Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Other
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Excerpt: This recent article cites that many universities are experiencing a sharp drop in computer science student enrollment. Many attribute it to outsourcing scares and a final acknowledgement that the dot Com bubble did indeed pop. It is no longer totally rad to be a computer scientist. ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: I think paid links are just dandy! In every other advertising venue, reputation is purchased. Branding campaigns are ubiquitous. It does not take long to spot paper advertisements that have no real call to action; rather, they aim to increase a product or brand's "ranking& ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Security
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Excerpt: This recent article mentions that XSS and HTML injection are quickly eclipsing the traditional stack smashing and SQL tainting attacks in popularity. But why? I posit that the reason is simple -- XSS & HTML injection vulnerabilities are frighteningly trivial to find. I will dem ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Viral / Link Bait
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Excerpt: 1. Make People Read Your Boring Crap with a Persuasive TitleA title with a persuasive call to action can make or break your Digg. Pretend you're a Digger. Would you click on your article? I don't care how interesting or boring the content is -- the title is all that matters ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Viral / Link Bait
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Excerpt: Traditional SEO is dead. Gone are the days when we can get to the top by studying keyword densities and trading links. Gone are the days when optimization involves pious devotion to the H1 tag. I'm not saying these things are, or will ever be irrelevant, and I'm certainly n ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Blogging
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Excerpt: So I got Dugg -- but I'm convinced this trivial WordPress Plugin is part of what helped me top the Digg charts for so long. All it does is examine every incoming HTTP_REFERER, and if a Digg URL (of a specific Digg) hits a blog post URL, it assumes that it's a Digg of that post. T ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: This is a compilation of stuff Matt Cutts has said historically, minus some of the more recent stuff here, here, and here. I decided I'd dig backwards and document some of the older stuff. I dated it accordingly. Here it is:1. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Blogging
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Excerpt: This is a terribly simple but useful WordPress plugin that puts an interactive counter-style Reddit interface on your blog -- but only when someone has already bookmarked the URL. It looks rather lame when everything isn't bookmarked, but the JavaScript interface with the arrows is a defin ...
