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29 Dec This post is from from my other blog here I would like to congratulate the Techcrunch team for finally coming to the realization that linking to sponsors within posts, without using nofollow on the links might be in violation of Google's Webmaster guidelines. This was previously written about by Ted Murphy of Izea, and vehemently defended by Techcrunch, so it is surprising that they have made a significant change in their stance without also making a public statement about it. I also wrote about this situation in a previous article on paid links and the PageRank update (round 5). Here is their previous links to sponsors post from back in November 2007
28 Dec This post is from from my other blog here As I had hoped, ( http://community.izea.com/blog/2007/12/an-invitation-t.html ) Ted Murphy had a chance to chat with Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon It seems Google want all links within content that "wouldn't exist without payment" to use nofollow, but seems to be focusing on services like PayPerPost, and not other forms of links which wouldn't exist without compensation.
27 Dec This post is from from my other blog here Tamar must have spent a huge amount of time compiling this enormous list of what she feels were the best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007. I gained a few mentions on some key articles which was great. From what I can see she concentrated on timeless content that is educational, so this isn't just a list of the most popular content on Sphinn, and many of the articles I didn't get to read during the last year. As Tamar didn't feature videos in her list, I should also mention the high quality website optimization videos that the guys from Stompernet have ...
27 Dec This post is from from my other blog here I followed a link from Aaron's writeup on the Alpha for Wikia, to the Wikia Whitelist of sites that will be included in the first few waves of development. I discovered this touching remark from Wikia and Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales about Jason Calacanis…
With all the links Mahalo gives Wikipedia you would think there would be a little more love… I wonder how long it will take for Wikia to have some quality content on competitive search terms. Tags: jason_calacanis, jimbo_wales, mahalo, wikia, wikipedia Related posts
23 Dec This post is from from my other blog here The Winners of the Open Web Awards have been announced. Due to my moving and connectivity problems I wasn't able to promote the voting phases but I did vote on the judges choice awards - it is interesting how voting differed between the two. Category Judges Choice People's Choice Mainstream and Large Social Networks Facebook.com Netlog.com Applications and Widgets Flock.com WidgetBucks.com Social News and Social Bookmarking Digg.com Digg.com Social Search Mahalo.com Facebook.com Sports and Fitness ESPN Sportme.org Photo Sharing Flickr.com Vois.com Video Sharing Youtube.com Kaltura.com Start Pages Netvibes.com iGoogle Places and Events Meetup.com Myspace.com Music Last.fm Pandora.com Social Shopping Woot.com Zlio.com Mobile Twitter.com Google Maps For Mobile Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks Filmcrave.com Cafemom.comIn some of the more competitive categories such as Widgets and Niche Social Networks, for both the short list of entries into the voting phase, and the final voting, community support was a vital factor, ...
21 Dec This post is from from my other blog here Sometimes it is the little things that make a big difference when browsing RSS feeds, such as how quickly you can visit the site in your browser to view content not shown in the RSS feed (partial feeds or sometimes things like javascript widgets), or on busy blog often the comments are just as important as the article itself. For a while now it has been possible to open a preview of a site in Google Reader using a Greasemonkey script in Firefox, and various lightbox and open in tabs scripts also exist for Bloglines. Built In PreviewIt is all very well ...
20 Dec This post is from from my other blog here
I claim it as a review, even though I hadn't actually seen the product. I had one major problem with it which wouldn't have worried many of my readers, but was a significant problem for me - it was a physical product.
Part of my old job in the computer games and software industry here in Poland used to be import/export. I have been through living hell with Polish customs so many times the very thought of having to handle what is now minor ...
19 Dec This post is from from my other blog here If you read the Google blog or the coverage on Search Engine Land, you might be rejoicing that supplemental results are no more It has been described as lipstick on a pig and others have just offered tips on site indexing. What Happened To My /* Search Query?Before this change, one of the tools still available to SEO practitioners to give an indication of the depth of site indexing was to add /* to the end on a site: search query. Thus you would use site:andybeard.eu/ - this would return the total pages supposedly indexed
site:andybeard.eu/* - this would return the number of pages in ...
19 Dec This post is from from my other blog here
I had been planning to write about Bloggers Unite about a week ago, with a followup post yesterday, but most of yesterday I was again without a connection. I gave up at 7am. On Blogcatalog there is now a list forming of all the blogs that took part, and one way for me to give a little something back is ...
18 Dec This post is from from my other blog here A few weeks ago the Collective Thoughts team got together and compiled a bunch of tough questions we didn't expect to get all the answers for. Almost without exception Ian Kennedy, MBL Product Manager has provided detailed answers If you are a fan of MBL you will find some interesting stats, and some things to look forward to in the near future. Here is an extra little titbit. Google's Toolbar currently regards my MBL profile as more valuable content than my blog, and the same is true for my Blogcatalog profile. Whilst the true value Google places on my site can't be determined due to ...
15 Dec This post is from from my other blog here I have had a chance to deal with the odd email over the last 2 weeks whilst moving house, but I knew I should respond to this paid links post by Matt Cutts as soon as I was able to do so with some level of detail. So far the best estimate for having a landline for internet access provided by the Polish national carrier is 10 months, so I am using a GSM solution which in my remote part of Poland seems to clock in slightly faster than what I would expect from UMTS so might be giving me a ...
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