northrock

Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2008 - 8:52 am
Posted By: northrock 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Other
Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer t read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 2:37 pm
Posted By: northrock 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol read more »
70 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: northrock 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Twice now I have have personally seen private conversations that Matt has had with web masters appear on the net, personally I’m in two minds on this.... read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 5:26 pm
Posted By: northrock 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: SEO
A Yahoo patent application was published last week which looks more deeply into how the search engine would follow directions not to recall sections of pages pursuant to robots-nonindex tags. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 6:42 am
Posted By: northrock 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: SEO
Enter the SEO sharpshooter specialist, focused on attaining organic prominence as quickly as possible under pressure. The objective is to push the nasty content as far down the SERPs as possible and, if necessary, debunk the credibility of the damni read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 1:59 am
Posted By: northrock 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt is at it again asking web folks to step up and help Google where they can't do it themselves. Nice volley of words between Michael Martinez and Matt Cutts too. ;) read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 9:32 am
Posted By: northrock 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
TopRank's Dana Larson shares a list of the TopRank's favorite online marketing tips , which - as a team - makes them stronger than each individual. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 9, 2008 - 10:05 pm
Posted By: northrock 90 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google SEO
I love Google as much as the next guy or maybe more than most… Not only the search engine and many apps and services I play with, but I also enjoy how the engineers think, but the whole link FUD has finally started to irk me.

I have yet to write read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 1:23 am
Posted By: northrock 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Social Media
With the fast growth and uptime growing pains, debates about Twitter are plentiful so let’s settle it once and for all with a Twitter poll:Is Twitter the Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool? read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 1:56 pm
Posted By: northrock 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
In this interview, he talks briefly about his most recent project, Alltop as well as changes he would make to Twitter, business blogging advice and a curious admission that he doesn’t understand SEO. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 10:45 am
Posted By: northrock 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca)
Category: Google SEO
The interesting note here is that both the old URL and the new URL are showing in the SERPs. See the details of what Barry found in redirecting his site. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 4, 2008 - 1:24 pm
Posted By: northrock 187 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Ask.com
I think this stinks. I have been hoping Ask could build it's search into a competitive engine. Their interface was nice but we all know that's not enough. I'm surprised they didn't stick it out longer. read more »
30 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 1, 2008 - 8:45 am
Posted By: northrock 192 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.skelliewag.org)
Category: Blogging
Repeated and huge torrents of social media traffic over many months. That’s it. Think about the blogs you’ve observed grow from zero to many thousands of subscribers in a relatively short period of time.... read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: February 28, 2008 - 4:32 am
Posted By: northrock 193 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.forbes.com)
Category: Domaining
This scam was originally covered pretty well here at Sphinn and the blog world. People were ticked. Now we see the lawsuit....

Network Solutions has forced millions of people to buy Internet domain names from them instead of cheaper competitors t read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 30, 2008 - 11:39 pm
Posted By: northrock 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Not too long ago Lee Odden queried a number of online marketing and public relations peers ranging from Aaron Wall, Matt McGee and Neil Patel to Todd Defren, Triss Hussey and Peter Himler about sharing a few of their social media marketing tips. Out read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: January 29, 2008 - 5:31 am
Posted By: northrock 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
Late this week at ProBlogger guest blogger Justin Dupre explored the topic of swearing on blogs in his post - Dropping The F-Bomb: Blogging with Naughty Words. The response to his post was a great discussion with a variety of opinions expressed. I t read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 27, 2008 - 8:15 am
Posted By: northrock 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: SEO
While the vast majority of search engine optimization projects performed by search marketing agencies are for small and medium sized businesses, SEO for large and complex organizations takes a unique combination of finesse and consideration. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: January 24, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Posted By: northrock 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: SEO
I dumped text link ads. I nofollowed paid links. I javascripted links that might be mistaken for paid links. I canceled my sponsored review accounts....And I did all that for…what? read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: January 21, 2008 - 7:08 am
Posted By: northrock 231 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Lee Odden says from a personal observation standpoint, he noticed he's not logging into Facebook much anymore and many of the updates he gets are irrelevant to his interests.

Reader Poll: Are You Still Excited About Using Facebook?

... read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 19, 2008 - 6:04 am
Posted By: northrock 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://northrockpub.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
One pet peeve I have had with Sphinn is checking the submits by sphinner. Many times I feel like I am missing good items that friends submit because, well lets face it, you can’t be sphinning around the clock and see them all come through What’s New read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 4:58 pm
Posted By: northrock 237 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shoemoney.com)
Category: Blogging
I see blogs… and even businesses that constantly advertise and promote themselves in the same mediums time and time again. You see it in blogs a ton. The same bloggers reach out to the same bloggers all the time. The same people goto the same confer read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 11, 2008 - 3:17 am
Posted By: northrock 242 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Blogging
Last June, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ejected a credentialed reporter from a baseball game because he was live blogging the event for his paper's web site. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 10, 2008 - 4:16 am
Posted By: northrock 242 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.cnet.com)
Category: Google SEO
In this Stephan Spencer post Stephan highlights and expounds on Matt's response to indexing flash files in the recent interview Stephan had with Matt. This is a great follow up post to a successful interview. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 9, 2008 - 3:09 pm
Posted By: northrock 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google Other
In this mornings post Graywolf chastised Google for giving straight links to partners,... now he's found a whole bunch more! read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 9, 2008 - 10:06 am
Posted By: northrock 243 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
i wish we could view a list of sphinn stories by domain. right now we can view stories many ways including all the categories, what's hot, what's new, comments, and then also by sphinner. it would be handy to also form a list by originating domain. read more »
11 Comments     

Top 10 Most Sphunn
In What's New

  1. In Social Media- Think About Yourse... (16)
  2. How to Seduce the Cash-Strapped Sho... (15)
  3. Meta descriptions for dummies (15)
  4. What is Cloaking & Is All Cloaking ... (14)
  5. With 2.618 % Marketshare Google Chr... (14)
  6. 7 PPC Budget Saving Tips - Video Po... (14)
  7. Examples of What Makes Good Content (14)
  8. Include Your Website/Blog in Yahoo ... (9)
  9. First Look At WordPress 2.7 (8)
  10. The Penultimate Google Chrome Post (8)

Latest Comments

Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
• SMX China (Nanjing) - Sept. 23-24
• SMX Stockholm - Sept. 23-24: See who's speaking or register now.
• SMX East (New York City) - Oct. 6-8: See the agenda or register today and save!
• SMX London - Nov. 4-5: Pre-agenda rate now available. Click here.