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September 8, 2008, 11:13 am (QualityGal) I’ll pick Jim Boykin for the Block - Not sure if Jim’s seen it yet, but he’s part of the newest game show: SEO Squares. I love that he’s the only one without a speech bubble. document.write("Add to Del.icio.us") | Digg it | Add to Slashdot | Add to Y!September 7, 2008, 6:43 pm Arrrrr you prepared for Talk Like a Pirate Day with fonts? - re you ready for Talk Like a Pirate Day? It’s September 19th (same date every year), so it’s coming up fast. I recently stumbled across some really nice pirate fonts online. This one is called Windlass, for example: Hat-tip to KPAO! which ...September 5, 2008, 3:17 pm Twitter added nofollow to “www.” links in their Bio field - esterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae’s post. This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don’t live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I’d take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post ...September 4, 2008, 1:22 am Google Chrome user agent - t’s easy to find out what Google Chrome’s user-agent is. Using the same trick as I did with the iPhone, I searched for phpinfo HTTP_USER_AGENT in Google Chrome. Click on one of the results and search for HTTP_USER_AGENT on the page. Here’s ...September 3, 2008, 2:49 pm Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome - lright, I’ve got another conspiracy theory misconception to dispel. After reading through the Chrome Terms of Service, some people are worried that Google is trying to assert rights on everything that you do on Chrome. From one example story by ...September 3, 2008, 2:49 pm (QualityGal) All I Really Needed to Know About Internet Marketing I Learned In Preschool - y son starts preschool tomorrow. Aside from staying home from the office tomorrow and becoming a basket case (my baby is growing up!) it got me thinking. My son loves to watch Noggin, and they have some amusing promos based on this: Noggin is like preschool ...September 2, 2008, 5:21 pm Answers to common Google Chrome objections - spend a fair amount of my time debunking misconceptions about Google. So when I found out that Google Chrome was going to be released, I put on my thinking cap about what objections people would throw out about Google Chrome. Here are the questions ...September 2, 2008, 2:45 pm Google Chrome Hits the Web - Google’s new web browser Chrome hits the internet today and Google is now even better positioned to take over the world. I just downloaded the browser and will be learning about its features today, but here is a breakdown of what those new features ...September 2, 2008, 3:18 pm Preventing paranoia: when does Google Chrome talk to Google.com? - or better or worse, my blog is popular with the Google conspiracy-theorist demographic. I knew that as soon as Google Chrome launched, some readers would ask tough questions about privacy and how/when Google Chrome communicates with google.com. So I ...September 2, 2008, 11:40 am Watch the Google Chrome announcement yourself - ccording to a press release this morning, Google will host a webcast press briefing and demo of Google Chrome at 11 a.m. Pacific time today. I think this link (Windows Media Player) or this link (Real Player) will get you there in case you want to watch. ...September 2, 2008, 9:31 am Morgan City without power, water & sewerage services - Hurricane Gustav - Morgan City has reported 100 percent lost of electrical services, water & sewerage services. Electrical service is expected to be down for 1 week. -Water treatment plant hit by a tornado.September 1, 2008, 4:38 pm Get Ready for Google Chrome: New Open-Source Web Browser - oogle just officially confirmed that it will release a new open-source web browser, called Google Chrome (that link should go live sometime tomorrow). I can’t wait to talk more about Google Chrome, but I’ll hold off until it officially launches. ...August 29, 2008, 11:08 am SEOktoberfest - es it’s true we are going to Munich for SEOktoberfest! Now the way this came to be is really shocking. We were at the Fairmont at SESSJ and Marcus Tandler aka Mediadonis aka German SEO said to Greg “Dude, you and Barbara really have to come ...August 28, 2008, 1:18 pm (Ninja Jen) 10 Best