What Is Your Browser Home / Start Page?
November 30, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 20 Comments
I’d like to do a little informal poll here. What do you use as your start page? I’ve tried different start pages over the years, and I’ve always migrated back to My Yahoo! because I get a nice mix of information – some that I can supply via RSS feeds, and some that is news chosen by editors who have a pretty good idea of what they think is important news of the day. In addition, I like the look and feel. I think that’s really the key to it for me. Although I can add my own personal touch to it, My Yahoo seems to get the design and default information right from the get-go. I don’t have to work hard to be happy with it, but I can if I want to.
Would You Care If I Only Posted Now and Then?
November 29, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 15 Comments
There have been some rumblings today in the forum/blogosphere that perfectly match what’s going through my head recently. First there was Writing: Where Do You Get Your Ideas? and then Kim followed up with a blog post entitled Real Bloggers Get Tired. After that, I read Jennifer Laycock’s Blogging Isn’t Losing Steam, It’s Just Getting Easier.
Search Marketing Standard – Great Deal and Charity Too
November 27, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
I don’t think I need to tell any of you that I love the Search Marketing Standard magazine. I’ve talked about it time and time again over the last couple of years. Well, speaking of 2 years, this edition marks the 2 year anniversary of the magazine that was designed just for us! In honor of the holidays and the anniversary of the magazine, I’ve been given a very special coupon code to pass along to you.
Get Your Meta On with One Dozen Metasearch Engines
November 26, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 11 Comments
I’m not quite sure why metasearch engines aren’t more popular than they are. They are actually pretty darn useful much of the time, but they languish far down the list of popular search engines. Still, I don’t think it hurts to take a fresh look at them now and then, so today’s post is all about the metasearch engine.
How To Totally Screw Up An Email Campaign
November 24, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 11 Comments
Want an example of how to totally screw up an email campaign? Just tick off the people you send the email to by misidentifying them as someone else, and then make them laugh because your offer is ridiculous anyway. Check out this email (with URLs changed because I don’t want anyone getting any kind of credit for this, and with bolded sections to highlight the ridiculousness, or to add my own comments):
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Hello (this was left blank, so the automated software obviously didn’t have a name),
Happy Thanksgiving from SEO Scoop
November 21, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
SEO In A Nutshell – A Haiku
November 20, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Key phrases on site
The Mystic Side of SEO
November 19, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
This weekend was a dream-filled weekend for me. Wait, let me clarify. I dream a lot, and I generally remember my dreams. But this weekend was special because the dreams were centered on SEO. In fact, they revolved around Google and Google’s intentions. The images are fuzzy in my mind, but the concepts keep ringing in my ears. Think I’m crazy? Hey, that’s ok, I would too, but I know from experience, that some of my dreams have significance – and I can pretty much always tell which ones do and which ones don’t. I can’t shake the feeling that these dreams were significant. I need to think about them a lot more, but in the meantime, here are some words and phrases that cropped up over and over again in the dreams:
My Promised Feedback After Using Sproose For A Month
November 17, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
About a month ago I told you I would be using Sproose for a month, and I would let you know more of my thoughts after using it for a while. Now’s that time. So, how is Sproose as a search engine? It’s…ok. Not bad. Maybe even…good.
Quick Visualization of 2007 PageRank Slapdowns
November 16, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Motivations of a Blogger
November 15, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 10 Comments
Motivation. Motivation is one of those slippery things. You can’t always grasp it. It often seems within reach, easily understandable, but in reality, someone’s motivation for his or her actions are very likely to be completely different than what you or I may think.
Powerset Labs – Some Impressions
November 14, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
I was invited a while back to be a part of the testing of the new natural language search engine, Powerset. For a while now, I’ve had high hopes that this might be THE killer search engine we’ve all been waiting for. It might be…but at this point, it’s very difficult for me to know.
Past Time For MSN To Pony Up To The Real Truth About Referrer Spam
November 13, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 16 Comments
Way back on August 17th, the first reports about MSN sending weird referrer spam, started trickling in. This referrer spam includes weird referral strings such as adult keywords, pharmaceutical keywords, etc. A few weeks later, msndude, made a statement about this saying they were official Microsoft quality check tests. Specifically, he said, “The traffic you are seeing is part of a quality check we run on selected pages. While we work on addressing your conerns, we would request that you do not actively block the IP addreses used by this quality check; blocking these IP addresses could prevent your site from being included in the Live Search index.”
