DazzlinDonna’s take on SEO news, tips and theories.
The holiday season is fast approaching and users are already starting to get into the swing of things. I am seeing a marked increase in users searching for Christmas keywords, with Halloween and Thanksgiving phrases rapidly increasing as well. If you have not yet started working on holiday promotions on your sites, don’t waste much more time. Blink and you’ll miss out on a lot of traffic.
Next Wednesday, I’m moving to the country. Unfortunately, there’ll still be no place for me to move into. So, until my new place is ready and has electricity and water, I’ll be staying with my father-in-law. Poor man has no clue what his life will be like with us, the 3 dogs, the cat, and the 2 birds moving in on him. We’ll probably be there a couple of weeks while everything gets finished up. (We’re moving right next door to him).
I’m looking forward to living on my 3 acres of land with only my father-in-law on one side of…
Justilien Gaspard is an SEO who, in his words, is looking to “make SEO a little more meaningful”. He is generously offering free SEO consulting to help rebuild the economy after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita down here along the Gulf Coast.
His goal is to help businesses that feel they can create new local jobs by increasing their online sales, and he’s willing to give these businesses the knowledge and tools they need to make that happen. If you know of a business in the area that might be interested, please let them know about it. Thanks, Justilien, for keeping SEO real.
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Wow, big news. Hard to believe Danny Sullivan is leaving Search Engine Watch and SES conferences, as of December 1. Good luck in any new ventures, Danny.
If you feature product reviews in your blog (or website), Chitika has a new product that looks extremely promising. Called ShopLinc, this is a really sweet way of marrying the products you are already talking about with an online store custom tailored to your content. In their words, “your shop features content from your website, blog posts or articles. So it’s not just another shop, its your shop with your content.”
I didn’t quite get the concept until I went to the demo (link above), but now I get it. I think this could be pretty powerful for some people. You…
The BBC has an article describing the pending decision that “page edits will no longer be immediately applied to pages but will instead have to be approved by an administrator before they become visible.” If this decision is put into place, it would then make Wikipedia simply another ordinary website, where users have some level of participation, but it’s certainly no longer a true wiki at that point.
Anyone who has ever run any kind of community-based site eventually comes to the realization that spammers will do their best to ruin it. Whether you have a popular blog or forum or any…
In my previous post, I pointed you to some tutorials by Orion that are quite intense. However one tiny link in one of those tutorials led me to a couple of other posts he’s made that are simply hysterical. Orion has created a few new words that help define some of the things that we, as SEOs, and bloggers may be “infected with”. I certainly hope none of these terms apply to me, but if they do, I apologize.
The first post you should read is SOME DEFINITIONS which defines words such as blogonomies, blogorrhea, and linkphilis. Too funny.
The next post you…
Orion has kindly created several tutorials (and is in the process of creating more) to shed light on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), as well as Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). LSI has been discussed in SEO forums for a few years, but I’m not sure anyone has ever really understood it. (I never even heard of SVD until tonight - sounds like a disease to me. Anyway, reading Orion’s tutorials lets me know for sure that I have never understood LSI - and I possibly never will).
Although Orion begins his tutorial by explaining that these things are not too difficult to grasp,…
I love getting to know fellow SEOs a little better by reading interviews of them. So I went on a quest to find as many SEO interviews as I could. No doubt I’ve also left some out, but if so, then it’s completely unintentional (blame the search engines). Feel free to let me know if you think some should be added, and I’ll edit this post accordingly. I do keep this list updated frequently, so it should always be fresh with new interviews added as I discover them.
Current Count: 256 SEO Interviews
Last Updated: 01/05/2008
Aaron Pratt
David Naylor
Jon Glick
Mike Levin
Aaron Wall
Dax Herrera
Jon Glick
Miriam & Liam Loraditch
Aaron Wall
DazzlinDonna
Jordan McCollum
Motoko Hunt
For a while now, I’ve been beating the drums about concentrating on the long tail. Of course, 70 million others have done so as well. If you still haven’t listened to me or any of those other folks, maybe you should stop for a minute and reconsider embracing the concept.
Matt Cutts had a blog post recently that I consider to be one of his best. If you don’t feel like taking the time to read it, I’ll summarize the key points here (or at least the ones that I’m concerned with for this particular post).
Find your niche. Discover something that is…
The IEBlog reports that IE7 has been locked down for shipping and they list all of the CSS changes/fixes they’ve made. Some include:
Peekaboo Bug
Internet Explorer and Expanding Box Problem
Quirky Percentages
Line-height bug
Border Chaos
Disappearing List-Background bug
Guillotine Bug
Unscrollable Content bug
Duplicate Characters Bug
IE and Italics
Doubled Float-Margin bug
Duplicate Indent bug
Three pixel text jog
Creeping Text bug
Missing First letter bug
Phantom box bug
There’s lots more listed too, so if you’re waiting to see what’s being fixed in IE, check it out.
Received my Search Marketing Standard magazine the other day - the Fall issue. These guys seem to be getting better with each issue they put out. At first I was disappointed because it was so thin, but they managed to pack some decent articles in a small amount of space. So, if you didn’t get yours, here’s what you missed.
Linking Tips from the Trenches - What can I say? This is by Eric Ward. Mr. Linkman himself. The article has got to be good.
Risky SEO Techniques - Covers the basics well.
Where Are Your Visitors Landing? 5 Things Every Landing Page Must Possess - I…
I have nothing to say today, but other bloggers have posts today that you shouldn’t miss. So I’ll just link you over to them.
The Adsense Game (this was fun)
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