarrieHill Hi Everyone – I’d love some feedback on my SEW article!  “Don’t Ignore your Sitemap!”  http://tr.im/jUvy – any other tips for sitemap opti?
• Google Launches Public Data Search & Charts During Wolfram Alpha Demo
• Google Study On Sitemaps
• My Nasty GoogleMaps Media Post Quote http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=104993
• Where To Find Social Media Power Users
• Are Shortened URL Links Worth The Trouble?
• Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop 1.0 released, CNet
• The extreme Google brain, Joe Clark
• Google’s CEO Gets an Official Seat at President Obama’s Table, mashable.com
• Get Longer Google AdWords Titles Through Dynamic Keyword Insertion, Search Engine Roundtable
• Should Google Make the AdWords Professionals Exam Harder?, Search Engine Roundtable
• 10 Ways to Be a Great SEO, Search Engine Journal
• Do site load times have an impact on Google rankings?, YouTube
• How to optimize YouTube Videos for top ranking, Pandia
• What’s it take to be a social media expert? Not much, apparently, Econsultancy
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10228685-71.html
• Back to Basics: Using Motion Charts, Google Analytics Blog
• http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/04/35-non-google-seo-how-tos-tutorials-other-resources.html

4/27

• Google Maps Pulling In Geotagged Flickr Photos
  Is The Hype Over Google AdWords Quality Score Justified?
• RT @thelostagency: CMO STUDY 55% disagree “We trust our ad agency to provide us with digital marketing expertise” http://ff.im/-2nty5
• Twitter Marketing: Why You Don’t Need to Mass Follow Users
• How To Monitor Your Rankings Using Google Analytics Advanced Filter Segmentation
• tamar a list of journalists on twitter: http://muckrack.com/
• How To Submit Your Site To Ask.com
• SEOAly RT @jillwhalen: Great article…”Can Microsites Harm Your Primary Site’s Rankings?” http://cli.gs/60EXha (Answer is yes, from my experience)
• FTC says Internet firms near last chance, Reuters
• Google Maps Data Quality: Where do we stand after the Locksmith Onslaught?, Mike Blumenthal
• 10 linkbait strategies to build links and drive traffic, Econsultancy
• Low Hanging Fruit and PPC Keyword Opportunities, Search Engine Journal
• How Google Treats Punctuation, Search Engine Journal
• http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/04/how-search-history-influences-google-adwords.html
  World’s Best Headlines: BBC News, Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/24/a-sign-of-things-to-come-naked-pizza-erects-twitter-billboard/
• 8 Ways To Make Your Twitter Time More Productive, Shimon Sandler
• FBI accuses Twitter user of massacre threats, News.com
• Here Comes Twitter Spam And How To Fight It, TechCrunch
• Corporate Blogs and ‘Tweets’ Must Keep SEC in Mind, Wall Street Journal
• What Is Facebook Opening Up To Developers On Monday?, Allfacebook.com 4/24
• A Guide To Qualifying Link Prospects For Relevance, Value & Potentiality
• B2B Social Media Dashboard: A Powerful Tool To Uncover Key Customer Insights
• Stopping Annoying Calls with Google Voice, Barry Schwartz
• Newspapers: Pay Models Coming, Screenwerk4/22
• Twitter Tweets about Tool Time with Todd as of April 22, 2009 http://www.stuntdubl.com/tooltime/
• Google Maps: Upsurge in reports of Map Hijackings, Mike Blumenthal
• Is Backlink Age an Important SEO Factor?, Search Engine Journal
• Google Content Network performance whitepaper, AdWords Agency Blog
• Lowes vs. Home Depot | Which One Needs More PPC Improvement?, SEM Geek
• Checking a New Type of Google Result URL, Google Blogoscoped
• Buying Expired Domains: What’s the Best Strategy?, SEOmoz
• Lawyers Enter Twitter Tempest, New York Times
• Forrester Predicts Huge Growth for Social Media Marketing
• Use your Twitter account to track any metric & observe trends over time.
