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from storyspinner 945 Days ago#
this is just really wrong on a lot of levels. comments as well explain this desphinn
from storyspinner 945 Days ago#
this article is basically flaming Jill Whalen and what she wrote, come folks this stuff has got no place on sphinn
from storyspinner 1036 Days ago#
@bluecollar - just and fyi that wasn’t what I was advocating at all, and no where in the article does it state that. what I was saying, if you are starting a blog for those reasons and expect to be successful, think again, because if that’s your primary end goal and not providing value to your audience, the effort will fail.
from storyspinner 1098 Days ago#
good find Harith, i’m always amazed at Southwest and their dedication to the online community. when my dad died and i wrote about my experience with Southwest on SearchMarketingGurus, they came out and actually commented. They are definitely tuned in and involved in the online community in many different ways.
Story: Elephant Links
from storyspinner 1151 Days ago#
as always.... deb’s sense of humor is always so damn ironic! :)oh and she has great hair to boot, too!
from storyspinner 1186 Days ago#
just for the record, the statement I made, <b>WAS NOT</b> at the end of my presentation, it was in the middle, right before I presented what Barack Obama has done with social media. i’m finished with this conversation - <b>I did not state what this article title or sphinn insuinuated I stated</b>. Period, end of story.
from storyspinner 1186 Days ago#
I handle critisism quite well, in fact embrace it when the person is actually repeating what I exactly said, and has an issue with that. You, however, had miscontrued and insinuated what I said into me claiming "links are going away". Which is NOT what I said at all - LOOK AT THE TITLE HERE and ON YOUR BLOG POST, that explains exactly what you are doing as well as putting the word experts in quotes.The way you have respresented what I stated, was wrong and only meant to drive traffic to your own blog, as well as bring up the sphinns here. I never said links were going away, or that link building is dead, so you have misrepresented what I said. THAT is what I do not handle well, as would any other presenter.You claim I have no tanglible evidence, dude, no one has tangible evidence about the future, but if you read the signals - look at what the search engines are buying (companies), and how powerful social media sites are becoming, this is where it’s going. If you don’t believe me I tell you to go pick Mike Grehan’s brains, he’s of the same mind, and I bet you he will have the proof - his white paper is coming out REALLY soon.
from storyspinner 1186 Days ago#
@hugoguzman .... can I ask, what part of "where the search engines are going in the FUTURE" wasn’t clear???and yes, i did read the post - if you notice, I commented there too.
from storyspinner 1186 Days ago#
I’ve been on both ends of the coin here, both as a live blogger and as a person who’s been live blogged.Just as recently as today someone claims I said "LINKS ARE GOING AWAY" (Shock, horror gasp) That wasn’t what I said at all - Lisa was in the session but didn’t blog I said this, neither did Tamar as that wasn’t what I said, I said "Less Emphasis on Links, more on Social Signals" .... now a errornous post is sitting on sphinn with 18 sphinns ... yeeshI’m more for taking my notes, coming back and writing about it and finding a person if I’ve got something htat has a question on. I’ve also come back and made corrections. But I don’t think "speed" is necessary when it comes to live blogging.I think a lot of people are questioning it’s worth - perhaps it would be more valuable if the bloggers weren’t in such a race to get things up on a site, and had time to forumlate a more constructive review. I love Lisa’s perseption on things - especially when she’s not under such pressure to get it out there.
from storyspinner 1186 Days ago#
Hugo - that’s not what I insuinated AT ALL, what I said was that they are going to be moving away from putting such a heavy emphasis on links and looking more to social media signals.Saying that I said they would be phased out entirely is erronous, as that is NOT what I said in the panel. I said, less emphasis placed on links - they will certainly be part of the algorithim.Just for clarification - Li did not say LINKS WERE GOING AWAY or PHASED OUT OF THE ALGORITHM, if you had a question on this you could have come and asked me or emailed before posting something like this when it’s not what I insinuated at all.
