Archive for November, 2006

The New Land of Search with Danny Sullivan

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Danny Sullivan has announced his new blog, Search Engine Land, with Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz contributing. The blog officially opens Dec 11th. Now all Danny needs is a decent blog design.

Social Media Release Optimization

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

One of the key components of the presentation I gave this morning at the Las Vegas Pubcon conference presented the idea of press release optimization and social media news releases in the context of push and pull. But before that, it’s important to understand the market opportunity with news search.
According to a report released by […]

Las Vegas Pubcon Yahoo Party

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Wow, what a party! Yahoo had a very private, invite-only party last night at the Palms Towers in the Playboy suite.

Thank you to Yahoo PR for letting me bring Karen and Jolina from the TopRank team. This was their first conference and Karen’s fist time in Las Vegas. There were only 100 or […]

ClickTracks at Pubcon

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

One vendor you’re sure to see at virtually every SES and Pubcon conference is web analytics company, ClickTracks. I had the pleasure of speaking at a few DMA conferences at the same time as ClickTracks founder John Marshall and found him to be one of the most enthusiastic evangelists for web analytics in the industry. […]

Pubcon 06 Feeds, Blogs, News, and Social Search

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

I was very torn between attending this session and Big SEO, but I got a bit of both. Here’s the official session description:
“Today’s search landscape is more diverse than ever. There are hundreds of new social bookmarking, community tagging, feed search and news search sites and systems emerging. This panel has representatives from some […]

Guy Kawasaki Needs Your Links

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

The WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference kicked off today with a short introduction to the conference by Brett Tabke and an opening keynote by Guy Kawasaki.
Apparently Guy really wants links as he sandwiched his very thoughtful and humorous presentation with requests for links so he can bosst his Technorati ranking. Apparently he’s been hovering at around 46 […]

Pubcon Day .05

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

After what seemed like a very long flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas, Jolina, Karen and I have finally settled in.
I bumped into Jeremy Schoemaker when getting off the plane - I had not met him in person before and he seemed like a nice fellow.  On the way to the ground transport and not paying […]

Zippy: SEO Meta Search

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Zippy is a new meta search engine that queries other major engines and returns results in a format most suited for Webmasters and SEOs. The site was launched in September by the seasoned SEO Dave Naylor, and provides some valuable tools for site optimization.
Zippy’s design is similar to Technorati’s new design, with a minimalist white […]

Danny Daggles on News Search vs Social News

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Danny Sullivan has posted a very interesting and THOROUGH description of how the Search Engine Watch Blog had two different stories get major play on Digg and Google News at the same time. This provided an opportunity for a comparison and it was interesting to read that Google News sent significantly more traffic than being […]

Google Please be Consistent

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

On my way to login to a neglected Google AdSense account today, I was presented with this screen:

A quick check of the AdSense Blog showed that this was 4 hours of planned maintenance.
Note to Google:  Maybe you could use the same language on the “system is down” page as you do on the blog? It […]