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In an email from Trellian concerning Yahoo Paid Inclusion products I was issued the following warning

Official notification to all Trellian affiliates, partners and resellers that are promoting Priority Submit services.

As of the 1st March 2004 the following programs and services will no longer
supported or offered:
- Inktomi Search Submit
- AltaVista Express Submit
- Fast PartnerSite

Please update your websites and any promotional materials to remove these Search Engines services from your offerings before this date. Any reseller orders received on the 1st of March will NOT be able to be processed.

What will the new Yahoo Paid Inclusion Become?

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I am moving to another land and time zone...alright maybe its the same timezone, but its a long drive. I will be back online in a few days...

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Who is this Linking Tips Post for?
The recent rash of SEO firms that have been asking for links off of me.

Why this Post about Link Requests?
While a few guys have been courtious, I have seen some real igornant stuff today. These link building strategies are not really strategies, just dumb.

What are some of the Exampes of Terrible Link Requests?

"Hi Aaron,

I was wondering if you would be so kind to add a link to xxxxx.
On your links page you mentioned that you are open to suggestions.

Xxxxx is one of the SEO leaders in the UK and Europe and has handled big
names and brands and it would probably deserve a spot on your links page for that. It's one of the few Scottish companies that have achieved such a
tremendous status.

Hope you will consider my request and please forgive me if it offends you in any
way."

This guy requested a link by saying his site deserves one. What is that?

Another large SEO company today spammed me with a link exchange request for their pharmacy from my drug information website.

Another firm used the "Where is our link?" question. A blunt answer to people using that technique is that "it will never be on my site." Of course I will not reply to their spam as it will only get me on more spam link request lists.

How do You Request a Link?
Find the webmasters details. In a personal manner contact them and explain where your link should be includded and how it adds value to their user experience. At the very least offer a link exchange back if you can not do a good job of explaining how your site adds value. When you offer a link exchange make sure you put your link up BEFORE you contact the person.

There is a bunch more to it, but that little paragraph would help the above SEO firms a great deal in their conquests.

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A few days back I stated that the new Verizon SuperPages would be a much more functional idea if they also added the pay per click dutch auction model to their category priced listings. Today they did. SuperPages is to use FindWhat to suppliment its local listings with national and local pay per click ads.

FindWhat also recently purchased Comet Systems.

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The SEO Wars

Recently there has been a huge battle between different SEO firms as to who is using the correct methodology.

Linking is the Only Thing That Matters

Some people believe that linking alone is all you need.
John Scott (of Internet Marketing Research) & Phil Craven (of Web Workshop) are some of the major proponents behind this line of thinking.
The Basic Concepts of SEO

The problem with this idea is that buying links does not ad value. If one were exclusively focused on buying links then their site would not be operating as efficiently as it could be.

Quality Content Wins

Others think you need to create wonderful content that will make people want to link to it. The problem is that people will not be able to find it until there are some links.
Jill Whalen (of Highrankings.com) is a big propenent of this idea.

The Truth About SEO and Spam

Either way you look at it, all SEO is at least a mild version of spam, or there is no such thing as spam. - What the HELL is spam?

SEO's Fighting

There has been a bunch of bickering. Entire websites of hate content have been built for certain members of the SEO community and people are making slanderous remarks about each other in forums.

SEO Links, Content, + Reality

What it all boils down to is that links or content works UP TO A POINT, but greater success can be achieved by mixing links + content.

SEO Methodology + Terminology

Some people use different terminology for different things. Some people register sites. Some people buy or rent links. When you buy a Yahoo! listing at $299 / year, are you doing any more than renting links? Because Yahoo! is collecting that money is it any more honest than getting a link from Freds Farm Equipent? Why?

Discuss SEO, Content, Links, and Cheese!

Chris Ridings posted a great article on the subject for discussion in the SearchGuild forums "Content is King, is the King Dead."

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Despite the ads which show on some of my pages, this Google AdWords entry should show that my site is not intentionally biased toward any particular engine.

Google AdWords Account Syndication

There are many unique controls and ideas within the Google AdWords system. One of the more interesting features is ad syndication.

Google will allow you to target your site to

• Google

• Google + other search sites
• Google + content sites
• Google + other search sites + content sites

Google AdWords Price Formula
Unlike many other pay per click search engine marketing systems, Google factors click through rate into the click price. [bid * click through rate = click price].

