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Re: Google SearchWiki…Benign or Nefarious?

Jaan Kanellis — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:03:36 -0000

Whats the difference? People have to be logged into a Google account. And how many of those people that use Google search have a Google account? I would LOOOVE to know. I would guess around 2%

Re: piloSEO is Coming Back

Jaan Kanellis — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:50:34 -0000

Welcome back. You need to do some backing up and better protection brother!

Re: Checking Out Google Trends For Websites

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:29:06 -0000

The Google Trends data is ONLY based on Google traffic.

Re: The Semmys – Highly Controversial Just As It Should Be

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:36:26 -0000

Really great idea here. Congrats Matt!

Re: The Semmys – Highly Controversial Just As It Should Be

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:36:26 -0000

Really great idea here. Congrats Matt!

Re: Sphinn Moderation An Insult To Gary Halbert

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:49:41 -0000

Refreshing post Igor. I never really looked at it that way.

Re: Sphinn Moderation An Insult To Gary Halbert

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:49:41 -0000

Refreshing post Igor. I never really looked at it that way.

Re: Blog For A Cause Or Fabricate A Story

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:48:12 -0000

I agree Igor, lying is lying, flat out. How does that constitute a successful link bating campaign? Sure you got links, but the potential for harm is too great. What about the amount of bad press you could potentially get back for such a scheme?

No way this type of thing would work with 99% of my clients. Why would any of them want to host news articles that simply lies?

Re: Blog For A Cause Or Fabricate A Story

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:48:12 -0000

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Jaan Kanellis — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:50:46 -0000

I only watched the first video so far "The LOST Video" and i found it pretty helpful in explaining eye tracking and helping with a pages overall conversion rate.

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Jaan Kanellis — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:50:46 -0000

I only watched the first video so far "The LOST Video" and i found it pretty helpful in explaining eye tracking and helping with a pages overall conversion rate.

Re: WideCircles – Takes Spam Seriously? LMAO

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:35:02 -0000

Thanks for the heads up Andy. I removed the crap posts from the spammers. WPW has been lots of crappy spammer link/post drops over the past few months. They have gotten better and better at disguising the link drops as a "real" post. The ones you pointed out were pretty obvious, but it is tough to police all posts and have to rely on other moderators and Admin's to help out.

Re: WideCircles – Takes Spam Seriously? LMAO

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:35:02 -0000

Re: Douchebag Quest - I Want To Be The #1 Douche Bag

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:05:39 -0000

You are at #12, not bad so far

Re: A Lesson to Deadbeat Clients: Why you should never, never rip off an SEO

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:05:08 -0000

I had a piece of garbage agency in Chicago that shall rename nameless that simply dissolved so they didnt have to pay me or other people they owed. They opened up a few months later under a new names. Garbage.

Re: Interview with Marty Weintraub (aimClear)

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:50:18 -0000

That was one of the better interviews I have seen in a while. Nice work.

Re: Scaling Yourself

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:31:50 -0000

My biggest time waster is reading to many SEO blogs and forums. I find myself spending hours a day doing this. Of course I still think it is needed, but I definitely get to carried away with it.

Re: The Godfather of Search? What About the Godmother?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:27:10 -0000

How about the step-child of SEO? Maybe a famous black-hatter?

Re: Wall Street Journal Gives Thumbs-up to Link Baiting

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:37:34 -0000

Used to not be a fan of main strem press when they talk about SEM, but looks like WSJ is starting to get it.

Re: Online Reputation Tool Serph Leaves Beta

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:34:05 -0000

Jonix I agree it seems the results are nothing more than sccrapper websites will little or no original content.

Re: SEO By Consensus

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:41:02 -0000

Like I said on WPW, overall it was a nice easy read, but like said above nothing terribly new for the experienced online marketer. For a newbie, however, see the popular names attached quotes on each subject is very reassuring.

I still feel many of us SEO/SEM's can reach the same destination for our clients using many different avenues, thus their is no one right way to do things.

Re: Blogosphere Grows to 70 Million

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:32:52 -0000

I really cant believe how much the Japanese and English markets dominate.

Re: Bambi Francisco Resigns from MarketWatch

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:34:09 -0000

It was only a matter of time.

Re: 5 Ways Jesus Would Promote Himself in the 21st Century

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:52:16 -0000

Interesting way to describe website promotion.

Re: Google Wants You to Disclose the Paid Links it Can’t Find

Jaan Kanellis — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:03:56 -0000

This is beyond comprehension. This is a late April Fools Day joke right? OK its not.

