Archive | March, 2009

Toys “R” Us Redirects Toys.com to Toysrus.com

The other day I saw a DomainNameWire post about Toys “R” Us redirecting its newly acquired domain, toys.com, and that toys.com had been “de-indexed” by Google. For those of you who have not heard the story, Toys “R” Us bought the Parent Company (eToys.com, BabyUniverse.com, ePregnancy.com) for ~$2 million. Then a couple of weeks later, [...]

March 23, 2009 by | 1 Comment

Link Rules Hyrule, Links Rule Google SERPs

The Legend of Zelda was awesome! I remember opening it on Christmas Day back in 1987. It had a shiny golden box, and then the game itself was a brilliant, glowing masterpiece of golden plastic. Just take a look: I had never seen anything like this. It was like opening up a golden ticket, but [...]

March 19, 2009 by | 0 Comments

Twitter Squatting: How to Avoid Suspended Accounts

Okay. I have a confession to make. I have taken part in Twitter Squatting. For those of you not familiar with squatting, let’s go to our friends at Wikipedia for a definition. According to Wikipedia: Squatting is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not [...]

March 10, 2009 by | 4 Comments

Twitter Co-Founder, Evan Williams, Goes to the White House

Apparently, the White House has invited a bunch of young business leaders. Twitter’s co-founder, Evan Williams, was one of those people invited to discuss the current economic crisis. Evan Williams has tons of money. He worked at Google before the PPO, and he sold Blogger to Google. I don’t even think that Twitter is making [...]

March 6, 2009 by | 0 Comments

Did You Know: Search Edition

Did you know that YouTube gets more searches than Yahoo? proof Did you know that Twitter rejected a $500 million dollar offer from Facebook? proof Did you know that Greg Boser is credited with coining the term ‘link juice’? proof And remember if it’s on the internet, it’s must be true.

March 5, 2009 by | 0 Comments

Firefox 3 > Internet Explorer 6

Just in from Statcounter: Firefox 3 is the first non-Microsoft browser to pass Internet Explorer 6. Congrats, Firefox 3! More of the story here.

March 5, 2009 by | 1 Comment

Netbook vs. Notebook: Is There a New Sheriff in Keywordville?

We all know that a laptop is a laptop. However, in the wide world of search, you can’t just focus on ranking for laptop. Why? For one, good luck ranking for laptop. The competition is superduper competitive for that term. Next, you’ll probably want to rank for laptops. Again, good luck. Don’t get me wrong. [...]

March 5, 2009 by | 1 Comment