by Scott | Dec 17, 2007 | SEO-101, Site Reviews
Here’s another free video site review requested by a reader, for Overstockperfume.com. It appears to be an affiliate site, and a bit lacking in content and quality inbound links. Lots of pages and potential though – see the video here. Due to time...
by Scott | Dec 17, 2007 | Microsoft, MS Office
Do you suppose many of the problems users have been experiencing with Office 2007 will be fixed now, with the release of the Office 2007 Service Pack 1 ? Call me a skeptic, but i’m not gettign my hopes up. I am, however, downloading it as we speak, because at...
by Scott | Dec 15, 2007 | Microsoft
Live Search is finally showing backlink counts and locations again. In March of 2007, Microsoft announced that they were no longer able to support backlink checks through their search platform. The reason (they said) was because they noticed too many automated...
by Scott | Dec 15, 2007 | Conferences
I skipped a lot of Pubcon sessions this year, either because I was working on my presentation, or because there just wasn’t anything appealing to me at the moment. I did take notes during many of the sessions, but since I always keep my Blackberry on my hip, I...
by Scott | Dec 11, 2007 | Link Building
Good links are hard to come by, but if you throw enough against the wall, something always sticks. By regularly submitting to web directories*, making sure your blog is pinging news services, submitting your RSS feeds, submitting content to article directories, and...
by Scott | Dec 4, 2007 | Microsoft, MS Office
As I feared, I’m now in my hotel trying to download 26 megs of mail on my (far too slow) Verizon Wireless Broadband service. Before I left, I forgot to limit my file attachment size for download. Once it’s finally done, I’ll do the following in...
by Scott | Dec 3, 2007 | General interest
Tonight in Las Vegas I’m going to a dinner with one of the smartest people in the world when it comes to search, Jerry West, of Web marketing now. I’ve done nothing special to get the invitation (other than remain a subscriber over the years) but...
by Scott | Dec 3, 2007 | Education, Events
My trip to Los Angeles for the Search Engine Strategies local conference was a real eye-opener for me as to how many big (and not so big) corporations view the Internet. Amazingly (to me) there are huge companies paying no attention whatsoever to organic search engine...
by Scott | Dec 1, 2007 | Events, General interest
Spots are filling up fast for the poker tournament this Thursday night in Las Vegas. Dr. David Klein has done a good job getting the word out, and there are some pretty big names in search playing. I’m not a big time poker player or anything, but it should be...
by Scott | Nov 29, 2007 | Microsoft
I’ve been a Microsoft Action Pack subscriber for years, and I was dismayed to hear that they were going to be requiring any proficiency test for 2008. Not because I was afraid I couldn’t pass it (which I couldn’t without studying) but because it was...
by Scott | Nov 28, 2007 | Microsoft, SEO
Am I the only person that didn’t know this? I just “accidentally” discovered that an entire website wasn’t ranked for ANYTHING in MSN. They had #1 ranking for the primary phrase in Google and Yahoo, yet could not be found anywhere in the top...
by Scott | Nov 26, 2007 | Conferences
I was packing this afternoon for my trip to Los Angeles for the local search engine strategies conference, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t even planned out my session attendance for either one. It only took me a minute at the SES website, because without...
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