• http://www.twackit.com/ http://www.stuntdubl.com/2009/04/24/seo-code/ Read this4/20
• Google Adds Search By Similarity To Image Search
• Do Links From Expired Domains Count With Google?
• Tailor Your Ad Copy To Buy Cycle Stages
• Online Reputation Management: Who’s Talkin’ About Your Local Business?
• Why Google Is The New Pirate Bay, Forbes
• What’s missing from the Google/newspapers discussion, Strange Attractor
• Google Autofills Photos & Videos in Local Business Profiles, Small Business SEM
• Merchant Circle Hijacking Local Business Listings, The Musings of Nicholas Reese
• What is Merchant Circle up to now?, Mike Blumenthal
• Demystifying Google Quality Score & the Click Thru Rate Factor, Search Engine Journal
• A Minimalistic Paid Search Tip
• Google’s DoubleClick Unveils Network Builder, MediaPost
• http://lab.madgex.com/identify/
• Start optimising your one-line sitelinks, BlogStorm
• Counting the ways that rev=”canonical” hurts the Web, mnotâÄôs Web log
• April Sandbox Update!, Patrick Gavin
• How to rank well in google products search & a big list of places to get reviews, SEOmoz
• New Local SEO Tool – Address Extractor, SEOish
• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/business/media/20twitter.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
• Twitter overhyped, or another example of macromyopia?, Don Dodge
• Display Search Engine Rankings (SEO) in Google Analytics, WebShare Blog4/19
• Top 10 Social Networks for Entrepreneurs4/18
• Links That Might Not Appear As Link
• Everybody sign up for Webmaster world, free account www.webmasterworld.com 4/17
• Google Expands Sitelinks Beyond Top Search Result
• stonetemple RT @aimclear: Google’s  announcement on Tuesday didn’t mention the inclusion of RANKING DATA IN THE NEW STRING http://tinyurl.com/cce9v7
• A Deeper Look At Robots.txt
• Universal search engine dynamically generates guides to  queries, dozens of different content sources http://tinyurl.com/dmrmo9
• The Best in the Link Building Business: Most Linked-To Domains, SEOmoz
• New Interface Thursday: Using keyboard shortcuts, Inside AdWords
• Searches for Twitter Explode 130% in March’s Fastest Moving Search Terms Rankings, blog.compete.com4/16
• storyspinner Browsing: Power Twittering with TweetDeck http://tinyurl.com/c6mj5l
• raffikd Reading: 5 Reasons Your Google Rankings Can Drop (And How To Overcome Each Of Them) – http://tinyurl.com/c3o8jj4/15
• Thanks TR @szetela How to Weather a Twitterstorm http://tinyurl.com/dllffw
• http://www.majesticseo.com/comparedomainbacklinkhistory.php
• http://searchengineland.com/hitwise-google-maps-has-more-traffic-mapquest-more-engagement-17522
• The Importance Of Branded Search Programs (Even in Tough Economic Times)
• Hugely important for reputation management: Get a Vanity URL for your Google Profile Now, Digital Inspiration http://tinyurl.com/ces9vn
• Twitter is much smaller than one would think, even though it’s doubled in size. http://tinyurl.com/c9s7aj
• Will Facebook Become the Top Internet Site?, gesterling.wordpress.com
• Tuesday Mornings: Best Time To Send Out Link Request Emails, Search Engine Roundtable
• Paid Search Buying Cycle: More thoughts, Rimm Kaufman
• Write PPC Ads that Scream and Stand Out From the Pack, PPC Hero
• Google Search Prepares for Switching to Ajax, Google Operating System
• Google: Can rel=”canonical” index my hostname and not my IP address?, www.youtube.com
• Are You Leaking Juice?, SEOmoz
• SEO & Social Media Roadmap, Online Marketing Blog
• Oh, so now Twitter is making us immoral, news.cnet.com
• What You Need to Know about Social Media and LinkJuice, The SEO Scoop
• An upcoming change to Google.com search referrals; Google Analytics unaffected, Google Analytics Blog
  The most important question you can ask your team before installing analytics is…,
• www.bgtheory.com4/14
• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_sell_your_soul_on_twitter_and_whos_buying.php
• http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/04/google-earth-now-includes-us-third.html
• The Importance Of Brand And Networking, SEO Book
• 3 Awesome Multi-Feature SEO Toolbars Compared, Search Engine Journal
• There’s Way More than 2 Ways to Make Money with SEO, SEOmoz
• Mind-Blowing Facebook Stats and What to Do With Them
  http://janeandrobot.com/
• BIG DEAL Google Selectively Ignoring Meta Description Tags?, Search Engine Journal
  Google is algorithmically deciding whether the meta description tag sucks or not based upon how well the user query maps to the tag. If it sucks, they’ll show a relevant text snippet. If it’s good, they’ll show the tag verbatim. If my theory is correct, Google is removing the risk of using meta description tags that perhaps don’t map to all possible search engine queries. This certainly offers a better user experience (making the SERPS clearer for searchers) as well as a better SEO / Webmaster experience (solving the problem of having to writing meta description tags that map to all possible user intents which is impossible)4/13
• 9 Semantic Search Engines and How They Will Change Search
• Very interesting Google ranking experiment. 2 domains, 1yr, 2 methods; check this out: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3889779.htm.via 4/9
• Matt Cutts: If You Have Over 100 Links on a Page
  “If you end up with hundreds of links on a page, Google might choose not to follow or to index all those links. At any rate, you’re dividing the PageRank of that page between hundreds of links, so each link is only going to pass along a minuscule amount of PageRank anyway.”
• Duplicate Content Detection
• http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/03/25/number-of-us-facebook-users-over-35-nearly-doubles-in-last-60-days
• U.S. Online Advertising Seen Falling 5% This Year, seekingalpha.com
• http://www.socialdesire.com/2009/04/08/building-a-brand-through-social-media-im-spring-break/
• How Google’s Rankings Algorithm Has Changed Over Time, SEOmoz
• Links VS Content VS Rankings VS Search Traffic, SEO Book
• Optimizing Anchor Text and Titles, Stone Temple
• The 5 Minute SEO Site Audit Checklist, Search Engine People
• Before Building a Microsite ask Yourself These Ten SEO Questions, www.sitevisibility.co.uk
• Are You Blogging or Doing Social Media for SERPs, SEM Clubhouse
• How to Become a Super Tweeter in Just 15 Minutes a Day with iGoogle,
• micropersuasion.com
• Fantastic Technique to Track Google Local 10-pack Traffic4/8
• Learn .HTACCESS in 10 minutes
• Everything you wanted to know about Mod_Rewrite but were afraid to ask4/7
• Google continues to brainwash their users, turning them into brainless sheep http://tinyurl.com/dnaxut
• Building An Ad Attribution Model? You Need More Than Simple Math
• 21 Tips to Earn Links and Tweets to Your Blog Post, SEOmoz
• Analytics and AdWords tips – Part 1 of 4, Inside AdWords
• Ad Text Testing – a PPC Manager’s Constant Friend and Companion, PPC Hero – The article is very basic, but he links to a couple of other articles containing a few gold flakes.’Advertising That Resonates, SEO Book’Google’s Search-based Keyword Tool: Monetize The Long Tail of Search, Avinash Kaushik
• Domaining and SEO Revisited, Again, John Andrews
• SEO Basics: 6 Tips for Google Webmaster Tools, Online Marketing Blog4/6
  http://www2.webmasterradio.fm/ppc-rockstars/2009/google-conversion-optimizer/4/3
• Ultimate SEO Guide for 2009 Serious Technical Stuff, obscure tags & elements, but an interesting read
• OneRiot Offers Twitter Search … With a Twist
• How To Optimize Your Page Titles For Singular & Plural Terms
• this is cool, we know how to do this though
• Could Twitter Cannibalize the Web’s Link Graph, SEOmoz
