The Motley Fool, in typical Foolish ways, makes a bold sounding statement that Google is the worst stock for 2007, based upon the premise that increased competition from Yahoo and Microsoft, combined with a fickle online ad market, will eat into Google’s growth.  These arguments really don’t have any merit. At the moment, Yahoo and […]

I guess we have officially entered a new age — the Wall Street Journal is feeling the blog love. Search engine watch reports that the WSJ has started to consider restructuring some of efforts to have more dynamic blogs. Half the fun is in the comments and that is what is really defining the new […]

The other day SEOMOZ wrote about KeyCompete, a new service that uses scraping and a variety of ways to monitor competitor’s keywords and help a search marketer dig deeper into keyword research. Services like this are valuable because they provide another angle for real keyword data outside of the search engines tools. I know there […]

The Google Blog recently posted about audio captchas — basically a way to have human authentication for people who cannot visually see web pages. Most blogs or other places using verification schemes tend to show a visually skewed image that a user must decode and enter in order to post a blog comment, signup for […]

So Google just announced they are going to release more then a trillion unique words they have grabbed from pages. As a search engine marketer and general lover of words and phrases, this is like pure gold. Check out this example for Britany Spears
I think marketers in every aspect of the search industry should check […]

Recently there has been quite a lot of brouhaha (great word isn’t it?) about Google’s new Landing Page “Quality Score” and the effect it is having on some marketers. There are a range of rumors flying around from this is an attempt for Google to raise prices across the board to it is a conspiracy […]

The other day Seth Godin talked a bit about “astroturfing” and the efforts of some people on the web to campaign against it. What is astroturfing? Basically, faking grassroots enthusiasm for a product, politician, website, and so on.
It just made me wonder, isn’t a whole lot of “SEO” or search engine optimization really just some […]

So, I haven’t had this blog up for very long. A few posts here and there, but I have definitely been discovered by the spam bots. I am sure not as much as most people, but every day it seems like there are 30 more comments about viagra, or cialis, or random link.
It reminds me […]

Eric Picard had an interesting article yesterday regarding AJAX and how it is throwing off the traditional ways of measuring page views or impressions of advertising at sites. Given that many of the new fancy web 2.0 sites written with ajax calls are actually changing the page without reloading the page, the traditional measurement for […]