Things Learned as SES San Jose. - he 10 Best Things Learned at SES San Jose by Ninja Jen SES San Jose 2008, was my first SEO conference and it was an incredible learning experience for a lowly, little ninja like myself. On the night of Webmaster Radio’s Search Bash, Jim Hedger, ...August 27, 2008, 3:09 pm Patrick Sexton (Feedthebot) joins We Build Pages! - ast week I attended SES San Jose, and I ended up coming back to NY with Patrick Sexton (Feedthebot). We’ve got really big plans for the future of We Build Pages and Patrick will be a big part of that. Here’s the press release. I’m Feeling ...August 27, 2008, 3:17 pm (QualityGal) 8 Reasons Why Productivity is the Same When Working from Home or Office - ike many other people in the field of internet marketing, I enjoy the luxury of being able to work from home part of the week. I work in the office three days a week, which leaves two days (and sometimes part of a third) from home. There was some initial ...August 25, 2008, 1:08 am Three tips for “company blogging” - his is my personal blog. I don’t run my draft posts by Google’s PR or legal team, other than maybe 2-3 times when I thought a post might have legal implications. But I have learned a few hard-won lessons. So, when someone recently asked me ...August 23, 2008, 9:05 pm Seeking an Experienced Perl Programmer. - e’re seeking someone who is very experienced in Perl. This job is in Troy New York. You will need to move to Troy New York. No Exceptions. Our ideal candidate: Is fluent in Perl, PHP, SQL, and Javascript (with experience with AJAX) Writes ...August 21, 2008, 2:53 pm (QualityGal) Keyword-Rich Domain Names and Sites That Don’t Suck - urt Krejny of Fathom SEO is causing a bit of a ruckus on Sphinn with his piece about Domain Name Gaming. Basically, he’s irritated with keyword-rich domain names being bought up and filled with useless content that ranks well. I have to agree. ...August 18, 2008, 2:23 am Digging out from SIGGRAPH and L.A. - ’m up to my ears in email from last week, but I had a great time down in Los Angeles and at SIGGRAPH: I’ll try to write up a little bit about the trip, but for now I’m gearing up for SES San Jose. Places to find me: - I’ll be ...August 15, 2008, 5:19 pm SES San Jose 2008 - See ya at Night! - unday morning I’m heading out to San Jose for the Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference with 7 other ninjas. I’ve actually got a pretty busy week… Monday night there’s the IMCharity event for the The Leukemia and Lymphoma ...August 14, 2008, 12:14 am (Non-SEO) The Rocks and Streams in my Life. - K readers….I’m going to warn you…it’s another one of those "after 1am…I’m still at the office" posts …. A Space of my Own - Written May 28, 1988 - (Over 20 years ago), when I was in 11th grade…fyi, ...August 12, 2008, 2:49 pm (QualityGal) That page fails at meeting user intent. No, really. - ough love. It’s something I’m going to have to start getting used to as the office consultant on user intent. It’s hard to tell someone - like your boss, or a client - that their keyword targeting campaign is due to fail miserably because ...August 8, 2008, 3:08 pm What to do in Los Angeles? - I’m going to be down in Los Angeles for the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference next week, but I hope to have a little sightseeing free time. What would you recommend seeing or doing in Los Angeles? August 7, 2008, 9:07 am Your Most Valuable Link Building Resource - Is your business maximizing your most valuable link building resource? They re your customers because they are already sold on your product or service. Learn more techniques in part 2 of my column link building with customers at SearchEngineWatch.com.August 6, 2008, 4:17 pm (QualityGal) Your mom doesn’t know SEO. - art of my job, as I understand it, is helping to keep Jim honest. Not to imply that he would ever be intentionally dishonest – nor would most respectable SEO professionals – but I think that, sometimes, it’s easy for SEO folks ...August 5, 2008, 12:25 am A Quick Tutorial on JavaScript Bookmarklets - ookmarklets are very handy pieces of JavaScript code that you can bookmark. In HTML, if you want a link to open in a new window, you’d write it like this: Matt Cutts Go on, try it on this link: Matt Cutts If