We're rolling out with some new blog theme days at SEOmoz. As Jane mentioned yesterday, Wednesdays will now feature a social media post, and the rest of the week is as follows:
  • Legal Mondays (courtesy of Sarah Bird, Esquire and Polly Pocket Litigator)
  • SEM Tuesdays (we'll do our best to discuss PPC, conversions, landing pages, and the like)
  • Social Wednesdays
  • Recap Thursdays
  • Whiteboard Fridays
This being Thursday, I thought I'd unveil our first official Recap Thursday post (we've sporadically done some in the past, but now it'll be a regular feature) and link out to interesting stories, news, and other tidbits that popped up throughout the week:
  • First Frank Watson complained about his less than stellar experience at the Wynn, and now Scott Orth chronicles his bad experience at the Wynn in Las Vegas. You'd think that five stinkin' diamonds will get you more courtesy, cleaner rooms, and prompt service, not automatic mini-bar charges, ridiculous gym access fees, and subpar cleaning service.
  • GSINC has a poll where you can vote for who you think were the top 5 people of search in 2007. You can pick from a list of 40 individuals (including our very own Rand Fishkin), and the person who receives the most votes will have $500 donated to his or her charity of choice.
  • Earlier this week on Search Engine Land, Vanessa Fox wrote an informative and thorough post about how changes to the way Google handles subdomains impact SEO. She does a great job of explaining the difference between main domains and subdomains, and when to utilize which.
  • This blog post compares Facebook to a night club, and building a Facebook application is akin to building a sound system you can never take out of the club. It's an interesting read about the smartest way to leverage your applications.
  • Rand chats with Matt Foster, president of Arteworks SEO, about Google's paid links policy. Check out the video of their discussion (and also to see Rand's "listening intently" face).
  • It's like Hot or Not for websites! Subjectively pick which website you like better and see how your rating matches up with everyone else's. Rand pointed out that "It's a great way to prove to bosses obsessed with look and feel that those things matter, but only in a qualitative way and not in an 'what you like is what everyone else will like' sort of way."
  • Via cNet, a study found that 95% of all email sent in 2007 was spam. Rand's comment: "And what percent of all websites with Adsense on them are spam?"
  • More Facebook stuff coming your way: Freezing Hot brings you some nifty Facebook stats (is it me, or does the first graph look like a middle finger?). 18-24 year olds dominate the site, with 25% of all users currently being enrolled in college. Females, liberals, and single people use it more, too.
  • Skelliewag tells us why traffic, your subscriber count, and money don't matter. There goes SEOmoz's business plan...I guess from here on out we'll only feature pictures of dogs hugging babies.
As always, discussion of these stories (and of any other stories you'd like to share) is warmly encouraged. Be sure to tune in to next week's Roundup Thursday post, when we'll unveil a neat and not-at-all nerdy rating system of what we think are the week's coolest (and lamest) stories! We're redefining roundups, baby!