Some good tips on what not to do for your link campaign.
http://searchengineland.com/070730-075615.php

Your PPC Campaign and Relavence.
[click here]

A good place to look if you're searching for something new.
http://www.springwise.com/

So why does wiki show up so much in the search results.
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Enjoy your day.

Some fun stuff to start your day - Google Dog food....
http://searchengineland.com/070727-132546.php

How to create an autoresponder series.
http://www.webreference.com/promotion/autoresp/

Some good information on keywords -

A few how-to's compliment todays post... one thing to remember is you don't have to do everything at once but the most important thing is to start... and today is the best day to do that.

Building an audience with myspace.
http://searchengineland.com/070703-135507.php

How to drive traffic to stumble upon.
http://searchengineland.com/070724-090005.php

Building a 3D Web.
http://searchengineland.com/070719-113635.php

Reputation management
http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/why-is-online-reputation-management-important/

Some good info today including some info from posts from before our vacation (we still have a pile).

A good idea for getting things done. [click]

A unique idea for linking -
http://searchengineland.com/070625-102429.php

A good look at your keywords -
http://searchengineland.com/070724-083438.php

A visual look at Googles crawlers.
http://searchengineland.com/070724-072605.php

How to make your business stand out -
http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/dwilson-differentiation.htm

Some social stuff tomorrow.
Enjoy your day.

A test on how incentives help (or hurt) a campaign.
Click Here

Some Good info on Duplicate content
http://searchengineland.com/070719-120605.php

A step by step guide on getting a #1 position in Google.
http://dfinitive.com/blog/seo/how-i-got-aerobed-to-number-1-in-google/

Enjoy your day - one note we'll be taking a long weekend this week so Thursday will be the final post this week .... can you believe it is almost time for the kiddies to go back to school... me either.

This week we were pretty swamped - no complaints though. The week seemed like it lasted about an hour. So my review on the Mac will need to wait till next week. We did do something fun for Haley this week though. We got her the Play Station 2 (after some debate on whether to get the 2 or 3... the 2 won out pretty handily because they have so many more games). She has always enjoyed singing and so we also got the game Sing Star with microphones. The game grades the singer on their pitch and how long they hold their notes. She has had a few late nights this week with friends and Lisa as they practice their singing skills, so it was definitely worth the cash and if you have any aspiring singers in your house, I would recommend it as well.

Enjoy your weekend.

Some good stuff on Social marketing and Web 2.0

Info on personalized search -
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626440

Good tips for wikipedia -
http://searchengineland.com/070717-113550.php

Building an audience on MySpace
http://searchengineland.com/070703-135507.php

A good blog on trends - mobile particular but 2.0 stuff as well.
http://www.m-trends.org/

Enjoy your Thursday.

A good illustration of the multi-prongs of SEM -
http://searchengineland.com/070717-082712.php

What is Share of Voice (SOV)
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626413

Viral marketing for non-profits.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/art/tools/viral-nonprofits.htm

Some good advice on managing your email.
http://www.mycompanychronicle.com/controlling-email-sent-to-your-inbox

One additional tip - it doesn't hurt to check your email on the weekend - that makes the shock on Monday much less of a chore.

Some good info on Microsofts AdCenter -
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626425

Can images help with SEO?
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-11-n88.html

If you're thinking of switching domains then check here first.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/dunn-domain-switch.htm

Enjoy your day.

I'm still exploring the mac - so I'll give you a better review of what I think next week. A couple of things I've noticed though...

1. It is fast - I got the 2.4 with 2 gigs of ram - then purchased a 4 gig set seperately and installed it. (that saved me hundreds of $$).
2. Everthing I've plugged into it so far has worked like a charm. Printers, mice, cameras, video recorders etc.

I did buy some new books to go along with it and hopefully get me up to speed.

Enjoy your weekend.