Story: Twitter As a Terrorist Tool?
from storyspinner 1204 Days ago#
@Jill great point... seriously though, if they want to do the things they do, they aren’t going to announce it on twitter.... i mean, that’s just ... um stupid! LOL
Story: Twitter As a Terrorist Tool?
from storyspinner 1204 Days ago#
I guess they are getting jealous that the "news" is getting spilled through these types of mediums, take for example the 6 bloggers at teh China Olympics, or the muslim-american in jail right now in Iran.... this stuff is hitting the "airwaves" faster than they can "control" it. before they can put their "sphinn" on it so to speak.You know there were alien ufos in Texas last night, it was on Twitter :)
from storyspinner 1213 Days ago#
That was the highlight of the conference for me, after having such a rough two weeks prior, it was comforting to just chill and have a really fun time celebrating life (Deb’s Birthday) that night. I think this picture really captures it too.
from storyspinner 1222 Days ago#
It was tough to write this because of the death of my father, so I really appreciate you sphinning this Meg :)
from storyspinner 1242 Days ago#
ummm Rob, while I love ya, dude. this is under "water cooler" .... isn’t water cooler not suppose to be "newzy" or am I missing somethin’?
from storyspinner 1278 Days ago#
Arrrrrg! Avast ye mateys! Ya not be allowed on me ship unless ya be swabbin’ the deck!:)hey he (above) mentioned pirates, and everyone knows, i love pirates! :)
from storyspinner 1283 Days ago#
There’s actually six now :) Simon put his into the mix!
from storyspinner 1291 Days ago#
and we can’t forget Simon!or Brian, or Alex, or Beth ... or the many other really great people we have lined up! :)
from storyspinner 1294 Days ago#
lol... todd this was a hoot! :)
Story: 3 New Uses for Archive.org
from storyspinner 1294 Days ago#
OK... wow, you all think these are new ways for using Archive.org? Wow, *is stunned*.Sorry Gab, none of this is new, been using this, this way for a long long time.
from storyspinner 1295 Days ago#
man do I agree with you Dan.... that search engine is a piece of ... well worse that Wikipedia’s attempt. just really lousy for a search engine.
from storyspinner 1299 Days ago#
certainly got my attention :) Wil’s on his way to San Fran, hopefully he’ll explain more when he lands!
from storyspinner 1300 Days ago#
First off -- >a desphinn because this article is a "smackdown on Michael Gray" .... ummmm please, Lisa and Michael are friends. claiming this being a smackdown shows no knowledge of the people involved or the situation. friends can disagree at times,and that’s what this is, besides, MG even sphunn this post, so I hardly think this was a PERSONAL attack at all.Having been at BlogHer08, and have witnessing many men there, including KeyRelevance’s own videographer, Beau, they were NOT treated as 2nd class citizens, in fact if anything, they probably got a lot of "good attention", being in the minority. I will also have to note that although not on the schedule, two of the sessions I were in had men as speakers. These two sessions were started by the woman who headed up the session, but they willingly passed the "podium" so to speak to the men that were invited to speak in these sessions.Great job Lisa!
from storyspinner 1307 Days ago#
Wow... all this stuff while I’m asleep.Thanks Pierre, justfred, donn, Halfdeck, dave s and dave d .... and somewhat pageone.pageone... while you started out complimenting me .... you should work a little on your "take downs". I really don’t know really what the deal is, why you have a problem with what I’ve said. Matt’s said on many occasions that the meta description holds no value in the algo. He’s also stated on many occasions (as well as other Google reps at the conferences) that a good meta description is still good for the search engines, because of it displaying in the search results.Yes, they highlight the keywords in the results, but it doesn’t hold weight in the algo, so I really don’t understand at all what was "wrong" or "misinformation" in what I stated. I stated (pulled from the TRANSCRIPT emphasis mine) "The description does not have any kind of weight with the search engines and their algorithms. It does help the users who are using the search engines to gauge whether they want to click on what they are seeing in the search results or not."Yeesh, I’ve been in this industry way to long when I see a person arguing about the value of meta description. ... I think I might go back to bed and start the day over.Thanks Pierre for pointing to those links. And thanks Dave for sphinning this. I think this is the first video sphunn LOL :)And no... I’m not gonna respond any further... onepage, if you have an issue, email me li@lianaevans.com., unfortunately I’ve got a ton of client work that has to get done, before I’m off to BlogHer in San Fran tomorrow.
from storyspinner 1307 Days ago#
Kim’s amazing, hitting that nail right on the head with this topic.You go Kim, you rock.... you roll... and you even string along ;)
Story: How To Game Twitter for 100,000s Of Dofollow Backlinks