Robert I don't think it is warning shot to PPP, Google has been complaining for a long, long time about paid links. PPP is a just harder (not anyone more since having to tag itself as paid) way to identify paid links. I really think they simple need help making the algo better by identifying all paid links in some form or fashion.

It really doesn't matter I don't see this working at all. They have a way for us to report SPAM and it doesn't work as far as I can tell. I reported at least a dozen different types of spam reports and all still are out there fine. Of course this is much more "push button". Once the report is made and verified it can be tagged and loaded into the index fairly quickly, unlike trying decipher a large SPAM report.

Who knows in the Google toolbar one day we could see an option to report websites with paid links on it.

Re: Bye Bye, Froogle

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:54:02 -0000

OK so does Google Product Search + Google Base???

Re: MSNBC Covers SEO Tools

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:38:03 -0000

Alexa and a Keyword Density Checker, blah!

Re: The Greatest Living American? Stephen Colbert???

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:44:39 -0000

"Iâ€™m not sure how to watch Colbert anymore now that heâ€™s not on YouTube"

Good stuff, lol

Re: The Greatest Living American? Stephen Colbert???

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:20:27 -0000

We know why Colbert is rising in the rankings for "Greatest Living American", but why was Brandon ranked for this in the first place?

Re: The Greatest Living American? Stephen Colbert???

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:12:28 -0000

I missed that day in class Brandon.

Anyways it is interesting to see the home page of Colbert ranking in the top spot and not the page we are linking to.

Re: Google Universal Search - A Major Update to Interface & Algorithm

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:39:09 -0000

Let G end user confusion begin. Wonder if these added items add efficiency or clutter? The simplicity of Google was truly the sweetness.

Of course since results have been weird of late (here one day, gone the next), this makes optimization for all of Google's family of search properties all more important. Those that have actively optimized for G News, Images, Video, etc. are rejoicing!!

Re: Leave Your Question for Tomorrow’s Podcast

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:04:09 -0000

Along the same lines of the question above, universal search optimization is going to very important. I would discuss how some websites appear in Google News (Alerts specifically) and some dont. I know I have applied a few times with some of my blogs and they say that they only consider websites with more than one editor.

Of course I have a few Google Alerts I personally watch and I clearly see websites/blogs authored by one person or less (splogs) that get in all of the time. Why?

Re: The Marketing Pilgrim SEM Scholarship Contest Winner Is…

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:42:11 -0000

Great job Jeff!!!

Re: GoDaddy Inherits RegisterFly’s Domains

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:07:37 -0000

So did GoDaddy inherit problems and issues?

Re: Google’s Search Gurus Spill Beans on Algorithm

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:45:34 -0000

"That quote made me wonder whatâ€™s meant by â€˜diversity.â€™ Are we talking about duplicate content? More likely itâ€™s what the article says in the following"

I am guessing diversity meaning between scrappers and possibly cloned websites from the same owner. i.e. mini-network?

Re: SMX Video - Matt Cutts Explains How to Get Out of Google’s Supplemental Index

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:59:32 -0000

I don't see where he explains to get out of the SI. Of course I don't expect to see anything in a minute video. The bottom line is most SI "situations" are unique to each other. Websites can be placed in there for many different reasons and I don't expect to see one process to get pages out...except for getting a lot of back links to the particular page(s) in the SI.

As we all know most of the time its a combination of duplicate content (in some form or fashion) and lack of back links that forces pages in there.

Re: Four Things You Should Know About Collecting User Reviews

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:35:54 -0000

"4) User reviews do not necessarily drive more organic search traffic. JC Whitney found no increase in natural search traffic because of their user reviews. (I would normally have been surprised to learn this, but at Vitabase, we have noticed the same thing.)"

Maybe not directly, but the additional content to each page has to help with relevance.

Re: Google Is a Machine; Mahalo, Our Human Search Savior

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:16:57 -0000

I used to post on my blog every time big media outlets used to "try" to talk about SEO/SEM. I would review the article and point out how wrong it was, but lately it is just a waste of time. These types of articles comparing search engine marketing to SPAM don't seem to want to stop.

It would help if "journalists" would educate themselves before writing.

Re: Google Is a Machine; Mahalo, Our Human Search Savior

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:03:10 -0000

Jordan, lol.

Jestep good point. Remember LookSmart's directory that everyone needed to be in to show up in MSN? It was rife with SPAM!

Re: Fred Thompson Blogging His Way Into the Presidential Race

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:44:14 -0000

I like him just because he was in Days of Thunder, lol.

