Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:
Three star links:
- Happy Valentine’s Day, everybody!
- Okay, I apologize for the above link, but I couldn’t help myself. Here are some fun facts about Valentine’s Day to cleanse your palate.
- TechCrunch discusses how FastCompany has rebranded itself as a business social network. Rand and I are especially pleased to see FastCompany’s positive press because they are one of SEOmoz’s clients and he and I worked on their wireframe and tested their site before its relaunch.
- Will Critchlow and gang put together a mobile search quiz over at Distilled. Cast your vote on who you think is most likely to win the mobile search race.
- Not only is Google displaying ads for MySpace spam software (link removed as domain was lost), it’s also allowing them to use Google Checkout. For shame, Google. For shame. As penance, I sentence you to slap the monkey in the banner ad no fewer than 30 times.
- Apparently the Internet helps Americans save more energy every year. If we could power the world’s energy from lolcatz, we would solve the planet’s energy crisis in about 72 hours. I can has hybrid car?
- The Scientific American asks if all companies have to be evil and cites Google as an example of a corporation trying to do good. I read bits of the article but didn’t get through the whole thing because (and this could just be me) when I open up an article online and see an endless sea of blocks of text, my eyes glaze over and I go into “skim” mode. How sad. The Internet has ruined my reading ability.
- Problogger brings us some handy tips on how to write StumbleUpon-friendly posts. It’s pretty intuitive stuff, but a handy guide nonetheless.
- At Search Engine Journal Rhea Drysdale asks if SEO is becoming less open and transparent as it once was. Her post sparks an interesting discussion in the comments.
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YOUmoz entries:
Best of YOUmoz:
- Esteban Panzera’s 11 Tips for Appearing at Google Definitions is a very handy step by step on how to get your website to appear as a result for a “define: ” search at Google; so handy, in fact, that I promoted his post to the main blog. Well done, Esteban! As for the rest of you, be sure to follow these tips and in no time you can rank for terms like this!
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- Text Link Brokers in Phoenix, AZ
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- Nakul Goyal is a happily employed individual who “lives and breathes” SEO. Good for him!