you wanted to create a bookmarklet to ...August 1, 2008, 4:48 pm Ben Gomes on Google’s user interface - his summer several people in Google’s quality group have pulled back the curtain on how people think about search quality at Google. We’ve had Udi Manber give an overview of search quality and the groups that work on it. Then my office-mate ...July 30, 2008, 5:57 pm How should Search Engines treat Paid Links? - ric Enge did an excellent interview with Priyank Garge, the director of product management for Yahoo Search Technology (YST). The interview was almost exlcusively centered around to topic of "links", and Eric did a great job of asking the right ...July 29, 2008, 11:27 pm I Feel Lucky and have big Dreams, and we’re up to 40 now. - k, I’m at the office after midnight again, but I’m taking a break and posting a nostalgic "I’m feeling lucky rant" - hope ya enjoy my happy rant. … At times like these (when I’m at the office late at night ...July 29, 2008, 8:44 pm What if a Human Reviewer Looked at your Backlinks? - o last night I gave my "Quiz" asking you to find the "unnatural" link. I’ll admit it….those pages don’t link to any of our clients, nor to any sites we own It was really a rhetorical question. The point is…you ...July 29, 2008, 12:47 am My schedule for late 2008 - very few months I like to give people an update on where I expect to be over the next few months. I apologize in advance if I have to decline other speaking invitations, but I’m genuinely trying to travel less and speak less these days to get a ...July 28, 2008, 9:12 pm Jim’s “Where’s the Unnatural Links?” Quiz. - im’s Quiz Some of these pages might link to some sites we work with. Can you spot any links that don’t look natural? http://www.gg.caltech.edu/ monty/monty.shtml http://www.dougbedell.com/internetproject.html http://www.peterdonis.net/catcomputers.html ...July 28, 2008, 2:05 pm QualityGal’s First Conference Call - feel all "grown up" now. Jim had me called into the conference room to consult on a conference call with a client. Oh sure, there were five other people already in there, but none of them had this particular bit of expertise. It ...July 27, 2008, 12:22 pm Twitter/Summize search flaky? - ’ve started to post more on my twitter account recently. Less than two weeks ago, Twitter bought Summize. Good for them; I like both companies. But http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wordpress+mattcutts should return this entry in Twitter’s ...July 26, 2008, 5:45 pm Best WordPress Plugin for Related Posts? - n my “Matt Cutts” twitter account a few days ago I asked other folks which WordPress “Related Posts” plug-in they would recommend. It seems like “Related Posts” extensions go in and out of vogue every few years, so ...July 24, 2008, 10:04 pm I love my pedometer - ’ve written about my Omron pedometer once before, but I wanted to mention it again because I like it so much. Recent research suggests that using a pedometer can lead to more walking and better health. I’ve been carrying a pedometer for a ...July 24, 2008, 6:26 pm New Toolbar PageRanks coming - Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites. July 24, 2008, 11:11 am Link Building with Customers - Tired of devoting resources to low-value link strategies? Discover the goldmine of links your company is sitting on. Learn how to expand your customer base and build links at the same time in my latest column at SearchEngineWatch.com Link Building with ...July 24, 2008, 1:47 am Get your search fix with two videos - was going to wait until part 2 was posted, but I’ll point people to part 1 now. The video from the SMX Advanced keynote is now live, so you can watch the first 25 minutes of questions and answers. Read the intro here, or just watch the video: ...July 22, 2008, 2:00 pm If I’d been at BlogHer, it wouldn’t have been to hear Graywolf speak - o offense at all to Graywolf, who believes it was sexist of BlogHer not to have male speakers at its 2008 conference, but I wouldn’t have gone there to hear him speak. If I’d gone at all, that is. Let me back the train up a bit. Until a few ...July 21, 2008, 6:55 pm Finally Doing Some Serious House Cleaning - t’s been so long since I’ve blogged, I barely remember how. But I was finally able to find some time this