Re: Calling Out eBay’s "Experiment" with Google AdWords

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:53:45 -0000

They probably learned they were bidding on garbage and pulling the ads didnt effect sales. Hey eBay I can manage that AdWords account better than whoever is doing it, lol.

Re: The Day the Music Died (Online)

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:46:17 -0000

Is it just me or does this really suck. The number of stations that will shut down in July will be enormous.

Re: Google and Wikipedia Breaking Up & Other News Shorts, June 29

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:52:38 -0000

"Are Google and Wikipedia breaking up?"

I dont know but it would be nice to search Google and not see a wikip page for once.

Re: Lorelle on WordPress Is Reading My Mind

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:54:09 -0000

"Why should your hobby make money?"

Why shouldn't it?

Re: Given Identical Search Results Searchers Still Prefer Google & Yahoo

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:55:24 -0000

Well it would be interesting to know what type of queries were tested. That could make a big diff.

Re: Forbes Goes Negative on SEO

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:11:22 -0000

Don't 6 out of 7 of these techniques (excluding denial of service attacks) require Google cooperation to make happen?

Re: Lorelle on WordPress Is Reading My Mind

Jaan Kanellis — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:12:38 -0000

"Should your joy bring you money? Thatâ€™s a complicated question."

um, not really, because both answers are correct. This question has no right or wrong answer from my point of view.

Re: Given Identical Search Results Searchers Still Prefer Google & Yahoo

Jaan Kanellis — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:34:36 -0000

Quality is better, but to have quality you have to have a large inventory.

Re: Reputation Management vs. Search Engine Sabotage

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:21:19 -0000

I wrote a nice little article on some reputation management techniques:

http://www.jaankanellis.com/top-10-reputation-o...

Re: Pownce - itâ€™s not very original but itâ€™s going to be bigger than twitter

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:24:26 -0000

Someone send me an invite!

Re: SMX Notes - Give It Up!

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:29:06 -0000

Good stuff, but isn't Siloing the same thing as themed architecture. Building out websites in a way that is optimal for the SE bots and users alike?

Re: UK CEO Warns "never allowing your programmers to try any kind of SEO at all"

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:15:14 -0000

Is this the same Niall Byrne that authored that garbage?

http://www.scienceinpublic.com/about_niall.htm

You would think these authors would research a little more before publishing these "stories".

Re: Answers Buys $100M Dictionary. Really.

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:44:32 -0000

I assume the dictionary.com property gets a ton of traffic from "keyword" definition to. I know I spot them all of the time for this.

Re: Google Webmaster Central Adds Messages

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:22:30 -0000

I am glad they are trying more and more to communicate to us, but I wish they would answer more of the emails we send them through Webmaster Console.

Re: 62% Don’t Trust Search Engines

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:01:44 -0000

298, wow what a sample!

Re: Google Copyright Filter Coming to YouTube this Fall

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:11:56 -0000

I am seeing many videos being removed on a regular basis already. Something is already in place as far as copyright for the major networks is concerned.

Re: Yahoo’s Search Assist There When you Need It

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:47:56 -0000

I really dont like these tools finishing what I am typing . Distracting at best.

Re: Local Search Trumps Paper

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:42:17 -0000

"study found that 33% of consumers consider the Yellow Pages as their primary source of local information—and a whopping 90% of those using search say that the Yellow Pages are “still a valuable source for shopping information,”

I assume these "consumers" are mostly over 65 years old?

Re: Are Social Network Users Libertarian Voters?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:36:02 -0000

I am a Ron Paul "fan" and believe he is one of the few candidates that tries to speak the truth and not give out double speak like so many have in the past. Also I feel the public is getting really comfortable with him. He did well on Drudge's poll after the Iowa debate:

http://votewritein.blogspot.com/2007/08/ron-pau...

Re: Google News Adds Comments: Why?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:04:42 -0000

Seems like a big opportunity for SPAM.

Also how do they pick the "actual participants". By hand?

Re: Google Just Keeps Getting Richer — New Change to AdWords Announced

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:50:50 -0000

No doubt that it could help the bigger budgets over the better landing pages somewhat, but I gotta feel that quality score is more important than most may think.

I have seen campaigns run at a very low CPC with high relevance and "near perfect" landing pages that would easily out rank much higher bidded ads.

Should be interesting to watch.

Re: Hitwise Watching 2008 Candidates

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:51:44 -0000

Love seeing Ron Paul crush here again.

Re: Is this the best we can do?

