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Oh, Spam, How I Love Thee

Attached to an image touting the standard array of designer pharmeceuticals, I give you today’s assortment of weird text snippets, suitable for reading at a poetry slam or even your next SEO pitch:

I think highly focused ads are the answer.
The benefits of local search are clear: it allows you to find customers in your area [...]

June 12th, 2007 | Category: advertising, dumb techniques, e-mail, google, local search, spam, zrong | Comments are closed

Website Magazine Gets it Wrong

While traveling to Sea-Tac Airport today with the wonderful Ms. Christy Arneson-Jones, I started reading my free copy of Website Magazine. In their feature, “Five Steps to Outsourcing Search Marketing,” they recommend educating oneself. They included a handy quick quiz to determine what one might know right now.

Question #2 prompted a snort of derision from [...]

June 7th, 2007 | Category: SEO, domains, education, google, rant, zrong | 2 comments

Why Must We Live in Vermin Dreams?

Vermin

Originally uploaded by Days Between Stations

This photo is actually graffiti on Amsterdam’s Prinsengracht, but it applies so equally well to SEO I had to post it here as well.

Chasing algorithms is a vermin dream. Over and over, we all say that SEO is more than [...]

June 5th, 2007 | Category: zrong | Comments are closed

Concerns with Google Earth

The latest round of privacy (and other) concerns of various types are now hitting Google Earth:

Salon discusses how the alleged plot against JFK airport was being plotted with the images on Google Earth.
CNN discusses the ick factor of finding nosepickers in action on Google Earth imagery.

The first isn’t truly a privacy concern, but it crosses [...]

June 5th, 2007 | Category: data collection, google, local search, privacy, search engine features, tinfoil hats, web 2.0 | Comments are closed

Out at SMX

I’m at SMX in Seattle this week, experiencing the magic of the Seattle weather and the oddities of my laptop’s battery. A few things I will expound on during my free time later:

why this conference’s food is currently winning the ‘conference prize’ for the recent past, excepting that of the MIMA Summit
Supplemental index

Duplicate content
Kneeling down [...]

June 4th, 2007 | Category: :), SEM, SEO, cats, conferences, databases, day job, domains, education, google, link building, link-bait, local search, marketing, robots.txt, search engine features, search results, social media, spam, tinfoil hats, vacation | Comments are closed
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