NickWilsdon

Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 30 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 Posted By: NickWilsdon 42 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 62 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 Posted By: NickWilsdon 100 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 Posted By: NickWilsdon 108 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 114 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 134 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 134 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 Posted By: NickWilsdon 142 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 162 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 163 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 Posted By: NickWilsdon 168 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 Posted By: NickWilsdon 173 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 Posted By: NickWilsdon 189 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 Posted By: NickWilsdon 244 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 246 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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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 253 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3auction.com)
Category: Domaining
The latest tool released by Jay Westerdal has raised a furry of concern from domainers, shocked by the information which is now available on their portfolio and activities. However this issue has wider implications which should be considered by all read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3auction.com)
Category: Domaining
My top 5 reasons why the Dallas Cowboys made a dumb play loosing cowboys.com. In my view they didn't think of the long term value in the domain. Yes $275 is a lot of money but not over a 5 or 10 year payback period, especially on an asset which woul read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 277 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.namebrief.com)
Category: Domaining
Funny article by Bret Fausett who is looking for answers on the mysterious fascination domainers have with the word 'poop'. Even Frank Schilling has made his stake on the keyword, but why? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 279 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Other Online Marketing
It seems the No.1 UK host has some major 'data intrusion issues' relating to their unencrypted internal customer records.

Customers are recommended to change their control panel, email, FTP, and database passwords. Opps. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 281 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3internet.com)
Category: Google Other
Matt's blog is essential reading for our industry but I have to admit some of the comments bug me. Especially when I see people bashing SEO, answering technical SEO questions they really aren't qualified to and the repetitive references to Google's read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3internet.com)
Category: Blogging
Following on from Marty's (aimClear) post on adding WordPress to spice up your client's Web 1.0 site. I've outlined some practical steps to include WordPress functions and other RSS/XML content on the old site using the Magpie library. Hopefully my read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 302 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3internet.com)
Category: SEO
We've updated our search engine query cheat sheet for your downloading and laminating pleasure. The PDF contains all the major queries for Google, Yahoo! and MSN and has been written with SEO/SEM practitioners in mind. Hope you find this as useful a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 303 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3auction.com)
Category: Domaining
Months after their battle with Registerfly, ICANN may face it's biggest challenge yet; trying to decommision the Russian .SU extension. ICANN has, “urged the current .SU operators to make it clear to the .SU registrants the issues surrounding read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 303 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.e3internet.com)
Category: Water Cooler
PHPlist, the popular OS newsletter manager is trying their hand at Googlebombing with some hidden links on the install. Legitimate move or abuse of users trust? read more »
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