Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Directories
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Excerpt: I had to write about it eventually. DMOZ is a horribly corrupt, flawed system. Personally, I hope it goes away. With the evaporation in importance of the Yahoo! Directory and the closure of Zeal, the writing on the wall is no longer just writing. It's happening. And ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Free Site Reviews
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Excerpt: Elite Hosts is a smaller full-service web hosting company. If I had to compare it to another company, I'd say it's a lot like a smaller version of Pair. Elite Hosts has bearded Unix gurus ready for action 24/7. Unfortunately, their marketing department may be blinded by the ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in Other
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Excerpt: This is totally off subject, but I promise another post today. In the meantime, though -- I can't make this up. I'm staying in Washington D.C., visiting a friend, and I forgot to bring deodorant. Since I have mercy on the souls of others who stand near me in this heat, I de ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: I'm friendly with some spammers. Most of them are pretty nice guys. I don't spam, and I never will -- but I keep in touch. Since most spammers are really just out to make a buck and not hurt anyone, I would never expect them to mock and laugh at a spam victim. But sadly, th ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Copywriting
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Excerpt: It scares me slightly more than the DMCA itself that so many who should know better are totally ignorant of basic copyright law, and, even worse, benefiting from it in a way that most do not elicit. Obviously, if the the thief charges for the content or uses it as spider-food on a network of s ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: I used to assume that content behind forms was never spidered. This does not seem to be the case, as one particular form on this blog made me aware.It appears that if Google sees a form consisting only of 1 pulldown (select), it will spider the links created by submitting the form request with ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: I've never assumed that the "Allow:" directive was supported by all search engine spiders. From what I know, only Google supports it. The draft mentions it, but that's the problem -- it's just a draft. Officially, the directive does not exist. Admittedly ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Social Bookmarking
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Excerpt: Many of us use social bookmarking sites -- del.icio.us, digg, reddit, etc. They're pretty useful, and also great sources of organic traffic. There are plenty of plugins for blogging applications that place icons on a page to ease its bookmarking. For example, the one I use for ...