Some info on Social Link Manipulation
http://searchengineland.com/070611-073105.php

Some excellent info on using Social Media / Web 2.0
Click Here

I'm kind of excited today - I've just bought my first Mac (a notebook) and will be rearraning some things in the office so that it will 'fit'. We'll talk more about the Mac on Friday with my first impressions. Today hopefully you're doing something fun and exciting - we'll be talking about Social marketing tomorrow. Till then enjoy your day.

Some good stuff today so we'll get right to it -

A guide to submitting to directories.

Some resources on doing keyword research -
http://searchengineland.com/070709-082957.php


And finally a couple of good bits on linking -
Link Analysis
http://searchengineland.com/070709-125900.php
A penalty for linking
Click Here

Wow June flew by and July is already 1/3 of the way gone... I guess that time flys when you are having fun. This week we'll work on catching up with some good info that has been piling up in our inbox.

Today a review of our travels -

During the first part of June we traveled to Myrtle Beach and stayed in a condo we've rented for the past several years. The weather this year was wonderful - it only rained a day. At night it was actually chilly enough to wear a light jacket. I was talking to the condo rental folks and it seems like the market for condos is getting a bit full, so if you have some flexibility in your travel you may want call a week or two before you go and ask for specials or bargains. Another thing I've seen done is rent a cheap condo then when you get there ask them have there been any cancellations. Someone I know saved about $600 for the week.

Then we had vacation Bible school for a week - I taught the preschoolers and we had a blast.

Then we ventured north to Indiana for some work and a wedding. Again we had a wonderful time. At the wedding reception I talked Lisa and Haley into dancing with me and we all had a blast (and were a bit sore the next day).

Hopefully you are having a wonderful Summer.

12 Things you can measure on your site -

http://www.wdfm.com/measure-things.php

Some good info on using Microsoft AdCenter

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626169

How to test / improve your conversion rates -

http://searchengineland.com/070619-093736.php

That's got us caught up a bit - one note we'll be on another Summer adventure soon and we should be back in the early part of July. Till then we hope you are enjoying yourself as well.

10 tips for using google analytics -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/analytics/steif-google-analytics.htm

Could you get by without the major search engines.
http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/010160.html


How to find out if you have a google penalty
http://searchengineland.com/070612-094729.php

Some good info while we've been playing on the beach - we'll be trying to catch up over the next few days and then we're off on another adventure.

What happens when there are some beginning PPC folks in your niche.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626078

This is from the June issue of the BizWeb newsletter so if its not at this link it will be in the archives - here are ten things to do.
http://www.bizweb2000.com/

Some good info on Universal search and SEO
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626114

And Google changes the quality score yet again.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626140

Enjoy your day.

During most of the month of June we'll have some irregular postings as we go on vacation etc.

Ask has a new look - details are here.
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3626058

Some SEO myths and misconceptions.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626036

Some new social blogging sites are below - one note since the Summer is ramping up around here with vacations and trips - we'll work on bringing back the Social Thursday blog in August.

These are from the March 2007 Issue of Business 2.0.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

One use for that would be to download the toolbar and then "Stumble Upon" your own site(s).

http://www.slide.com/

http://www.bebo.com/
Similar to MySpace.

http://wwwl.meebo.com/
A way to sign into all of your IMs.

http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia
If your area of expertise doesn't have a Wiki then why not build one.

Some good comments on basic SEO - including a slide show.
http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com/blog/05-searchengineoptimization-basics

And some coold things you can do with the 'new' Google Analytics.
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-28-n59.html

Hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend. We worked a couple of days, but no worries because we are getting ready for a vacation...

Need to spruce up your submit buttons - check out this tutorial.

http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/

Here's a list of the top 300 search engines.

Everyone has heard of Web 2.0 - a good definition of it is here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

The big deal is the social network (from my point of view anyway).

So how does it affect SEO - this article may help.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625943

Next week we'll talk about some new / up and coming network sites.

Till then - no blogs till Tuesday and we hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend.

Google has a new "trend" page that is updated several times / day. You can also research things by changing dates.

