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An Interview on SEOBook

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:32:44 +0000

Posted by randfish Just a short post tonight. First, off, I’m honored to be interviewed by Aaron Wall . We’ve had our differences and maintain some divergent opinions on a few topics, but we both have an insane passion for helping make SEO professionals better at their job and work hard to grow the credibility of SEO as a whole

An Interview on SEOBook

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:32:44 +0000

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Yahoo Users Can Now Sign Up for Google Accounts With the Ease of OpenID

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:15:03 +0000

Yahoo users will now find it much easier to sign up for a Google account then before with the implementation of OpenID . With OpenID users can log in to multiple websites using just one existing account. It is an open, decentralized standard in which users can be authenticated to gain access to things like their various social media accounts with just one name.

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Google TV Coming to a Console Near You This Fall

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:44:34 +0000

Adding another Apple-fighting feature to it’s roster, Google will be launching its web-to-TV service this fall in the U.S. and worldwide next year. CEO Eric Schmidt announced at the IFA consumer electronics trade fair in Berlin, that the service will allow users the ability of full Internet browsing on their television sets and that Google will be working with content providers, though they doubt they will get any actual content from them

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Google’s Music Service to be Launched by Christmas? It Sure Seems Like It

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:17:25 +0000

According to sources very close to the project ( as reported by Wired ), Google’s Andy Rubin has been in talks with various music labels about a music service that the search giant has been trying to launch. Now, according to these sources, we may get said service by Christmas. Google continues to build weapons for it’s arsenal in the war it is seemingly waging against Apple.

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Google Dots Doodle Causes Frenzy

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:26:15 +0000

Today’s Google doodle is making more than a few people pretty upset with the search engine.

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Information Architecture – Stop Shooting For The Moon

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:40:29 +0000

Our industry is chock full of advise about how the best approach is to go for phrases that aren’t necessarily the most competitive – to go for the lower hanging fruit. Concepts in this area usually emphasize the notion that if you have to choose between two phrases that you’ll optimize for, if you go for the one that has less actual search volume and less competition you’ll be doing your client justice, and you’ll make your job easier. This way of thinking I put in the “if you shoot for the moon and fall short, you’ll end up among the stars” mentality. Which is actually an extremely inaccurate notion, and in the long haul, will do more harm than good. Instead, I say “Shoot for the farthest galaxy away – and if you fall short, you really will end up among the stars.” The Shoot for the Moon Fallacy Okay so let’s take that saying. It may be, on the surface, that this saying gives a lot of people great hope. Hope that if they reach way beyond earth-bound goals, even if you come up short, you’ll still end up way beyond. Except it’s bogus. It’s a hollow motivation. Because even if you make it to the moon, (let alone fall short), you’re still going to be 150 MILLION KILOMETERS short of even OUR Star, the Sun.

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Content and Culture: Localization for Global Businesses

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:00:11 +0000

Okay, so you’ve decided to launch fully localized, multilingual versions of your company’s website – that’s great news. And you’ve even painstakingly researched all the correct keywords to properly optimize each website for its target audience – even better. The key thing to remember with any website is that it should be regularly updated with fresh content and, ultimately, it should be current

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Labor Day = Yeah

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:20:44 +0000

When you think of labor day what comes to mind? For me it is these 2 thoughts lower earnings because few people are online today since almost nobody is online, any hours worked today are me getting ahead of the market Working hard & working long hours can almost be a disease…the web makes it easy to be addicted

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Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Google’s Rankings are Remarkably Well Correlated

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:42:18 +0000

Posted by randfish Last week at our annual mozinar, Ben Hendrickson gave a talk on a unique methodology for improving SEO. The reception was overwhelming – I’ve never previously been part of a professional event where thunderous applause broke out not once but multiple times in the midst of a speaker’s remarks. _ Ben Hendrickson speaking in last Fall at the Distilled/SEOmoz PRO Training London (he’ll be returning this year) _ I doubt I can recreate the energy and excitement of the 320-person filled room that day, but my goal in this post is to help explain the concepts of topic modeling, vector space models as they relate to information retrieval and the work we’ve done on LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation)

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Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Google’s Rankings are Remarkably Well Correlated