June 2008 Archives : Bruce Clay Blog
June 30, 2008Weekend Update: Who Likes Cookies?
SEO Newsletter Hitting Inboxes Today! It’s the last day of the month which means two very important things: Payday and SEO Newsletter day. Huzzah! Today’s edition of the SEO Newsletter features expanded commentary on two subjects we’ve previously written about as blog posts. First, Virginia Nussey will tell you everything you’ve ever needed to know [...]
Bloglines Borked?
Sigh. Oh, Bloglines, why must you fail me so? When I logged in to check my feeds, this is what you give me? That’s one, TWO panes listing my feeds. All those times I’ve asked for more features, that’s not what I was talking about. I meant features like “faster updating” so that I’m not [...]
June 27, 2008
Friday Recap: The Birthday Edition
Huzzah, it’s Friday! And more importantly, it’s my Almost Birthday (tomorrow is the big day). Susan and Virginia have already spoiled me with bagels, coffee, balloons, lunch and a mystery present. Birthdays are delicious, aren’t they? If you were wondering what to get me for my birthday, I want this. Actually, I’ll take two of [...]
June 26, 2008
My Thoughts On Ask.com & Core Search
Oh my poor disgraced Ask.com bag. I wish I could rescue you from the back of my closet but I still can’t bring myself to look at you. I didn’t intend to blog about the recent phone call I had with Ask CEO Jim Safka and the PR guru that has won my heart with [...]
June 25, 2008
SEO Headlines 06/25/2008
Search Engine Optimization Can’t Be Rushed Birthday boy Lee Odden started a great conversation with his post about the importance of staying on top of your search engine optimization campaign and taking the time to do it right. We really can’t stress this enough. SEO is not a one time deal, regardless of how big [...]
All Your Ads Belong To The Goog
Barry Schwartz says if you thought Google Trends for Websites was scary, meet Google Ad Planner. Beta testers can enter in demographic information and sites associated with their audience and Google will spit out a list of other sites their audience is likely to visit. Barry says he was able to find information like unique [...]
June 24, 2008
Advanced SEO is Traditional White Hat SEO
I wasn’t lucky enough to attend SES Toronto so I’m still getting caught up on all the feedback and session reviews that came out of the event. In doing that, I stumbled across Andrew Goodman’s review of the event where he talks a lot about the lessons that he and SES’ Global Content Director Kevin [...]
June 23, 2008
SEO Weekend Update: Optimal E-mail Days
Should Google Adopt an Ombudsman? Barry Welford left a comment on Michael Gray’s Google Website Trends wrist slapping that asked if Google would benefit from hiring an ombudsman, or more likely a team of them. It’s a novel concept, but I don’t think it’s particularly realistic. Barry thinks hiring an ombudsman and bringing in a [...]
Social Media Used To Be About Sharing
Li Evans had a stellar post over at SEM Clubhouse entitled What Is Social Media’s Purpose? Honestly, It’s Not About Links. Li’s post was inspired by some of the social media advice that was presented at last week’s SES Toronto that included creating multiple user accounts, tricking people into being your friend, and faking credibility [...]
June 20, 2008
Google Trends for Websites? Not Cool, Google.
Quite a bit of commotion today in response to Google’s decision to do something with all your site data they’ve been sitting on. Starting today, savvy site owners can use Google Trends for Websites to do some competitive research and discover unique site metrics like estimated traffic, also searched for, also visited, and traffic for [...]
