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Well, maybe. But compared to the hatred I get as a domainer, any hatred I see for SEO is practically a love tap.
Bleah. One of my sites lists all the community fireworks displays for my state. There's very little reason for anyone outside the US to come to my site, but because of the subject matter, I typically get a lot of traffic and consequently, unsolicited email, from China wanting to sell me fireworks. So we blocked some of the most persistent visitors. And damned if I'm going to let them back in. It just makes no sense.
Huge help; I signed up but couldn't make it. Loading it onto my iPod now - thanks!
I informed them on behalf of all my clients that we don't want account optimization, we don't want to have to monitor it and take back changes that THEY make, and if they can't assure is that it will not occur on our accounts, we will pull every single one out of Yahoo completely.
Probably won't make a dent, but if enough people did the same, they'd change their tune. If Google did such a thing, you wouldn't be able to hear your own voice past the screams of outrage.
Yes, along those lines, the one thing I think is really missing is the ability to adapt, and *adapt quickly*. You have to be willing to let go of whatever you thought you knew yesterday when something changes today. Not everyone can do that. (Heck, I have a hard time with it myself) But it's necessary.
Hunh. I had occasion to search for the term "nuns" last night (was in a conversation where we were trying to figure out the various types of orders) I normally have moderately safe search on - wasn't even LOOKING for images, but thanks to universal search placing images in my search results - well, let's just say I found what I wasn't looking for.
Go ahead - try it.
This actually isn't new; I have a client who has been using their hosting services and local business advertising (including Google, and I believe Yahoo and Ask) for at least a year.
I keep hearing about the current problems with expanded broad match (and I've seen some examples that people have posted that, if true, were simply beyond the pale) but I ran extensive search query reports across about 8700 keywords over six client accounts, and I found exactly two queries that I felt merited adding new negatives to the campaign. It's not that I don't believe it's happening, I just haven't seen it happening to any of my accounts. Which is fairly weird.
Thanks for the information, flyingrose. I'm not exactly a newbie at this, and I do have many accounts of varying sizes, dating back since Adwords' inception.
Too hard to get ranked for my name - first name is too short, and my last name is better known as belonging to someone else (Hi Brad) despite the fact that I'm probably older than he is.
However, if you make up a word, and essentially use it as your moniker everywhere you go for twenty years or so, eventually you float to the top. Mine's been #1 in Google ever since I can remember. Maybe not the brand I'd choose, but it's what I'm stuck with.
That press release definitely qualifies as the silliest thing I've read all week.
Are you open to a suggestion, if it ever gets recompiled in the future? It'd be nice to know which sites are appropriate for B2B, B2C, or both. (I have a couple of strictly B2B clients who are looking for places to submit their products other than Google Base and Thomas, but they really don't see the need to be in primarily B2C search engines)
Just a thought - it's a great list as is.
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Story: A Letter to the Women of SEO
It occurs to me to wonder if there really is such a disparity in numbers or if it's just a perception; there are certainly fewer women on some of the forums and networks on which I participate - and there's a lot of places I don't participate, because my time is limited. Maybe we're just too damn busy.
Story: A Letter to the Women of SEO
At the risk of dating myself, I go back as far as a time where customers who called up and got me (in minicomputer and mainframe sales) would ask if there was a man they could talk to instead, and the actual stated reasons for not paying us as much were because men had families to support and our income was discretionary, and besides we'd probably just end up getting pregnant and leaving anyway.
From that perspective, it's come so far so fast in the last thirty years I still can't believe I'm not just remembering a past life somehow or something.
Story: A Letter to the Women of SEO
Yea. About ten or twelve years ago, I was the technical manager at a networking company specializing in SCO UNIX and Netware. At any given point I had seven to ten (male) techs working for me. For fun we'd go over to Best Buy and torture the staff in the computer dept, who would always start out talking down to me because I obviously wouldn't know anything about computers.
Yea, me too on the errors. Moreover, when I first plugged a domain name in without the www, I got a thumbnail of the way the site looked two years ago. I don't know where it found that picture.
Great idea though, if they get it working right.
I used to rank really high for pipe bombs, because I had links to two bands on my site, one of which had the word pipe in it, and the other had bomb. There's probably a file on me somewhere because of that.
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