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  SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008

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  3 days ago in Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines · Authority: 4,643

  Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free
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  New WordPress SEO Blogging Software The Greatest Copywriting Skill & How To Learn It

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  2 days ago in Seo · Authority: 13

  New WordPress SEO Blogging Software The Greatest Copywriting Skill & How To Learn It by Seo @ Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:11 -0500 (disclaimer: MyType.com currently rank first for WordPress SEO and I have a post blocked by robots.txt ranking on the same page - it is not exactly a competitive search term, doesn't bring much... Original post: New WordPress SEO Blogging Software The Greatest Copywriting Skill & How To Learn It by at Google Blog Search: seo Blog tag: Seo Technorati tag: Seo Fri, 09 May 2008 20:00:04 -0500
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  SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008

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  3 days ago in Search Engine Marketing Resources & News · Authority: 20

  SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008 Posted on Friday, May 9th, 2008 Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free webcasts later this month, ranging from dealing with big PPC campaigns, big brand SEO and bridging the offline-online gap in analytics. SMN webcasts run about 40-50 minutes and start at 1 PM Eastern Time. Here’s more… Search In Pictures: Cinco De Mayo At Yahoo, Google Lego Monster & Yahoo’s Soccer Team In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more…. Yahoo Buys My Favorite Search Browser Plugin, Inquisitor For Apple Safari Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions, and also allows you to add any search engine you like, plus create your own personalized and… Google Executives Defend Potential Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft Releases “Proxy Directors” And Looks Beyond Search And “The Last Click” Yesterday before Google’s annual meeting of shareholders, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page fielded questions from reporters on a range of subjects, including a potential paid search deal with Yahoo and its anti-trust implications. Their argument was that a future paid search deal could be… Search Engine News, An In-Depth Look At Google’s Tools & The Google SERP Tester In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today’s in-depth look, “Google’s Tools Section, Part 1 - Intro” and this week’s free… SMX Advanced Selling Out — Book Soon! Today’s the last day to get the "early bird" rate on a ticket to our SMX Advanced show this June 3 & 4. Perhaps more important for those thinking of going, 85 percent of our available tickets have now gone. We’ve got less than 100 left. You typically see a… Google Maps Adds Pictures & Explore Feature Some users like Mathew Ingram noticed that Google has now added images from Picasa and Panoramio into the bar beside their maps…. Google AdWords Adds Landing Page Load Time Metric To Reports & Launching Mid-June As expected, Google has announced that landing page load time will become a quality