Google AdWords Click Through Rate Calculation
Content sites provide unpredicatable click through rates. Google does not use these sites to figure out the average click through rate. Google figures out the click through rate by looking at the average click through rate for the last 1,000 SEARCH ad impressions for that keyword. Until your ad gets to 1,000 impressions your click through rate is figured in at 1%. A well targeted ad will pull many times that 1% click through rate.

The whole point of this post is that it is may not worth paying for CONTENT syndication until your click through rates (and prices) have been established.

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Many webmasters have complained that Google AdSense was limiting their design ability. Google has came to answer these people with new ad formats.

Instead of the basic 4 AdSense layouts there are now 10 AdSense layouts to chose from. View the new Google AdSense layouts.

Google AdSense also supports new languages: Dutch and Portuguese

Aaron Schwartz's Google Weblog had his home page down. When you searched for it the first post that came up was his post that says he is killing the Google Weblog and is now going to craft an Overture Blog, from March of last year...I saw this at like 2 in the morning when I was tired and did not realize it was from last March. Many others syndicated this too :)
That shows the power of a funny blog post.

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I think there should be an award that goes out for the website that releases the most unimportant SEO news of the year and feeds it into large distribution.

So far what I have seen is

• Macon Area Online putting out a garbage PR about how they listed well in Google and Yahoo (no less than twice.)

• A heavily syndicated INCORRECT ARTICLE which states that Google powers MSN. Some claimed "SEO experts" have syndicated this crap and placed it in there news without even stating that it was COMPLETELY WRONG
• Today we have MetaMend creating another proprietary meta tag "to power the next generation of search engine" In the past they also created something similar with the low quality ExactSeek search engine product. - Why would an SEO firm decide how a search engine should work? That is putting the cart in front of the horse at its very finest.

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Many of the Yellow Pages type companies are learning that their content has value online.

On March the 1st SuperPages, Verizon's Internet Yellow Pages website, will launch a redesigned website which includes pay per click advertising. Duncan Parry previews the PPC product that will be on offer and asks James Palma, Directory of Strategy, how SuperPages aims to sell PPC advertising to local businesses. - from PayPerClickAnalysis.com article

• Verison is planning on charging by category to help business save time.

• The associated prices will weed out much of the advertising from the smaller unique competitors who are the ones that actually add the true value to the Verison SuperPages site.
• A much better way to price it would be to sell as a hybrid. Offer the category listings, and also sell keyword listings in a Dutch auction. Assuming they could place the direct matches about their category listings, this would increase the quality of their product and allow them to sell more ad space.

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Now the super powers of search are:
Google
Yahoo!
& soon to be MSN

Yahoo! uses the Yahoo Directory to add relevancy to its search.
Google uses the Open Directory to add relevancy to its search.
MSN will eventually use their brand spankin new MSN directory which they have been starting from scratch.
(found in Highranking Forum)

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Do Links Count from Unrelated Sites?
Yes. Links count even if it is from an unrelated site.
Links count even more if they are from on topic sites.

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Web Beacon is a spankin new web directory which was built off of the same core data as GoGuides.

Helping Out

They do not have any editors yet so go get the category of your choice. Web Beacon has the same $39.99 one time listing fee as GoGuides, but no PageRank. I am going to give it a few links here and there to help bump them up to at least a 5 :)

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It seems as though Yahoo! intends to separate its own site from Inktomi in some form. On the PositionTech website the following warning exists.

"IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT INKTOMI SEARCH SUBMIT:
Yahoo! Search has transitioned to its own search technology and is preparing to launch a new inclusion program. As a bonus for Search Submit customers, Yahoo! Search is providing a free trial of Yahoo! traffic that will end on April 15, 2004. When the new inclusion program launches, Search Submit customers will have the option of joining the new program for ongoing participation in Yahoo! Search results."

Two Yahoo! Search Indexes:
Some people have been questioning if Yahoo! Slurp is creating an entirely new index. Certainly the upcomming Yahoo! Search paid product would lead one to believe they are trying to create multiple different search indexes.

More info on the new Yahoo! Search:
They answer many questions about Yahoo! Slurp on their Yahoo! Slurp FAQ page.

