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Automotive Search

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Automotive search is a dog-eat-muffler world with many dealerships having presence on many sites.

Disasters & Google

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

How long until Google Maps ceases attempting to route people via the I35-W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis?

Political Search

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Rolling into the three-decade long primary race, we have studies evaluating the search effectiveness of various US presidential candidates already.
One limiter of the study is that it seems to focus purely on PPC spend. I find some of what various candidates are doing from an organic perspective to be far more interesting. They’re all on [...]

Google to Build Data Center in Council Bluffs

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Google is building a data center in Council Bluffs.
My mind boggles, given that I went to U of Iowa and had many friends at Iowa State as well. This puts some knowledge-based jobs in Iowa, but leaves them with several issues:

Everyone wants out of Iowa when they’re done being educated.
Council Bluffs is really really a [...]

Dealing with Penalties

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Rand over at SEOMoz did a great job of putting together a flow-chart of dealing with Google penalties the other day.
He was more polite about one topic than I often want to be relative to a site owner claiming penalty: He refers to the alternative as losing rank to competitors. In many cases, the unvarnished [...]

Oh, Spam, How I Love Thee

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

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 [...]

Website Magazine Gets it Wrong

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

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 [...]

Why Must We Live in Vermin Dreams?

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

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 [...]

Certification is Tiring

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

I give you David Temple, lord of the SEO/SEM Certification Blog, studying hard for his Google AdWords exam:

SEOing is hard. Good thing he’s a professional.

Commercial Mash-Ups

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Musical mash-ups were all the rage for a while, but mentally, I often like doing commercial mash-ups. Sometimes, current ad campaigns just scream for it.
Take, for example, current advertising for OnStar and warning against crystal meth use:

OnStar: Ads depict real calls from OnStar users. Bad things happen to them or near them, and they are [...]

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