Lecture on time management given at Carnegie Mellon University by computer science professor Randy Pausch. This video is an hour and eleven minutes long, but well worth it. Since it is a lecture, you can leave this video playing in the background as you dutifly work on your search engine optimization projects. Randy gives an…
I posted what I thought was an innocent search engine optimization question in Yahoo Answers. I simply asked how I could get data feeds and affiliate links for Yahoo content as is displayed on this monetized domain name: http://www.massagechairdirectory.com/. This site syndicates content from various Yahoo properties including Answers, Shopping, and tons of pay per…
I’m a sucker for deals and the AN Hosting “One Size Fits All” hosting plan is a great deal for people who need a basic web hosting account. AN hosting has had fairly positive reviews, the main concern being downtime, a self backup plan and no technical tech support. For new customers AnHosting has a…
The internet marketing directory topseos.com announced they are having a competition to allow the best search engine optimizers to show off their skills. Topseos.com is a web directory that lists SEO firms and ranks them based on how much money you give them, so in order to be in their featured SEO firm section you…
Everyone frets and worries about their website and this leads to over optimizing and spending money on useless SEO techniques. Safe yourself some money (and gray hairs!) and use this free search engine optimization advice to relax about the current state of your SERP’s. These are 10 things you worry about with your SEO campaign…
One of the latent myths of SEO is the need for a dedicated IP address. This search engine optimization falsehood was started in the late 1990’s and spread by many highly visible SEO’s including Bruce Clay’s inaccurate information. There is absolutely no need to get a dedicated IP address or a dedicated server for web…
Behold the spinning dancer, a dark female silhouette on a white background. Watch as she gracefully spins with computer animated wonder. This post has nothing to do with search engine optimization, it is just a cool image. Most people (myself included) will see the dancer spinning from left to right, clockwise. You have excess spleen…
Google introduced their entry into the mobile phone world 11/5/07 with the gPhone. The gPhone will not be a piece of hardware with standard mobile service, but a software platform and operating system on an open platform called Android running Linux that can run mobile Google apps and programs from developers. Google has created the…
Matt Cutts states that purchased links or text links ads are detected and given no ranking value about 95% of the time. It could be that Google is closer to detecting 99% of paid links. In general, it is link sellers who will be penalized, and often suffer a pagerank drop. There are 2 reasons…
Google has created an all encompassing programming API that will allow webmasters to share social applications between services. Partners include MySpace.com, Beebo.com, Ning.com, Engage.com, Friendster.com, hi5.com, Hyves.com, imeem.com, LinkedIn.com, Oracle.com, orkut.com, Plaxo.com, Salesforce.com, SixApart.com, Tianji.com, Viadeo.com, and XING.com. This is a huge list of major web services companies and web 2.0 sites that attract young…