week to get started on some long-overdue house cleaning on this blog. The main change (other than cleaning up the look a bit) involves ...July 21, 2008, 7:17 pm Cesar’s Going Solo - K, I know I said I wasn’t going to blog much about work, but I wasn’t able to to get the new site done before I went on vacation, so I wanted to take a quick moment to let everyone in the SEO world know that Begining August 1st, Cesar Serna ...July 21, 2008, 12:53 am Idea for an Android/iPhone app: Call Me a Cab - still like my last start-up idea about converting MP3 music collections to be legal and cleaning up mangled/ugly filenames. As Amazon and others start to sell MP3s, a startup could easily offer some interesting services. For example, I just saw that ...July 19, 2008, 4:00 pm What are the best iPhone applications? - Here are some of the applications that I’m trying out right now: What applications do you like on the iPhone 3G? July 19, 2008, 2:30 am Generic Toolbar Indexing Debunk Post - ometimes people think that the Google Toolbar led to Google indexing a page. Here’s a recent such story, for example, which speculates how urls with the substring “mms2legacy” got indexed. Here’s where I started to disagree: The ...July 17, 2008, 7:48 pm QualityGal is hopping on the social networking bandwagon - lright, so not everything I do every day is quite worth making a post about here on Jim’s blog, but if you’re at all interested in what it is I do for a living, you can now follow me on Twitter. And not that you’ll need to if you’re ...July 17, 2008, 1:35 pm Two Cats One Laptop - The new iPhone 3G camera seems to work pretty well. Here’s a test shot with me, two cats, and a laptop: The iPhone 3G still doesn’t work great for close-ups on very small stuff, but it seems to work well in the four to six foot range. July 15, 2008, 8:57 pm Linkbait 101: School’s In For the Summer - lright. So it’s been almost two weeks since I asked for some education in the form of linkage. Since then, Jim decided to dump an order in my lap for over 1000 articles that need to be written ASAP. The dozen writers already on the WBP short list ...July 14, 2008, 11:43 am Generic Malware Debunking Post - up, I’m about to do another blog post where someone says that a website is clean but it doesn’t look like it to us. I did a very similar post in January 2007, and in that post I said I ve checked out a quite a few we don t have any malware ...July 14, 2008, 12:03 am iPhone 3G: Come on in, the Water’s Fine! - f you read all the press on Friday, it sounded like a full-out iPocalypse as Apple’s in-store activation of the iPhone failed, which left a bunch of people steamed. I left a Summize search for [iphone] up in my browser; there were probably 10K+ ...July 8, 2008, 1:43 am Cool: Google Releases Protocol Buffers Into the Wild - love that Google just open-sourced Protocol Buffers. Think of Protocol Buffers as a very compact way of encoding data in a binary format. A programmer can write a simple description of a protocol or structured data and Google’s code will autogenerate ...July 7, 2008, 3:19 pm Are Forums Going the Way of the Brontosaurus? - t’s QualityGal again. It appears that my boss hijacked my last blog post in the comments section with a rant about… blogs. Among other things. I’ll let my request for education simmer for a few more days to see if ...July 7, 2008, 11:47 am The business case for goodwill - arolyn Y. Johnson has a great article about companies that listen online today in the Boston Globe. She mentions that Comcast and Southwest monitor Twitter for frustrated users and Dell for improving its customer service as well as providing a site called ...July 3, 2008, 5:03 pm QualityGal Has Entered the [Link] Building - i, I’m not Jim. I’d like to introduce myself. You can call me QualityGal. Oh sure, that’s not what’s written on my birth certificate or marriage license, but it’s so much more fun than my “real name.” I almost ...July 2, 2008, 12:40 pm How to stop junk mail - ’ve been learning how to stop receiving junk mail, and I thought I’d share what I’ve learned. Reducing Junk Mail There are several services that will help you reduce your junk mail: - GreenDimes offers a free basic service, but I decided ...July 1, 2008, 11:05 am Protect yourself: get a