• Ad Scheduling: it’s all about timing, AdWords API Blog
• Three Easy Ways to Geotarget Your Search Results, outspokenmedia.com
• Twitter Contests and Incentives – Do they Work, Michael Gray
• How to Abuse the New DiggBar for Fun and Profit – michael gray4/2
• WordStream RT @aimclear: Too Many URLs Spoil the SEO: Fixing a Common Ecommerce Duplicate Content Problem http://tinyurl.com/cnjwoo
• Google Showing Local Results On Non-Local Queries
• Google Mobile Evangelists Argue For “Best Practices” On Widely Read Publications
• http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/03/mobile-internet-usage-and-useful-mobile.html
• How Important is the Landing Page to AdWords Quality Score?, Brad Geddes
• Can I disallow crawling of my CSS and JavaScript files?, YouTube
• Multiple Robots.txt Files for Single Domain, Search Engine Roundtable3/30
• Google: Some AdWords Ads May Exceed Character Limit
• The genius behind Google’s web browser, FT.com
• Ignorng The Content Network? Think Again To Vastly Improve Conversions
• Is Facebook Purposefully Lowballing Its Official User Numbers?, TechCrunch
• Google Saves $8.6 Million Per Year Not Playing Warner Music Videos, businessinsider.com
• IAB Reports Internet Advertising Grew 10 Percent Last Year; Outpacing TV, TechCrunch
• Steel Cage Debate On The Future Of Online Advertising: Danny Sullivan Vs. Eric Clemons, TechCrunch
• New Tool in AdWords That Tells You Which Keywords Are Inactive, PPC Hero
• Is Game Playing the Future Ranking System for Search Results?, SEO By The Sea
• YouTube Plans Redesign to Highlight Premium Content, ClickZ 3/29
• Using the Kick Ass “Top Pages on Domain” SEOmoz tool
  
  3/28
• Google – Managing the Content Network in the New AdWords Interface, www.youtube.com
• Google Voice to Allow Number Porting, lifehacker.com
• The Potential for Facebook Search Kicks Twitter’s Butt, staynalive.com
• Check Out ExecTweets, blog.twitter.com
• The business model begins: Twitter to promote FM and Microsoft-backed ExecTweets, VentureBeat
• Twimailer Makes Twitter Email Alerts More Friendly, Useful, webworkerdaily.com
• Hulu Gains 10 Million Viewers In February, Now No. 4 Video Site In U.S., TechCrunch
• PPC Cannibalization : Are you paying for free traffic ?
• Google Implements ‘Orion’ Technology, Improves Search Refinements & Adds Longer Snippets
• Leveraging Small Business Customer Reviews and Testimonials Online, Search Engine Journal
• Google Will Own Realtime Search by Indexing, Filtering and Ranking Tweets Better than Twitter, Jonathan Mendez’s Blog
• Search plugin which disables personalized search in Google, for IE and FF
• Presentation Skills for SEO, SEOmoz
• Too Many URLs Spoil the SEO: Fixing a Common Ecommerce Duplicate Content Problem, www.getelastic.com
• Two questions about the link: operator, www.youtube.com
• Ultimate Guide to Twitter Hashtags, Search Engine Journal3/27
• Searching For Healthcare Solutions: Electronic Health Records Initiative Faces Significant Obstacles
• Are The Search Engines Really Indexing Flash?
• iGoogle’s got game… themes!, Official Google Blog
• An Impressive Case Study in Link Acquisition: OpenCube.com, SEOmoz
• A FeedBurner Alternative: Blitz Your RSS!, feedblitz.blogspot.com
• Firms Track and Sell Data on All Your Web Clicks, New York Times3/20
• Thin Slicing – Stephan Spencer Not a new post, but still an enjoyable read.3/18
• Szetela Upload Your Google AdWords Campaigns into Yahoo and MSN adCenter in a Flash! http://bit.ly/5gvBw
• ‘Reciprocal Link Cloaking’, SEO ‘Experts’ and why you need to be very careful Interesting read, but why even solicit in the first place, low tier & dated practices.
• 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams
• Google’s Matt Cutts On Keywords In The URL Oh he’s so diplomatic, of course SEO’s are going to get granular about URL, don’t be condescending.