Yahoo! Slurp indexes the first 500k of any web page, which is a significant improvement from the 100k Google indexes. They also have improved the relevance of the Yahoo! Search index by using existing spam filters which processing millions of emails each day. Today Search Engine Watch did an in depth review of the new Yahoo! Search product.

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More on Dipsie

For a good little bit Gary Price has stated that he would interview Jason Weiner, the creator of Dipsie.
Gary wrote about the interview on his ResourceShelf blog.

Some of the more interesting highlights of Dipsie are:

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Andy Beal of Search Engine Lowdown stated that Yahoo! made the switch from Google to Inktomi. Earlier today I was still seeing Google results on Yahoo!, but am now seeing Inktomi.

A couple of my moderator buds over at SearchGuild are still seeing Google, but this is by far the largest scale testing of Inktomi Yahoo! has done. Most likely they are just finalizing the roll out.

They are already accepting feedback for the new Yahoo! search, and have a new spider by the name of Yahoo! Slurp, Yahoo! has also began keeping a cached snapshot of pages (just like Google.)

Frames are bad for SEO
The new Yahoo! Slurp page states "Yahoo! Slurp follows HREF links. It does not follow SRC links. This means that Yahoo! Slurp does not retrieve or index individual frames referred to by SRC links." Make sure you use noframes tags on framed websites if you want traffic from Yahoo.

Now the change is Official.

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leviathan Swimming through the sea of the web, Google lists over 4,000,000,000 documents in their database.

Google also released a press release stating they have retooled their image search and now have over 6,000,000,000 total items in their database.

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I will be the first to say that most SEO software is garbage. A complete waste of money. Most of what you want for SEO software is 100% free. This amazing find is no different.

Link Tree is a free web based link analysis software program which compares the links to other websites to your own. This is not a boring overly dressed up link tool (like what Marketleap offers), this tool is super duper cool.

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Drinking Brandy Slows Down Response Time: So I am slow to get the "official" name of the last Google Update. It is Update Brandy, I thought it was Jason or Zorlax or something.

In this WMW thread Google Guy talks about semantics, SEO, & overoptimization.
(found on Search Engine Blog)

If we dig deeper into the Google Update Brandy thread we enjoy a great laugh. Read what MakeMeTop post, and then read the reply.

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SearchFeed Fraud

Ouch, that sounds hard doesn't it? Earlier today over at SearchGuild a new member claimed SearchFeed is not fairly compensating its affiliates.

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Local Search Down Under

Sensis was recently featured in an article which shows how powerful they are in the Australlian advertising market. They believe they will be able to compete with Google for product search due to their strong ability to integrate location with the product.

"The Yellow Pages is a search book. We don't call it that because it's not trendy."

"Our biggest differentiator (from Google) is we have all this local content. So if (you) go to Google today and search for a restaurant in Kew, you might get two restaurants."

Sensis currently combines search results from whitepages.com.au, yellowpages.com.au, whereis.com.au, and cityseach.com.au.

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Typically many sites could improve their indexability by having a static home page or by minimizing the number of variables used in their dynamic databases. Many search engines also have problems following java. A good way to tell if a search engine can crawl your page is by using a Lynx viewer.

The best ways around this are to create a static home page and to have a static site map which links into most of your primary pages.

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10 Quick Tips to Increase Your Google PageRank

PageRank 10, ok so its a joke...but its a fun one.

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There are many places on the web where you can buy links. The problem with buying all your links is that in many industries it would be exceptionally expensive to compete if you were forced to buy all of your links.

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Many SEO articles intentionally go over the head of the reader with the intent of the writer making money for selling their services.

Thus here is The Basic SEO Article in bulleted list form

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Are Inktomi Results Appearing on Yahoo?
Yes, I have seen them for a few days at my house. Yahoo is testing Inktomi results on their website. Yahoo said they will be switching from Google to their own search technology in Q1 of 2004.
How do I see Inktomi Search Results on Yahoo?
If you are one of the lucky test subjects you will eventually just run into the Inktomi search results. There is also a trick you can use to view Intomi search results on Yahoo.

By adding "&tmpl=E088" at the end of a regular Yahoo Search URL you will be able to see Inktomi results on Yahoo.

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GoGuides has created a "Submission Specialist Membership" program which allows web designers or search engine marketers to get a bulk discount on site submissions.

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OFF TOPIC General Internet Marketing

I got some sort of cold and I keep sneezing.

