SEM News and Free SEO Search Tool Website » seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com Know It All Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:21:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 SEO ROI Blog Will Be Back Around The 20th – Gab http://seoroi.com/?p=282 http://seoroi.com/?p=282#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:30:13 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/seo-roi-blog-will-be-back-around-the-20th-gab/ I just got turned down for an extension on a paper that I had hoped to extend from the 15th of December to the 25th. My prof was good for it, but apparently faculty policy is no extensions except for medical reasons. Meaning I need to bust my chops to get this done…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=282/feed/ 0 Guy Kawasaki’s Reality Check Review: A Great Buy http://seoroi.com/?p=281 http://seoroi.com/?p=281#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:00:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/guy-kawasaki%e2%80%99s-reality-check-review-a-great-buy/ My first impression of Guy Kawasaki was that he was a genius writing brilliant blog posts. My second impression of Guy Kawasaki was that he was an arrogant prick. Turns out I was right on both counts, as Guy’s new book, Reality Check, proves…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=281/feed/ 0 What Can I Do For You, Commentators? http://seoroi.com/?p=277 http://seoroi.com/?p=277#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:28:54 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/what-can-i-do-for-you-commentators/ The video with my thoughts and questions is after the jump. Please give me some feedback on this – what can I do for you guys?

A few notes on the video:

First, I’m being facetious when I say I’m interested in comments on my blog only. Don’t take the poker face too seriously. It’s a [meagre] bit of self-deprecating, ironic humor…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=277/feed/ 0 Which of These Link Buying Brand Names Is The Best? http://seoroi.com/?p=278 http://seoroi.com/?p=278#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:28:54 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/which-of-these-link-buying-brand-names-is-the-best/ Which of these link buying brand names is the best?

Paid Links FTW

I Heart Paid Links

Link Buyr

T3h Evil Link Buyer

Art of Link Buying

Art of Paid Links

Artful Paid Links

Artful Link Buyer

pollcode…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=278/feed/ 0 Spamming With Chutzpah: Michigan’s Trademark Productions’ Rob Aimclear http://seoroi.com/?p=260 http://seoroi.com/?p=260#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:10 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/spamming-with-chutzpah-michigan%e2%80%99s-trademark-productions%e2%80%99-rob-aimclear/ Trademark Productions steal other people’s content, edit it for the sake of passing through search engine duplicate content filters, and try to pass themselves off as experts you should trust? They’re stealing from Aimclear, Clickz and others. See the Sphinn thread I just linked to for more info…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=260/feed/ 0 NYT: Google Algo Is Neutral, Not Commercially Biased, Cute, Huggable and Furry http://seoroi.com/?p=273 http://seoroi.com/?p=273#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/nyt-google-algo-is-neutral-not-commercially-biased-cute-huggable-and-furry/ The NYTimes’ recent bit on the Borgle’s censorship included the following entertaining excerpt:

“In the future, Wu [some scholar, formerly of Google] said, it might slant its search results to favor its own media applications or to bury its competitors…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=273/feed/ 0 OMG More Links! – The Marios Alexandrou Edition http://seoroi.com/?p=271 http://seoroi.com/?p=271#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/omg-more-links-the-marios-alexandrou-edition/ Since the first time he impressed me with his SEO experiments, Marios Alexandrou of All Things SEM has consistently been one of the people whose blogging I most respect for being original and intelligent…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=271/feed/ 0 Link Buying Services – Free :) http://seoroi.com/?p=269 http://seoroi.com/?p=269#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/link-buying-services-free/ While I’ve been doing online marketing for a while now, I’ve had little to do with the link buying aspects of link building so far. That isn’t to say I haven’t read about it or even shared some new ideas on disguising text link ads … but my clients to date and my own sites have been able to rank using Google-approved tactics…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=269/feed/ 0 Jim Quits Buying Links … But Why Now? http://seoroi.com/?p=268 http://seoroi.com/?p=268#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/jim-quits-buying-links-%e2%80%a6-but-why-now/ Jim’s thinking on buying links can’t be that far different from Aaron Wall’s or Greg Boser’s or Todd Malicoat’s thinking, imho. They’re all part of the Vet SEO independent webmaster school of thought. And if you have done any reading at all on search, you’d know that Aaron, Greg, Todd and others encourage big brands to buy text links to rank higher…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=268/feed/ 0 Awesome Links in G Major http://seoroi.com/?p=266 http://seoroi.com/?p=266#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/awesome-links-in-g-major/ More on Trust Agents – This great post by fellow Montrealer Julien Smith is quite related to my ideas on social media analytics – I strongly encourage you to read it! Julien’s also got an intro on social capital which I’m hoping to listen to soon, but which I’m linking to now because the Trust Agents post impressed me so much…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=266/feed/ 0 Am I A Shy Communicator? http://seoroi.com/?p=263 http://seoroi.com/?p=263#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/am-i-a-shy-communicator/ Angelo Racoma wrote an excellent piece at Performancing on how the web affects our social skills in the offline world. His point is that it makes us shy to meet people face to face and kind of lazy about actually communicating with folks…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=263/feed/ 0 PJN Leaves Affiliates Hanging: Go Direct http://seoroi.com/?p=239 http://seoroi.com/?p=239#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/pjn-leaves-affiliates-hanging-go-direct/ Pepperjam Network, you’re really, really useless. I have proof that you’re stealing commissions from affiliates and not paying them for all the sales they generate. I have proof that when a merchant’s tracking screws up, you do nothing to solve the issue for affiliates, let alone pay them what they are rightly due while you handle the merchant…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=239/feed/ 0 Why Click Tracking Sucks For Tracking RSS Subscribers http://seoroi.com/?p=262 http://seoroi.com/?p=262#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/why-click-tracking-sucks-for-tracking-rss-subscribers/ Some of you might have noticed I set up my clicktracking script to track clicks on feeds. If you click a link to get my rss feed, for instance, then a little statcounter tells me someone [anonymous] out there clicked the link to subscribe to my blog. Yay! Thanks :) . From a business perspective though, this solution is way less-than-optimal…

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]]> http://seoroi.com/?p=262/feed/ 0 Survey Gizmo Review http://seoroi.com/?p=251 http://seoroi.com/?p=251#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:17:09 +0000 seoroi.com-Gabriel Goldenberg http://www.semnewsdaily.com/misc/survey-gizmo-review/ Survey Gizmo have powered my contact and quote forms for as long as I can remember. Recently, I upgraded to pro and thought I’d share my thoughts with you guys on what I like about their software. Full disclosure – I have dealt with Survey Gizmo, but am getting no money for this nor was I required or even asked to link as part of our business…

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