Archive for August, 2006
PR Update coming soon?
Posted by Nadir on August 24th, 2006A Webmasterworld member reported that he has noticed something that may look like a backlink update on the following Google Datacenters: 64.233.187.104 and 64.233.187.99.
Crooked Editor Got Banned from DMOZ
Posted by Nadir on August 21st, 2006For some people, it takes 2 years to get their site listed in DMOZ, the Open Directory Project. For others, it only takes $350.
SEO Blog Search Engine
Posted by Nadir on August 17th, 2006Donna from SEO Scoop just announced that she created a Rollyo Search Engine to search trough a list of 25 SEO/M blogs such as SEOMoz, SEO Book or SERoundtable. I agree with her, it’s sometimes very annoying when you can’t remember where you’ve read that interesting post a while ago. Thanks Donna!
MySpace wants to convince big clients to pay for their profiles
Posted by Nadir on August 17th, 2006After its $900 million ad link-up with Google, MySpace announced that they now want to convince big clients using free pages to promote their products and services to start paying:
Netconcepts report on the Long Tail of Natural Search
Posted by Nadir on August 9th, 2006Stephan Spencer announced on his blog that his company, Netconcepts recently released a white paper entitled “Chasing The Long Tail of Natural Search.” The research was aimed to show E-Commerce managers why chasing the long tail of natural search was necessary to maximize traffic and conversions.
Google Sitemaps renamed Google Webmaster Central: new blog, new features, better communication
Posted by Nadir on August 5th, 2006Vanessa Fox announced yesterday that Google Sitemaps has been renamed Google Webmaster Central. It’s not just a change of name, but rather a new platform to help webmasters maximize the crawl of their websites and also to make it easier for them to communicate with Google.