In case you do not know who Seth Godin is, he is an internet marketer and book author with a cult following. Godin's books are best known for emulating the very concepts they cover.

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Google has an ad policy which prohibits criticizing other groups or companies. Recently Oceana tested Google's ad policy by placing AdWords ads critical of Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

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Google Will Be Dancing With Itself

"Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Well there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself"
- Billy Idol

Why are the Google search results so crazy right now?
The crazy Google search results I saw recently had a logical explaination. Google is again dancing. Updated Google Backlinks are located @
http://216.239.53.98

see also: HighRankings Forum or Webmaster World (subscription required)

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Google has been in a state of flux for a while now. In many of the recent algorithm changes Google has had a pattern of bringing junk just before updates.
A couple recent searches have revealed some garbage floating to the top for me. They are obviously shifting their setpoints or algorithm again. This is one of the few occasions where I do not mind seeing my site drift down a bit.

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As far as Google AdWords Goes there are three main book or reports on the subject that I know of. I recently wrote my SEO Book and am starting to advertise it on Google AdWords.

I have already read Andrew Goodman's Google AdWords: 21 Pay-Per-Click Campaign Secrets Your Competition Doesn't Know twice, and think it is one of the best search engine reports on the market. ($69)

The other two main reports reports out there are the one created by Perry Marshall and Chris Carpender's Google Cash. I looked at the Google Cash one and saw that they are adding the Perry Marshall report in as an added bonus and are selling the Google Cash package cheaper than his report alone.

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Many people have certain restrictions which prevent them from being able to download the Google Toolbar, which was designed for the windows operating system. The Google Toolbar was one of only two locations Google intended to display Google PageRank.

How do I get Google PageRank Without the Google Toolbar?
Well there are a couple options for extracting Google PageRank without the toolbar.

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"On Wednesday, the search company will open its advertising service, called AdWords, in two dialects of Chinese: simplified and traditional."

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It appears Google has gone far beyond stemming with their current algorithm update. They seem to be looking for semantic intent of the query as well as the page, and then returning a result based upon it. The resulting pages frequently may not even have the query on the page.

• If you search Google for whiplash injury (Google Search : whiplash injury) you will notice the Google results consist mostly information sites.

• If you search Google for whiplash injuries (Google Search : whiplash injuries) you will notice the Google results consist mostly of commercial sites.
• Some people (such as Peter D) are stating these updates relate to the invisible tabs idea that Danny Sullivan spoke of last year.

(original discussion in HighRankings Forums)

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Queryster is a new Friendster rip off design for a meta search which allows you to search any one of about a dozen top search engines at any time. They include a graphic overlay which makes it simple to easily view the search results from one search engine to the next.
(found on SearchEngineLowdown)

Search engine toolbars such as Groowe and UltraBar both make this same function easy without cluttering the page element itself. Of course this is a neat tool if you do not want to download anything.

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People use the phrase Search Engine Wars so many times that it's a joke. I think wars are no laughing matter, but the excessive use of "search engine wars" is somewhat excessive and funny.

I feel leftout though, as I have not used the phrase "search engine wars" before this post. I figured that all battles have local fronts. Thus I am extending the "search engine wars" message to the local battle fields.

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How do I do it? Well there are a few free ways and a paid tool.

Alexa gives the rough ranking of a website's popularity. A couple downfalls are that Alexa is open to manipulation, it has limited distribution, and only appeals to certain web head type users. Alexa obtains this web traffic information free by tracking users of its toolbar and traffic in a few other locations.

Metrics Market has a free web traffic tool which is discussed in JimWorld forum post. I am uncertain where this data comes from, but many JimWorld members have stated that

• It was extremely accurate.

• If it was off, the ratio carried over within that industry.

Hitwise is a paid web traffic monitoring service which tracks over 25,000,000 web surfer's habits on over 450,000 websites. Hitwise obtains most of this web traffic data free by trading its organization as a product for access to the traffic of many ISPs.

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Finally "FindWhat said shareholders of privately-held Espotting would get 7 million shares of FindWhat stock and about $20 million in cash. FindWhat said the total deal values Espotting at about $170 million based on last Friday's closing stock prices"
(from Rueters)

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Meceoo is a meta search engine which searches AltaVista, AllTheWeb and Inktomi.