free credit report - wanted to write down 3-4 easy steps to protect yourself from identity theft and help you check your free annual credit reports. Credit check options - If you haven’t checked your credit in the last year, visit the official site that lets you get ...July 1, 2008, 10:16 am Suggest what webspam should work on next - oday is July 1st, which is a special day because it marks the beginning of the second half of the year. Just in the last day or so there have been a couple pieces of good news: better indexing of Flash, and we re-wrote our “What is an SEO?” ...July 1, 2008, 1:14 am Google gets better at Flash with Adobe’s help - f you haven’t seen the official posts, Adobe has been working to make Flash more index-able by search engines. Google has recently rolled out better code for Flash, e.g. you’re now more likely to see useful snippets on Flash pages in Google’s ...June 29, 2008, 10:23 pm Free search engine optimization tips for beginners - efferson Graham didn’t just write an article of free SEO tips — he also brought his video camera along. The result is a five minute video interview with more easy, free search engine optimization tips. Again, this is targeted at beginner ...June 26, 2008, 11:30 am Crap. My Ubuntu machine won’t boot - his sucks. On some very rare occasions, when I connect an SD card reader to my Ubuntu machine, it freezes. Normally I just reboot and everything is fine. But this time my Ubuntu machine won’t boot, and it shows a message like Starting up … ...June 24, 2008, 10:02 am Review: Kitt-In Box - In the webmaster chat last week, someone asked about my cats, so I thought I’d throw out a cat post.) A little while ago someone mentioned the Kitt-In Box. It’s like an inbox for your desk, except that it holds cats. My cat Emmy likes to ...June 23, 2008, 12:34 am Short article of free SEO tips - efferson Graham of USA Today stopped by the Googleplex a little while ago and we talked about SEO tips for business owners that want to run their business, not live and breathe search 24 hours a day. The result is an article of search engine optimization ...June 20, 2008, 1:37 pm Google webmaster chat: tons of fun! - y the way, we had our second webmaster live chat yesterday. I think almost everyone had a good time. It was free for anyone to dial in, and hundreds of people showed up. Thanks to the Google presenters and everyone that asked questions or talked in the ...June 20, 2008, 1:20 pm Google Trends for Websites - f you’re a site owner, webmaster, SEO, or otherwise have an interest in website metrics, I think you’re going to like Google Trends for Websites. It’s almost as addictive to me as Google Maps is for, you know, normal people. You’re ...June 18, 2008, 3:30 pm Sign up for our webmaster chat - e’ll be doing a webmaster chat tomorrow at 2 p.m. Pacific time. You need to register in advance for the chat, which you can do with this link. Last quarter we did a webmaster chat and it was a ton of fun. I spent the entire time responding to people ...June 18, 2008, 11:07 am Review: Furminator Cat Brush - I really like the Furminator cat brush. My cat Emmy loves it, and it pulls a ton of hair off of her. How much hair? Well, not to be gross, but a lot: Good stuff, at least with my cat. June 17, 2008, 1:42 pm Happy “Download Firefox” Day! - ost people that read my blog know that I really, really like Firefox. I put on a temporary Firefox tattoo a few months ago: Firefox 3 just came out today, and they’re trying to set a world record for most software downloads in 24 hours. So now ...June 17, 2008, 11:30 am Two search tidbits - t SMX a couple weeks ago Eric Enge and I did a 20-25 minute interview. The interview transcript is now out in case you want to read through it. We discuss some of the ways to get links that are likely to stand the test of time: Those links are typically ...June 16, 2008, 2:39 pm Check your search box for XSS exploits - ust a quick reminder that websites should check for XSS holes on their site, especially freeform text input such as search boxes. Even big sites can have these issues with XSS and escaping user input. If you’ve noticed that your rankings in Google ...June 13, 2008, 11:40 am Don’t end your urls with .exe - ometimes at a conference people will ask me “Does it