Warmest Greetings,
:: Friday, December 13, 2002 ::
12 Days of Web Marketing
I just can't thank SageRock enough for writing this and for thinking of such a fantastic, creative way to promote themselves.
12 Days of Web Marketing
Go there now if you want to sing and laugh outloud!
"On the first day of Marketing, SageRock said to me:
Choose objectives for your site
On the second day of Marketing, SageRock said to me:
Do Key Phrase Research and
Choose objectives for your site
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:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 12/13/2002 11:57:27 AM
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Watch What You Say. Google Is Listening.
Inspired by a Fantomaster tip off about Googlism's, I typed in "cre8pc.com" and got the following feedback from Google:
Quote:
Googlism for: cre8pc.com
cre8pc.com is a labor of love
cre8pc.com is also supported by
cre8pc.com is a porn site
cre8pc.com is consistently in the top 10
cre8pc.com is the honest
cre8pc.com is a search engine
cre8pc.com is the only internet promotion website in the us run by a woman who is accessible to her visitors
A PORN SITE?????????????????????????????????? Is a search engine?
I think I know how Google came to the conclusion my site is a porn site. I wrote on this page, About Cre8pc, the following:
"My very first website, in 1995, was called Dancing Thunder's Playground, and everyone thought it was a porn site. It wasn't. It was about building websites, which I had no idea how to do. I was a newly divorced mother of two children who happened to like computers and wanted to build websites so I could support us. "Dancing Thunder " is a name given to me by Internet friends back then when I didn't sign my real name anywhere, but used "Timid Thunder" instead. My ancestry includes Cherokee, Blackfoot and Shawnee, and my Great Grandfather brought his family over from Sweden on a ship in 1912. My friends changed my name to "Dancing Thunder" because they said I'm not timid. What the heck do they know? But, I liked the name."
From this, Google has pulled information out of context. I'm sure no one will complain when a Googlism portrays them or their website in a good light, but what about those whose Googlism is just plain gobblety gook?
Considering the expectations for excellence Google has for SEO's, the least they could do is provide the same from themselves. Taking a bunch of words from pages and making up information about that site is really crude and unacceptable, even if it IS a new Google dog trick to show off their Phd employees.
Googlism
Don't take it literally. Google is not God and Googlisms are not divine commandments. Google is a search engine. Therefore, it, like the rest of us, is not perfect.
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 12/13/2002 07:47:40 AM
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:: Thursday, December 12, 2002 ::
Happy Birthday Mom!
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 12/12/2002 04:03:35 PM
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Google Blitzing
In an effort to appease everyone else other than SEO professionals, who are never satisfied, Google has launched the following new toys to play with:
Froogle
http://froogle.google.com/
Google's beta launch of its product search tool.
Google Launches Catalog Search
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/02/01-catalog.html
Details about Google's other product search service, which allows you to
search through the contents of mail order catalogs from over 5,000
companies.
Google WebQuotes
http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/webquotes
Google WebQuotes annotates the results of your Google search with comments
from other websites.
Google Viewer
http://labs.google.com/gviewer.html
View search results as scrolling web page images.
So sorry I didn't bother to link to them as my Google PageRank score isn't good enough for them and will likely bring down their Rank.
Ha ha
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 12/12/2002 10:27:39 AM
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:: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 ::
Vacation For Your Hands
Do your hands need a break from your keyboard? Google elves have developed a new toy, called Google Viewer, which allows you to sit and watch Google bring back results in a slideshow type format. It even shows you a glimpse of how the page looks just underneath the site description, etc. Kinda cool.
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 12/11/2002 12:24:11 PM
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What's In a Name?
When it comes to SEO, nobody seems to know, or agree. SupportForums.com's Chris Ridings insists he has the answer : SESlow. "There's been a recent spate of people trying to create new terms for the SEO industry or segments of it, none of them helpful. I've decided that the only helpful term would be SESlow," Chris writes. But even his term doesn't do justice to the various skills required to do the job professionally and wisely.