Jaan Kanellis — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:53:11 -0000

Yeah I kind of of agree with ya Greg. Some days internet marketing blogs are very enlightening and others it seem they are recycled trash, completely inaccurate statements or personal stuff that we don't care much for.

I would like to see more on personal testing that each of us do, what works/what doesn't and just plain cool stuff that people find on Google/Yahoo/MSN. Dave N posts some neat little things on his blog of late which I find interesting.

I think another issue is lots of us simply don't have enough time. Most of the good bloggers out there have to work to and cant find the time to dedicate to the blog like they should.

Re: Thanks to Our Fabulous Writers!

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:31:17 -0000

Jeremy and Jordan I will really like both of your articles, nice work by everyone!

Re: Google Wants Viacom to Serve up Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewart

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:32:30 -0000

"Ouch! That could be one of those moments where Viacom internal fumes, “wait, Colbert did what?”

They have to be aware of that right? :)

Re: 8 Tips for Avoiding an SEO Fraudster

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:34:59 -0000

Pretty easy to see who knows SEO. Just do a few searches fro their name or forum handle and see what they have posted in the last few years.

Re: Another Ask.com Commercial—That’s more like it!

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:36:06 -0000

Does this commercial really work anymore since Universal Search is now live?

Re: Google Maps Already Available for Blogs!

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:24:42 -0000

Cant you already do this with Google Map's API?

Re: CNET’s Exclusive: There are Perverts on the Internet!

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:29:59 -0000

What is the big deal here? Why didnt she delete and move on? Creepsters and spammers are everywhere in todays online life.

Re: American Airlines Sues Google for Trademark Infringement

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:25:29 -0000

So Google is not going to turn the AdWords account off? hmmmmmmmm

Re: MSN/Live Webmaster Portal in Private Beta

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:26:23 -0000

It is about damn time MSN. Last again to offer such awesome tools for webmasters!

Re: BlogRush Widget Termination T Minus 24 Hours

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:29:58 -0000

Only had it up for today and I am not seeing any referrals. Will hold on for a week or so until I see more webmaster feedback.

Re: BMW First to Offer In-Car Google Local Search

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:03:46 -0000

With in car GPS systems and other amenities, I wonder why this took so long.

Re: Will the Net Remain Tax Free?

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:42:56 -0000

Roderick nice seeing you post on MP! Hope to see you around the blogshpere more.

Re: Video Training Will Make You an Internet Marketing Ninja

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:49:58 -0000

Guess my only complaint is the lack of consistency between speakers. Some are doing presentations and some are just talking about life on a couch.

Re: 100 Billion Reasons to Celebrate this Year

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:58:21 -0000

All I can say is WOW. yeah I think I like my job.

Re: Video Training Will Make You an Internet Marketing Ninja

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:58:58 -0000

Andy have not purchased them. I was commenting from the previews on the website. Maybe all "ninjas" do a presentation and then chat afterwards?

Re: Video Training Will Make You an Internet Marketing Ninja

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:31:39 -0000

Thanks Andy! Not sure if I will be purchasing yet.

Re: Look Up a Domain Then Watch Network Solutions Register It

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:37:47 -0000

Roderick. I noticed this happening last year sometime, but didnt pay much attention to it. I am glad NS is being called out on it finally.

Re: Look Up a Domain Then Watch Network Solutions Register It

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:47:43 -0000

Yup the shit storm of blog posts will be enormous. Time for some SOLID reputation management in the SERPs.

Re: Facing a Reputation Crisis, Network Solutions to Change Front-Running Practice

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:44:11 -0000

I still dont see any reason to register the domains from the home page as well.

Re: Google Kitchen Sink Results

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:44:45 -0000

Nice to see the blog working again.

Anyways this is nothing new. Google has been testing this stuff on various data centers for years. Put related searches here, blog posts there, "our" shopping results here and the news results there, mix in the 10 text links and we have a stew of info according to Google.

The UI is always in flux as maaaan!

Re: You Can Make Six Figures in SEM (If You Pay Your Dues)

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:22:38 -0000

To be honest I thought these numbers were low. Makes me happy to be on the outside still.

Re: 1-800 Contacts Sues Over Keywords Again

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:54:51 -0000

Different judge different angle I guess

Re: Is Vertical Search a Chink in Google’s Armor?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:02:27 -0000

As long as Google can provide better search results than verticals how could it be?

Re: Kudos to Yahoo! Search Marketing

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:04:47 -0000

It is nice they are communicating to you, but great communication cant help poor converting traffic that they deliver.