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X

An excellent discussion (with graphics) on optimizing landing pages.
http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/landing-page-confusion.html

Enjoy your day.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend - we had a birthday party and a graduation so was a full weekend.

Google Analytics has changed things a bit.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625859

SEO 2.0 is here - some discussion below.
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=17794

Paid links Risk / Reward
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625901

A review of Crazy Egg - Analytics software -
http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/wilson-crazyegg.htm

Enjoy your day!!

Fun Friday is here - if you want to waste some time then check out this site.

http://www.quickcomic.com/

It lets you make comics.

Social Marketing Thursday -

Should you care about Wikipedia?

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625890

Some Social Marketing Do's and Don'ts
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625819

The top 25 Article sites
http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/wilson-article-marketing-1.htm

Enjoy your Thursday.

What happens when Google gives your site a bump -

http://searchengineland.com/070514-114416.php

More on paid links from Cutts of Google -

http://searchengineland.com/070514-092646.php

More info on Google's supplemental index
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625842

Tomorrow we'll be helping at our daughter's field day - we hope you have a great day as well.

Hope you did something nice for your Mom yesterday - don't forget the price of stamps go up.

Part for of an Analysis series we've been following.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625796

And the "Science" of local search

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625813

Some good info for your social marketing -

1) 25 Article sites you can submit your articles to:

http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/wilson-article-marketing-1.htm

2) Some tips for getting the most out of Wikipedia.

http://searchengineland.com/070503-065513.php

3) Useful help for jump starting your campaign.

http://searchengineland.com/070424-105925.php

No posts tomorrow as we'll be on an adventure with our daughter ( wish us luck :o))

A look at keeping track of your links -

http://searchengineland.com/070507-071632.php

A nice illustration / notes on page rank.

http://searchengineland.com/070508-152900.php

Hope you enjoyed your weekend - our thoughts and prayers go out to those in Kansas.

Some thoughts on Google and the Online Economy -
http://www.seobook.com/archives/002113.shtml

Could Yahoo and Google Merge -
http://searchengineland.com/070504-082851.php

Evaluating your Business goals -
http://www.marketingforsuccess.com/pub/goals.html

Reputation Monitoring -
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625731

I enjoy traveling and hopefully you do as well - hopefully the links below will help you in your adventures - which I found in Inc Magazine.

Find out where your seat is and much more.
http://www.seatguru.com/

Get an A-pass on Southwest -
http://www.boardfirst.com

Get more from your frequent flyer miles.
http://www.webflyer.com/

Flight Stats and more
http://www.flightstats.com/go/Home/home.do

Some good information on tweaking your Adwords Campaign.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/wilson-adwords-optimization.htm

Update on the Google / Viacom case -
http://searchengineland.com/070501-080817.php

Enjoy your day.

Hopefully you had a great weekend.... can you feel it - Summer Time is just around the corner.

Some good information with links about page rank.

http://searchengineland.com/070426-011828.php

Some commentary on the Doubleclick / Google buy.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625692

Here is a list of sites that bring some traffic -

http://tropicalseo.com/2007/top-17-niche-social-media-sites-that-actually-send-traffic/

Hope you had a wonderful weekend -

So if you're worried about some of your past link building activities - check out this article.
http://searchengineland.com/070416-113308.php

If you are interested in copyrighting then make sure to check out this article.
http://bencivengabullets.com/bullets.asp

Some good questions about an SEO campaign.
http://searchengineland.com/070419-071035.php

So why would Google buy double click - some good speculation can be found here.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625623

Just a quick Friday fun post....

I would highly recommend "The Lake House" a very well acted / well written story. If you have some extra time with your significant other this weekend rent it and watch it with them.

