Ruud

Avatar Posted By: Ruud 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-theory.com)
Category: Other Searching
"The real search market share report is measured in terms of estimated unique U.S. visitors rather than number of queries performed. Because of automated rank-checking tools (and manual rank checking), Google’s estimated search market share based on read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 20, 2008 - 12:17 pm
Posted By: Ruud 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Other Social Media
"Unless you know somebody who knows somebody it’s really hard to get a break somewhere, somehow.

We want to turn SEO Scoop into that break; we want SEO Scoop to be that somebody, that somewhere, that somehow."

Question is: what do you, the SEO read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://royal.pingdom.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villain."

With photos, cool photos :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sitepoint.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Oh, I *so* needed an extension like this. Dust Me will scan a page or spider a site and compare in page use of CSS with what it finds in the CSS files. It will then generate two reports: unused CSS selectors and used CSS selectors. You can export th read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Dave: "Today we’ll look at ‘Search traffic’ and how we can use Google Analytics to dig better understand the efficacy of your SEO program"

Love how the post walks me clearly from "do this" to "see that", even touching upon "so that means...". Alt read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 14, 2008 - 8:59 am
Posted By: Ruud 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Social Media
In this 1500+ worder, easily, Peter intelligently argues *against* SMM, highlighting exactly why and how it doesn't work.

In stating that side so clear he forces you to either provide counter balance (start a discussion) or validate the time and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 2:45 am
Posted By: Ruud 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.googletutor.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
"simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, then click Google Insights Bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically open a new tab/window with Google Insights showing the stats for the keyword you were just looking up at a search engin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 2:52 am
Posted By: Ruud 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has removed the suggestion to add your site to relevant directories such as ODP or Yahoo.

Google's JohnMu explained it's just something people don't *have* to do.

Rustybrick/Barry: "I have seen this before - or similar statements. In my read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://edition.cnn.com)
Category: Google Other
Powered by waves. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 77 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jsonline.com)
Category: Water Cooler
"Jennifer Reisinger says the Sheboygan city attorney ordered her to remove from her Web site a link to the city’s police department [...]

The city went further, the lawsuit claims, launching a criminal investigation of Reisinger for linking to t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Networking
Bringing the ease of blogs and blogging to social networks.

"With Six Apart's recent release of Movable Type 4.2, that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking platform.

web pundits have read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
"It is conceivable that future historians will regard the first day of Google Inc on 7 September 1998, and not 11 September 2001, as the true dawn of the 21st century.

I don't think it's possible to exaggerate the significance of this thing.

I read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bloggasm.com)
Category: News Sites
"In the past week I’ve conducted phone and email interviews with over 50 of Digg’s top users in an attempt to piece together the cohesive links and strategies that make them so successful.

It was during these discussions that I discovered that t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://condomunity.com)
Category: Social Media
Good, long write-up on effective headlines. What makes a good one and how to get to it.

Or: how do you go from "Cheap Condoms, Expensive Condoms" to "World’s Most Expensive Places to Have Sex" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 11:17 pm
Posted By: Ruud 196 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Social Media
Off the beaten path of "Twitter! Twitter! Twitter!" posts and into the obscure world of highly specialized, highly popular niche social media.

Is your bunny a VIB? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 210 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ablereach.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Ladies & Gentleman, it's the wonderful Elizabeth Able on the guitar doing... pusher mom....

"Tweak and test, coding clean
Super lean WordPress theme
Dealin' good, for the brand
Betty Crocker, Take a stand
Quoterati, quickly read
Twitterpated read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 231 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.emarketer.com)
Category: SEO
"Online search has become so efficient that most Internet users are now impatient with anything less than great results."

With more searchers clicking first page results and less searchers reporting to be willing to go past page three results, or read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Other
From the post: "The simple explanation of how the program works is that Google attempts to identify lists on the web as it crawls pages" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.anywired.com)
Category: Blogging
"The truth is that, while it isn’t easy, it is possible to have both loyalty, engagement and a big audience.

This delicate balance hinges on perception." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smh.com.au)
Category: Social Media
After receiving questions from the press, Jeff Merkey, formerly at Novell, has made a statement that Jimmy Wales offered to clean up Jeff's entry and place him under his 'special protection'. Protected entries can only be edited by Wikipedia adminis read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sfgate.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Two-fold problem: misusing money from the foundation and editing an entry in a possible conflict of interest scenario.

As Wikimedia Foundation chair woman Florence Devouard chastises Wales in a personal email; "I find (it) tiring to see how you a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 11:13 pm
Posted By: Ruud 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.adamant.com.au)
Category: Social Media
Nice idea for a tool.

"Get alerted whenever your discovery on StumbleUpon is reviewed or given a thumbs up." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 1, 2008 - 2:01 pm
Posted By: Ruud 278 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.yellowhousehosting.com)
Category: Search Marketing
If you like roundups a la Search Engine Land, Van Gogh's monthly roundup isn't something to miss. I like his roundup style, his tone of voice -- and he has a knack to list at least 3 things that weren't on my radar. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 286 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
"If your text is temporarily "hidden" as part of your site's UI but is still intended for the user to see at some point, you probably don't need to worry about Google mistakenly viewing it as deceptive." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Ruud 294 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jlh-design.com)
Category: Google
"There are million of various theories out there about how to find out if your site is penalized by Google.

I thought I’d recap what Google officially says, and by officially I mean on their domain and bearing their brand." read more »
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