score factor in Google AdWords starting mid-June. In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword’s landing page. Here is a picture of what… Search News From Around The Web: Applications & Portal Features Aliza’s chronicles: climbing out of document hell, Official Google Docs Blog Business Issues Antitrust: Microsoft officially hiring "Google killers", Valleywag Google sees YouTube products soon, warm on Yahoo, Reuters Larry Page on how to change the world, Fortune Inside Microsoft’s War Against Google, BusinessWeek Liberty Media Keeps Options Open in Legal Tussle With IAC, Wall Street Journal Local, Maps & Mobile Armageddon Pills and KML in Google Earth, Google Maps API Blog Yahoo Go 3.0 beta a go for Windows phones, Download.com Google Takes Street View Snaps in Paris; Lawsuits May Follow, PC World Using Google Earth to inform cyclone response, Google LatLong Link Building Agency Client = Superhero Link Building Team | Online Marketing Blog, Online Marketing Blog Content as Marketing for Link Building (and the Win), SEO Book Microhoo Inside The Deals: Forget Yahoo. Microsoft Needs To Go On The Ultimate Corporate Diet, paidContent.org Paid Search & Contextual A Quick Review & Expansion on "Best Paid Search Practices", PPC Hero Ad by Google on Yahoo Anwsers, David Naylor Ad Positioning: Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight, ProBlogger Getting Married: How To Change Your AdSense Payee Name, Search Engine Roundtable Video Ad Support Comes To Google AdWords API Sandbox, Search Engine Roundtable Searching Quantcast Launches Demographic Search, Read/Write Web SEM Industry SEO Bloggers Parade Their Best, Marketmou Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don’t Understand Social Networking, Bill Hartzer SEO & SEM New WordPress SEO Blogging Software , Andy Beard Buying Sites? Use Trusts To Avoid Google Domain Demolitions, SEO ROI Does Setting Your Geographic Target In Google Webmaster Tools Work?, Search Engine Roundtable Google Webmaster Tools smoke n mirrors, David Naylor Optimization by Numbers, Search Engine Watch Sharing Content for Fun , SEOmoz Social Media The SEO Industry’s 25 Most Popular Twitter Users, Apple Pie & Custard Confessions and Reflections of a Former Digg Addict, Techipedia Live Twittering A Conference? Try Live Twitting!, daggle.com The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model, Read/Write Web Video, Music & Image Search A New and Improved Grid View, Official Google Video Blog Web Analytics Piwik: Open Source Google Analytics Alternative, Read/Write Web Other Items Doodle: Yom Ha’atzmaut, Googlified Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site: When Submitting to Social News Sites is a Complete Waste of Time Sphinn: A Dysfunctional Social Community? The Most Powerful SEO Tactic: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Drink While Doing Google Adwords Post-Launch PPC Process and Optimizations Yes Shoemoney SEO Does Have a Future Hey ShoeMoney (and Andy) SEO DOES have a future The Tao of Being a Social Media Dad David Mihm Interviews Matt McGee Tips on Content Centered Link Building As Long As There Are Search Engines, SEO Will Survive SEO Has a Future! CM Blog Tells ShoeMoney & Mkt. Pilgrim to Jump In a Lake Sneak Peak: Content Sharing Survey Report
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  SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008

