Archive for December, 2007

What are experienced bloggers saying about submitting blogs to PPP?

Thanks you for visiting. Please consider subscribing to the RSS feed.Experienced paid-posting bloggers are weighing in as a result of Google’s zero-ranking in November. I posted a poll at the GeekySpeaky Forums, an independent message board primarily frequented by bloggers like myself, those actively engaged in writing paid reviews through brokered marketplaces. The results surprised […]

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Google can’t find everything

Here’s a Tim Tebow Fact that’s appropriate for this site:
If you Google search ‘Tim Tebow getting his ass kicked’ you will generate zero results. It just doesn’t happen.
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Blog traffic: A review of a mini-blog-storm

YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1197558544_0′]={”text”:”Google”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/company/company_name”,”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/domain”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”],”metaData”:[{”canonicalName”:”Google Inc.”,”domain_name”:”Google”,”domain_url”:”http://www.google.com/”,”exchange”:”NMS”,”symbol”:”GOOG”},{”canonicalName”:”Google Inc.”,”domain_name”:”Google”,”domain_url”: rel=”nofollow” “http://www.google.com/”,”exchange”:”NMS”,”symbol”:”GOOG”}],”clientMetaData”:{”embeds”:”ysc_embed_lw_1197558544_0:financeModule”,”disabled”:true}};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1197558544_1′]={”text”:”Lynyrd Skynyrd”,”weight”:0.96084,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/music_group”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1197558544_2′]={”text”:”Tampa”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/place/destination”,”shortcuts:/us/instance/place/us/town”],”category”:[”PLACE”],”metaData”:{”geoArea”:”462.152″,”geoCountry”:”United States”,”geoCounty”:”Hillsborough”,”geoIsoCountryCode”:”US”,”geoLocation”:”(-82.45929, 27.946501)”,”geoName”:”Tampa”,”geoPlaceType”:”Town”,”geoState”:”Florida”},”clientMetaData”:{”embeds”:”ysc_embed_lw_1197558544_2:mapsModule”,”disabled”:true}};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1197558544_3′]={”text”:”Wikipedia”,”weight”:0.503502,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/tag/news/organization”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”]};Blogstorms are relative. If you normally get a dozen visitors, the first time you get 200 in a day might be exciting. If you normally get 10,000 visitors in a day, 250,000 is where you might say, “cool!”. I got to experience my first bonafide blogstorm last week, […]

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Absolutely

“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?” - Harry Shearer
Just thought this quote was apropos. It’s a Google-world, we just live in it. Back to your normal scheduling.
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Is this proof that even a blind squirrel can find a nut?

I was having a hard time deciding if I should go with the title you see or go with “Social Media Eating Google’s Lunch”
In the end, I went for whimsy.
Also, comparing search and social media is really an apples-to-oranges comparison. There’s a lot of people that are proclaiming social media as a competitor to Google, […]

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Going for the contest trifecta at Overstock.com this Christmas

Overstock.com is running a cool contest just in time for Christmas. By registering each day, you can win a prize valued up to $1,000 on each of five days - today through December 7. There is also a grand prize of 5 $1,000 prizes that will be awarded at the end of the contest.
I’ve had […]

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Google’s Hypocrisy: The villagers are sharpening the knives

This was a good week for exposing the hypocrisy of Google and A-list bloggers!
You have Ron over at Linkworth doing some serious competitive research on how Google sells pagerank AND site reviews. I’m not going to steal his thunder, but the post is a follow up to his original post about Google selling pagerank. […]

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