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Posted by DazzlinDonna on October 9th, 2007 in SEO Lingo

I thought it might be nice to sum up the last few days with a little tune and a bit of rhyme. I hope you enjoy it and feel it’s worth the waste of time.

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on September 19th, 2007 in SEO Lingo

Find out if you are an SEO expert or not by taking this quiz. Don’t worry, it’s short and it’s fun because you are choosing answers based on cartoons. I got 100% right, as you can see by the screenshot I took. But even if you get them all wrong, it’s still a fun waste of time for any SEO geek.

Hat tip to Debra for pointing it out to me.

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on September 6th, 2007 in SEO Lingo

More than a year and a half ago, I first got excited about a print magazine that was going to debut just for us - Search Marketing Standard. Several editions later, I wanted to celebrate this great little magazine by following its lead. In this last edition (Fall 2007), SMS published a crossword puzzle near the back of the magazine. I thought it would be fun to emulate this, so I created a crossword puzzle that uses words and phrases pulled directly from the last 3 editions of SMS. You can probably guess at some of them, but others might require…

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 25th, 2007 in SEO Lingo

Let me start out by saying that I am extremely non-political, so if I get my political definitions a little wrong, well, just forgive me. Recently, an SEO called a friend of mine a spammer and the guy obviously knows nothing about my friend. My friend is not even close to being a spammer. Nevertheless, the fervor with which this guy and his cronies lambasted my friend without having any facts whatsoever reminded me of extremism, which then made me think of politics. So I thought maybe we should dump the old white hat / black hat / whatever color…

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 7th, 2007 in SEO Lingo

Because some people insist on arguing semantics rather than substance, might I be allowed to suggest some new acronyms that we could all use when referring to backlinks? Just as PR was once just “PR” but later needed to have TB added to it (as in TBPR), I think we now need to categorize backlinks (BL) in the following ways:

HQBL = High Quality Backlink

QBL = Quality Backlink (not as good as HQBL, but good nevertheless)

CBL = Crappy Backlink

So when analyzing a site’s backlinks, one could say that it has “a few HQBLs, about 50 QBLs, and a ton of CBLs”. That would pretty…

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on March 12th, 2007 in SEO Lingo

In a comment on WMW, walrus used a term that cracked me up, but I think it’s a great one. He said, ” I have been plutoed as well”. I’m not sure if he was the first to use the term or not, but I’m giving him credit for it unless I hear otherwise.

LOL. What a wonderful way of referring to being kicked out of the Google SERPs. Just as Pluto was kicked out of the list of major planets, so too are people often kicked out of the list of results returned from a search engine query. So, from now…

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on January 5th, 2007 in SEO Lingo

Even the very title of this post could be debated, but I’m not too worried about that. Nevertheless, there’s a great thread going on over at WebmasterWorld that discusses the various terms used in our industry, and how they are often misused. This one is a must-read, I think, for newbies and experienced alike. All of our discussions would be better served if we were all on the same page. Check it out.

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on November 1st, 2006 in SEO Lingo

Caught this via Barry at SEW… Tim Converse of Yahoo defines the various shades of SEO colors from Dark Inky Black to Luminescent Pearly White.

Which color am I? I would have to say I sometimes fall into the Off-White color spectrum, and sometimes into the Light Gray.

Which color are you?

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on October 26th, 2006 in SEO Lingo

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…

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on August 26th, 2006 in SEO Lingo

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…

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on August 26th, 2006 in SEO Lingo, SEO Theories, SEO Tips

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,…

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on February 1st, 2006 in SEO Lingo

Latest SEOrefugee.com cartoon at the SEOrefugee Blog

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Posted by DazzlinDonna on January 26th, 2006 in SEO Lingo

Check out this week’s SEO cartoon from SEOrefugee. I made the cartoon really small as a teaser. Skitzzos Pop is a great cartoonist. I can’t wait to see more of what he comes up with.

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