A Cre8asiteForum member was quite interested in the naming of SEO/SEM and started a thread on it here - SEO: Sending Everyone Out to look for a new name. It was born out of discussion seeded in our Does SEO = SPAM topic, which is still going gangbusters. You can jump into it here.
Snippet from my post: "I think they can specialize or promote areas they're skilled in, and those areas are varied. Can be simply submission (including PPC), to working strictly with DHTML pages, to usability oriented input that increases end user satisfaction. I'm not a marketing professional. I have an interest in it, but it's not my strongest skill. My passion is users. Hence, my clients would be getting a perspective focused on search engine results AND user satisfaction.
An SEO house, such as iProspect, can apply a whole team to a website. A client will pay accordingly. A smaller SEO company, or individual, can emphasize certain strengths and approaches and the client can decide what suits their needs. To lump it all under "SEO" or "SEM" is limiting, but it's a homebase and is a term most people recognize."
Today's Blab: Forgot to set the alarm clock...woke up 15 minutes late. While waking my eldest to get ready for school, the phone rang at 6:20am with the news from someone who knows me and my morning daze to say schools were closed due to icy conditions. Went back to bed. Am quite fortunate my office is just downstairs!
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 12/11/2002 10:06:16 AM
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:: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 ::
Group Hug
One of the things myself and the moderators wanted for our new forum was a warm, open door feeling, with no censorship of posts (other than the usual code of email ethics.) Some people have abandoned forums because of their personal experiences with censorship or other indications signaling they're no longer welcome to post. I rarely felt I was *really* welcome in most forums and anything I said was likely thought to be construed as me promoting myself. Since I can barely handle my present workload and, in fact, farm out the entire SEO portion of it, these assumptions about me were incorrect, but I wasn't about to get into a hissy fit about it.
One forum was quite popular and is where many top SEO professionals "met" for the first time. Alliances and long lasting friendships were formed. While the forum supported software, it also became a general search engine optimization "helpdesk" where anyone could ask for help regardless of whether they had purchased the product. I can verify this, as I never used it (I tested it when it was first launched, while an employee for a company interested in doing their own SEO). Even though I was a manual website promoter, I was still welcomed by the forum owners. The respect shown me by MarketPositionTalk was the main reason I returned over and over, for years.
Lately the forum seems to be slowing down, with many people abandoning it to come to my forum, or some of the others, like ihelpuservices.com. Recently I happened upon this thread Where Has Everyone Gone? and was shocked and saddened to learn Cre8asiteForums may be contributing to the demise of one I've enjoyed. I dropped a few words about MarketPositionTalk.com to Cre8asiteForum moderators, some of whom are strong supporters of this long-time forum. A little reunion has occurred I'm happy to say, with much deserved cyber-hugs going to moderator, Susan Goodson.
If you haven't seen it yet, the MarketPositionTalk forum is a friendly place to learn about SEO or ask for help. Sure, they can get into debates there too, but sometimes the best education comes from considering many different views. If you use WebPositionGold, this forum is for you as well, especially if you need help understanding their software. And I still look forward to Brent Winters' newsletters, which are free. (Learn more about the Market Position newsletter here.)
Thanks to Brent, Susan and the 1st Place Software folks, for all they've done for so many people over the years with online support and information on search engines (and for holding up under some bad times too.) It's been appreciated!
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 12/10/2002 09:27:21 AM
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:: Monday, December 09, 2002 ::
Number 9. Number 9. Number 9....
Taking a hint from the Beatles's White Album, Inktomi has launched "Web Search 9".
"With the release of Web Search 9, Inktomi meets or exceeds all other search engines in the key metrics of search performance: relevance, freshness and index size," says Inktomi, on a summary page about the changes at the company's web site."
To which Google responds, "We all live in a Yellow Submarine..."
Bet you don't believe any of this do you. Read more about Ink's ever-changing approach to searches here, In Search Of The Relevancy Figure By Danny Sullivan
:: posted by Kimberly Krause on 12/9/2002 10:28:18 AM
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