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Bing and Yahoo!, sitting in a tree…

07-29-09

Microsoft and Yahoo! have made a landmark deal today, which will effect the SEO industry in a few key ways. I won’t go into massive amounts of detail as I’m sure you’ve already consumed the facts elsewhere, but there’s a few things that need to be discussed.

bing loves yahoo
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The Affiliate Experiment

07-27-09

Make Money OnlineYou hear about people making obscene amounts of money online all day long on the web these days, the Shoemoney’s and the John Chow’s of this world seem to effortlessly rake in the cash selling other peoples wares. But is it really that easy to become a super affiliate?

I aim to find out.
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Google Pulling Random Dates Into SERPs

07-20-09

Late last night I tweeted out the following, and I wondered if anyone knows the rules by which Google pulls this info from a page:

Seeing some really weird use of dates in google snippets lately. Anyone have insight into the parsing algo being used?

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10 Reasons Nobody Uses Your Web App

07-16-09

web app failSo you built and launched your app, but so far you only have a handful of signups. The big problem though is that one of those is your mother and the others are your close friends and colleagues - and not one of them is paying a dime. So where did it all go wrong?
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Google Adding Links Into Suggest?

07-13-09

Screenshot of the Google Suggest tool with direct linksI’m not sure if this is new or not, but Google have apparently started adding links directly into the Google Suggest drop-down box (right). You won’t see this on a Google UK search, but switch over to google.com and you should get something similar.

As you’d expect, the link is what would appear in position #1 of the query suggestion at the top of the pile but I do wonder how this affects rank tracking tools that rely on Google’s ranking data in referrer strings.
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