Bruce Clay Blog : August 2006 Archives
August 31, 2006The noindex challenge
Matt performed a 100 percent in-no-way-scientific test to see if the engines actually respect those little “noindex” commands you’ve been confidently stapling across your super secret Web stuff in order to keep it out of the index. Turns out, not all the engines pay attention to the command. Here’s what Matt found. Google doesn’t show [...]
Should you be creating keyword-specific file names?
I’ll give you a heads up. You’re probably going to be reading a lot of should-I-put-keywords-in-the-URL debates over the next few days. And when you do, you have one person to blame: Mr. Matt Cutts. Heh. While most of you (fine, some of you) were sleeping at 1 a.m. this morning, Matt was blogging (don’t [...]
Will YouTube crumble under its own weight?
The Wall Street Journal took a deeper look into YouTube yesterday, using information gathered by a Delft University of Technology scraper to introduce us to some of YouTube’s most famous users and unleash some seriously jaw dropping statistics. Care to meet some of YouTube’s most loyal users? First, there’s Christy Leigh Stewart. At 21, and [...]
August 30, 2006
Excited Customers stay loyal
Everyone knows it costs less to retain old customers than to find new ones, so if you’re a business owner looking to keep your customers excited about your product, yesterday was the day you needed to be paying attention. On Tuesday, Ze Frank gave us all a lesson in branding (and youth. Youth. Youth. Sorry.), [...]
Catch Up, Round Up
No, my faithful readers, I have not forgotten you, but there is a lot to catch up on. So let’s do it. Google gives you free books Google has once again won my heart by letting me download full PDF versions of my favorite out-of-copyright books courtesy of Google Book Search. The service is similar [...]
August 29, 2006
Danny Sullivan to Leave SEW and SES
You’re going to be seeing that headline a lot today (and throughout the rest of the year, I’m sure), and there’s a reason for that: it couldn’t be more important. Danny Sullivan has left the loudmouth SEO community in relative shock with his announcement that contractual disagreements with Incisive Media will cause him to step [...]
August 28, 2006
The Weekend’s Top Headlines
Where is Yahoo! headed? Blogs are missing from Yahoo!’s news search results today and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. So where have all the blogs gone and when will they be back? Yahoo! spokesperson Brian Nelson told Greg Jarboe that the once-nicely embedded Blog beta has been “temporarily taken offline to retool the offering“. While that [...]
August 25, 2006
Friday Recap: Farewell 1 Pluto Edition
First, a moment of silence to acknowledge the cruel and unfair demotion of no-longer-a-planet Pluto based on its inability to “dominate its orbit around the Sun” the way the other planets do. So just because Pluto’s a little different from its friends it gets stripped of its title? Gee, that’s a great lesson for all [...]
August 24, 2006
“Amish Go Karts” Show Link Importance
I know what you’re thinking, and no, I haven’t completely lost my mind. If you want to see the power that the ODP and pre-existing links can have on your site, Amish go karts are your window in. Greg Boser had a great post yesterday to help site owners appreciate the full impact that links [...]
Is Panama coming earlier than expected?
Yahoo! looks to be gearing up for the release of its upcoming Y!SM Panama upgrade by sending emails to advertisers urging them to update their profile information in preparation for the “complete upgrade and redesign” of their accounts. Is this just a preliminary step or can we expect to see signs of Panama before the [...]