Re: The Google Challenge: Educating the Next Generation of Search Marketers

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:08:02 -0000

This is pretty old news Janet:

http://www.jaankanellis.com/google-growing-adwo...

One thing to comment on is that in the long run these types of moves are simply to help the Google bottom line through PPC advertising.

Re: The Google Challenge: Educating the Next Generation of Search Marketers

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:07:40 -0000

Thanks for the update Janet

Re: Microsoft Pounces on Yahoo’s Weak Q4, Makes $44.6B Offer

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:39:49 -0000

So all their buying here is Yahoo traffic? Just kidding, but I wonder if this happens what (if anything) changes the way the SERPs appear on both websites

Re: Yahoo Music’s Slow Death

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:16:25 -0000

iTunes and yahoo music are two different animals. Doesnt Yahoo music only offer streaming music?

Re: Social Media Monitoring Tools: 26 Free Online Reputation Tools

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:44:06 -0000

Some more link building ideas:

http://www.jaankanellis.com/top-10-reputation-o...

Re: Build Your Company Reputation with a Business Blog

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:41:16 -0000

I think blogs create a great sense of involvement and community. Consider most companies cant manage a forum effectively, a blog is great way to "talk" to your buyers and users, while allowing them to chat back to you.

Re: Drugstore.com finally is profitable

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:26:31 -0000

The main reason for the lack of growth is that everyone newscast out there has beaten into our brains that buying any prescrips online is "dangerous".

Re: Google Results: 98.7% Safe

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:29:21 -0000

I have a blog that has no malicious software on it, yet the tag in the SERPs remains. We have contacted everyone about it but no help.

Re: Google Maps Already Available for Blogs!

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:59:05 -0000

I am using it to, it is very cool and easy to use.

Re: Announcing Online Reputation Monitoring Tool - Trackur.com

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:46:40 -0000

Nice idea to consolidate all reputation notification systems out there in one easy to use place.

Re: Google Health Goes Official

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:41:13 -0000

Great idea to have records in one central location, viewable by doctors and us, but privacy is HUGE concern needless to say.

Re: Market Research Company TNS Pays $75 million for Compete

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:58:47 -0000

I think it is a sharp purchase. I love compete.com fro my research

Re: Monitor All SXSW 2008 News Thanks to Trackur.com

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:08:10 -0000

Andy since Trackur pulls from multiple sources are you worried about duplicate articles that people have to sift through or do you some how filter?

Re: Nearly Half of Americans Get News from the Web

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:13:07 -0000

Well all want our news at different times. We can all wake up and get it from whenever we want and get it online when we want.

We don't want to have to wait for the morning paper detailing yesterdays news or have to sit in front of the tube at certain times of the day.

Online is here and now. As long as the content is updated accordingly it will win over traditional media in the long run.

Re: Blog Attacks Leading to Suicides?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:27:11 -0000

I think we all need to be less of a fragile flower online. If your posting on news, gossip or commentary shouldn’t you expect this? You need to have a thick skin if you publishing your work online. We don’t seem to care at all when celebs are constantly hounded by the media and paparazzi. We say well that the life they choose and it comes with the territory. Well so does constructive or unconstructive criticism with blog authoring.

Now with that being said slander is unacceptable and something totally different than criticism. If someone is in the public eye, executives or not, then they have to expect (in this day and age0 that someone will be commenting about them online. They also have to be above fly-by-night commenter’s. Who cares just go on with your life. All we have control over is our personal statements and decisions. Live by that and you will be fine.

Re: Reviews and Ratings for SEM Companies

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:02:20 -0000

"I can’t imagine that there would be enough information on most places to give interested parties a good idea of the company’s true competence"

Exactly piper. This is just really opinion. It is not like reviewing product lines where you can easily see which product is better than another.

Re: Google Hate or Prudent Planning?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:51:03 -0000

link baaaaait

Re: Google Hate or Prudent Planning?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:44:10 -0000

I agree Roderick. Outing yourself with bad information can never help your professional reputation.

Re: Google Hate or Prudent Planning?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:29:03 -0000

Gab if the point of your post, especially the block Googlebot part, was about diversification of traffic then I am in agreement. The problem is with these baity type of posts is usually to grab links to it instead of presently exactly what you should do with your website. Newbie’s could be confused with your post, but I do understand the general gist.

Re: Google Hate or Prudent Planning?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:19:21 -0000

What gab? You clearly list this as you point:

"6. Bonus: Write a robots.txt that blocks Google’s robot."
What am I missing?

