links for 2006-03-31
Friday, March 31st, 2006-
What is Web 2.0 :). Via Laura Lippay
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The web 2.0 awards in categories
Via Laura Lippay
Archive for March, 2006
links for 2006-03-29
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006-
Google suggest keyword scrapper
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Google suggest keyword scrapper
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Udated ajaxified Google keywords tool
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Desktop tool for attention management
Wordpress: spam comment trap
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006As most of the WP users already know there is a feature in WP that makes comment moderation easier by not holding in que comments from people that you have already marked as not spam. Some smart ass spammer thought that combining spamming with a litlle of social engineering will make his life easier:
Name: Jenna Jameson | E-mail: bing918bing@yahoo.com | URI: http://xhoo.info | IP: 222.212.83.177
Not as you say…..
Yes, sure asshole. If you don’t put porn/poker in your initial comment and use a female name will not get you through. Nice try anyway china boy
links for 2006-03-28
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006-
List oh high paying adsense keywords
links for 2006-03-27
Monday, March 27th, 2006-
I agree 101% with this post about the tone of Google blogs…just chaep PR BS
SEO Technique: Multi social bookmarking
Sunday, March 26th, 2006With the increase of awareness of webmasters in the value of a link (usually the overinflated value), is getting harder and harder to find valuable external links and especially one way.
One easy solution for that is the use of social bookmarking sites. Opinions vary on this matter but if is not going to harm you why not use it.
Social bookmarking websites have the following qualities:
- Provide a one way link to your website
- They place your link in themed paged (based on the tags you use)
- Increase your visibility
To help take advantage of this there are 2 approaches:
Passive: In your pages (on regular websites) or on your blog posts, place tools that help your visitors bookmark it on their favorite social bookmarking service. Most of the webmasters go this way but they usually place only 1-3 bookmarking links missing a great part of the advantage. Barry from SEO Roundtable recommends another approach by using a single bookmarking link from Socializer. This one currently covers 20 social bookmarking sites.
Active: You can wait for your visitors to bookmark you or you can step forward by being proactive and do it yourself. This will increase your chances for traffic. To facilitate this I recommend Only Wire that allows simultaneous bookmarking in 17 social bookmarking websites. If you want a complete job you can check a more detailed list of social bookmarking sites.
Conclusion:
To gather the best results using the passive/active approach seems the optimum solution. If you want to stay in the white/gray area of SEO use carefully the active approach. On some of the SB sites any tentative of spamming will end in a termination of the account or a permanent ban on your IP.
Dirty SEO: a possible explanation for the AjaxWrite success
Sunday, March 26th, 2006March 26th 2006
Let’s say that there is a new buzzword in town and is going to stay here for a while. Of course anybody will want to proove themselves as an expert on it and to score for that buzzword in Google and the rest of the search engines. What to do?
The hard way. Start working, train your employees in the new field get some good products out get reviews all the drill. It takes work, it takes people, it takes time and it takes MONEY. Most go this way but very few see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Or the easy way. Make a super basic product with a slight resemblance to the buzzword, put the buzzword in the product name, announce yourself as the biggest competitor of the bad boy in town and than use your PR channels and the blogosphere to let the world know who you are. What do you need? A small team with basic skills, very few money for a server that can take a combined effect of Digg+Slashdot, and an email account to let the people know who you are.
But why take the easy way? Because when you have won the PR and the SEO game everybody will start throwing money at you and perhaps if you don’t plan for a quick retirement you will have enough funding to do the hard way too.
In big lines this is what the guys at Ajax Write did this week. Full coverage on
- Ajaxian: AjaxLaunch.com: An Ajax App Each Week (ok. And the quality will be direct proportional with the releases interval)
- Techcrunch: AjaxWrite, the Newest Ajax Office Entrant
- Solution watch: Online Word Processing with AjaxWrite
- Slashdot : AjaxWrite to “Compete” with MS Word (wll at least they said “compete”)
- Digg: A Web Based MS Word Compatible Word Processor
What else would someone wish for Xmas?
After you get that coverage all the trolls from the blogosphere will be at your feet copying quoting the masters and pointing to your lame product website.
Ok. So? It’s a dirty game anyway why should anyone care?
Well, because when in a few weeks when that website will be on top10 for the word “ajax” don’t tell me anymore bed time stories about search engines relevance and quality of results. Unless you have a strong AI engine behind you can’t tell what the relevance of a page/website is. Is all a game that can be reversed engineered and can be tricked by anyone with an IQ slightly above average and enough motivation to do it.
Is the same game that you see in the real world. Is not what you do or what you know. Is who you know that matters and visibility. That’s why people that appear on TV seem smarter than the audience, that’s why the people with an IQ way below average but who know the right people get elected presidents.
But this is the current game and can be changed only from inside by playing it. BUT don’t tell me about quality anymore.
EDIT (April 5th 2006):
10 days later and they are in Google’s Top 10 for Ajax. As I said…cut the relevance crap talk
FF extension of the day: dragdropupload
Friday, March 24th, 2006dragdropupload by Emanuele Ruffaldi
“Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries. In some websites it allows to add new upload files: in Gmail is possible to drop the files directly over the “Attach a file” link.”
I’ve tested it with Netvibes’s Box.net module and Gmail and it works like a charm. Pretty useful and as others said that should be a standard behaviour in Firefox
links for 2006-03-23
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006-
MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Multi-Media Center.
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Multiple social bookmarking tool
links for 2006-03-20
Monday, March 20th, 2006-
The Design Vision conversation between Luke Wroblewski, Dirk Knemeyer, Bob Baxley, and Jim Leftwich has wrapped up and the full text is available in PDF format.
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Same extension compatibility thing but somehow is faster and more stable than 1.5