  http://emarketing.cogia.net/searchcap-the-day-in-search-may-...
  3 days ago in E-marketing · Authority: 7

  SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008 9 05 2008 Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free webcasts later this month, ranging from dealing with big PPC campaigns, big brand SEO and bridging the offline-online gap in analytics. SMN webcasts run about 40-50 minutes and start at 1 PM Eastern Time. Here's more... Search In Pictures: Cinco De Mayo At Yahoo, Google Lego Monster & Yahoo's Soccer Team In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.... Yahoo Buys My Favorite Search Browser Plugin, Inquisitor For Apple Safari Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions, and also allows you to add any search engine you like, plus create your own personalized and... Google Executives Defend Potential Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft Releases "Proxy Directors" And Looks Beyond Search And "The Last Click" Yesterday before Google's annual meeting of shareholders, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page fielded questions from reporters on a range of subjects, including a potential paid search deal with Yahoo and its anti-trust implications. Their argument was that a future paid search deal could be... Search Engine News, An In-Depth Look At Google's Tools & The Google SERP Tester In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today's in-depth look, "Google's Tools Section, Part 1 - Intro" and this week's free... SMX Advanced Selling Out -- Book Soon! Today's the last day to get the "early bird" rate on a ticket to our SMX Advanced show this June 3 & 4. Perhaps more important for those thinking of going, 85 percent of our available tickets have now gone. We've got less than 100 left. You typically see a... Google Maps Adds Pictures & Explore Feature Some users like Mathew Ingram noticed that Google has now added images from Picasa and Panoramio into the bar beside their maps.... Google AdWords Adds Landing Page Load Time Metric To Reports & Launching Mid-June As expected, Google has announced that landing page load time will become a quality score factor in Google AdWords starting mid-June. In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword's landing page. Here is a picture of what... Search News From Around The Web: Applications & Portal Features Aliza's chronicles: climbing out of document hell, Official Google Docs Blog Business Issues Antitrust: Microsoft officially hiring "Google killers", Valleywag Google sees YouTube products soon, warm on Yahoo, Reuters Larry Page on how to change the world, Fortune Inside Microsoft's War Against Google, BusinessWeek Liberty Media Keeps Options Open in Legal Tussle With IAC, Wall Street Journal Local, Maps & Mobile Armageddon Pills and KML in Google Earth, Google Maps API Blog Yahoo Go 3.0 beta a go for Windows phones, Download.com Google Takes Street View Snaps in Paris; Lawsuits May Follow, PC World Using Google Earth to inform cyclone response, Google LatLong Link Building Agency Client = Superhero Link Building Team | Online Marketing Blog, Online Marketing Blog Content as Marketing for Link Building (and the Win), SEO Book Microhoo Inside The Deals: Forget Yahoo. Microsoft Needs To Go On The Ultimate Corporate Diet, paidContent.org Paid Search & Contextual A Quick Review & Expansion on "Best Paid Search Practices", PPC Hero Ad by Google on Yahoo Anwsers, David Naylor Ad Positioning: Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight, ProBlogger Getting Married: How To Change Your AdSense Payee Name, Search Engine Roundtable Video Ad Support Comes To Google AdWords API Sandbox, Search Engine Roundtable Searching Quantcast Launches Demographic Search, Read/Write Web SEM Industry SEO Bloggers Parade Their Best, Marketmou Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don't Understand Social Networking, Bill Hartzer SEO & SEM New WordPress SEO Blogging Software , Andy Beard Buying Sites? Use Trusts To Avoid Google Domain Demolitions, SEO ROI Does Setting Your Geographic Target In Google Webmaster Tools Work?, Search Engine Roundtable Google Webmaster Tools smoke n mirrors, David Naylor Optimization by Numbers, Search Engine Watch Sharing Content for Fun , SEOmoz Social Media The SEO Industry's 25 Most Popular Twitter Users, Apple Pie & Custard Confessions and Reflections of a Former Digg Addict, Techipedia Live Twittering A Conference? Try Live Twitting!, daggle.com The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model, Read/Write Web Video, Music & Image Search A New and Improved Grid View, Official Google Video Blog Web Analytics Piwik: Open Source Google Analytics Alternative, Read/Write Web Other Items Doodle: Yom Ha'atzmaut, Googlified Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site: When Submitting to Social News Sites is a Complete Waste of Time Sphinn: A Dysfunctional Social Community? The Most Powerful SEO Tactic: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Drink While Doing Google Adwords Post-Launch PPC Process and Optimizations Yes Shoemoney SEO Does Have a Future Hey ShoeMoney (and Andy) SEO DOES have a future The Tao of Being a Social Media Dad David Mihm Interviews Matt McGee Tips on Content Centered Link Building As Long As There Are Search Engines, SEO Will Survive SEO Has a Future! CM Blog Tells ShoeMoney & Mkt. Pilgrim to Jump In a Lake Sneak Peak: Content Sharing Survey Report Comments : No Comments » Categories : Uncategorized
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  SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008

  http://blog.e-researching.com/?p=4207
  3 days ago in E-researching · Authority: 1

  Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free webcasts later this month, ranging from dealing with big PPC campaigns, big brand SEO and bridging the offline-online gap in analytics. SMN webcasts run about 40-50 minutes and start at 1 PM Eastern Time. Here's more... Search In Pictures: Cinco De Mayo At Yahoo, Google Lego Monster & Yahoo's Soccer Team In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.... Yahoo Buys My Favorite Search Browser Plugin, Inquisitor For Apple Safari Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions, and also allows you to add any search engine you like, plus create your own personalized and... Google Executives Defend Potential Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft Releases "Proxy Directors" And Looks Beyond Search And "The Last Click" Yesterday before Google's annual meeting of shareholders, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page fielded questions from reporters on a range of subjects, including a potential paid search deal with Yahoo and its anti-trust implications. Their argument was that a future paid search deal could be... Search Engine News, An In-Depth Look At Google's Tools & The Google SERP Tester In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today's in-depth look, "Google's Tools Section, Part 1 - Intro" and this week's free... SMX Advanced Selling Out -- Book Soon! Today's the last day to get the "early bird" rate on a ticket to our SMX Advanced show this June 3 & 4. Perhaps more important for those thinking of going, 85 percent of our available tickets have now gone. We've got less than 100 left. You typically see a... Google Maps Adds Pictures & Explore Feature Some users like Mathew Ingram noticed that Google has now added images from Picasa and Panoramio into the bar beside their maps.... Google AdWords Adds Landing Page Load Time Metric To Reports & Launching Mid-June As expected, Google has announced that landing page load time will become a quality score factor in Google AdWords starting mid-June. In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword's landing page. Here is a picture of what... Search News From Around The Web: Applications & Portal Features Aliza's chronicles: climbing out of document hell, Official Google Docs Blog Business Issues Antitrust: Microsoft officially hiring "Google killers", Valleywag Google sees YouTube products soon, warm on Yahoo, Reuters Larry Page on how to change the world, Fortune Inside Microsoft's War Against Google, BusinessWeek Liberty Media Keeps Options Open in Legal Tussle With IAC, Wall Street Journal Local, Maps & Mobile Armageddon Pills and KML in Google Earth, Google Maps API Blog Yahoo Go 3.0 beta a go for Windows phones, Download.com Google Takes Street View Snaps in Paris; Lawsuits May Follow, PC World Using Google Earth to inform cyclone response, Google LatLong Link Building Agency Client = Superhero Link Building Team | Online Marketing Blog, Online Marketing Blog Content as Marketing for Link Building (and the Win), SEO Book Microhoo Inside The Deals: Forget Yahoo. Microsoft Needs To Go On The Ultimate Corporate Diet, paidContent.org Paid Search & Contextual A Quick Review & Expansion on "Best Paid Search Practices", PPC Hero Ad by Google on Yahoo Anwsers, David Naylor Ad Positioning: Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight, ProBlogger Getting Married: How To Change Your AdSense Payee Name, Search Engine Roundtable Video Ad Support Comes To Google AdWords API Sandbox, Search Engine Roundtable Searching Quantcast Launches Demographic Search, Read/Write Web SEM Industry SEO Bloggers Parade Their Best, Marketmou Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don't Understand Social Networking, Bill Hartzer SEO & SEM New WordPress SEO Blogging Software , Andy Beard Buying Sites? Use Trusts To Avoid Google Domain Demolitions, SEO ROI Does Setting Your Geographic Target In Google Webmaster Tools Work?, Search Engine Roundtable Google Webmaster Tools smoke n mirrors, David Naylor Optimization by Numbers, Search Engine Watch Sharing Content for Fun , SEOmoz Social Media The SEO Industry's 25 Most Popular Twitter Users, Apple Pie & Custard Confessions and Reflections of a Former Digg Addict, Techipedia Live Twittering A Conference? Try Live Twitting!, daggle.com The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model, Read/Write Web Video, Music & Image Search A New and Improved Grid View, Official Google Video Blog Web Analytics Piwik: Open Source Google Analytics Alternative, Read/Write Web Other Items Doodle: Yom Ha'atzmaut, Googlified Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site: When Submitting to Social News Sites is a Complete Waste of Time Sphinn: A Dysfunctional Social Community? The Most Powerful SEO Tactic: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Drink While Doing Google Adwords Post-Launch PPC Process and Optimizations Yes Shoemoney SEO Does Have a Future Hey ShoeMoney (and Andy) SEO DOES have a future The Tao of Being a Social Media Dad David Mihm Interviews Matt McGee Tips on Content Centered Link Building As Long As There Are Search Engines, SEO Will Survive SEO Has a Future! CM Blog Tells ShoeMoney & Mkt. Pilgrim to Jump In a Lake Sneak Peak: Content Sharing Survey Report
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  SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008

  http://www.acomputerpro.org/seo/searchcap-the-day-in-search-...
  3 days ago in A+ Computer Professionals: SEO, Web Design, Hosting, Site and Script Installations and Modifications, PHP Coding, and Web Traffic · Authority: 4

  Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free webcasts later this month, ranging from dealing with big PPC campaigns, big brand SEO and bridging the offline-online gap in analytics. SMN webcasts run about 40-50 minutes and start at 1 PM Eastern Time. Here’s more… Search In Pictures: Cinco De Mayo At Yahoo, Google Lego Monster & Yahoo’s Soccer Team In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more…. Yahoo Buys My Favorite Search Browser Plugin, Inquisitor For Apple Safari Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions, and also allows you to add any search engine you like, plus create your own personalized and… Google Executives Defend Potential Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft Releases “Proxy Directors” And Looks Beyond Search And “The Last Click” Yesterday before Google’s annual meeting of shareholders, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page fielded questions from reporters on a range of subjects, including a potential paid search deal with Yahoo and its anti-trust implications. Their argument was that a future paid search deal could be… Search Engine News, An In-Depth Look At Google’s Tools & The Google SERP Tester In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today’s in-depth look, “Google’s Tools Section, Part 1 - Intro” and this week’s free… SMX Advanced Selling Out — Book Soon! Today’s the last day to get the "early bird" rate on a ticket to our SMX Advanced show this June 3 & 4. Perhaps more important for those thinking of going, 85 percent of our available tickets have now gone. We’ve got less than 100 left. You typically see a… Google Maps Adds Pictures & Explore Feature Some users like Mathew Ingram noticed that Google has now added images from Picasa and Panoramio into the bar beside their maps…. Google AdWords Adds Landing Page Load Time Metric To Reports & Launching Mid-June As expected, Google has announced that landing page load time will become a quality score factor in Google AdWords starting mid-June. In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword’s landing page. Here is a picture of what… Search News From Around The Web: Applications & Portal Features Aliza’s chronicles: climbing out of document hell, Official Google Docs Blog Business Issues Antitrust: Microsoft officially hiring "Google killers", Valleywag Google sees YouTube products soon, warm on Yahoo, Reuters Larry Page on how to change the world, Fortune Inside Microsoft’s War Against Google, BusinessWeek Liberty Media Keeps Options Open in Legal Tussle With IAC, Wall Street Journal Local, Maps & Mobile Armageddon Pills and KML in Google Earth, Google Maps API Blog Yahoo Go 3.0 beta a go for Windows phones, Download.com Google Takes Street View Snaps in Paris; Lawsuits May Follow, PC World Using Google Earth to inform cyclone response, Google LatLong Link Building Agency Client = Superhero Link Building Team | Online Marketing Blog, Online Marketing Blog Content as Marketing for Link Building (and the Win), SEO Book Microhoo Inside The Deals: Forget Yahoo. Microsoft Needs To Go On The Ultimate Corporate Diet, paidContent.org Paid Search & Contextual A Quick Review & Expansion on "Best Paid Search Practices", PPC Hero Ad by Google on Yahoo Anwsers, David Naylor Ad Positioning: Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight, ProBlogger Getting Married: How To Change Your AdSense Payee Name, Search Engine Roundtable Video Ad Support Comes To Google AdWords API Sandbox, Search Engine Roundtable Searching Quantcast Launches Demographic Search, Read/Write Web SEM Industry SEO Bloggers Parade Their Best, Marketmou Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don’t Understand Social Networking, Bill Hartzer SEO & SEM New WordPress SEO Blogging Software , Andy Beard Buying Sites? Use Trusts To Avoid Google Domain Demolitions, SEO ROI Does Setting Your Geographic Target In Google Webmaster Tools Work?, Search Engine Roundtable Google Webmaster Tools smoke n mirrors, David Naylor Optimization by Numbers, Search Engine Watch Sharing Content for Fun , SEOmoz Social Media The SEO Industry’s 25 Most Popular Twitter Users, Apple Pie & Custard Confessions and Reflections of a Former Digg Addict, Techipedia Live Twittering A Conference? Try Live Twitting!, daggle.com The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model, Read/Write Web Video, Music & Image Search A New and Improved Grid View, Official Google Video Blog Web Analytics Piwik: Open Source Google Analytics Alternative, Read/Write Web Other Items Doodle: Yom Ha’atzmaut, Googlified Recent Hot Items From Sphinn, Our Social News Sharing Site: When Submitting to Social News Sites is a Complete Waste of Time Sphinn: A Dysfunctional Social Community? The Most Powerful SEO Tactic: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Drink While Doing Google Adwords Post-Launch PPC Process and Optimizations Yes Shoemoney SEO Does Have a Future Hey ShoeMoney (and Andy) SEO DOES have a future The Tao of Being a Social Media Dad David Mihm Interviews Matt McGee Tips on Content Centered Link Building As Long As There Are Search Engines, SEO Will Survive SEO Has a Future! CM Blog Tells ShoeMoney & Mkt. Pilgrim to Jump In a Lake Sneak Peak: Content Sharing Survey Report
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  New WordPress SEO Blogging Software

