The Google Inside Search blog post from April 3rd turned the SEO world upside-down. Although Google has been telling us about changes they’ve made to the algorithm for a few months now, this one was particularly interesting. Many have already speculated about how the Google algorithm might have changed regarding anchor text, I haven’t heard much discussion about another significant change they mentioned: page freshness.
Are you looking to find Charlotte, SC? Keep looking because Charlotte is actually in North Carolina.
I understand the confusion- many people haven’t been to this part of the country and might make this mistake. Even those who might have been here could get confused because Charlotte sits right north of the border with South Carolina. Besides- aren’t both those red-neck states the same anyway? (I dare you to say that to anyone from either of these states!)
Don’t worry- you’re not the only one who makes this mistake. A lot of people mistakenly search for Charlotte, South Carolina. We know this because Google tells us so.
A few weeks ago, Twitter removed the RSS/Atom feeds from their search pages. Annoying.
That doesn’t mean you can get the RSS feeds any longer- it’s just a little more manual.
As a professional SEO I know how important links are to achieving rankings from Google. As such, I know the temptation to find a link in any place you can in order to achieve your desired SEO results. For some people, this means trying to build links through blog commenting. For others it means using automated software to build a massive quantity of blog comments with the hopes that some of them will give their webpage authority in Google’s eyes.
I recently read a couple articles about this Twitter app that the Taliban, and presumably other organizations, are using to support their terrorist agendas. Apparently this app allows people to bypass the publicly facing Twitter content and send content over the more private DM system. In turn these terrorists get their DMs sent to them by text message to the front lines in rural Afghanistan.
Horrible!
Unfortunately the app in question is one I wrote and continue to manage- FeedTwit.
The new delicious is finally up. Not all that much different but I am excited because I use it every day.
One of the features I use every day is the RSS. When I heard delicious had enabled RSS feeds today, I went to the site right-away to set them up. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find them anywhere.
After going through my archives I have been able to reconstruct them. Here’s the format they are currently using:
http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/username/tag
http://www.delicious.com/v2/rss/username/tag
username – your delicious username, without the brackets
If you come to the SEMCLT meeting next Thursday, September 1st, you can hear me opine verbosely about social media and search.
My goal is to try to bring some rationality to this discussion. I’ll talk about good methodology to determine whether or not social affects search and what we definitely know about the relationship between the two. I want to bring some clarity to this discussion so we don’t jump to conclusions but instead work with what we really know.
You might also learn why on earth I would title this blog post with such unusual verbage.
The other day Twitter killed my Twitter app.
This isn’t a post written by someone who is bitter and angry. It is from someone who loves Twitter and really enjoys developing with the Twitter API. As a Twitter fan-boy I also want to see Twitter continue to grow and advance. The problem is that I have notice a trend- Twitter taking ideas from independent developers and integrating them into their own service, rendering our apps obsolete.
Help me out with a couple comments (or even a Re-Tweet) and you might just get a little reward!
Recently FeedTwit, my Twitter app that sends users Twitter RSS feeds by direct messages has started offering Groupon deals to my users. Why?
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