August 2005 Archives : Bruce Clay Blog
August 31, 2005Blogger Beware?
Guest Entry by Kit Tran, SEO Analyst–Bruce Clay, Inc. Even though blogging has become fertile grounds for lawsuits, Aaron Wall’s latest run in with Traffic Power is proving a point about the power of blogging as a marketing tool. His entry about Traffic Power’s cease and desist letter was immediately picked up by the Wall [...]
Extra, read all about it!
The SEOToolSet Newsletter is done for the month of August. Subscribers will receive their newsletters in their emails very soon to be read at their leisure. Everyone else can follow the link to the online version. What’s in this month’s news? Well, we’re going back to basics with a look at duplicate content and starting [...]
August 30, 2005
SEO Book sued by Traffic Power
Aaron Wall, owner of SEOBook.com, was been served a cease and desist and has had a lawsuit filed against him. The claim states that “proprietary and confidential information” was published on the website but fails to state exactly what the information is supposed to be. When I saw this yesterday, I thought it was interesting [...]
August 29, 2005
Unicode characters in MSN Search
Welcome to the search game, MSN. Here’s your list of things to avoid and the ways your competitors (including the algorithm to beat, Google) have screwed up before and try not to do too many things wrong your first year. What’s on the list? Well, here’s an example as provided by Barry at Search Engine [...]
August 25, 2005
Yahoo! Search Marketing Downtime Update
Barry at Search Engine Roundtable got a message from our friends at Overture regarding the upgrade to the DTC and the crash that followed. “Yahoo! Search Marketing initiated a systems upgrade this past weekend to lay the groundwork for performance and availability improvements that our advertisers will see over the coming months. During this process, [...]
AOL News second only to Yahoo! News in popularity
AOL News, which uses a combination of Google News results, Topix.net information and human editing, is now more popular than both of its sources. AOL boasts a unique audience of 16.5 million according to a Nielson//Netratings report for July. Only Yahoo News is still more popular. AOL News as relaunched in June along with the [...]
Yahoo Bulk Submit
While the wait for Yahoo Site Explorer goes on, there has been an upgrade to the submit page. The familiar submit page got a new line added. You can also provide the location of a text file containing a list of URLs, one URL per line, say urllist.txt. We also recognize compressed versions of the [...]
August 24, 2005
Overture Down?
Guest Entry by Erin O’Brien, SEM Analyst-Bruce Clay, Inc What’s going on over at Yahoo!? Over the last few days we have been having trouble logging in to manage our Yahoo! sponsored search accounts. Yes, Yahoo Search Marketing was down for “system upgrades” this past weekend, but it still seems to be running extremely slow [...]
Google Talk
The rumors are true. Google Talk really does exist and as always Search Engine Watch provides a good rundown of the features. Google Talk uses your existing Google account and automatically adds any contacts that also have the service as well as lines up the rest of your contact list for invitation and features integration [...]
August 23, 2005
Not that it’s not cool…
Matt Cutts is, um, happy about Google winning the NIST challenge. Says Matt, World-class machine translation makes me hot. Actually, I can’t laugh too much. I have to agree that I’m looking forward to the day when machine translation is good enough to make world-wide communication a breeze. It’ll make everything harder for SEOs though. [...]
