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The Flog Patrol

15. December 2006

Flogs or fake blogs is the new enemy. With WOMM and viral marketing increasingly becoming more and more mainstream (hell the FTC even plans to police it), sneezers are getting bombarded with “check this out” emails 24/7 but as AlphaMonkey shares, the sneezer knows how to pick the wheat from the chaff. Trying hard to [...]

How to get a link from Google.com

14. December 2006

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If this is what someone I met at SES China means about getting a link from Google.com, I’m not impressed :) I know it’s a redirect, but let’s just test if any of the search engines pick it up as a link. Globe Visibility Globe Visibility 3G

In Full Digg Effect

14. December 2006

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What happens when you get Dugg? Neil Patel (who I was able to meet in Pubcon) gives us a front seat view, courtesy of this interview from masterlinkbaiter Andy Hagans. I know you get a lot of stuff on the Digg homepage. In your experience, how much traffic does a normal digg-homepage-story send? The traffic that Digg [...]

Domain Quality Signals

14. December 2006

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Have someone optimize a site and chances are he’ll begin work on the two areas he’s familiar with: offpage and onpage. Domains are usually treated as a given, meaning “there’s nothing I can do about that now”. We’ve forgotten that there might actually be untapped optimization opportunities at the domain and host level. This will [...]

Spamming the PWA

12. December 2006

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Caught the winners of the 9th Philippine Web Awards. Was actually trying to monitor the online buzz generated by the event or more appropriately, the non-event. None of the major online news sites carried a story of the awarding ceremony. The only listing I could find was a self-congratulatory note on INQ7. I expected the local [...]

Way to Go Ms. Dewey!

12. December 2006

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Score 100 buzz points for Microsoft! Turns out Ms. Dewey, the sexy onscreen search assistant to a viral marketing site for Live.com had *ahem* a soft-porn past. Ms. Dewey or Janina Gavankar in real person showed some skin as Iona in Cup of My Blood.

No Link Love for SearchEngineLand?

10. December 2006

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Was reading Rebecca Lieb’s intro post on SEW and moused over on the link to SEL and saw the href all screwed up. The link was pointing to http://www.searchengineland.xn--com-5o0a/. Hope it was an honest (not convenient) mistake :)

Paid Blog Reviews OK with Search Engines?

9. December 2006

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UPDATE: It gets a bit interesting…when I was composing this post, I suddenly got a “A review has been ordered to be placed on your blog Macalua.com. You have 48 hours to accept!” message in my mailbox. Damn these dilemmas! :) I was totally wrong with this assessment. I thought links from paid post services would [...]

What is Popularity?

9. December 2006

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BasangPanaginip is one of the first Filipino bloggers I’ve seen doing the “best of 2006 post” summaries with his The 7 Most Popular Pinoy Blog Posts for 2006. He listed the Isulong SEOPH and Ituloy AngSulong mechanics pages as blog posts, but I’m not sure they qualify (still appreciate the link love and the email [...]

How Voyeurs Use Google to Spy on You

7. December 2006

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What gives Google? First you sponsor terrorism, now you’re voyeur central? Go on the ultimate webcam voyeur voyage courtesy of Google! Owners of Axis Communications’ webcams oftenly can publish online their streaming webcam page and will have a default URL pattern similar to as follows: http://www.domain-or-ip-address.com/path/view/index.shtml Knowing this, a search command can be done in Google called inurl. [...]