DazzlinDonna’s take on SEO news, tips and theories.
Wow, this is amazing. With every week, more and more SEO interviews come to my attention, and now there’s a total of 112 SEO Interviews (er, make that 113) in the list. Incredibly interesting reading, folks.
Almost a year ago, I purchased a script to create search engine friendly urls and meta tags for one of my forums. One of its features was to create unique meta descriptions based on the first X words of a thread’s first post.
A few months later, I upgraded the forum software.
Since my memory sucks, I have to make some assumptions here. I believe when I first applied the se-friendly script, I checked that everything worked as it should. I assume that when I upgraded the forum software, something went awry, and I didn’t re-check that all the se-friendly options were…
Matt Cutts, in a comment on his blog, explains the differences between the Google terminology “data push” vs. “data refresh”. Of course, we really don’t get a clue as to what either of them actually is…but well, I’ll let you read it for yourself.
A data push is a superset of a data refresh (that is, a data refresh is an instance of a data push). Typically a data refresh is something with a well-established history, e.g. we have automatic tests in place and the data to be sent out is sent out automatically (assuming that all the automatic sanity checks…
I see Google’s CSE (Custom Search Engine) product as the new Directory 2.0. Until now, human-edited directories were the natural medium for users who wanted a human-optimized guide to the web. A CSE, however, combines the best aspects of a directory and a search engine. Users are now programmed to use search rather than navigating through a directory structure, but a search engine generally gives the user much more than she wants - including spam and non-relevant results. A directory is much more likely to supply the user with precise, relevant results, but she may have to follow a lengthy tree-structured…
Yahoo has a new (beta) online Bookmarks service (no, I’m not talking about del.icio.us). TechCrunch notes that it has around 20 million active users…from its previous version… (compared to only 1 million for del.icio.us).
This isn’t a social bookmarking service, but a private one. That works great for me. I’m not into the whole “sharing” thing. The concept is fine, but I just don’t have time for all of that. I do, however, need a really good way to manage my enormous list of bookmarks. It looks like this Yahoo bookmarking service will work perfectly for me.
I can arrange things in folders for…
Yahoo just announced that they are going to implement the support of the NOODP meta tag, beginning tonight. In order to launch this change, they will be reindexing web content, resulting in typical ranking changes and page shuffling. So expect some possible movement of your rankings.
If you don’t want ODP (DMOZ) titles or snippets used by Yahoo, place one of the following meta tags on your pages.
META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”
or
META NAME=”Slurp” CONTENT=”NOODP”
Remember the post I did a while back listing 75 SEO Interviews? Well, more have been added (again), and now it is up to 105 SEO interviews. You needed something to do on the weekends, right? 
By now, you’ve all been inundated with the news that Google is offering up a custom search engine, so I won’t go into the details here and bore you to death. But my very first thought was, “hmmm….how can I get some SEO value out of this”?
What happens when you trim down a huge dataset into a much, much smaller one? You get a lot less clutter to wade through, right? Just seems like it might be a great opportunity to gain a little more insight into why one site might rank above another. Who knows, maybe there’s nothing to…
For me, Google is down (screenshots below). However, I can get to it via IP address, so apparently it’s a DNS issue. Just in case it was happening to you, now you know that it isn’t ONLY you.
Since I just set up my new ultraportable laptop, I was reminded how important my favorite Firefox extensions are to me. So, I thought I’d share them with you as well. Some are SEO related and some aren’t, but they all help me work much more efficiently.
Web Developer
Greasemonkey
Number Google Results
SEOpen
SearchStatus
TargetAlert
Adsense Notifier
Add Bookmark Here
Roboform
Tabbrowser Preferences
MeasureIt
QuickZoom
InFormEnter
What are your favorites?
Back in January, I mentioned a new directory submission tool that makes submitting to directories a pretty easy process. Now, a new version has been released, and SubmitEaze Directory Submission Software, with currently over 1600 listed directories to choose from, is even better.
Some of the new features include adding navigation controls for the web browser, a new tool to enable you to quickly import hundreds of your own directory listings from a spreadsheet, AND you can create your own categories to store your directories.
Some more cool new features are:
Setup rotating link title / anchor text and description text for each project.
Rate…
Ok, I’m going to be lazy today, and simply copy a press release for a new competitive research tool called SpyFu. Yeah, that’s lazy, I know, but sue me… In any case, you’ll get the info and it’s info worth getting. 
So, here it is…
Spy on your competition with SpyFu
Cave Creek, AZ – October 18, 2006 – Did you ever wonder who pays more for ads online MySpace or Classmates.com? Turns out, it is Classmates by a landslide, but what about your competitors? You, your competitors and nearly 4.5 million other domains are among those constantly monitored by SpyFu.com, a…
Performancing has come out with a really nice ad system for bloggers. You can see it in action over in the sidebar. See that Performancing ad? Hover your mouse over it. That’s right! A graphic ad that pops up a sweet little text ad when you mouseover it. Sweet! Now that’s a one-two punch that advertisers ought to love.
Some quick facts: Payouts for bloggers are 70% of ad revenue, plus an additional 5% for referrals. Publishers can accept or reject any ads. Payment is via PayPal with no minimum for payout.
Whether you are interested in being a publisher or an advertiser,…
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