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We've talked about it before - here are some notes on traffic drops and figuring out what's up.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625594

Google Buys Double Click -

http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625580

some link building basics -

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625554

And keeping to that theme - paid links are under scrutiny -
http://searchengineland.com/070416-092314.php

A couple of itmes regarding local search -

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625556

http://searchengineland.com/070409-053319.php

Someone is in a pickle - they've spent big bucks on Adwords and no conversions.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adwords/3304627.htm

Enjoy your Monday!

Part 2 of our social marketing ... so what are some reasons for doing this type of marketing after all.

Four returns you can expect -

http://searchengineland.com/070403-085230.php

And why all the fuss -

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625530

Part two of a post we ran earlier about website analysis.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625534

An excellent step by step guide for getting some great links. This takes a lot of work but is well worth it.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/070405-104538

Hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend.

Here's some good advice if you're thinking about utilizing some maps on your site.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/map-making-so-easy-caveman-could-do-it.html

A good article on results and why they're hard to define.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625438

An excellent review of ranking the ranking - or what helps most when doing SEO on your site.
http://searchengineland.com/070403-145435.php

We did the first part earlier - here's the second part of figuring out why your traffic drops.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625472

Good advice on making your PPCs count.
http://searchengineland.com/070404-080341.php

Enjoy your day!!

This is the first lesson for Social optimization - the first thing we want to do is to create a google bookmark for each of your pages.

1) Go here - http://www.addthis.com

2) Click "Get your Free Button"

3) We want a bookmarking widget. - select the style you want and whether you want stats.

4) Then put that code on each page of your site.

We had some pretty bad storms here last night - we're ok but it's pretty awesome to see the power that the wind has. Tomorrow and every Thursday when we have the chance we'll be working on some Social marketing. Each week we'll give you some homework and although it isn't hard it does take some time and work.

Some more info on Local Search

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625389

Social Search information and writing headlines.

http://searchengineland.com/070330-102032.php

Have a great Monday.

Guide for getting your site listed locally -

http://searchengineland.com/070327-080358.php

SEO Site Analysis -

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625355

Enjoy your day.

A good forum post that asks what are the top ten SEO techniques.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=276066

Wow - feels like Summer time here. So on the note of our first article about traffic drops you may notice a decline in traffic as we approach Summer (unless you sell pool toys, squirt guns etc.).

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625287

A very good article on "personalized search" and links -
http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/ward-personalized-search.htm

Google starts new Cost Per Action ads - details are here -
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625311

Enjoy your week - this week 80's - next week 50's go figure.

Google is now reporting anchor text - details here -

http://searchengineland.com/070315-221747.php

Working on local content -

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625234

Ten phone marketing mistakes to avoid

http://www.marketingforsuccess.com/ezine/187.html

Happy Monday.

Some good link stuff -
http://searchengineland.com/070312-075905.php

SEO skills - especially related to changing a domain name.
http://searchengineland.com/070313-102924.php

Some notes on Content -
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625220

Today a public service announcement... I did something really dumb today.

I usually have Oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, or Grits for breakfast. Today it was Grits. I was in a big hurry and not paying attention (2 mistakes). Usually I wait a few after the Grits are done before reaching in... today I didn't. It was hot. I spilled it all over my hands.

Luckily the sink was very close, so I only burnt my pinky (do you know how often you use that little thing... ) Anyway Desitin has helped the pain, now I just feel like a big GOOF :o).. so don't get in too big of a hurry.

Today the NCAA tournament starts so take some time to relax.

Some good comments on the "Future of Link Building".

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/070307-154052

Enjoy your day.

A bit of a rant today - yesterday I saw a report on one of the morning news shows about rebates. During the last Christmas holiday season I bought a few products because they had a rebate... I will never / ever do that again. In fact I won't be shopping with one particular outlet at all. They really have you in a pickle if you think about it. Seems like my rebate check for $200 is lost. Like I said though I speak with my wallet.

If you enjoy basketball... this weekend (which started on Thursday) and next week you will be having tons of fun. Last night I watched two overtime games that were going on at the same time. Such is March Madness... so enjoy it while you can!!

