NickWilsdon

Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 7:38 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: Google SEO
SERPGuard is launched in beta today. The system is built in Ruby on Rails using the new Safe Browsing API that Google has helpfully made available. We built this application as part of our in-house client suite but decided to release it publicly. Ho read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Chris Bowers is trying to push in certain articles into the Google search results for a search on [john mccain]. His goal is to "Google Bomb" these articles into the search results before Labor Day.

What is interesting to me is that the site in read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
As Danny puts it, Yahoo's leadership has done a piss-poor job making people believe there's hope, he's stepped up and given it a swing. As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, Danny gives us the counter view on the company's future. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: SEO
Encyclopaedia Britannica is now in direct competition with Wikipedia. Although they will be keeping editorial approval for changes, they are inviting community submissions.

Even more interestingly they are allowing users to upload articles, essa read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Sonia Simone gives us some essential tips on creating leaner copy. Whipping copy into shape is an important skill for any writer. The cardinal rule of writing: Omit unnecessary words.

Once you loose those junk words and cowardly qualifiers, you' read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 5:21 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, has finally waded in on the issue of fake linkbait. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.russianmarketer.com)
Category: Domaining
To summerise the dispute so far, September saw ICANN release a statement urging “the current .SU operators to make it clear to the .SU registrants the issues surrounding the domain, as well as to freeze new registrations until its future is clear”. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 6:30 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 85 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: Blogging
Building SocialBlogroll.com gave me a chance to learn a few new techniques. In this post I discuss how to use RSS auto-discovery and feed address consolidation to increase your subscription numbers. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.multilingual-search.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Andy Atkins-Kruger explains Google's recent trademark policy changes. From 4th April, Google will no longer prevent people bidding on trademarked keyword terms in their Adwords system. What does this mean for UK businesses and why has Google decided read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 94 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ciarannorris.co.uk)
Category: Google AdWords
Has Google reached a plateau with PPC? Ciaran certainly thinks so and his inside source suggests the Big G may soon be moving to a CPM model to please the wolves in Wall Street. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.dmueller.com)
Category: Domaining
Clek Media Inc. announced today that it has brokered the world-record sale of the domain FUND.COM for US$9,999,950 in an all-cash transaction. This would make this sale the highest ever price paid for a domain name.

The purchase price tops what read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3auction.com)
Category: Domaining
This weekend saw one of the the largest domain scams in internet history, with one user out by $120'000. What was fascinating about the story is that the theft involves one or more 16yr olds.

That has renewed calls for underage domainers to be b read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 9:48 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Search Marketing Gurus will be the vehicle driving most of the questions during the Calacanis keynote at SES NYC. Li has asked for tough ones, so lets not disappoint her eh?

The Rules:

You cannot ask "Jason why are you such an jerk?" or any ot read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thayer18.livejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Thayer Driver, from Chinwag, conducted a survey into Twitter etiquette and has posted the results in a free PDF download.

She questioned a group of 166 people, asking why people use the service and what factors make them follow or un-follow user read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3internet.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Last weekend saw the launch of the first ever viral for StumbleUpon, the StumbleCard. I watched it unfold, reported on it and joined in the traffic rush. We have received 6500+ visitors so far to our news post.

The cards themselves have received read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 144 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
As Danny suggested, this is a practice post to see the new Desphinn feature working. Go ahead, desphinn, I won't take it personally ;) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 12:49 pm
Posted By: NickWilsdon 144 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chrisg.com)
Category: Blogging
Chris Garrett breaks down the different forms of content bloggers are producing (Pillar, Authority, Viral and Authority). He explains the effects of these different types and what mixture makes for a successful blog. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-chicks.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Anita Chaperon of the SEOchicks reminds us about customer profiling. You need to be very clear about who you’re marketing to, so take the time to build up a detailed customer profile. That way you force yourself to understand their motivations and t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 2, 2008 - 3:12 pm
Posted By: NickWilsdon 153 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yellowhousehosting.com)
Category: SEM
I've just discovered that Sphinn member Steven Bradley (a.k.a. Vangogh) publishes an in-depth monthly roundup of marketing posts and news. If you thought this was just another link dump *look again*. He's spun some excellent commentary around the po read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Yahoo Other
Former CEO of Yahoo! Terry Semel resigned from the board late Thursday, just hours before the announcement of Microsoft's $44.6bn takeover bid for Yahoo.

During his reign as CEO he fought hard against a merger of the two companies. Semel admitted read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 1, 2008 - 10:52 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Huge news. Microsoft make an official bid for Yahoo. We've been here before with the rumors but now this looks serious. What do you think? Would this be a good move for both companies? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 170 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.dreamhost.com)
Category: Water Cooler
If you have an account at DreamHost you should probably be checking your statements about now. From their blog:

"We had a teensy eensy weensy little billing error last night… my first clue something was up when I saw this morning’s daily billing read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 10, 2008 - 11:32 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 176 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3internet.com)
Category: SEM Industry
It’s not very Web 2.0 of us but today SocialBlogroll is out of beta. Thanks to everyone who has helped us test the system.

We’re now polling over 100 blogrolls belonging to everyone from Matt Cutts, SugarRae to Mikkel deMib Svendsen to find out w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: SEM
Li Evans gives us another installment of her "Women of Internet Marketing" series, interviewing Martine Quinn (GSI Commerce) and Michelle Sharp (IMPAQT).

Who is their male SEO of choice and which famous Danish blackhat would Martine most like to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://domainnamewire.com)
Category: Domaining
Domainnamewire has written an open letter to Google complaining about lack of transparency in their advertising system and zero rankings for their new site.

"I’ve had enough with the “black box” algorithms in your advertising program. Advertisi read more »
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