November 2006 Archives : Bruce Clay Blog
November 30, 2006Search Headlines – Danny Departs, Elisabeth Steps Up
The Day Has Come; Danny Sullivan Leaves SEW If you’ve been paying attention at all, you know that today will be Danny Sullivan’s last day at Search Engine Watch. In honor of the day, Danny has penned a farewell post (check out the graphic of SEW back in 1997. Hellooo, ugly.) to his readers to [...]
Are you a good bot or a bad bot?
One of the lessons I learned during the Bot Obedience Course in San Jose was that there are two kinds of bots – the good spidering ones and the bad bandwidth stealing ones. (I know, I’m slow.) Good bots are the robots sent out by the various search engines to crawl your site and bring [...]
November 29, 2006
Google’s Super Secret Ad Network Emerges
Google still won’t admit to it, but the Tech Zone’s John Chow broke the story about an invitation he received to join Google’s exclusive, super secret CPM display advertising network which hopes to bring Fortune 1000 companies into Google’s advertising hold. The top secret system is nicknamed the Google Display Advertising Network and is strictly [...]
Schedule for SES Chicago 2006*
As promised, here’s my schedule for next week’s SES Chicago. If you see me, please do come and say hi. I would absolutely love to chat with you. And ignore the smoke coming from my fingers as I try to liveblog Barry Schwartz style. It’s perfectly normal and the bleeding stops eventually. Day 0: Sunday, [...]
An SEO blogger critiques an SEO critic answering his critics
Here we go again. Everyone remembers our buddy Dave Pasternack from Did-it, right? In case you don’t want to click the link, I’ll summarize. Last month, our intrepid SEO critic pointed out that search engine optimization as an industry was dying because it’s not hard and a monkey could do it. (I’m paraphrasing.) Well, he’s [...]
November 27, 2006
Weekend Update 11/27/2006
Google Gives Blog Search Its Own Onebox I’m a fan of all things blogs, so this makes me happy. Andy Beal reports a find by Andy Boyd (I feel left out of the AB club, don’t you?) that shows Google returning a onebox for blog results for certain queries. It’s a nice feature, though I’d [...]
Copyright Crazy All Around the World
Say you’re Google (or perhaps you’re Larry or Sergey since Google’s not actually human), how many times would you have to be sued for copyright infringement before you crash your own engine, pack up your index and go home (assuming you could still sell ad space on its dead remains of course)? Five times? Twenty [...]
Is it awesome in here today or is it just me?
Around here there are a few things we believe in–Luck Dragons, the Dodgers [if by Dodgers you mean Red Sox, then yes! - Lisa], and the importance of what we like to call practicing perfectly. Sometimes called textbook SEO, the optimization of Meta tags, alt attributes and other on-page elements are often dismissed as unimportant [...]
November 22, 2006
How to Survive Thanksgiving 2006 (aka your Wednesday Recap)
I don’t know how to tell you this, but due to the holiday there will be no Friday Recap this week. I know, I know, but you’ll be okay, I promise. In its place, I offer you a few goodies and some advice to help you optimize your Thanksgiving experience while you’re strapped seated next [...]
November 21, 2006
Search Headlines – All Around The World
European Mobile Firm Launches Flat Rate System Bigmouthmedia reports that European mobile network operator 3 has partnered up with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Skype/ eBay in a far-reaching new mobile deal that will allow 3′s customers to make free internet phone calls, watch television, and access their computers all for a fixed rate. For me, [...]
