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GeoCities died yesterday. This has led to mass mockery of old-school GeoCities pages. Others have some sympathy: Put yourself back in 1996. Imagine you’ve just pitched your tent online, and you’ve been given a blank page and 15 megabytes to tell the world about yourself. Think about how intoxicating it must have been to be able [...] The Minneapolis Star-Tribune today reports that the city of North Oaks, Minnesota, has requested that all street-level images of their community be removed from Google Maps. Google says that no community has ever issued such a blanket request. This doesn’t surprise me – North Oaks, sometimes known as the ‘Forbidden City,’ is somewhat unique. [...] Google Maps quickly accomodated changes in transportation infrastructure after a widely-publicized bridge collapse in Minneapolis. People persist in believing submissions are necessary for the top 4 search engines. If you’re out registering a dot-com domain, and an available domain seems too good to be true here in 2007, go see if it has any residual inbound links (use Yahoo!) or a history over at archive.org. If you get a really coherent domain name, chances are it’s been used before. Now, sometimes you’ll be fine. [...] I think any reasonably competent SEO has the good sense on how to tell if a directory is ‘good’ or ‘eh.’ Unfortunately, many of our clients, let alone non-clients who think they can’t afford SEO advice, don’t have the well-honed sense of smell. Nor should they be expected to — one of the advantages for a [...] One of the interesting things to watch over the coming year will be what happens to a fairly common SEO business model, that of the ‘guaranteed top rankings!!!!’ With Google’s move to Universal Search and personalization, and the various manuevers of Yahoo, it’s hard to say where the people who promise rankings will land. It’s certain [...] |
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