Friday will mark the first Scary SEO event, a mini-conference which will be held at Deerfield Beach / Boca Raton, Florida and focus on an intimate setting of 50 attendees speaking, teaching and learning about SEO and Search Marketing.
Scary SEO will begin on Friday with an opening keynote by Jeff Quipp of SearchEnginePeople, followed by […]
Scary SEO Conference is on Friday
October 22nd, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 5 Comments
Yahoo NFL Shortcuts : No Love for Earnest Graham
October 21st, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Yahoo’s NFL Shortcuts, which I wrote about last year, serves the latest stats and fantasy information for NFL players such as Tony Romo and T-Sizzle Terrell Suggs.
Today however I tried doing a search for Tampa Bay Buccaneer running back Earnest Graham, and look at this, nothing!
Google AdWords Reminds Us To Vote on November 4th
October 21st, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Google is doing their share to encourage voter turnout for the 2008 US Presidential Elections (and other elections on that day) with a message to its AdWords users, reminding them to vote on November 4th.
Open Letter to Google : Why Have You Taken Away my Google & GMail Accounts?
October 19th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 68 Comments
UPDATE : Since writing this and contacting some Googlers, my Google account was unblocked at 2 am last night, EST. Thank you Google for the prompt response, although those were some very stressful 15 hours or so.
Google, I am a very lucky American who is living the dream of owning or being a partner in […]
Google Has Disabled My GMail Account
October 19th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 39 Comments
Google GMail outages were reported last week, with a massive outage on Thursday which took Google 24 hours to recover.
Today I am trying to log into my GMail account, which I use for about everything apps, docs, and GMail related, and am receiving this message :
Sorry, your account has been disabled.
Google will not let me […]
Google Profiles Now Indexable in Search Engines
October 17th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 10 Comments
Call them Google versions of business cards, Geocities 2.0 or call them what you will, I consider Google Profiles to be the building block to the foundation of Google’s social map in the interactive Internet world, weaving basic user information which the user chooses to share within Google results; whether that info be LinkedIn style […]
Google UK Opens AdWords to Gambling Ads
October 16th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
After Yahoo UK opened itself up to UK licensed gambling ads about a month ago, and MSN UK doing the same, Google UK has felt the pressure to allow gambling ads in the UK, where online and offline casino, sports betting and other forms of gambling is legal and tolerated.
Google UK is now allowing advertising […]
Obama Campaign Advertising in EA Sports & Madden Games
October 15th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Taking interactive online advertising to a whole new level, the Obama campaign is now running online ads in Xbox 360 video games such as Madden NFL 09 and other male targeted EA Sports games such as “Burnout Paradise,” “NASCAR 09,” “NHL 09,” “NBA Live 08,” “Need For Speed: Carbon,” “Need For Speed: ProStreet,” “NFL Tour,” […]
Affiliate Links Can Pass Link Juice & Help With SEO
October 13th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 7 Comments
Over at SEOmoz, Rand gives us a wrap up of the Search Engineers session from SMX East which includes the fact that all of the search engine engineers agreed with Sean Suchter of Yahoo that if affiliate links come from relevant and trust worth sources, then those links may assist with the passing of link […]
Google News Testing New Vertical Format
October 10th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
Google News is testing a new vertical format which seems to be reminiscent of Yahoo One Search and more of a mobile device driven format than the usual Newspaper style spread Google News usually delivers on the PC. Ugly as sin as this Google News layout is, there may be some reasons behind it.