• Making Sense Of All The Data: Google, Hadoop & Cloudera
• Despite The Hype, Twitter Isn’t A Mainstream Social Marketing Tool
• How Many 301s Are Too Many?
• Rewriting the Beginner’s Guide Part IX: Myths, Penalties and Spam, SEOmoz
• Twitter Tip: How to Use Google to Search Specific Twitterstreams
• Google Reveals 57% of DMCA Takedown Notices are Bogus, Marketing Pilgrim
• Do Not Overlook the Importance of the Display URLs in PPC Ads, SEOmoz
• Google’s Keyword Tool Getting To Broad, Search Engine Roundtable
• SEO’s Split on Importance of Specialization in Industry Sectors, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google Confirms “Typically” Treating / & /index.html The Same, Search Engine Roundtable
• Yahoo Search Marketing Adds Enhanced Targeting Features
• comScore: 63 Million On Mobile Internet, 35 Percent Using It Daily
• Evaluating Paid Search Performance In A Down Economy
• Local Search Means Business
• WeFollow – New Twitter Directory From Kevin Rose
• Ad Execs Remain Most Confident Of Online Media, But That Sentiment Is Eroding Fast, MediaPost
• Discover How Carefully Planned PPC Account Structures Save Time when Running Reports and
• ·       Managing Campaigns, PPC Hero
• Hyperlinks Subvert Hierarchy, SEO Book
• What are the Top Phrases for Your Website?, SEO By The Sea 3/16
• 30+ Google Analytics Tools, Goals, Segments, Filters, Hacks & Resources
  searchthetail.com/
• Use tool to find possible negative keywords.3/12
• Google Gets Into Behavioral Targeting, Launches “Interest-Based Advertising” Beta
• In addition, users have control over these categories and can add or remove categories in the user ad preferences section at google.com/ads/preferences.
• Fortune 500 Still ‘Largely Invisible’ In Natural Search, Study Says
• Do SEOs Really Need Direct Industry Experience To Be Effective?
• Facebook Advertising – An Opportunity for Deep Targeting at Very Low Cost, SEOmoz
• New from Harvard: Berkman Center Launches Media Cloud Research Tools, ResourceShelf
• TechFuga Updates Its News Aggregator. Now, With Twitter Search!, TechCrunch
• URL Rewrites and Redirects: The Gory Details (Part 2 of 2) http://tinyurl.com/bye6qo
• http://www.markmonitor.com/
• http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090311_813488.htm
• Universal Image Optimization, beu blog
• ffwd Hops on Twitter Bandwagon with Twitmatic, NewTeeVee
• Google’s Matt Cutts Talks About Redirected Links & Nofollowed Links Matt Cutts of Google has posted two short videos on the topic of links. One video answers how Google handles links that are 301 redirected and the other video answers how Google handles nofollowed links from authority sources. Here is Matt’s video on 301 redirects where the question asked is does anchor text carry through […]
• Build Links with Instructional Content, Daily SEO Tip
• Does Google Care If A Link Is Underlined? – SEO FAQ, seoroi.com
• Announcing New Targeting Filters, Facebook Ads’s Notes 3/11
• http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2004_09_16_index.html
  http://www.seobook.com/google-phorm-behavioral-ad-targeting-based-your-browsing-data#comment-34569
• http://yoast.com/tools/
• http://0at.org/everything Killer Ass Linkbait Matt Inman
• http://www.semportland.com/sf09slides/ Password: 09sf09 SEMpdx Slides 2009
• Paid Search Automation: Choosing A Vendor
• http://searchengineland.com/how-to-use-twitter-for-local-marketing-16809
• How to Fix “Place Closed” in Google Maps, Mike Blumenthal
• Google’s Keyword Tool Acting Funky?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Understanding Intentions and Microsoft Search Personalization, SEO By The Sea
• Google’s Sandbox Still Exists: Exemplified by Grader.com, SEOmoz
• SEO & Analytics: 4 Useful Ways To Assess Your Organic Traffic, Search Engine Journal