  http://www.shaunlow.com/new-wordpress-seo-blogging-software/
  3 days ago in Internet Marketing Online with Shaun Low dot com · Authority: 46

  New WordPress SEO Blogging Software May. 9th, 2008 by Andy Beard What a difference 24 hours make. A few days ago I was honestly prepared to rip a product to shreds. It wasn’t that it was a bad product, but it wasn’t as well prepared as it should have been, and from what I can tell it was due to an honest communication error between a well respected online marketer and his programming team. But before I talk about the product itself, I am going to give you a little history lesson. Wordpress Elite A few years ago I purchased a script called WordPress Elite. It was pretty useful, and allowed you to point the software at a server, and create WordPress blogs based on a default configuration plus you could select various parameters. I even sold a couple of copies as an affiliate. It didn’t do everything, you still had to log into the WordPress blog and activate the plugins, configure them etc, and at the time I was an SEO newbie… some would say I still am The marketer however sold the business, and the new owner didn’t do anything with it. He got some new subscribers. He asked the list once for new features, then nothing was released, and the script never really supported 2.x very well. Wordpress Super Installer I managed to pick this up really cheap when it was first released, and I soon forgot that WordPress Elite was going through some teething problems. Unfortunately development pretty much stopped at the beginning of 2007. First, as with any newly released version of software (including wsi) there are bugs and anomalies that need to be worked out before the version is completely stable. I know one bug in particular reported to Wordpress about v2.1 is it’s lack of compliance with the xmlrpc standard. Xmlrpc is what most of the blog content auto-posters use to post content to your blogs via remote methods (as apposed to logging in a posting something manually). Though the newest version of Wordpress may have some advantages over the previous versions, I don’t feel for the sake of building blog farms to achieve back links to your money sites that it makes sense to quickly jump on-board a new version, just for the sake of having a new version. The last update I received from Randy Rhodes (not Randi from Air America) was at the end of July 2007. WordPress 2.0.x is still maintained because it needs to be for Debian inclusion, thus if you don’t need all the fancy features of WordPress 2.1 or above, it is still a good choice, especially if you are fed up of things breaking all the time, or have tons of WordPress blogs to maintain. Other Scripts There are other scripts out there, plus various services that promise to install WordPress on your behalf. I must admit I am not that keen on forking out more money, changing business processes, and then for another script development to grind to a halt. I would never trust an automated service to install WordPress packages for me. There are a few cropping up again, there have been a few in the past, but why reveal all your niche sites to a 3rd party hiding behind a website, even if you trusted them to do the installation, and have access to your server. WordPress Packages If you are not too reliant on 10s of plugins, you can get by just creating WordPress packages. Include a set of standard plugins and themes that you have tweaked, upload, switch on the plugins, and configure them to your liking. Or you can create a process, and pay someone else to do it for you. SEO Optimized WordPress Package Jeff Johnson has just released a special package for WordPress SEO The installation is painless Setup your database as always Edit your config as always Upload Enter your blog name and email address Log in Select a theme So what is done for you? Permalinks Plugin Activation Plugin settings (though I am not sure how much they differ from default) Ping list Shall we coin a new phrase… the “4 Ps” The themes are also relatively well