Town Hall Chat With Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO
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Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO, held a town hall chat with bloggers this evening. I clipped a few key points that were of interest to me (I think you can tell from the chat where I am focused), along with some Q&A from a few other […]
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Pulling together the Google penalty threads
Let’s tie the various posts I’ve written over the past few months together into some coherent form, shall we?
In October, I pointed out that using human reviewers to penalize websites for selling links was unfair, given that this is a highly subjective process that can’t possibly address all, or even a majority of link-sellers. One […]
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Should PayPerPost file an antitrust claim against Google?
Came across this article thanks to Digg: Could PayPerPost Have an Antitrust Case Against Google?
To think that an antitrust case isn’t part of the exit strategy at IZEA is probably naive. If Socialspark catches fire, there would probably not be any action. But, if theyre just treading water and burning cash, a lawsuit does two […]
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Google Page Rank Penalties Not Real?
Oh, it’s been a while since I used the phrase Google Lies, and since I believe I may now be legally bound to use it at least once a month, just click the link below to Andy Beard and read for yourself. Here’s a teaser:
It seems Google used their real dataset for PageRank for the […]
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Are buyers of sponsored links set up for deals of the century?
Search Engine Roundtable continues to report that sites hit with Google’s PR penalty for sponsored links continue to pass link juice. While it is impossible to measure the value of the link juice being passed, buyers of sponsored links are supposedly not seeing corresponding drops in their PR.
Toolbar PR and internal-to-Google PR have always been […]
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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
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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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PageRank vs. RealRank vs. Something Else?
So, I’ve been mute the past few days with regard to the latest monopolistic business practice by Google. To be honest, I was stunned that Google moved so dramatically against such a narrow segment of the blogosphere, ignoring the A-listers and their bogus “thanks to our sponsors” posts that provides SEO benefits to paying advertisers. […]
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