"Its originality comes from the avaibility for users to create their own "exclusion list" in order to exclude from the result pages specific web sites estimated less relevant. Search results might be therefore entirely different from one visitor to another, according to everyone’s wishes.

Meceoo also allows its users to define preselected list of sites in order to launch a search only in their contents. It is, in this way, possible to generate requests on a given "batch" of web sites, for example inside a community of interest."
(from SearchGuild)

SeekScan is a new meta search engine which shows results from many different engines in their own groupings. They have additional tabs that many search engines do not (such as weblogs). Cool as Meceoo but in a different way.
(from ResearchBuzz)

Is Google using a filter on some of its results?

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Bad luck brought to you by the letter L.

Room for Rent Lycos is renting some of its office space to cut costs. (no relation to the movie)

Shedding Shares LookSmart is not looking very smart...at least their stock is well, um, falling (like the London bridge)

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Breaking News: Janet Jackson showed her boob at the Super Bowl. Was it a more defining cultural event than what happened September 11, 2001?

She broke the single day traffic records from that tragedy in what appears to be a sad state of society. Here is my rant about the event and what it means to search engine marketing.

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Many people think cloaking is this great aid which can create the perfect page. The problem is that cloaking does not win by quality but through quantity. What are the odds of a person reading the following listing and clicking on it?

Positive Feedback On Paxil yoga during menstruation Was the Top ...
positive feedback on paxil. positive feedback on paxil. aging beef at home. ... Top Three positive feedback on paxil Sites. estrogen information. wrinkle treatments. ...

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A recent article in the Washington Post titled Online Search Engines Help Lift Cover of Privacy

The article offers alarming information such as "Search strings including "xls," or "cc," or "ssn" often brings up spread sheets, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers linked to a customer list. Adding the word "total" in searches often pulls up financial spreadsheets totaling dollar figures. A hacker with enough time and experience recognizing sensitive content can find an alarming amount of supposedly private information."

Search engines can not be blamed for the ignorance of corporate America. Perhaps many large companies should learn about the internet before spending millions of dollars building it incorrectly.

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Search Engine Watch announced the winners of the 2003 Search Engine Watch Awards. Google took most of the awards again.

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This is a list of Major Web Directories and reviewed web guides.

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List of major world wide pay per click search engines.

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This is a list of the major world wide search engines.

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When people talk about hubs and authorities, these are some of the most authoritative sites in the SEO industry.

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This is a somewhat comprehensive list of SEO forums. If you know of any SEO forums that are missing from this list, feel free to add them in the comments and I may eventually get around to adding them to the list.

Update:
Due to popular demand and numerous customer requests we added an exclusive private SEO community forum to our online SEO training program.

Forum Meta Information:

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IT Director recently posted an article which states "Google technology additionally powers search engine technology for MSN, Ask Jeeves and some other small players, giving it over 50% of the search engine market."

There are additional sloppy parts to the article.

Google does not power MSN...this is an overall BAD article.

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Disclaimer: I hate AOL and am not a fan of George Bush

Many people have Google Bombed the President Bush biography page by linking to it with miserable failure in the anchor text (like so: miserable failure.)

AOL recently blocked George Bush's miserable failure rankings, which he has earned in the eyes of many. They still leave the ones for Michael Moore and Hillary Clinton. AOL Search: miserable failure

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This is a list of most of the SEO Blogs and Search Engine Blogs on the internet. If you know of an SEO Blog or Search Engine Blog I am missing from this list, just add it as a comment and I will include it on this list.

Currently my list of SEO Blogs is only in English due to my lack of fluidity (is that a word) in other languages.

• 10e20 - Chris Winfield 's SEO blog, focusing on SEO, blogging, and social media.

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John Battle has a great search engine blog. Covers lots of cool stuff over there, such as search and social networking (from Boing Boing), his upcomming book, and an interview with Joh Klienberg, an associate professor at Cornell. Klienberg is responsible for much of the work that went into the Hubs and Authorities ranking system which Teoma uses.

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Yesterday over at SearchEngineJournal they wrote about LookSmart. Here is part of the interview from the email they quoted

ACL: Where are LookListings distributed?

TM: LookSmart has always provided a highly relevant search product, and therefore attracts quality distribution partners.

It is always fun when a speaker gets just enough corporate speak in there to show you that they are programmed chat bots.