• URL Case in SEO Matters, Search Engine Roundtable
• 9 Twitter Search Apps : Better Than Twitter & Google, Search Engine Journal
• The Optimization of Twitter Titles
• Backlink Anchor Text Analysis: Powered by Linkscape, SEOmoz: Super cool!! I don’t think you can really do this job well if you don’t have Linkscape, will continue to be a game changer
• 88 greaFacebook Sending More Traffic Than Google to Some Sites, Ad Age
• 55% Of SEO Companies Won’t Offer Pay For Performance Deals, Search Engine Roundtable
• Crawl Your Site for Broken Links, Errors and Duplicate Content, Daily SEO Tip
• How many linksper page?, Matt Cutts
• Retweet RT @ – Twitter Retweeting Rules of Engagement, SEO Consultants
  http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html3/9
• Importance Of SEO Makes Front Page Of Los Angeles Times
• http://searchengineland.com/google-maps-allows-third-parties-to-close-local-businesses-16820
• Search and Trends On Twitter Begins Showing Up
• Is Google Rewiring Our Brains?3/6
• Google Won’t Remove that Page You Don’t Like, But You (or Your SEO) Can, SEOmoz
• http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43451 (Twitter in Google Search Results)
• http://www.youtube.com/signup?hl=en_US&next=https%3A//ads.youtube.com/dashboard3/6
• Link to a Specific Part of a Youtube Video
• Getting Better Understanding of Google & Yahoo SERPs with Search Cloudlet
• Twist: See Trends in Twitter
• The Changing Face of Search, Is Google Losing its Grip?3/4
• Thesis Tutorial – Adding Date Based Triggers to Your Posts
• HtAccess Cheat Sheet
• When Twitter Promotions Bite Back
• Not everyone has the aptitude for SEO 3/3
• How To Use Images Successfully On Social Media Sites
• Real Impact of Google Quality Score In AdWords PPC, Search Engine Journal
• Announcing Blogscape and SEOmoz Labs, SEOmoz
• Video: SEO Metrics to Replace PageRank?, WebProNews
• 7 Essential SEO Cheat Sheets, Search Engine Journal
• Google Analytics Launches Individual Qualification Program, Google3/2
• Microsoft Live Search Tests: Best Match And Categorized Listings
• New Tool Adds Twitter Search To Google
• The Evolving State Of Social Media & SEO
• Everything You Need To Know About AdWords Display URLs
• Leveraging Social Media For Local SEO
• Linkscape Index Update – With Focus on Quality, SEOmoz
• New Use for Canonical Tag – Geolocation, McAnerin Muse
• Time For Verified Twitter Accounts & An Easy Way To Do It
• http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/worried-google-search-wiki/
  As a marketer it really has become an imperative that you understand and start to interact with search wiki. If you think this is never going to have some input into the algo and rankings, you’re not looking at the handwriting on the wall. It’s coming whether you like it or not.3/1
• 10 Must Have SEO Plugins for WordPress http://www.oilman.ca/random/yahoo-search-submit-broken-down/2/28
• http://www.twitalyzer.com
• http://www.brysonmeunier.com/dropping-advanced-keyword-research-science-at-smx-west-2009
• Szetela IAB Announces Click Measurement Guidelines: http://bit.ly/kKPTH &  http://bit.ly/VBbZW
• Yahoo Search Submit Explained
• www.getlisted.org2/27
• http://fantomaster.com/fantomNews/archives/2007/06/29/black-seo-tactics-fighting-dirty/ 2/26

• http://www.rankpulse.com/
• fantomaster RT @JonathanGunson: Clever YouTube traffic tactic http://tr.im/gNr5
• http://www.scienceforseo.com/seo-marketing/hitwiselong-tail-queries-up-and/
• Some Nifty SEO Tools to Check Out (2): Mass Content Generation
• Szetela Get Your Geek ON! Amazing #PPC Keyword Tools: http://cli.gs/3D9WbS
• NorthSouthMedia @onreact_com Tad, have you tried Clicky : http://getclicky.com/
• leeodden RT @johnbattelle “twitter=youtube” http://tinyurl.com/bo6ezj mind blowing: youtube is #2 site for search. what an opportunity for google.