optimized, so you have H1s where they should be Pretty useful? WordPress SEO Plugins Installed All In One SEO Pack Google XML SiteMaps Sociable (the new official version with nofollow) also Akismet and Simple Captcha Why Was I Going To Slam It? This problem was exasperated by many of the themes Jeff Johnson decided to include in the package, some optimized themes from MyType.com who basically take fairly average WordPress themes, optimized them a little, and then stick 5 spammy links in the footer to various pages on their domain, many seem to be paid client blogs. (disclaimer: MyType.com currently rank first for WordPress SEO and I have a post blocked by robots.txt ranking on the same page - it is not exactly a competitive search term, doesn’t bring much traffic, but it probably takes 100s of spammy theme links to rank for it now) In addition Jeff had included a few links on the default blogroll, and a badge in the sidebar. When you added up the total number of external links per page, and it came to 14 without the WordPress default links etc, it couldn’t really be looked at as a good recommendation for SEO, especially if people download it who are less experienced. So I emailed Jeff, and within a few hours I had a reply that it was going to be fixed. I think I may have been the only one who was concerned. It Is Not Perfect I don’t like some of the sites on the pinglist they use - lots of .jp sites - my personal pinglist for “quality” blogs consists of just one site, Feedburner, and I let them handle the pings to other places. sidenote: I keep seeing Pingoat listed on ping lists - last time I checked Pingoat hadn’t been accepting pings for 18 months, maybe that is now closer to 2 years. Web pings only. Maybe John Reese when he purchased the site switched that function back on and didn’t tell anyone (such as update the Pingoat blog) - looking at recently updated blogs on Pingoat, it seems like the Poles might be using a script to spam the hell out of it. I would use a different plugin selection, though I am sure the version of WordPress Jeff provides to his clients has a more comprehensive feature set. That being said, you really want to minimise plugin use if you are hosting a lot of blogs on a single server. The themes are better than the originals, though you might want to look for replacements. As they stand, if lots of people use this WordPress version for blog farms and datafeed sites, they have a bit of a heavy footprint. They still have a lot of nofollow links in the footer, plus 2 blogroll links and a banner It Is A Time Saver Even as it stands, for an experienced WordPress users it represents a time saver, and for someone less experienced who has problems with the basic steps of setting up plugins, permalinks etc it is a good resource, especially if the package gets improved over time. Jeff is providing lots of instructional videos on how to install the package, though effectively it is the same as any WP installation. He does recommend using this only for new blogs, though there is a procedure that can be used for existing sites. It Is Free Whilst I started off with some real concerns, what concerns remain can be cured with very simple hacking. I expect this to be well maintained. Thanks Jeff, great value for money - download it here. p.s. I am not sure how long Jeff will have this available. It is just one of many things he is providing free of charge as part of a product launch, and these bonuses tend to disappear from public display once a launch has completed. My advise would be to download it and test it on a few spare domains, tweak it for your own use and feed the blogs you create with some content. Comments About the author: Andy Beard - Niche Marketing - Blog search engine perfomance, Wordpress and general niche and affiliate marketing tips Share This No Comments yet... What do you think? Posted in: The Net | del.icio.us Digg Reddit Netscape StumbleUpon Technorati If you enjoyed this post, then make sure you subscribe to my RSS Feed.

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