23 August 2002

Yahoo is getting into web consulting. This is not a positive development for the independent seo industry. Check out Webmasterworld for the discussion.

The hotel industry gets it's own search engine. We suspect we'll see more and more industry specific search engines now that the pay-per-click search model has proved so (financially) successful.

Mainstream media is weeks behind the independent news sources. Most blogs ran this story weeks ago.

Our spell checker suggests the correction "bloats" for the term "blogs". We think that's funny.

Uber designer, Jeffrey Zeldman, provides a succinct lesson in how to sell web standards. Show, don't sell.

And finally today, dog door confusion.

22 August 2002

It's that time of month again where Webmasters everywhere chew their fingers to the bone. The August Google update.

Independence of search engines questioned. More on the editorial purity of search engine results.

Haha.

And finally today, News flash: News Corp have declared the internet a "moral free zone", rife with pornography and spam. They went on to say (there is an)"enormous amount of worthless content online". So the online media world is just like the offline media world then.

21 August 2002

One newsletter that every search engine marketer should be on is this one: http://fantomaster.com/fasmbase0.html. A regular goldmine of information you just don't seem to find anywhere else (No, this is not an ad!)

From that newsletter, the undemocratic nature of Google's PageRank. The lifetime cookie question is also interesting.

PageRank for sale? It was only a matter of time. Check out the discussion at Webmasterworld.

FAST to co-develop wireless search services.

Using search engine marketing to improve on ROI.

And finally today from the world of smoke, mirrors and fancy scooters. The Segway may not be Ginger at all.

20 August 2002

How to build link campaigns. Paynt at Webmasterworld provides some useful tips for researching and conducting a link campaign.

Search engines work to clean up their act. More on the FTC recommendations.

Google brings flashes of appreciation.

Big media continues it's "exploration" of blogs. Best line: "In the future, everyone will be famous to 15 people on the Web"

And finally today, the Affirmation Bullshit Generator
for Sensitive New Age Guys

19 August 2002

Search engine marketing conference kicks off in Amsterdam on September 23rd. Key speakers include search marketing master, Ralph Tegtmeier, author Mike Grehan and PPC expert, Ammon Johns. If the line-up and agenda is anything to go by this should be the conference of the year.

How to win the war against spam

Webmasterworld examines the search engines that still read meta tags.

OpenCola release a beta of their P2P search engine. Will P2P become the future of search?

Netscape 4.8 upgrade released. Huh?

And finally today, investors closely examine the signatories on SEC filings.

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