***Update: The Googlebot has ringtonerevue. It looks like it cached the site less then 3 hours after posting this link on the blog. “This is G o o g l e’s cache of http://www.ringtonerevue.com/ as retrieved on 9 May 2007 05:03:55 GMT.” The post was set to GMT time as well “ […]

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 […]

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 […]

Saw this via searchenginewatch that OneStat had a study that less people are using one word queries then they were last year. Um, ok, yeah? As people use search engines more they will realize one word really isn’t enough.
Though I am not sure their sample size is a good one. 2 million visitors? Some websites […]

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 […]

I saw a post today on Jeremey Zawodny’s blog and he mentioned that a year after no-follow was introduced and agreed upon by many of the major blog owners, comment spam is as rife as ever and that there has been a change in how people comment. I made a comment on his blog and […]

Many in the SEO and SEM world know that typos and improperly spelled words (wrods) can be a great source of secondary traffic at a cheaper cost from the higher priced, properly spelled word. While one might think of spelling choices that come from a slip of a keyboard, there are actually a range of […]

So this blog has had a few posts over the past month and I just received the first piece of comment spam. The site had technically been live a bit before that but no blog feature or anything detectable, such as the nice “powered by wordpress” that can be used to find blogs in google […]