• Should YouTube Sponsored Video Ads Be In Your Marketing Mix?
• Report: Lack Of Buying Searchers Leading To Depressing Search Ad Market
• Make sure your Google Analytics & AdWords accounts are linked by March 3rd, 09, Brad Geddes
• Vertical Search and Video SEO – SEM Synergy Extras, BruceClay.com
• Many SEOs Get Their Hands Dirty By Coding Web Sites, Search Engine Roundtable
• The SEOmoz Advanced SEO Training DVD Series Now Available, SEOmoz2/25
• avinashkaushik I like Twitter. I like Omniture. Adam puts the 2 together in a lovely proof of concept: http://tr.im/gLYS [just 2 mess /w his #’s: Comca
• 5 Reasons You Should Link Out to Others From Your Website, SEOmoz
• Researching Negative Keywords in adCenter, adCenter Blog for Advertisers
• Get All of Your AdWords PPC Tools in Place, PPC Hero
• Google, Yahoo Prepare to Tighten Grip on Search Ads, Ad Age
• IM Charity Party at SES NY March 23rd, Michael Gray
• Google’s New Search Engine Rankings Places Heavy Empahsis on Branding, SEO Book2/24
• http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=100845
• http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=90758
• Post-Click Marketing For Search Marketers
• 12 ‘DoFollow’ Video Sharing Sites to Distribute Videos and Build Links, Search Engine Journal
• Nofollow is Dying: The Impact of Micro-Blogging and Nofollow on SEO, SEOmoz
• Searchfest 2009 Interview: Marty Weintraub, SEMpdx Blog
• Using Directories for Search Engine Reputation Management, Marketing Pilgrim
• February ‘09 Google Image Search Update?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Seo Value? Picnik Is Emerging As One Of The Fastest-Growing Photo Sites On The Web, TechCrunch
• How will XHTML 2.0 affect the way we do SEO
• Get Natural ‘DoFollow’ Links from Delicious, Search Engine Journal
• Track SERPs, Blogs, Social Media and More with Trackle, Search Engine Journal
• Using Facebook to Promote Your Business, SEO.com
• http://www.bgtheory.com/blog/how-to-view-google-analytics-funnels-for-segmented-data/
• For Suffix Sake How Do you Handle Multiple TLD’s
• 12 ‘DoFollow’ Video Sharing Sites to Distribute Videos & Build Links2/19
• RL Rewrites and Redirects: The Gory Details (Part 1 of 2)
• Recent Google AdWords Quality Score Slap?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Must-See SMX Keynote from West Video: Danny Sullivan on Improvements for the Search Engines from SMX West, WebProNews
• Can’t Shake A Google Penalty? What To Do Next?, Search Engine Roundtable2/18
• What’s Your Image Alt Text Usage Strategy?
• Search for Backlink Opportunities on Facebook
• Test Your Blog
• Do You Care Who Your Domain IP Address Neighbors Are?
• 3 Ways to Give Your Keywords Prominence
• More on Using Excel to Plan Your On-Site SEO
• http://raven-seo-tools.com/ Can supposedly deliver accurate SERP rankings reports for up to 1000 keywords/phrases, interesting.
• Study on the Structure of Search Queries
• http://www.seomoz.org/blog/Canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps
• How To Track Keyword-Based Tweets Within Your Twitter Stream
• Gmail Labs Adds Location To Signatures
• How to Rank for Your Local Keywords in Google Maps, Search Engine Journal
• Google Local Business Center 2) choose your keywords and 3) verify by phone or snail mail. Good to know.
• Tips and Tools for Expanding Keywords Lists, Google Analytics Blog
• Alexa Updates Numbers: Should We Care?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Exclusive video interview with Google’s Matt Cutts detailing  Canonical Tag announcement
  http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/02/13/canonical-tag-announced-googles-matt-cutts-interviewed
• Options for Caching Attachments in Gmail Offline, Google Operating System
• Optimising PPC Insurance Campaigns, adCenter Blog for Advertisers
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