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Teens Dominate Online Content Creation
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a new study yesterday on Teen Content Creators and Consumers (warning PDF). The study has some great information for those of us who have a personal and professional stake in the development of web content. I've pulled out what I feel is the most relevant items for ...
SEOmoz Ranking Factors in 3rd Place
Our ranking factors article from several weeks ago is now in 3rd place at del.icio.us SEO tags for all time most popular. 671 folks have tagged it to date and we're closing in on Vaughn's Google Ranking Factors List, wh...Smiley Faces Earn Their Keep
I am running blogger on a couple of my sites and decided to try an experiment as an attempt to increase the frequency of my posts being emailed. By default Blogger adds a little email icon at the bottom of each post. I kicked it up a notch by placing a smiley beside it with so...
What should Aaron Do?
Aaron Wall is struggling with the forces of the publishing world, who've re-nigged on their original agreement to let him maintain e-book publishing rights if they take his book to press. Aaron has a lot of positives and ne...
Ask Jeeves Using New Mind Reading Technology?
Last Saturday night I fell asleep on a friend's couch after watching a really funny television program. I couldn't remember the name until yesterday, when a visitor to our offices mentioned it - My Name is Earl. I'm not typically much of an Ask user, bu...
Ebay's It Campaign
If you haven't seen the TV ads for Ebay's new "it" campaign, they're worth a look. Ebay's playing with a new market here and their attempt to juxtapose post-modern (or post-post-modern) styling and panache with a humorous twist on all things Steve ...
Dan Thies has A Lot to Offer
I contracted out a keyword research report from Dan Thies yesterday afternoon (hard to believe they're only $99) and spoke a little on the phone. Dan has a lot of cool stuff coming up, including a limited engagement...
More Effective Use of Yahoo's Linkdomain Command
As much as I think site explorer is a great idea, in practice, it's still not as useful as Yahoo!'s normal linkdomain command. There are some fantastic features in there that I use all the time, for example: Removing sites from the list as in a search for ...
SERPs You Can't Understand
With this latest update from Google, we've been noticing some very odd things in the SERPs. Despite our best instincts and measurements of link quality, quantity and optimization, sites seem to be ranking in very strange orders. In the hopes of making greater sense of things, we wondered if you'd like to list your top search results that make no sense. No need to point out your site or those of...
The Long Tail of Lego & How their Site Gets it Right
I noticed this well thought-out post today from Chris Anderson at the Long Tail (which is a blog I've been mean...