SEOMoz.org - Good Resource

I recently found the blog over at SEOMoz and have been finding it interesting. I really like the site design. Very clean and non-obtrusive in color. Their are some really cool tools their as well. They aren't the fastest loading tools, but the ouput of information is great and it's nice to see someone being creative in SEO tools then just DigitalPoint. :)

Good Directory Moderators

Aaron Wall does a fantastic job showcasing a "witty banter" between a recent acquired directory the webmaster purchased. Is this the way it's going to be for all new directories?

Google goes to Movies
What's playing? Who's in Constantine? When is the next Star Wars movie coming out? What's the movie where Tom Hanks talks to a Volleyball? - All questions that could be asked using Google new Movie search.

Company Blogging
Maybe a should watch what I say. I talk more about my company and see what happens? ...well...maybe not.

Googlebot on the Crawl

Looks like Gbot is moving pretty fast the last couple of days. Some are saying, "I've never seen it crawl so fast!". I'm glad to hear it's doing what it's suppose to do.

Getting Around Google Autolink
The boys over at ThreadWatch, found a way to get around Google's Autolink. This code will stop the Autolink from appearing over your precious content.

Reducing Unsubscribes on E-mails by 35%
Nice article over at MarketingSherpa. Article only open till Feb. 26th

Your Dog?
Never let your doing pee alone while it's raining.

Making Money with Blogs

Today, I got an e-mail from the "Yahoo! UK Team" (ya...right) giving me a discount on high-paying adsense booklet. "What do I need this for?" ...well if you want to target high paying adwords with your adsense ads, you can do so. Write some copy or post in your blog about the topic/keyword and BAM! ...you have high paying adsense ads displayed. Of course, will anyone click on them...that is the real question.

Google for Hindu Graduates
Google confirmed they would be attending 'The Hindu Opportunities Fair 2005' . The fair will be held at CODISSIA Trade Fair Complex in Coimbatore on Feb. 26 & 27

Smart Tags are back ... New Company

If you recall "Smart Tags", which wasn't such a "Smart call" on Microsofts part a little while back, is now being revived by Google. Google has a new feature within the revised toolbar called AutoLink which links certain words on a page to help you, the user, find whatever it is you need to find. The links will be inserted into address, ISBN, VIN, and tracking numbers on shipping orders. I also found out it has been confirmed that the developer of MS's Smart Tags has helped in the creation of Google's Autolink. Could backfire for Google...or not...we'll see.

Gmail Rolling out
Google is going the Social Networking route for Gmail. It seems to be taking off quite well for them. I have 6 invites if anyone wants them. First 6 to comment on this post can claim them. Just put your e-mail in the comment and you get one!

Baby Naming Business
Ebay never disappoints me. This is a new one to me and is...well...kinda sad. I just feel bad for the poor kid. Marketing at its best?

Mark Jen Speaks Again

Mark Jen, former Google employee, speaks yet again about his "blogging" termination from the world famous search engine. Juan Carlos Perez gets the scoop for us.

About.com Bought
Primedia's huge site, www.About.com, was purchased to the high bidder, which was The New York Times. Way to go! The NYT beat out other bidders: Yahoo!, Ask, and Google for the information site.

Search Engine Strategies Conference: Hats
What hat do you where? In the SEO world, their are many different shades of hats ranging from the Darth Vader Black Hat community to the Teletubbies White Hat. Andrew Goodman over at SEW, does a good overview of a session at SES covering the various shades of hat colors.

Free Link Tool being built

DaveN, NickW and Text-Link-Ads.com are putting together the ultimate linking analysis tool...and giving it away for free. Ahhh...aren't those guys nice. :)

Google Adwords Account
Google has landed a huge account. The VNU has a lot of web portals and should really help expand the advertising space.

Google Toolbar 3
Google has recently launched a revised version of their toolbar. And still, no Firefox support.

Google PageRank Basics

Great thread forming over at WebMasterWorld (WMW) about how Google PageRank and some of the myths that have developed by other webmasters.

Snoop Dog working at Google
Fun toolizzle to help with your searching. I've had some fun with this one! :)

Internet Explorer update
Finally! With the releases of Firefox (with gaining popularity) and some other great browsers, Microsoft had to do something with the most popular browser. What can we expect? Well, if history repeats itself...nothing much unfortunately.

Compate results
This tool was found/recommended some posters over at ThreadWatch. You can check your position across multiple SEs (search engines).

