As always, there's all sorts of good stuff in the search world this week:
- Best response to the Wall Street Journal's odd article on site moves goes to... Lisa Barone - who goes to great depths to really explain the issue.
- Hey, look at Google, getting involved with German webmasters just before SES Munich. Very nice touch.
- ComputerWorld magazine did an interesting piece on Google's "secret sauce" that featured SEOmoz in a roundabout way. Since ComputerWorld forces an interstitial and breaks up the content, I've linked to the far friendlier article at MacWorld.
- While I really enjoyed the blogger face off between ProBlogger & ShoeMoney, something about the one between Lee & I just isn't as compelling - can't quite put my finger on it.
- Wow... The Ask team is right, their new map drawing functionality is amazing.
- Google, you're making a big fan out of me with this privacy protection announcement (swoon)
- Man, Brett Tabke's blogged more in the last 10 days than the previous 10 months; very interesting material, too.
- Why is Reddit my favorite social site? Because... it linked to this on home investments, this on rental cars, this on homework, and this on this on how Marty McFly & Doc Brown were totally right.
- Tool of the week? Article Checker - similar to Copyscape, but you can pre-check text (a very nice feature).
Anything you'd like to share?
Well Rand, I must agree with you about the face-off between you and Lee. Celebrity SEO Deathmatch with little puppets of you and Lee battling center stage would have made for a FAR more interesting post!
A Sugarae vs. Rebecca matchup anyone? Anyone?
I'll give a vote for the SEO Deathmatch. Will make for some good linkbait too. It could even have a white hat vs. black hat theme.
No way, man! She'd eat my eyes!
Rand, regardless of the fact that you think the face-off between you and Lee were not that compelling, I thought that it highlighted something of your personal character but also about you as a business person.
Perhaps people who know you better can respond to this, but I enjoyed your reply in the last question that was asked: “What is the secret of your success, expressed in one word?”
Your response was : Openness...
One can follow many basic business principles and achieve success but I am convinced that if you run any business on the principle of openness or honesty, you’ll go very far and you will always have people (clients) come back for more.
You don't have to answer, but If I may ask an open question (perhaps to see what responses may come from your readers). Is this who you are and do you run your business as a "open book" for every one to see ?
Manta - We're definitely one of the most open book companies in the sphere. If you read through past blog entries, you'll see that we share as much as we can (and often way too much). Our financials are probably a good example of that.
Rand, I have to commend you and at the same time hate your guts - I have not yet had the courage to reveal such info on my site, but I may just surprise myself.
cool, rand. thanks for the link to the article checker. i could've used that last week when i submitted what i thought was an original article taken from a clients monthly newsletter to ezines and got my account suspended due to a duplicate content issue. i guess i'm going to have to run all the articles i get from clients through the article checker from now on.
What's happened is that time has sped up for you and slowed for me.
Thanks bunches
*rolls eyes*
The Ask.com mapping is really cool.. but for some reason it's very slow. Especially compared to Google maps. Is it because I'm Canadian? Always discriminating against the Canadians!
I too was pretty impressed by Ask.com's maps. I think if they keep this type of stuff up, they could really challenge MSN and Yahoo. However, that is probably several years away.
I had a pretty good inkling that DMOZ was still not working right and Eric Ward confirmed it for me the other day in a comment he left on SearchEngineLand.com
So you may think your submission to DMOZ was accepted, but an editor will never see it....sigh
Rand, I find that this face-off is one of the most informative so far. The questions I asked about SEO stuff are always on the top of people's heads, and I got positive feedback already.
Also you are winning the voting now, so in the future we might be able to match you with Darren or Jeremy! It will be the SEO expert versus the Problogger or the Affiliate Marketer! (that if Lee does not make a comeback hehe).
I just checked out Ask.com's maps. Dude, that totally rocks. That is so much better than the IP tracking that Google's been using.
-Clif
"How is it Already Thursday? Is Time Accelerating?"
No, but you're getting old. :)
Seriously, I had just read in one of my management textbooks that as people get older, they feel the passage of time more acutely. This continues to accellerate until they hit about 70-80, when time seems to slow down again. I can't recall what the study was, or what they identified as the source of the phenomenon, but I wonder if it has something to do with having a regular routine.
Anyway, hadn't been around much, and thought I'd take advantage of your silly headline to drop some knowledge on your asses. :)
It's actually pretty easy to explain. When you're one day old the next day will naturally feel like 100% of your life. After a year a day is 1/365th of your life. I don't want to do the math beyond that, but I think you get the idea.
Rand I've got bad news for you. It does't get any better. The days are only going to feel shorter and shorter and the weeks, months, and years start passing a lot faster.
I'm still pretty sure it's only 2003 given how fast the time has passed since. Feels like it anyway.