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Re: Whitehat Spies

Syndk8 Black Hat Seo Forum — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:55:11 GMT

I don't think any se reps would be here. If you analyze almost all BH tricks are pretty much common sense Isn't it? It doesn't take a lot to learn....

Re: traffic to parked domains

Syndk8 Black Hat Seo Forum — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:55:11 GMT

I like parked.com, but they have some really shitty templates. They could spend an extra couple grand on their templates, and get the money back wi...

Sneakerplay, Social Network For Sneaker Heads, Shuts Down

TechCrunch — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:25:10 GMT

Two years ago, when social networking was all the rage, a lot of dedicated community websites for specific (and often very small) groups of people were launched by entrepreneurs trying to cash in on the hype by carving out a certain niche. The strategy proved successful for some, but for others ... not so much. And now that the economic crisis is weighing down on the entire industry, with advertisers cutting their overall budgets and the online spend decreasing rapidly, the wheat is getting separated from the chaff faster than expected. One niche social network shutting down is Sneakerplay, an online community targeted at people who love their sneakers so much they need their own special place on the net to talk about them and share pictures of their favorite shoes with each other. That was the idea. But guess what? People don't love their sneakers enough to bond with other people over them on an ongoing basis. At least not enough people to build an actual business around it.

How Do You Decide Who to Follow on Twitter?

Search Engine Guide : Small Business Search Marketing — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:25:04 GMT

by Mack Collier

In yesterday's post, I looked at some ways that I have used to get more followers on Twitter. Now I wanted to spin it around and look at some of the criteria I have for who I decide to follow on Twitter.

Let's say I've just clicked on an email notification from Twitter that someone has followed me. I click on the link and here's what I am looking for when I check out their profile:

1 - Their ratio of followers to people they are following. If I see it's about 1:1, that's good, but if I see that they are following 14,000 people and only have 237 following them back, that's a HUGE red flag.

2 - I check their bio. I'm hoping to get some sense of who they are and what they do.

3 - I check their avatar. Yes, a real pic of a real person matters.

4 - I check their most recent tweets. Specifically, I look for how many replies they have left. This gives me an idea of how they are using Twitter. If I see no replies on their profile, that tells me they are probably just on Twitter to broadcast (promote their own content with no/little desire to interact with other members). I prefer to follow people that are interested in conversing on Twitter.

5 - I check their location. I am currently trying to follow more people from Alabama and the South, so if their profile says this is where they are located, that's a plus.

Now what about people that I decide to follow that didn't follow me first? How do I find these people?

The quickest way for me to follow you is if I see someone that I am following talking to you. If you are engaging my friends in conversation, that's a wonderful way to get my attention, and it's like an 'endorsement'. Also, if you reply to me, that gets my attention, and makes it far more likely that I will want to follow you.

The bottom line is that I want to follow people that are on Twitter to interact with other people. That's how *I* use Twitter, you might have another system for picking the people you follow, and there's nothing wrong with that, in fact it's one of the beauties of social media, that there are so many different ways that we can all use these tools, based on our own needs.

What do you look for when deciding who you follow on Twitter?

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 2, 2008

Search Engine Roundtable — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:25:04 GMT

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

SEMPO at NASDAQ

Apogee Weblog — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:24:54 GMT

I paused (literally) yesterday, seeing who was ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ:

It was SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization). �How mainstream is search marketing nowadays?

Tags: sempo, nasdaq

Free WiFi May Be Coming to a City Near You

Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:24:53 GMT

By Taylor Pratt The FCC will vote on a plan this month that would bring free WiFi nationwide, according to a Reuters. Although strongly opposed by the cell phone industry, the plan calls to auction public airwaves with a mandate that the winning bidder set aside some for free Internet nationwide. You might think this is a [...]

WordPress functions to supercharge your Theme!

Yoast — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:55:17 GMT

WordPress is well known for its plugins and themes, but not enough people know and love what you can do in your themes functions.php. Chris Pearson showed his love for them back in May, and he did a great job of explaining how you can bring your own functions.php file to each and every theme [...]

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Interview with Search Engine World

Sexy Widget — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:55:12 GMT

Here's a ten minute interview with Search Engine World's Vanessa Zamora in which I talk about the fragmentation of the web, the rise of the river / newsfeed format, and the distribution power of APIs - I also plug a...

Search Biz: Yahoo Soap Opera Update; Google�s Mobile Plans; Ask.com�s Creepy Commercials & More

Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:55:06 GMT