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Ferry Halim's Orisinal

No relation to SEO whatsoever, but Ferry Halim, a graphic and Flash game designer whose work astounds me has put together what is, in my opinion, his most addictive game yet. If you've never been to Orisinal, get ready to spend the rest of the ...

Craigslist Blocks Search Engines

According to a thread at SERoundtable, a few million results in Google (and other search engines) from Craigslist have dropped out due to a change in the robots.txt. The change must be very recent, as I had used Google to search CL just a week before the holidays. It's an interesting strategy from the classifieds giant - If anyon...

Mick's Selling Syndik8

The infamous Black Hat SEO forums are for sale - Mick's done a good job building up the community there. Let's hope it stays in good hands. It sounds like offers should be $10K+, so make sure you're serious if you want to bid. The traffic and revenue details are also listed - I'd imagine it carries a valuable advertising spac...

Ordered My New Laptop Today

I ordered my brand new Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop today. I was swayed mostly by the widescreen SUXGA monitor, which allows for a resolution of 1920 x 1200, ...

Todd's List of 40 Predictions

Todd (Stuntdubl) has a great post today on his views for what will be hot in 2006 vs. 2005. I can certainly get behind most of his picks, although I'd love a definition for some of the more obscure ones like: algorithm variable hedge betting? web-copy language synonymy substitution? Algorithm variable...

Need for SEO Education

I'm finally back in Seattle after a very nice trip to Florida. On the plane, I was thinking more broadly about the SEO industry and how quickly demand is going to outstrip supply (note the high nu...

Passionate Users Blog

After being dissapointed in the past with where 9Rules was pointing me, I came across a truly worthwhile blog today - Creating Passionate Users...

Monday Morning SEO Quarterback

There's a lot in the SEO blogosphere worthy of reading today, and although I'm not usually one to post a roundup, it feels appropriate so, without further ado: Aaron's going crazy, posting like a madman this morning/afternoon on topics from political blog link-baiting to ...

Ifish.net - An Amateur Webmaster's Dream Come True

I got an email from Jen, who runs Ifish.net, a community fishing website that's got a lot of great things going for it, including a loyal visitor base of almost 100,000 (she's got logs here). Jen was looking for advice on where to take her business, and I directed her to cre8, where she's ...

Fortune Interactive & SEM Logic

I'm fascinated by this SEM Logic software. It sounds like something we've been trying to get working for months: Research from the fields of Information ...

CPKs and Blog Serendipity

I am always running the logs on my websites seeing where the traffic is coming from. One of my websites has a blog and I post to that blog almost every day. My initial set-up for that blog had seven posts on the homepage and the archiving was done weekly. After I had been ...

Earl Grey's New Black Hat Paradise

My personal opinion is that you can't be an SEO "expert" without understanding the black hat side of the debate - the techniques that are working, those that don't, how money is made in that sector, and what the latest in hijacking, link spamming and automated content...