matter what extension I use for my pages? Does Google prefer .php over .asp, or .html over .htm?” And my answer is “We’re happy to crawl all of these file extensions. It doesn’t ...June 12, 2008, 1:27 pm Jeremy leaves Yahoo! - eremy Zawodny is leaving Yahoo!. That’s pretty huge news. Wihle Jeremy and I have playfully jousted in the past, I have nothing but respect for Jeremy — to the point where we joked for April Fool’s Day a couple years ago about switching ...June 12, 2008, 11:25 am Think Links from New Sites have Little Value? Think Again - Are you skipping over new sites because someone told you they have no value? Think again. Approach links from new sites as an investment standpoint. Look for undervalued, or unnoticed, sites that have a high likelihood of rising in popularity.June 12, 2008, 12:28 am Review: Stud-4-Sure stud finder - wanted to do a few short blog posts about products that I really like and that work well. First up is a stud finder that I found. It’s called the Stud4Sure stud finder (not an affiliate link). It’s more accurate than fancy electronic studfinders ...June 11, 2008, 1:00 am SMX Advanced 2008 Wrap-up - ast week I was in Seattle for the SMX Advanced 2008 conference. I’ll run down a few thoughts on the trip. What was good? It’s always nice to visit Seattle. I had never been to Seattle until last year. Now I’ve been four times, and I’ve ...June 5, 2008, 11:54 am SEO Black Hat Joins SEO Class Scotland June 23-24 - ooks like Scotland’s getting a bit grayer in a few weeks. (yea Doug, I can hear ya barking already). I’m honored to announce that QuadsZilla (SEO Black Hat) will be joining our group for SEO Class in Scotland (June 23-24). QuadsZilla will ...June 4, 2008, 1:57 pm Absolute or Relative URLs in Google - ohnMU clarifies the benefits of using absolute and relative URLs. Absolute URLs: + help keep the links pointing to your content if someone were to copy it (*) + help keep the links pointing to your domain name if you cannot select a canonical (can’t ...June 3, 2008, 5:46 pm Improved SEO documentation galore! - ne of the wonderful things about a search conference like SMX Advanced is that it gives us a chance to finish a lot of things we’d been meaning to do. Google just added a bunch of nice documentation in various places. We even did it in official ...June 2, 2008, 1:22 pm I’d never publish this on WeBuildPages.com - love getting testimonials. I collect them on We Build Pages. But I just got one that I’d never publish on WeBuildPages.com , but I still thought I’d share it here. "Any who, I was just reviewing the progress report from this past month, ...June 1, 2008, 2:10 am When your USB thumb drive doesn’t show up in XP - Start->Run and type “diskmgmt.msc” then right-click the drive and select “Change drive letter and Paths” and change the drive letter to something completely different like T: or W:. Hat tip to Java Jane. May 29, 2008, 10:19 pm Lyndon Antcliff (Cornwallseo) Joins SEOClass Scotland. - e’re also now honored to have Lyndon Antcliff (Cornwallseo.com) to the lineup for SEO Class in Edinburgh Scotland June 23-24th. Lyndon is one of my favorite bloggers, as well as he’s been the man in the SEO news a lot recently for his linkbait ...May 25, 2008, 7:53 pm Helping hacked sites - I’m taking my wife somewhere really soon, so I’m just going to dash out a quick post.) There was a Techmeme discussion this weekend about whether Microsoft should chase Google in search or find their own “Big Hairy Audacious Goal.” ...May 24, 2008, 3:02 pm Stupid Google Tricks: Get a calendar from the search box - spend a lot of time in my browser. So much time, in fact, that I notice when I drop down to a command-line to type things. I wanted to look up a day later this year, so I typed “cal 2008″ into a Unix terminal window. I caught myself thinking, ...May 23, 2008, 4:39 pm Something is wrong on the internet! - kcd recently posted a webcomic that is quickly becoming a classic cartoon: That comic sums up the internet in one sentence: the scrum of jostling opinions on the web and the optimism that truth can still win out. I was reminded of that comic when someone ...May 23, 2008, 4:54 pm xkcd @ Google! - Adding an xkcd cartoon to my last post made me remember that I had this leftover post that I never