A good article about traffic and how to analyze it.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625165

Microsoft seems to be a bit angry at Google for copyright violations.

An excellent article on that topic can be found here.

http://searchengineland.com/070306-101103.php

So what is the ultimate goal of "personalized search" - Matt from Google gives some hints.

http://searchengineland.com/070302-111618.php

And if you want some hints / help on personalizing your search -

http://searchengineland.com/070305-091740.php

Google releases some click fraud data -
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625137

Sorry for the abscence - been really busy here but that is a good thing.

Now to catch up :o)

Five steps that will help you with your keyword research.

http://www.searchengineguide.com/barone/009492.html

Do It Yourself SEO

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625111

The Long Tail of Local search - or getting lots of traffic by targetting many keywords.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625114

Hope you have a wonderful Monday!

There are several ways you can tell how "fresh" your site is with the search engines. Details can be found below.

http://searchengineland.com/070227-154718.php

Some good notes on writing copy.

http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/stop_the_slaughter_of_innocent_copy/

A good explanation of tags (No Follow etc)

http://searchengineland.com/070223-092620.php

Enjoy Your Tuesday.

Hope you had a great weekend.

Want to check out your ad quaility score for your Google Ad - find information here -
http://searchengineland.com/070221-233255.php

Small Business SEO / SEM - good info -
http://searchengineland.com/070221-171543.php

Google Update / Refresh?
http://www.seobook.com/archives/002070.shtml

Fun Friday ---

I have been playing World of Warcraft quite a bit lately. Here's a Link. I had quit for a while but when there new expansion came out (The Burning Crusade) came out... the fever struck again. I usually just goof off soloing and was really happy to see that the loot you get is pretty awesome. Seems like every quest reward I was using to upgrade my gear. Anyway would definitely recommend it. Have a great weekend.

Check out One Ups pdf with buying trends from Christmas 2006

It's a .pdf so remember to "Save As" if you want to keep / read it later.

Here it Is

Some Good info from the SES Strategies / Matt Cutts http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625056

A way to find out your quality score for Ad Words - note I don't necessarily recommend the product they are promoting but some good information none the less.

http://perrymarshall.com/renaissance/googleslap3.htm

Getting out of the supplemental index -

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/070212-123015

A review of title tags -

http://www.searchengineguide.com/whalen/2007/0215_jw1.html

Make sure you're doing these ten things for local optimization.

Click Here

Finally got more snow than a skiff - about 2 or 3 inches. Not enough to really go sleigh riding but enough to throw some snowballs. This week it is supposed to be 60.... go figure.

Some good notes on your meta tag title and branding. One thing I believe that sometimes folks overlook is the fact that once you get your site listed well - you will actually want / need them to click on your link.

http://www.searchreturn.com/digest/117.shtml

A success story -

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625006

Local advertising after Panaman (for Yahoo).

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624978

Enjoy your "holiday" / Monday.

Happy Fun Friday - we got a skiff of snow this morning. One thing (to me anyway) to remember about having fun is that it all doesn't have to be active. One of my favorite activities is bird watching. During the winter we set up some seed outside of our sliding glass doors. It takes a few hours but the birds will find it. If you find a relaxing chair and don't move about too much then they want fly away. Below are a couple of pictures we got last week. Till next time take some time to enjoy the little things.



This Cardinal Looks a bit like Santa Clause :o)

Hopefully everyone is warm and dry. We don't have much snow here - just a skiff. I spoke with my Aunt last night who lives in Northern Indiana - she had snow "over her mail box" so three feet of drifting snow..... hmmm.

Something useful for you to check out today - some mistakes PPC marketers make.

Click Here.

