John Battelle - Searchblog
CM Summit NYC VideosIn case you missed the CM Summit in NYC and want to see what happened, there were some great moments, and they are up on the site now. Don't miss Rich Silverstein, or Beth Comstock, or all the other goodness.......
» 3 Jul 2008, 4:38 pm
Open SearchI am thinking hard about the impact of open search - the idea that a major search index becomes totally open to developers, an open API, etc. that allows search to become a true platform that people can develop on top of. I'd love your thoughts on this....writing this...
» 3 Jul 2008, 12:04 am
Twitter v. BlogSomehow, this felt fine on Twitter: My Mac FAILED. After downloading a new OS (560 MBS!!!!) Rummaged around and found a four year old OSX disc...and MAGIC. It worked! But wrong on this site. The magic was truly ... magic. I booted off the CD I found, it checked...
» 2 Jul 2008, 11:47 pm
More Fun for Yahoo, DOJ Moves InThe DOJ is reviewing the Google/Yahoo deal. Expected, to be sure, but still, not a lot of fun for a place that has not had tons of fun lately....
» 2 Jul 2008, 9:40 am
The Passing of a LegendClay Felker, a legend in magazines and journalism, died today. I had to honor to work with Clay Felker for a few years, making magazines and websites as part of my time at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He was in poor health for much of the...
» 1 Jul 2008, 1:45 pm
Powerset Goes to MSFTMore here......
» 1 Jul 2008, 12:36 pm
Flash Is SearchableThis is a Big Deal. Now, I want to know: how will Flash files be ranked? Any ideas? Adobe is a major competitor to Microsoft in this front. How will Microsoft make Silverlight searchable? And will Google index all both equally? (My take: Oh yes it will. If it...
» 30 Jun 2008, 10:18 pm
Google's Affiliate Network: This Is A Product Launch? No, It Is Not.Google rebranded its Performics affiliate network, which it acquired as part of Doubleclick, as "Google Affiliate Network," apparently sometime over the past few days. I say "apparently" because I can't find any actual Google press release on the subject. It was blogounced, apparenty: Announced on Performics' blog, and possibly...
» 30 Jun 2008, 9:38 pm
It's All In The QuestionKevin Kelly makes the point, riffing on Chris's ideas about the "end of theory."...
» 30 Jun 2008, 11:59 am
Second Day Story on Ad PlannerMediaWeek reports: After taking several days to digest the news, the digital media world has reached the conclusion that the launch of Google’s new media planning product isn’t likely to bring upheaval to the Web metrics business. And it probably doesn’t represent the feared first step towards total advertising—and...
» 30 Jun 2008, 9:26 am
Sergey Leaves Google (OK, not THAT Sergey...)From Dare's blog, a posit that folks are leaving Google for Microsoft, driven by his anecdotal observations and blog post from a guy named Sergey Solyanik: So why did I leave? There are many things about Google that are not great, and merit improvement. There are plenty of silly...
» 29 Jun 2008, 10:37 pm
Joost de Valk - SEO Blog
Annoyances and weird stuffSo somebody copied virtually all the code from my robots meta plugin, put it in a "Platinum SEO" plugin, and conveniently forgot to attribute the code to me... The GPL isn't that hard to deal with, but somehow, people manage to fuck even that up. I've emailed them and posted a formal complaint to the [...]
» 27 Jun 2008, 1:52 pm
How to destroy your reputation with 1 postGino Goossens is teaching those who can read Dutch just how to do that... Ok, I should explain that a bit more for those who can't read Dutch: Gino did a post on how to make RFP's for web analytics. In itself it wasn't bad, but he felt he had to comment about just about [...]
» 25 Jun 2008, 2:16 pm
Danny Sullivan speaks at SES San Jose!I'm in Hamburg for SES, which is btw, a great show, with about 350 people attending. We had a great night yesterday starting with the launch party of Timo Aden and Lennart Paulsen's new company Trakken GMBH! During that party we did a show of Webmasters on the Roof. Kevin Ryan of SES was in that show, and [...]
» 24 Jun 2008, 4:08 am
Crawl Rate TrackerMy friend Patrick Altoft and I were talking about his crawl rate tracker plugin yesterday, discussing some possible new features. He mentioned that it didn't work on 2.5, more specifically, that the install failed on 2.5. Luckily, Mezza had e-mailed him a fix, I tested it for him and it proved to work. Next [...]
» 20 Jun 2008, 5:06 am
Winners!First of all, I want to congratulate Idealizer with winning the free ticket to SES Hamburg. He understand best what these conferences are about for Marcus, Matt and me ;). I will contact you for the details! Thx to everyone who participated, hope to see you there! There's a few other things I wanted to mention. [...]
» 19 Jun 2008, 12:42 pm
B2B SEO: Marketing strategy for specific nichesThis is a guest post by my Onetomarket colleague Erik-Jan Bulthuis. You'll be seeing more guest posts from him and other people in the future! Business to business marketing is a strange thing. In some ways, it cannot be compared to business to consumer marketing: The market is much smaller The products and services are more complex Sales take [...]