"LookSmart has always provided a highly relevant search product"
Why again did greedy MSN drop your listings?

Why is Overture taking over most of your business in Australia?

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Name That Tune

FindSounds is a newer sound search engine which was covered in SearchDay today.

If you search for Ozzy it will give no results, but here are some of the examples that do work.

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ZDnet has a good article about Big Blue's Web Fountain. Using hubs and authorities (what Teoma uses) IBM plans to create a different type of search product.

The Web Fountain project will be used to track answers to questions such as "what do people think about me?" Its goal is to help people project trends and find answers that would otherwise make no sense to other search engines.

Web Fountain also has an interesting model. Instead of people buying hardware, IBM wants people to lease processor power. Now that is an efficient way to run a business!

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When there is not much news you must cover the fun toys.

Spider Hacks teaches you how to create your own spider...which I eventually will.

MTGoogleRank shows how many pages link to any page and where any site ranks for a keyword...am going to try this out real quick

Also MTMacros is really cool looking stuff, which I will need to be play with soon.

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Free tips to help you increase your Alexa Rank for your website.

1. Download the Alexa toolbar and surf your own site.

2. Have a few friends download the Alexa Toolbar and surf your site.
3. Shift the focus of your site toward a more webmaster like theme.
4. Participate in many webmaster forums which allow you to place your site in your signature.
5. Write articles about webmaster topics and distribute them around the web.
6. Optimize pages of your site for Alexa and related phrases.
7. Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. Your Alexa traffic rankings will increase.
8. Write an article with tips on how to increase your Alexa rankings.
9. Advertise that article on the world's largest network.
10. Join an autosurf network which exchanges Alexa credits. <--- this actually exists and they sell off some of the credits. The problem is that those are credits. They are not real visitors. They are not what you need.

    Direct Hit failed as a search engine because it based a large portion of its algorithm on web traffic. Alexa ranking is highly inaccurate and easy to manipulate.

    It is the quality and quantitiy of traffic to your site and how you convert those visitors that determines whether or not you will be a success. If you need help obtaining targeted traffic read my eBook. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.

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Contagious I joined Orkut today :)

Spreading Google opening Swiss research lab

Super Critical Explosion Google Brand of the Year 2 Years in a Row (sidebar: I was a nuclear reactor operator on fast attack submarines. me think that job no fun!)

New Patent ...they must be doing something right, they should put a patent on it!

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Allen Webb (Webby) wrote a great article "Becoming an Authority," which talks about how to rank well in search results after Austin and Florida.

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Everyone's favorite underdog, Gigablast recently released GigaBits, which is essentially a "see also" search refinement.

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Beta! MSN is using distinctive separation between its regular and paid search results on its MSN Search Beta pages.

In the past MSN search was known to be notoriously sleazy by mixing in many paid search results with normal search results which were completely undistinguisable from one another to the average web surfer.

(found on SEL)

In addition some searches are actually pulling data from the MSNbot and MSN search. This is somewhat similar to how Yahoo! was randomly testing Inktomi. I have yet to see the MSN results, but they spoke with Gary Price of Resource Shelf about it.

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This has absolutely nothing to do with search engines...feel free to shoot me next time you see me. I will be at SES New York in about a month...bring a gun!!!

I am one of the finalists for Seth Godin's next eBook "Bull Market 2004."

If you like any of my sites and would like to be one of my GLOWING feedbacks, feel free to leave kind words of praise below.

Here is the goal of the Bull Market 2004 eBook "If you are one of the 500 that are picked, I'll include you for free in my new eBook, coming out this May. I expect it will reach about a million people. This is going to be the one and only sourcebook for finding the catalyst an organization needs to create truly great stuff. "

If you hate me that would also be good information as it will help keep me in balance.

If you are a cool creative person then enter your site...don't forget to say I sent you :)

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Recently there have been stories that Google is blocking free hosted websites. The problem with these claims is that they are exceptionally believable. Many free hosted sites are spam.

Google Guy stated "Looks like some redirects on their site interacted badly with us trying to choose a canonical site between www.angelfire.com and www.angelfire.lycos.com." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/21616.htm

The real cost of free hosting is not one time errors like this, but the more long term marketing effects. It is harder to get people to link to a free hosted site than it is to get links to a paid hosted site. I wrote a small article called "The Cost of Free Hosting."

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