September 2006 Archives : Bruce Clay Blog
September 29, 2006SEO: Too simple to make a long-term career?
This may come as a shock to some of you, but according to a thread over at v7n, SEO is just a hobby and not something you can have a sustainable future doing since there are so few jobs in the field. Heh. Excuse me while I pick myself up off the ground. One member [...]
Friday Recap 09/29/2006
It’s Friday Recap time again. Let’s see if we can make this one a little more lighthearted. I don’t want to depress Susan again like I did last week. Over at Daggle, Danny Sullivan shows us why Teddy Roosevelt would have been a Web 2.0 expert. Apparently the former president had a fascination for dropping [...]
September 28, 2006
Headlines
If you had 60 minutes with a Google engineer… What would you ask him? SER reports on an interesting thread over at WMW where a member is claiming he was given a one hour meeting with a Google engineer to discuss anything regarding organic search. Before the meeting occurred, forum members gave their suggestions on [...]
Internationally Speaking
There’s a clear shortage in resources designed to educate sites on how to rank well in other countries, but today we came across two excellent ones. First, a forum thread that discusses the importance of links when trying to rank well in a certain country, and then an impressive U.K.-based keyword research tool that lets [...]
Microsoft makes impressive leap into the Media biz
What’s the best way to jump into the media business and make yourself a formidable threat to your opponents? Step 1: Align yourself with a powerful social networking site Step 2: Launch your own multi-platform media advertising strategy Step 3: Partner with a respected news agency to explore ways of developing other digital services and [...]
September 27, 2006
Search Headlines – Fox didn’t buy YouTube
Did Fox News just buy YouTube? We’re not sure yet if this is fact or fiction, but Digg is reporting (in a somewhat sketchy post) that Fox News Corp just shelled out $580 million to acquire YouTube. Could it be true? If so, this is very big news, however, we’re still looking for another source [...]
Incisive Media Sold to Apax
Last week news started to break very slowly that Incisive Media had been acquired by Apax Partners for $375 million dollars. It seemed like potentially very important news, but yet, very few outlets covered it, why? Well, for one, because no one really knows what it means. Barry Schwartz says as far as he knows, [...]
Should Google’s policy be opt-in?
On the heels of the Belgian court decision, Google has decided to clarify its philosophy on content (though Google told Danny Sullivan the two were unrelated). The general idea behind the post is that Google applies fair-use to what it includes in its index. Google clarifies: “Because we don’t own this content, over the years [...]
September 26, 2006
If Belgium had sued Microsoft, would anyone have cared?
There’s an interesting post from the Guardian Unlimited today that compares Google’s Belgium situation with Microsoft’s struggle with the EU. Author Jack Schofield, who calls Google’s recent troubles “a very silly saga” (I agree), states: “Europeans are used to getting a laugh out of American court cases where someone sues Mega Corp Inc for $13.7 [...]
AOL Joins Class-Action Club
AOL has been officially initiated into the class-action lawsuit club. Congrats, AOL! TechCrunch broke the news that three AOL users have filed a class action lawsuit against AOL in California on Friday in response to last month’s privacy breach. According to the filing (PDF), the suit seeks no less than $1000 in damages per user [...]
