Archive Mar 5, 2006
Meet Joe Spammer – Confessions of a Search Marketer
Search Engine Strategies might be the only conference I attend where spammers achieve a sort of punk rockstar status. This isn’t the typical blast a million messages out through an email account kind of spam that a monkey could do, search engine spamming seems to be a black art requiring constant study of how the [...]
Podcasting OnHold
At the Podcast Hotel (a wonderful event put on by a wonderful guy), I learned that Seattle's goverment was getting into rebroadcasting local artists through “on hold” sessions for public utility callers. Took me forever and a freakin' day to unearth the page with all the proper information on it. Sure enough, they're calling it [...]
Matt Cutts of Google on Search Engine Spam
We’ve all done it at least once. You search for something on Google and end up clicking on a result that lands you on a page of gibberish, loaded with pop-ups and tons of links off to affiliate programs. Matt Cutts is part of the Google team tasked with keeping this stuff out of the [...]
Googlefasting: Day 10
Continued from Day 1, Day 1.5, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9… Busy for most of the day running errands. Hence, my primary search experiences were through my mobile phone. Gada.be really shines here. Used Gada.be to look for Olive Garden pasta fagioli recipes, as [...]
Cell Phone Virgin
Matt emailed me about a new service that Russ Beattie apparently featured the other day (I don't read Russ much anymore for numerous aforementioned reasons). Check out Virgin Radio on your Series 60 or Symbian UIQ phones. Kinda nifty, although I'm still not using a Nokia device regularly enough to find this any more useful [...]
