Newsletter Archive SEO Geeks News Vol 16
Talk of the town
SEOs are criminals - well, another week another drama huh? This week we have more fun borne from SMX. While not entirely geeky (more link bait and tin foil) but since I decided to jump in as did my fav gals at Bruce Clay (Hi Virginia and Sus'!)... we not ride along and add your thoughts; Google profiles SEOs - where Michael began the parade. SEOs are Criminals - from Lisa over at OM as she took it to the next level Google doesn't think SEOs are criminals - was Susan's rebuttal... SEOs are not criminals they're the enemy! - ...because I just couldn't help myself :0) You know, we haven't had this much fun with a drama since the days of 'SEO standards' or 'SEO Ethics' - ain't it great? lol... now back to more interesting stuff, shall we? |
How does one follow that?? Dunno... but here are some tidbits of interest I came across...
Wikipedia back in the news - or at least Google news. SEL was reporting that Google ews confirmed adding more prominence to Wiki entries. |
| Out-optimizing the optimizers - Michael Martinez is still putting out great content and this was my fav from him last week. |
| 7 Rules for Writing URL - Matt McGee shared a list of best practices for choosing URLs and explaisn why they matter. |
| Microsoft releases Search Engine Optimization Toolkit - good review of a Microsoft release of an IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit |
| The Simple Math of PageRank Sculpting - Leslie takes a stab at sculpting by the numbers |
| Using Viral Email To Build Links - Debra looks at a Washington post viral fail and lessons learned. |
| 30+ Advanced SEO Tactics, Techniques and Resources (55+ Links) - while I never really know wtf 'advanced' SEO actually is, Tad takes a run at listing his ideas and a link fest to boot - a good read. |
Search Geek Central
Search StuffZhift - is a new forum search engine that seems to do a reasonable job from my early testing Google’s New Review Search Option and Sentiment Analysis - Bill Slawski looks at sentiment analysis How To: Excel At Excel For SEM Applications, Part I - And Part II - many of those in SEO use Excell, some great tips here. NAACL-HLT 2009 Retrospective - Hal (on the NLP'ers Blog) lists some of his fav papers from the recent conference (some interesting ones in here) An interview with Kevin Chang, co-founder of Cazoodle - via Alt Search Engines
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VideosJeff Quipp, SearchEnginePeople, on the past, present and future of SEO Project Bendover - Dan Thies has some fun with last week's PR Sculpting fracass... Ranking factors that matter - interview with Rand on some of the modern ranking factors known and otherwise... Jennifer Slegg:Content Monetization -SES NY 2009 Why do big brands do so well? Matt Cutts squares off on an age old question White hat link bait - another from Matt and the 'grab bag' series
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WeaponsTest your real search engine preferences - interesting post and tool that Michael (Martinez) found. 3 tools to test Bing against the others - on the same trail as above, some tools to do head to head comparison Google Analytics Myths - good top 10 list of things to watch for. iWolfram? - Alt Search Engines was reporting that WolframAlpha is now available on the iPhone (for the uber geeks) NovoSeek - a new engine for biomedical literature in Medline, US Grants and Full Text publications Notify Google about your Domain Change - a review of the new Google Change of Address tool |
Seriously Obsessed Search Geek Alerts
Search Patents
CJ's Walkabout
Our resident information retriever (and SOSG name-sake) shall be keeping an eye out for interesting goodies.
Here’s this week’s offering;
Identifying expressions of opinion in context - interesting sentiment analysis stuff |
| Is Taylor's "compromised need" pseudoscience? |
From Web Directories to Ontologies: Natural
Language Processing Challenges |
“Query-free” federated search – kinda interesting stuff… |
/end SOSG session
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