Tag Archives: news
ePerks & iHype – Legal Kneejerk – Sues Blogger
I had intended to do a followup this week with more scathing evidence of ePerks shilling all over the blogosphere, but ePerks have pre-empted that by taking some rather unusual and desperate action...
Remember I am not a lawyer, and this is a stong opinion piece.
I am trying extremely hard to create an assertion of fact dressed up as an opinion
Posted in SEO Blog, marketing Also tagged brabus, brabus ventures, defamation, eperks, free speech, ihype, law, legal, libel, vlad Comments closed
Linking Abuse Or Linking Awareness
Blogcatalog Members today are collectively blogging about abuse.
I thought of blogging about all kinds of abuse that affect real people day in, day out, but decided that ultimately that doesn't fit in with my audience, or really add any authority to the words I would be writing.
As it happens, today part of a 2 hour interview with me was published in the Guardian (Digg Story you know you want to). I honestly didn't expect any more words in print from the article, because it was so wide ranging, and such
Posted in Google, SEO Blog, blogging tips, news Also tagged goog, Google, linking, linking_mistakes, link_condom, nofollow, press, search engine optimization, SEO Blog, syndication, the_guardian Comments closed
RSSBrief – PayPerPost To Directly Compete With Feedburner and Google Reader?
The guys from PayPerPost might cause a lot of controversy, but there is one thing that I doubt anyone could deny, even their most harsh critics… they are smart.
They bring out interesting, useful, sometimes controversial or disruptive products, but they are certainly market leaders not the following pack.
In the case of RSSBrief, they are taking on an existing market, RSS Readers, and in many ways it seems they might also step into reputation management and RSS Search.
I have a feeling even Jason Calacanis is going to like RSSBrief because it will help him with reputation management for Mahalo… but
Posted in blogging tips, marketing, news Also tagged email marketing, feedburner, Google, marketing, payperpost, rss, rssbrief, rss_aggregation, rss_subscription, zookoda Comments closed
Open Social Web – Google + Feedburner Really Is Bad For RSS
I honestly laughed when I saw the new "Open Social Web" Bill of Rights launched yesterday, not because it isn't to some extent a useful idea, but because of one specific term…
Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others
10 months ago I fired off a heated debate about RSS sharing, and how Google with it's easy to share feeds could be killing the future of RSS. Now I say I fired it off, but honestly it would have been a storm in a teacup without Robert Scoble taking part with one of his most
Posted in Google, blogging tips, marketing, news, web 2.0 Also tagged bill_of_rights, facebook, feedburner, Google, google reader, open_social_web, robert_scoble, rss, techcrunch Comments closed
Google Didn’t Listen To Seth 18 Months Ago
I have spent the morning watching a number of contrasting videos which in some ways suggest that Google may have jumped the shark, and I don't fully agree with any of them. The Seth Godin Video is interesting, because he was telling Google what to do 18 months ago.
Seth Godin Speaks to Google
In this video Seth Godin is insightful, and explains to a bunch of Googlers all about Purple Cows and Flipping the Funnel on its side and embracing buzz marketing.
The concepts are sage advice, however there is one major pitfall.
If the perfect way to market a product is to flip
BlogCatalog API Launches
Blogcatalog have just launched an API for programmers giving extensive access to the data contained within both the user profiles and blog profiles.
The BlogCatalog REST (REpresentational State Transfer) API allows the retrieval of public user and blog data based on a set of input parameters. This page outlines the various types of requests that can be executed and provides example requests and responses.
I had a play around with it early today for the first time and a couple of bugs were cleaned up since then and I think developers will find the terms of use fairly unrestricted.
I have actually
Posted in blogging tips, news, web 2.0 Also tagged api, Blogcatalog, geek, rest_api, social network, web 2.0 Comments closed
Do You Want a $200 Press Release Submission With PRWeb? For Free?
This is actually something quite remarkable, because as far as I know, I haven’t seen anyone else, ever, get to offer their readers a free, premium press release through PRWeb, and it is not like they have an affiliate program (at least that I have heard about), or easy to find promotion codes.
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Posted in SEO Blog, blogging tips, marketing Also tagged coupon, dofollow, free_coupon, no nofollow, press_release, prweb, SEO Blog, syndication, traffic Comments closed
One Day Blog Silence In Honor Of The Victims Of Virginia Tech
Steli Efti is one of the most good natured souls I have met whilst blogging, and is truely an educator. As such, I feel it is fitting that he has started this initiative to hold a one day bloggers silence 30th April to honor the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy.
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Posted in blogging tips Also tagged blog, blogging, mourning, shooting, virginia_tech, vtech Comments closed
Are Press Releases More Cost Effective Than PPC Advertising?
Not long ago I wrote about how PRWeb can be used to grab some useful backlinks on pages that might experience reasonable qualified traffic, especially from members of the press, or owners of quality websites.
