Mar
31
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SEO Stuff My site has been acting a little slow and weird today. I checked my logs, and I’m seeing a lot of GET requests causing strange errors. Most of the requests have escaped Unicode characters, but they don’t appear valid. Sorry that the site is kinda slow; I’m going to be away from the computer until around late Monday, so I don’t have time to check it now, but I’ll try to track it down when I get back.
Update: The site wasn’t really slow or getting weird attempts against it. This post was part of getting ready for April Fool’s Day.
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Mar
31
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SEO Stuff Posted by randfish
No April's Fools stuff from us this year - the search world is overrun with pranks. I do have have an important question that I'd love to get answers to. I'll start by providing my own.
In 2001, the company that would become SEOmoz (at the time just Gillian, Matt & myself) began taking on some e-commerce development projects. Previously, we had designed static websites in Flash & HTML and done some consulting in usability, but with the addition of Matt to the team, we were ready to take on some beefier projects. We designed and developed several sites for clients and were struggling to help them get more traffic and sales through search and thus, hired a local SEO firm to help us. We had terrible luck and by mid-2002, I was lurking on forums like SEOChat, HighRankings, Cre8asite and Sitepoint (too cheap to sign up for WebmasterWorld). In 2003, we reached a turning point with one of our clients, achieving successful rankings for the first time. We took a few more clients and in 2004, were providing SEO services as part of our work. 2004 is also when the first incarnation of SEOmoz launched, providing tools, research articles and the nascent beginnings of a blog.
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Mar
31
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SEO Stuff Ever read the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs? It’s Hilarious and you can often glean some real insight from it. Take the last article,
“I love all this whinging about iPhone prices”
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Mar
31
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SEO Stuff BigBrownBox.com I’m giving you the shirt off my back!
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Mar
31
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SEO Tools,
SEO Web Design,
Search Engine Marketing,
Search Engine Optimization,
Search Marketing,
Search News,
search engine news Hardly a week goes by without an announcement of the latest and greatest web analytics package.
Yahoo, Google, Omniture and others have done a terrific job of developing tools to mine every last bit of performance data from website traffic and paid search campaigns. Some companies package their offerings in a more intuitive wrapping than others, but they are essentially the same.
Looking to spend five figures a month on the just released, latest and greatest analytics package? Whoa - Don't put the cart before the horse.
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Posted by Prajapati Vijay
Mar
31
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SEO Stuff I upgraded my WordPress installation from 2.0.x to 2.1.x tonight, and I’m a little grumpy. Autosave is great and all, but does upgrading WordPress have to be so much of a hassle? The official way to upgrade is to unpack the latest zip over top of your current installation, which seems like a recipe for cruft to keep accumulating. Things like WP-Cache can get really confused in the middle of an upgrade, and then you’re stuck doing surgery. If a plugin like Akismet gets upgraded, then you end up picking and choosing which files to keep from your wp-content directory. Categories are no longer sorted alphabetically where I can quickly find a category, and I get a new bonus category called “Blogroll” which I’m sure cleans something up from a design standpoint but sits unwelcome among more logical category names. I upload images outside of WordPress, so the upload manager doesn’t matter much for me. I use the code view, so the changes in the visual editor don’t mean much either. Geez, I feel like the curmudgeon who had to walk 10 miles uphill in the snow to install WordPress. 
My biggest surprise was a small thing: the older version of WordPress had really nice “preview ↓” and “edit ↑” links so that as you’re writing a post, you can jump back and forth easily between the edit textarea and the preview iframe. The newer version of WordPress removes those handy links. Grrr!
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Mar
31
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SEO Stuff A Blockbuster employee uncovered a possible new XBox 360 game called Beautiful Katamari Damacy, and the date October 19th, 2007 is mentioned. Oh please, let this be real.
(via GameSpot).
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Mar
30
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SEO Stuff Boy it’s a good thing that someone came up with the blogging code of conduct idea, because that will almost certainly put and end to people who people who do stupid things and act like jerks … I mean really does anybody think troublemakers and rule breakers give a rats ass about rules, regulations or guidelines … rules, laws, guidelines are created for people who already follow other rules, codes and guidelines not people who don’t … something to think about
Sponsor: The Alphabet This post was sponsored by the letters A-Z and the numbers 0-9.
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Mar
30
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SEO Stuff Whenever I think about the stunning Halle Berry, her truly exceptional acting scenes from Swordfish and Monster’s Ball pop into my head. It just so happens that the scenes feature her sans clothing.
In her upcoming movie, Perfect Stranger, she plays a reporter who goes online and creates undercover profiles in an attempt to solve the murder of a childhood friend. Chatting away with her various identities, her internet snooping leads her to the CEO of a major ad agency (played by Bruce Willis).
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Mar
30
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SEO Stuff If you blog, you should get the Linkify bookmarklet that Laurence Gonsalves wrote.
How does it work? It’s an easy 2 step process:
1. Drag the Linkify bookmarket to your personal toolbar.
2. Dang! There is no step 2! Sorry about that. I, um, got mixed up. There’s just one step.
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Mar
30
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SEO Stuff Hackers have stolen information from at least 45.7 million payment cards used by customers of US retailer TJX, which owns TJ Maxx, and UK outlet TKMaxx.
In a statement to US watchdogs the firm said it did not know the full extent of the theft and its effect on customers.
Sandra Quinn from the Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) told the BBC there had been a “massive” compromise of security - on a scale not seen before.
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Mar
30
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SEO Stuff Be sure to check out my post on SEL Top 12 Ways To Win Friends & Write Magnetic Headlines
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Mar
30
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SEO Stuff One of the biggest mistakes really large publishers make today is doing SEO like it’s 1999. They throw up hundreds, thousands, and sometimes millions of pages, with the belief that more is better. This has grown exponentially with web 2.0 and blogging apps and cross-tagging, listing and publishing content in multiple spots. Here’s an example that’s pretty typical of a problem I see with alarming frequency.
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