JohnnyT

Avatar Went Hot: February 23, 2008 - 5:57 am
Posted By: identity 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.cnet.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
With Flickr's recent change of adding nofollows, be sure to check out the links that, at least so far, are still nofollow free. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 334 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google Searching
Trying to get some feedback and/or ideas...a client site I work on has a strange issue: when they perform a search inside their building on Google for their domain name, their site is missing from the search results. When I try it (different locatio read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Silver 355 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Mobile Search
Much like print-friendly versions of pages, mobile versions of pages can introduce duplication issues on sites, watering down their PageRank. This story describes a real-world case in point, and shows one solution to satisfy mobile distribution aims read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 403 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google Other
I use Google Calendar as my yearly planner in tandem with my Gmail account. But the one thing I'm missing is an integrated task list that I can check off as I complete tasks. I use a task list gadget with my desktop reader, but I need something tied read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 1, 2007 - 3:04 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 404 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
As expected, the Supplemental Results label is going away. But Google also promises you'll notice less difference in the future in being listed in supplemental, as well. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 1, 2007 - 8:51 am
Posted By: tamar 404 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: SEO
Most webmasters have never heard of search engine optimization, so here’s some of what I present to SEO newbies in my introductory training workshop. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 405 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Other Searching
I still use my Google Desktop reader at work, but I also like Google Reader a whole bunch. What do Sphinners think? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 408 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp)
Category: Other Searching
Wow. This is interesting - it would be great to see the major engines deploy something like this to properly id video (or maybe even flash someday!?) From the article:

"The technology assesses the similarity of images based on image characteristi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 408 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: SEM Industry
Question for Sphinners: what are pay standards for a search marketing manager with 3-5 years experience and better than average knowledge of SEM/SEO practices??

I can't find any data online - what do people make in annual salary?? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 410 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A new people-focused content site called WikiYou launches this morning out of beta. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 410 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdWords
A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has some early numbers from one advertiser who is testing out the new video ads. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 411 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.foxnews.com)
Category: Networking
The founders of Connect-U said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea while they were all students at Harvard. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2007 - 9:23 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 411 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.com.com)
Category: Google
From Matt's talk on Saturday at WordCamp: "One key development that Matt shared with the audience was that underscores in URLs are now (or at least very soon to be) treated as word separators by Google." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 412 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
Google announced it would anonymize log data in March. Ask followed last week, and now Microsoft says it will too -- plus got with Ask to call for an industry discussion and standards on the issues. This is my big write-up on the move and a timeline read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 412 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Live Search Monday today... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 415 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Usability
I'm planning on running a usability survey on one of my client's sites, and I would like some feedback from the Sphinn community.

What do you think are the top 5 customer complaints/comments/compliments??? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 419 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
We told you so! I can hear Microsoft saying that after they said last week that comScore's ratings what support what Compete was showing -- a big rise in search share. Yep, comScore also found it was due to the Live Search Club promotion. But despit read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 419 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
I wonder if there's a connection between Zillow's Vanessa Fox and Transformer's Megan Fox...? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 419 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Other Online Marketing
I work almost exclusively in e-commerce SEM/SEO, and currently manage a handful of retail website SEM campaigns. Putting aside the many subjective factors that go into calculating a decent sale conversion rate per site visitor - can anyone comment o read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JohnnyT 419 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Jobs Wanted
To anyone looking for a dedicated, experienced in-house search marketing professional: I'm looking for an opportunity to dedicate myself completely to search. I've had many successes over the years and am currently employed as a SEM, managing 7 e-c read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2007 - 4:47 am
Posted By: randfish 419 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Sphinn Zone
10 reasons why search marketers should be engaging with Sphinn - from the selfish to the noble and a few in between. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2007 - 3:25 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 420 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Usability
There is always a place for Kim Krause here. It is called "Other Online Marketing" I believe. Do you agree? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2007 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 421 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
Even though I help run the site, I'm discovering ways to use Sphinn more myself. I thought I'd share some of my tips so far, plus provide a place for others to contribute. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: christographer 422 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Searching
Usability guru Jakob Neilsen isn't shy about expressing strong opinions about search. In today's Just Behave column, Gord Hotchkiss has a fascinating interview with Nielsen touching on everything from universal search results to personalization an read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2007 - 5:10 pm
Posted By: Lyndon 422 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Link Building
Imagine you’re Google for as moment (I accept that’s not an easy challenge!). Your job is to do the “right” job and fairly and wisely and correctly rank web pages from all across the internet on any given search term. What a job! read more »
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