Yahoo has plans to remove the "free" search tool. Here is a tool that you can use in the meantime.
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

Three tips for getting past the personalized search -
http://searchengineland.com/070208-134406.php

A huge - and I do mean huge list of articles on linkbaiting.
http://www.cornwallseo.com/search/index.php/2007/02/09/the-enormous-linkbait-list/

I enjoy watching good TV - a favorite I have mentioned here is 24, another favorite of mine is Lost. I am not a crazy Lost fan - you know the one's that watch an episode 10 times and freeze frames things and then goes crazy with the really small things, but I do think it is a good show. One recommendation I would have for you if you enjoy it is to make sure you have season one and season two on DVD. Also if you want to watch the really crazy folks disect an episode then you can go here.

http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/

Enjoy your weekend.

A pretty good story about a guy that wanted to propose to his girl friend on the big game.

http://searchengineland.com/070207-064805.php

The "science" of rankings -

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624851

Think like a search engineer.

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624905

Tomorrow is Fun Friday so stay tuned.

Two articles on the SEO of the super bowl.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/070205-093332

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624892

Yahoo starts there "Improved" ranking system today so make sure to keep tabs on your PPC campaigns for the next bit.

Google has added a new link reporting tool.

http://searchengineland.com/070205-165836.php

Searches will be getting more "personal" with Google as well.

http://searchengineland.com/070202-224617.php

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Hope you enjoyed the Super Bowl - I thought the ads were a little worse than usual although the viewer created ads I enjoyed quite a bit. I think we'll be seeing more and more of these as ad agencies loose their creativity.

Some ideas for Local after Yahoo Panama.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624807

Enjoy your week.

Wow... it's been a busy week. But busy is good. The Tama Flu worked for Haley so she is feeling better. Today is her B-day and it snowed so she has no school and is a bit disappointed because she will miss getting the presnets delivered to her while she's in school. Last weekend we had her party and that was fun... she really racked up the cash.

This weekend is the superbowl and I do love football, more lately than ever before for some reason. I have a DVD Recorder ( Panasonic DMR-EH55) that I really enjoy putting through it's paces. I do enjoy the commercials - maybe if I have a chance I'll get creative and put them all on a DVD. The plan when I got the DVD recorder was to take videos we have and transfer them to DVD, I haven't done that but that is on a long range to-do list. I do like the recorder although in my area the TV Guide doesn't work for some reason. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

So how long should your articles and pages be? This site gives some good advice.

http://www.seobook.com/archives/001986.shtml

Good information on "the long tail"
http://www.marketposition.com/blog/archives/2007/01/understanding_a.html

How is your ROI Doing?
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624808

Is MSN penalizing for linking?
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/007333.html

Some good info for you to digest today -

Index and Ranking
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624618

Short term Vs. Long term results
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624736

100 Alternative search engines - use this list to expand your reach.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines.php

Will Google create a virtual world?
http://play.tm/story/9065

Hopefully you enjoyed your weekend.

Some ways to use your competition for links.
http://searchengineland.com/070125-143409.php

Google has some incentives for using there checkout... is it fair or not. Some discussion can be found here.
http://searchengineland.com/070126-143148.php

Fun Friday is here. I'm a big Lost fan - I've watched the show since day one. For Christmas one of the things I got was the DVD for season 1. I actually figured that I would remember everything... I was very very wrong. I've noticed / seen things that I know I missed in the first run through. My goal is to finish the shows before it returns.

Stay safe and have a wonderful weekend.

My daughter has the flu and it's snowing outside... should be an interesting day. The doc recommended Tama Flu so we'll see if all the advertising does what it says :o)

Things we can learn from outdoor advertising - some excellent info.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624640

and some good information on pre-quailifying clicks.
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624668

Enjoy your day.

Some good info on tweaking the title tag --

http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1649

The chicken or the egg... index and ranking - which one comes first - details are here.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624618

Are you in the link circle of trust?

http://searchengineland.com/070122-065132.php

A good site to visit if you're looking to find some round corners for your site.

http://www.roundedcornr.com/

Fun Friday is here. Looks like we may have some wild weather here - I can handle about anything except for ice and the power outages that follow - they are talking about some ice so here's hoping and praying that we get either snow or rain.

