NickWilsdon

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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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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Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, has finally waded in on the issue of fake linkbait. read more »
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Aaron Wall and Matt Cutts have talked things through, after Matt's recent call for a public vote on how to deal with the anti-Google rhetoric.

I think they both handled this well. Matt's blog is not the place for personal attacks but it would be read more »
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Useful post by Graywolf illustrating why you should keep apostrophes and other punctuation out of your company or brand name. Google treats these variations as separate words, with their own search volume. By splitting the volume you are making it h read more »
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The accusation being made is that domain availability searches are not being kept private and this data is either being sold or somehow obtained by other registration companies. You carry out your domain research and then return to find the domain m read more »
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The 2007 Global Search Report contains search engine and PPC marketshare statistics for the following countries: Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, The Ne read more »
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Search Marketing Expo

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SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008