» 19 Jun 2008, 12:05 pm
Reminder: win a Ticket for SES HamburgWe're deciding tonight, so if you still want to enter, leave your three reasons to go to SES Hamburg here! Text Verified by WhiteSmoke Software. This is a post from Joost de Valk’s SEO Blog. If you want to track how applying Joost's tips is increasing your rankings, consider rank tracker, it's the best rank tracker out [...]
» 18 Jun 2008, 1:45 am
My redesign: the homepageQuite a few people have been e-mailing me how I managed to get my homepage design done in WordPress, especially with the different featured blocks. So, since this site is all about sharing, let me show you! This is all done in the index.php file of my theme. The first block, the intro, is just hard [...]
» 17 Jun 2008, 2:17 pm
WordPress GoodiesA small update to say I've fixed one plugin and added another resource for WordPress fanatics. First of all, I used to think that with the release of WordPress 2.3 and 2.5, the need for my Permalink Redirect plugin had gone away. However, I noticed that some friends of mine had loads of indexed URL's [...]
» 16 Jun 2008, 1:50 pm
TwitterCounter chicklet!Fellow Dutchman Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten has created a new service called TwitterCounter, a nice little service to show you your followers over time and, more importantly in my opinion: it gives you a nice little chicklet, FeedBurner style, to show off your followers, check out mine: I'd say go get one for yourself, and show [...]
» 13 Jun 2008, 3:39 am
Learning SEO Basics
FireFox Sets Guinness World Record!Woohoo! Just got this in the mail. Gotta love FireFox! We did it! We set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. With your help we reached 8,002,530 downloads.
» 2 Jul 2008, 7:28 pm
We Optimize What?I stopped by my buds place (SEOpsCentre) today. Found this so I thought I’d share. From “I’m Not An SEO (Can I be an SRO instead?)” - “I don’t Optimize Search Engines. That’s what Matt Cutts and the rest of the algorithm-tweakers in the Googleplex do. If anyone deserves to be called Search Engine Optimizers, it’s them [...]
» 2 Jul 2008, 4:47 pm
iHateClick on either image to get full view. (from my Live journal blog)
» 2 Jul 2008, 3:00 pm
Ethical Marketing - Myth or Reality?This is a blockquoted article that further details my agitation with those that use ethics as a marketable manipulation tool. This clarifies how wide spread lack of ethics is, especially with those that love to ‘talk’ about ethics (from both sides of their mouth) definition of blockquote: A large quote in a document is usually inserted as a [...]
» 2 Jul 2008, 8:05 am
Consumers Union - Non Profit Publisher of Consumer ReportsWhat is The Consumers Union and what can it do for you? “Consumers Union (CU) is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization, [...]
» 1 Jul 2008, 6:59 am
On Page SEO“Is your On Page SEO strong enough? Honing your on page factors, sculpting page rank, funneling link weight and consolidating anchor text is only one facet of content optimization. Search engines assess your pages first to determine your sites relevance and how your pages measure up to existing pages in the search index on the topic.” Read [...]
» 30 Jun 2008, 10:00 am
Michael Moore’s Activism Against HMO’s - SickoIf you think I’M opinionated, you ought to hear Michael Moore and his antics. I watched one of his documentaries over the weekend, “Sicko“, and it inspired me to buy every one of his films. He’s witty, he’s opinionated, and determined to uncover injustices. “Sicko” explains the foul play behind HMO’s and the detriment to [...]
» 30 Jun 2008, 6:50 am
The Two Faces of the Ethical CoinIs Li Evans talking out of both sides of her mouth? Is she discussing ethics vigor because she uses it as a means of gain? Do loyal readers and followers equal job security for her? When I think of her and many others, the first thing that comes to mind is “Greenwashing“. “attempting to preserve and expand their markets [...]
» 27 Jun 2008, 7:59 pm
Website Evaluation Tool - SEOgroupI noticed an avatar in this sites MyBlogLog widget that I am not used to seeing, so I visited their profile. It led me to the MyBlogLog profile for SEO group. I then visited their main site, seogroup, and the seogroup blog. I dropped a comment on one of their previous posts, “Search Marketing & SEO in [...]
» 27 Jun 2008, 1:38 pm
Ways For Nonprofits to Communicate OnlineRachel Fisher submitted this story to our FriendFeed nptech Room (non profit tech). “Online communication changes quickly. It’s hard to keep up and to know what will really help your NPO. Here is our list of the current top ten ways your NPO can communicate using the internet. We hope to post How-To articles on each of [...]
» 27 Jun 2008, 12:06 pm
Uh..trying to fly [Flickr]SpostareDuro posted a photo: Maybe I ought to keep my feet on the ground? Nah...
» 28 Apr 2008, 1:58 pm