Learning SEO Basics

In response to Lyndon’s post…

“If producing highly successful linkbait requires nothing more than fabricating a salacious news story, then online marketing presents a serious danger to the integrity of online news. It is no secret that news outlets trawl the net looking for interesting tit-bits for their readers. It is also true that they should at least attempt to check the facts before publication. But does the truth that many websites don’t adequately check small stories exempt an online marketer from responsibility in producing fabricated news?”

I am sorry to say that I am having second thoughts about maintaining this blog.

I have met a lot of people that I respect but I just can’t see spending everyday of my life associating with the constant greed and lack of priorities that is so prominent within the marketing communities I’ve been affiliated with.

“It seems that plans are in the works for a slimmed down, condensed version of the German Wikipedia to be made into a printed encyclopedia book and it will be sold in bookstores for 20 Euros ($32). As many people have said, it’s “reverse publishing”. I say it’s a bit of a scam on the part of the German publisher Bertelsmann.”

Read more The German Wikipedia: Rip-Off Incorporated

**note: There is more than just Sphinn commentary in this post. The commentary is lengthy, but relevant to the conclusion. Although, I DO address Eli’s post towards the end, if you’d like to breeze past the Sphinn stuff**

There’s been some sensitive discussion in Sphinn commentary that followed my post yesterday.

This is the post by Eli Feldblum that initially made me check out who Sphunn the crapola. hmmmm.

What is a sock puppet?

update: Sphinn has deleted the sock puppets in question.

(Sphinn commentary going on here.)

Update #2: evilgreenmonkey has seen fit to also delete the Sphinn post, but I have saved all of the commentary that took place, with the exception of maybe the last 4 comments. I will post in further detail hopefully in the morning. (13th)

Right now I’m hungry and need foooood.

Someone is trying to trademark the term “SEO”!

“He has passed preliminary review and is now in a waiting period set aside for anybody to register their objections with the Trademark Office.”

If this happens, what would we call ourselves?

Nick, of Essence SEO thinks it should we should call ourselves “Discovery Portal Tuners”

What would you call us?

It looks like Yahoo! is standing their ground.

They promptly responded to Microsoft’s aggression..

“[W]e have continued to make clear that we are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft if it is in the best interests of our stockholders. Our position is simply that any transaction must be at a value that fully reflects the value of Yahoo!, including any strategic benefits to Microsoft, and on terms that provide certainty to our stockholders .”

I’ve just read “Microsoft Gets Tired of Waiting” by Kevin Newcome (Search Engine Watch)

Micrsosoft is tired of twiddling their thumbs while Yahoo! bakes cookies.

As of Saturday, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) took a more aggressive approach in persuading Yahoo’s submission.

Yahoo! has 19 days left (April 26th 08) to cooperate with the program or feel the wrath of a hostile take-over.

Steve:

Just fyi..

There’s is thieving going on in Entrecard.

I received Entrecard mail from Layne (Reward Rebel).

Entrecard ProfileThe Good Guy

It seems someone else is using my widget image as his own. Layne had written to this guy to pull him up about it before writing to me.

I wrote to him about it as well. When I didn’t get a response, I reported it to Entrecard Admin. No response from them yet either. Maybe because it’s the weekend. fingers crossed.

This is a follow up to yesterdays post “Are You The Underdog in Sphinn? Where’s YOUR Vote?“.

There have been many responses and varied opinions. So I thought I’d address them one by one by way of a part 2 post.