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Are Yahoo Guilty of Unethical Plagiarism With Syndicated Content?
Bloggers often complain that another blogger has stolen their content (plagiarism) or reworked their ideas without giving credit, and on the internet among bloggers, credit isn't just mentioning their names but providing a link, preferably to the original article.
Major Websites and Press Agencies Seriously Don't Give a Damn About Conventions
I am not a lawyer, this post is personal opinion. Please treat any legal information as for entertainment purposes only
Vipul Arora wrote a story today entitled Yahoo plagiarizes content - does not give credit!!
But was it plagiarism?
Lets go into detail and see what happens, and how this all
Posted in news Also tagged afp, attribution, duplicate content, ethics, hoax, links, museum_of_hoaxes, press, rss, syndication, yahoo Comments closed
A Totally Legitimate Way To Pick and Choose Backlinks
I am actually not going to tell you much about this, other than it is totally legitimate and could act as a source of high quality links and trafffic… the type who not only might click through to read what you say, but also write about it.
It is slightly old school, but not talked about, in fact most people just talk about doing this in reverse, but both ways can be effective. Take a look at this PR Stunt.
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Clickbank Require Disclosure – A-List Bloggers Totally Missed the Point In December
I am not sure how long this has been in the rules at Clickbank, as Clickbank currently block archive.org – that being said I am sure it would have been brought up by someone during the last few months in discussions regarding various paid review services such as PayPerPost, ReviewMe and Sponsored Reviews.
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Posted in blog monetization, marketing, news Also tagged affiliate marketing, clickbank, clickbank_rules, clickbank_terms, disclosure, ftc, law, legal, womm Comments closed
Can You Really Take Search Engine and Technology News Seriously?
There is currently a case running in the Danish courts that will effectively decide the law in Denmark for linking to a page other than a home page, typically known as deep linking.
We are not talking about hot-linking, pulling an image or video off someone else’s server into the middle of your own content, but linking as you might to this blog article, using the permalink.
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Posted in SEO Blog, news Also tagged blogger, britney_spears, deep_linking, global_warming, krak, link, linking, paris_hilton, robert_scoble, search, search_engine, tech, wikipedia, windows_vista Comments closed
Rojo Splogs and Attribution
Om Malik recent was taking a look at Rojo from a traffic perspective. What he didn’t touch on, although he did refer to a previous post, was that the Rojo page was actually a very poor quality splog.
Posted in web 2.0 Also tagged backlinks, bitacle, feed_reader, linking, rojo, rss, RSS Reader, six_apart, splog, syndication Comments closed
Podcast with Irish Attitude
If you are someone who likes to listen to podcasts on blogging and tech issues, you might like to give Paul’s new podcast a try.
It is “down to earth” rather than full of hype (as you would expect from an Irishman), and my first impressions of it are very good (and that is not because I got a mention in the first episode).
Posted in web 2.0 Also tagged a-list, deep_linking, digg, krak, linkbait, linking, podcast, robert_scoble, scandal Comments closed
Google LSI Related Search Results
I use Google for a lot of searching every day, I am sure more than 95% of casual users. I am not talking about checking ranking, as things like that can be automated with Google’s APis and various tools. When I need to find information, I use Google Search.
I have seen Google suggest other related terms to try such as this, which appears at the bottom of a page when I search for “insurance”.
The Google Related terms normally look something like this:-
Posted in Google, SEO Blog, marketing Also tagged adwords, Google, google_adwords, long_tail, low_hanging_fruit, lsi, marketing, related_terms, results, search_marketing, sem, SEO Blog, serps Comments closed
Google Requiring Affiliates Not to Declare? FTC | WOMMA
I watched this video last night… slept on it, and listened to it again today.
This video was originally posted on the Google Adsense blog, and the presenter is Laura from Adsense Support.
Now I should point out that Google have been very clear in their wording with all the recent correspondence relating to Adsense changes, which in some ways makes this even more extraordinary.
The interesting bit in regard to financial declarations starts 1min:30 from the start.
It should be noted that this wasn't recorded live, as you can see from the out-takes at the end, is in response to
Posted in Google, blog monetization Also tagged adsense_referral_buttons, affiliate marketing, disclosure, disclosure policy, ftc, Google, google_adsense, law, legal, policy, rules, womm, womma Comments closed
Exactly Why Nofollow at Wikipedia is bad
Once upon a time, a scientist wrote a brilliant blog post solving the answer to life, the universe and everything. A few people linked to him, and anyone searching for the answer to the ultimate question could find it easily, by just a simple search in Google.
The scientist appeared right at the top of the results.
Wikipedia NoFollow Plugin? WikiDigg?
The news today seems to be that Wikipedia have added nofollow to external links.
I have seen a lot of sites mention that all the search engines respect nofollow. Actually they don’t. Anlaysis has shown that Yahoo certainly follow and index pages despite the nofollow tag.
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