We are definitely still enjoying our Wii - I would also like to recommend an additional game for you - Excite Truck. You drive a 4 wheel drive truck by holding the controller sideways and then "steering" it like you would a steering wheel. Sounds a little complicated but my 9 year old a 14 year old and yours truly got the hang of it pretty quickly. You drive in different environments and tracks and as you progress you unlock new things. I would definitely rank this a 5/5.

Click the movie - thumbs down. My daughter wanted it and it was definitely not age appropriate for a nine year old. The last part of the movie was ok, the first part stunk. Recommend using the DVD as a coaster.

Enjoy your weekend and stay safe.

Some extreme - and we do mean extreme ideas for local search.

Click Here

20 "best" Seo practices.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624560

If you've enjoyed the paradoy of 5 golden rings - check out the latest edition.

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624552

And some information on Google - are they giving special consideration to folks that use Google Checkout?

http://searchengineland.com/070116-142503.php

An update on some of the things that's happening with Google in Jan.

http://searchengineland.com/070111-100415.php

The right way to ask for a link -

http://searchengineland.com/070112-121412.php

Another Fun Friday....

We continue to enjoy the wii - one thing that you're able to do is take a test that estimates your age. You do several different tasks, hit a baseball, bowl different setups of pins etc. Based on how well you do. When I started my estimated age was 70. A week or so later my estimated age is now 30 or so. My goal is to become a teen ager again.

I am a huge fan of 24 and got the Season 5 dvd set as a Christmas present. I've almost managed to make it through them and definitely have enjoyed it almost as much as the first time through. The 24 season starts again on Sunday... this season I think I'm going to track things like how many times Jack gets knocked down. I haven't sneaked a peak at the Season 6 prequel yet, but I've heard it is good.

We're going to get socked here with lots of rain over the weekend so it may be a good time to start a good book. Till Monday take some time to play this weekend.

An excellent article - Merchandising Calendar 2007

Click here

And more in the debate over SEO as rocket science or not.

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624467

We talked about the 12 days carol last week - here it is continued.

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624451

So is SEO Art, Science or Bullocks -
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624421

So what were the biggest stories of search in 2006 - here's a great list.
http://www.10e20.com/2006/12/27/101-biggest-stories-in-search-2006/

So how much work do you do - maybe it's too much.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/08/smbusiness/work_life_balance/index.htm

Some good tips for local search optimization.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624384

Google gets a new patent on duplicate content.

Click Here

A list of 100 search engines -
http://battellemedia.com/archives/003236.php

Part two of the rocket science article
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624388

We're going to start a new tradition - on Fridays we'll talk some about some ways we have fun... after all I'm a strong believer in all work and no play makes Jack (or Jill) a dull boy (or girl).

One of the really great things that we got in December was the Wii (I pronounce it about 14 different ways but I think it is like a french yes). So far we have enjoyed it tremendously. It comes with a sports game that has bowling, baseball, boxing, and tennis. The unique thing about the game is that you control the game by moving your arms, not just clicking a button. An example if you bowl, then you stand up and move your arms like your bowling, for baseball you swing the controller and that swings the bat. It is the only video game I've ever played that I actually worked up a sweat when playing. We'll talk some more about this later but we are definitely enjoying it now.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Creating good content can help your site grow for a number of reasons.

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624364

Have a good one.

A good article that pokes a bit of fun at an old song but has some great information.

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624359

So is SEO rocket science....
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624314

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday - now it's time to get back to work. These came in over the break ... enjoy.

Targetting the Long Tail
http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/target_long_tail_keywords/

Some more info on the maybe Google update.
http://searchengineland.com/061229-133230.php

How to identify legitimate bots / spiders.
http://www.marketposition.com/blog/archives/2006/12/how_to_authenti.html

A new study says that some websites may stress you.
http://www.bitaplanet.com/business/article.php/3650881

That's all for today - time to start digging out.