published.] I’m ruthless in pruning my work email down to the essentials. In particular, I auto-archive emails about different speakers at Google. ...May 23, 2008, 2:08 pm The Achilles Heel of Free and Natural Links. - ast month I was having a chat with a SEM guru who knows a lot more than me in many SEM and website optimization areas, but he said something about "links" that I’ve regretted not giving my 2 cents on. He said "Hey, I’ve ...May 21, 2008, 1:29 am A peek behind the curtain at Google - di Manber talks about search at Google in a recent post on the Google blog. If you’re interested in search or search engine optimization (SEO), the post is definitely worth a read. Udi discusses items from big (Google revamped how it computes PageRank ...May 20, 2008, 9:26 pm SEO Class June 23-24 Edinburgh Scotland - Free to Ninjas. - The last SEO Class in April was a blast. Everyone received training from: Chris Winfield (10e20), Michael Gray (Graywolf), Kim Krause Berg (Cre8pc), Ted Ulle (Tedster), Barry Schwartz (Rustybrick), Greg Niland (GoodROI), and me (Jim Boykin (We Build ...May 20, 2008, 3:13 am Six Annoyances in Hardy Heron Ubuntu - I’m going to publish this in rough draft format. I want to get the post live while lots of Ubuntu developers are thinking about Intrepid Ibex.) I’m a huge fan of Ubuntu Linux. I’ve used many flavors of Linux over the years, and Ubuntu ...May 19, 2008, 10:59 pm A few words about China and Burma - ecently two enormous tragedies struck China and Burma. China suffered a serious 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan that killed tens of thousands of people. And in Myanmar (Burma), Cyclone Nargis ravaged the coast and also killed tens of thousands of ...May 19, 2008, 10:51 am Google Factory Tour starts in less than an hour - y the way, according to this page, it sounds like Google will webcast a press event starting quite soon. You can watch the Google Factory Tour live from 9:30 to noon Pacific time. I’ll probably keep the webcast open in my browser to listen this ...May 15, 2008, 9:54 am Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair? - he other day I realized that I enter my haircut appointments into Google Calendar, so I can search for “haircut OR (the place I get my hair cut)” and see when I’ve gotten my hair cut: Then I was reading Google Apps Hacks and Hack 25 ...May 15, 2008, 8:26 am Keeping SEO Staff Motivated and Driven - Talented SEO and link developers are difficult to find. Learn ways to keep your employees motivated and driven in my latest column at SearchEngineWatch.com.May 13, 2008, 11:07 pm Follow me on Twitter, FriendFeed, or RSS - changed it so that anyone can follow me on Twitter or FriendFeed. The links to follow me are http://twitter.com/mattcutts and http://friendfeed.com/mattcutts . And of course you can subscribe to my RSS feed if you want. You can subscribe by clicking ...May 12, 2008, 12:14 am What Google Knows About Spam - f you didn’t attend Web 2.0, you can watch my keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I’ll embed the keynote below as well. The only thing I don’t like about conference speaking ...May 7, 2008, 12:21 am Custom Search Engine adds new features - oogle Custom Search Engine (CSE) just announced that they now power AdSense for Search. Another nice new change is that if you provide a Sitemap, Google will use that to improve the coverage of the custom search engine. Now let me nip one idea in the ...May 4, 2008, 11:05 pm Back from Maker Faire - an, I love Maker Faire. It’s almost as if Burning Man mated with Slashdot. Here are afew of the fun things I saw today. In the Craft area someone showed the credit cards that they accepted, but the credit card sign was hand-made: Also in the Craft ...May 4, 2008, 12:25 pm Maker Faire! - ’m heading to Maker Faire today. It’s a fun event if you like robots, crafts, art cars, flame throwers, Coke ‘n’ Mentos shows, building your own electronics kits, knitting weird hats, Lego creations, plush monsters, power tool ...May 1, 2008, 2:34 pm DoFollow Plugin Updated for 2.5 - I’ve been getting several emails asking when/if we were going to update our dofollow plugin for WP 2.5. Dax just got it finished. You can download it here. |
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