Continued: Latent Semantic Indexing

I was thinking more about this the other day. Latent Semantic Indexing, to my understanding, is the mathimatical way of figuring out what a webpage is about via certain keywords on the page. So...if your talking about Apples, when indexing with LSI, you want to distinguish you site between the fruit or the computer. Another way to look at it would be to take out the main keywords on a page and give it to an non-web savvy person to read and see if they can tell you what the page is about.

How do we distinguish? Well, by using other keywords associated with your keywords within Google's own search engine. Using the ~keyword query in Google (example) will bring up other words associated/related with your keywords. The words typical in bold are the keywords you want to look at. These keywords are associated/related with the keyword you placed in the seach field.

What I'm recommending is sprinkle these keywords around your text as well. Give the crawlers no shadow of a doubt about your page. I 'think' there is a form of this being used within Google's 100+ ways of ranking a page.

Higher Click Prices
Search advertising clicks are still on the rise. Inflation of clicks is continued.

Mark Jen Speaks out
Mark Jen, former Google employee let go because of blog 99zeroes, speaks out on his blog and is interviewed by Jeremy Zawodny .

Google Employee Fired Over Blog

Mark Jen, former Google employee, was fired allegedly on Jan. 28th. He was quietly let go. It has been confirmed that Mark Jen was fired by Google due to his blog, Ninetyninezeroes. It's very sad that having your own opinion and sharing with the world will get you fired. I guess maybe I should watch what I say too ...ya...right!

CEO Blog List
When looking for Bob Parsons blog, I came across a great little list of CEO bloggers.

What are you watching?
A recent study is stating that a quarter of the internet users watch some sort of video feed every week. 1 in 20 said they watch a video fee every day. What does this mean? Maybe video blogging for me in the near future!

Google Sandox...playing in the sand?

There are many theories out there to get out of the sandbox...and just as many webmasters claiming those theories posted don't work by them already trying it. SiteSEO, as SEW forums, start a good thread to try and breakdown the Google Sandbox theory and get some hard facts out on the table.

Google Losing in Courts
The French are winning. Google loses another trademark suit to a French subsidiary. Total amount lost on case was roughly $250,000,000.

Ebay Gives Back to Stores
Ebay has done another update to listing prices...raising rates. Since then, a lot of Power Sellers have been barking in Ebay's community forum and Ebay's been listening. Bill Cobb, President of Ebay North America, gives back by crediting store owners $15.95 in May (one month's Basic Store credit) and in Ebay.com and Ebay.ca, lowering certain insertion fees up to 10 cents. Yippee!

In Related News
To become Florida fireman, allegedly you must get really drunk and behead animals to get into their elite forces.

LSA for Better Google Rankings

If you haven't noticed already, there has been an update to the Google Algorithm. A lot of forum members are contributing this new update to an LSA filter becoming "live" or weighted more for relevancy within a search query. A great thread has started Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) .

Here are a few articles on the topic:
Latent Semantic Indexing at Tennessee Uni
Latent semantic indexing from NITLE
Constructing and Examining Personalized Cooccurrence-based Thesauri on Web Pages
Telcordia Latent Semantic Indexing
From Latent Semantics to Spatial Hypertext
Using Latent Semantic Indexing for Information Filtering

Finding a room isn't that difficult

So, this morning at about 7:00 AM I decided to set up a profile on Roommates.com and see what's available in THE OC. Their are a potential 335 people looking for a roommate and on top of that...I received 11 e-mails from potential roommatees! :) My recommendation for the week: If moving or relocating and need an apartment, condo, house, or townhouse, check out Roommates.com!

Spyware declining!

Finally, the spyware problems we're having are starting to decline. AdWeek did a study and spyware is down 14%.

A little about me...

Well, I just finished my 2nd week at my new job at Automotive.com. I'm learning a lot from a company that has been around since the dot com boom/bust and is still around. It's great to see a good, reputable online company flourish like they have over the years.

Automotive is located in Irvine, California. I was born in Newport Beach and I'm currently going to be living in Huntington Beach...in the "THE OC". So the commute won't be too bad. I'm the new guy...and the youngest guy at the ripe old age of 22, but that doesn't stop me from teaching these guys some new tricks! ;)

This company is much different from my previous employer. For instance, ever Tuesday and Thursday we get out of the office, stretch our legs and bit and work up a sweat playing an hour of basketball. After that, lunch is served to us in our office from the variety of eating establishments that surround our building. What could be better? I'm really starting to enjoy myself! :)