|
Greetings All,
Well, I've been receiving a lot of that spam scam mail recently.
Most of it comes from Lagos, Nigeria and they want to buy
my products (even though I sell services) and they want to
pay for it using a credit card. The spam filter catches some
of it but still quite a bit of it comes through.
Also out-of-Africa there are many princesses and other high
government officials and dignitaries who want my personal
help in moving millions of dollars out of their countries.
They don't know me and yet they immediately trust me with
this, so I feel special!
Well, onto other news…
People always amaze me! I recently sent out an article titled
"Reciprocal Link Scams" which is being published
on many sites on the Internet. As is customary, I received
an email from a web design firm (which shall remain nameless)
saying that they are using this article. When I checked out
this article I came to find, they were using one of the link
scams from the article to deny a direct link back to the SEO
Resource website. I've asked them to correct this. We'll see
what happens.
In really other news …
Google is entering into philanthropy by giving free AdWords
campaigns to non-profit organizations. In order to qualify,
an organization has to have a current 501(c)3 status. You
can read more here: Google
Grants
FAST has just rolled out its new Local Search technology
to compete with Google and Yahoo who already have beta's
rolled out and MSN and AskJeeves who are still in development.
Find out more about this article here: Clickz
In addition, check out the article on the SEO Resource website
called, what else, Local
Search.
Overture gets more Google-like in offering broad-matching
in their pay-per-click search terms. This exemplifies a
major change from their exact match program. This move is
expected to gain more revenue from low-volume searches that
are often overlooked. Check out the entire story here: Search
Engine Watch
Microsoft is delaying its WinFS desktop search engine which
was supposed to roll out with its new Longhorn operating
system. The combination desktop / web search functionality
is what Microsoft hopes to use to compete with Google. For
more info: DMNews
Tip of the Day
To see how many pages of a website are listed in Google type
in: inurl:yoursite.com
|
