Posted by randfish
I wasn’t planning to do a recap this week, but there’s too much good material and important stuff to let it slide. Apologies for the brief format:
- Mike Blumenthal has a fascinating, at times antagonistic and completely enthralling publication of an IM conversation with former Marine and current CEO of YourTechPros, Gabriel Howard about some very effective spamming that took place on Google Maps (for the record, we are NOT the Seattle SEO company he anonymously mentions).
- Yay! Dashes = underscores = term separation in URLs at all three major search engines.
- There are no more labels of supplemental results (that does NOT mean there are no more "supplemental" results - read Danny’s piece carefully). Good discussion on this from Mike Grehan & the Bruce Clay crowd and a great comment from Michael Martinez at SEL:
Google needs to be fair about this. Just because a page doesn’t have many inbound links is no reason to prevent it from having an equal opportunity to score well for relevance.
- This business blogging toolset is pretty darn comprehensive and something I’ll probably be referencing for blogging stuff in the future. Nice work, Bootstrapper (even if it is on a business credit card site) - love the linkbait strategy
- Check out Amazon’s product search results getting spammed… Is vertical black hat the new black?
- Robin Liss makes the 30 under 30 list at Inc magazine - congrats, Robin. Hopefully you’re not too cool to hang out with us at SES San Jose this year If you look at the full list, you’ll see a remarkable number of Internet-based businesses who are successful thanks, in part at least, to good web & search marketing. No surprise, but very cool stuff.
As always, please add your important news items in the comments below.
