Today was the first post-summer day where my office felt a little "chilly." I’m hoping for a quick rebound in temperatures. While I go outside and look for the sun, you can enjoy these Picks.
- Hackers are keeping a close eye on Google Trends–it’s helping them build fake blogs on popular topics.
- Don’t be like Rand Fishkin–who once picked RandFish as his social profile name, and now regrets it. Do however, follow his awesome advice for branding your company (or self) with social media.
- First Google removed the handy dictionary links, now SEOs are worried that Google no longer suggests submitting your site to a directory.
- A one-man blog just sold for $15 million! $15,000,000! I’ll start the bidding for Marketing Pilgrim at $5,000,000!
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Utah SEO Pro Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Great topics. It’ll be interesting to see if Google allows DMOZ to pass link juice.
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Jordan McCollum Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
What’s my cut? Or do I get sold with the blog?
That’s so wrong.
Andy Beal Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Jordan - I’d bargain extra for you to be part of the deal.
Zurpit Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Wow that is a lot of money for the blog. That guy must be really happy that he gets all the money to himself, I wonder what he will do with it
SoLinkable Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I used a few directories when I was first starting out, but haven’t really touched them in a few months. I’ve been searching for better ways of bringing targeted readers to my site, and directories simply do not bring actual traffic - only links.
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SEO next Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
G trends rocks …
They might have limited access for public information in regional languages tohugh
PS3 Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Google trends does indeed rock but it is sad to see that hackers are trying to exploit it. I’ve got Phishing alerts with NIS09, would be interested to see if any fakes get picked up.
Dennis Edell Says:
October 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Rand hits branding square on the noggin. I so wish more people would “get it”
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Jacques Snyman Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 11:41 am
let’s face it, very few directories offer real value, and very few potential customers actually trawl through them!
Christmas Guy Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Thanks for the links; they are useful as usual. Especially I liked the blog sold for $15million. Is that possible?
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zncustombuilding Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 5:12 am
well great topics i liked the first one most…… and i don’t know that will we ever succeed in getting over tis hacking problems?????
QuickPWN Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
A lot of blogs do it to get good rankings and get a lot of traffic to their blogs rather than to hack or spread viruses. You should still use an antivirus program like AVG to keep yourself safe.
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Christmas Guy Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I think removing the handy dictionary links by Google is not a reason to be worry. As the matter of fact directories do not lead to actual traffic. But Thanks for the links and interesting info.
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