"For yourself, blocking Google might lose traffic in the short run, but if you’re building defensible sites, that traffic should be a minor percentage of what you get."

This is stupid idea for anyone and I dont care who or why your online.

Re: Google Hate or Prudent Planning?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:07:17 -0000

Nope I read it all Gab and I fail to see (as I am sure your readers do) your point. Maybe explaining it again for us slow people would help. I am not trying to argue, just trying to understand the logic.

Telling people to block robots.txt does nothing to prove your point on diversification of traffic. Just tell, show them how to diversify traffic and stop with the dramatic effect of telling people to block Googlebot.

Re: Google Hate or Prudent Planning?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:45:26 -0000

Yup I am fully aware of the online world without Google and anyone creating websites in a Google top heavy fashion are doomed to fail. I see it all of the time when taking over the marketing for clients. Most websites are built like a spinning top with Google sending most of the traffic. If they lose Google traffic for some reason that top is going to spot spin right off the table and come crashing down.

Re: Google Category Exclusions - Extra Categories

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:46:37 -0000

The more control they give me the better off my campaigns will preform.

Re: Ten Online Reputation Management Tips for Companies

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:49:08 -0000

Really like the off-line tips here. We have been given to many articles lately for online reputation management that say go create social network profiles and you will be fine.

Re: Five Star Reviews for Radically Transparent

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:43:54 -0000

Well listening to the Paul Dunay, MarketingProfs podcast I can see why. Some great concepts on one of my fav topics, reputation management. Send a free copy my way Andy and I will give you honest review too :)

Re: Google Wastes No Time - Introduces Google Ad Manager

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:37:42 -0000

AdvertiseSpace since you can pick up ad inventory from DoubleClick through Google AdManager, how does one not have anything to do with the other?

Re: AOL’s Bebo Acquisition: A Social Network Bubble or Not?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:38:43 -0000

Well if they keep growing in types, membership and traffic volume, not sure how a bubble could be present.

Re: Why Product Placement is the Future of Blogging

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:18:25 -0000

Right Krista and you can expect your Google rankings to tank once they find out your doing this, LOL.

Re: Blogs and Internet Retail

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:30:19 -0000

"only 2.6% of online shoppers use blogs for research before making purchases."

Right and I wonder how many oo those retailers have blogs? I am willing to bet a majority fo them dont and if they do they are not adequetly placed to promote them throughout the website.

And if they did have them and promote them, they probably dont have the info that the customers/visitors are looking for.

Re: Bear Stearns a Lesson in Rumor Monitoring

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:28:50 -0000

I see the point your trying to make here Andy, but the fall of bear Sterns was fast, fast as the Technorati chart shows. Many blogs posted quickly on the core news of the collapse. Doubt their was much lead-up in the blogsphere before that. Sure they could have at least lead the conversation to help curb the collapse and control the news better, which is really the essence of reputation management.

Re: Google Site Search Controversy a Storm in a Teacup

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:15:07 -0000

So where do we turn it off at? Would be nice to turn it off in GWT tools. Is their a way to get a hold of Gooogle to turn this off if we want to?

Re: Google Wants to Offer National Wi-Fi for Free

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:21:37 -0000

Wouldn't allowing free internet access to everyone in the US also increase overall Google traffic/use? Couldn't this easily be a prime objective for them?

Re: Google Site Search Controversy a Storm in a Teacup

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:42:29 -0000

Andy that is the way I understand it.

Re: Linky Goodness, March 26

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:59:30 -0000

Nice idea Michael for LeaveFeedback.org, but I see an issue already. You are not providing any error handling page for incorrect zip codes or zip codes with no reviews. Serving a page with just a message saying what happened would be much more helpful that simply refreshing to the same Zip code search box.

Re: Exclusive: Google’s Index Now on Your Wrist with GWatch Launch

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:59:06 -0000

April foools day?

Like Virgle?

http://www.jaankanellis.com/project-virgle-goog...

Re: Google Buying Expedia?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:23:22 -0000

Imagine if they bought Expedia and you were doing SEO for Travelocity or any other travel website. Man I would not be happy.

Re: Six Reputation Management Stats to Make You Shudder

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:24:07 -0000

great proof that reputation management is VERY important.

Re: Google Admits to Gambling $4.6 Billion?

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:54:10 -0000

Verizon would have went higher if necessary. This is worth everything to them

Re: Google Site Links Broken?

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:25:57 -0000

Don't see anything weird about it at all consider Fry's is the first link in the shopping section of the home page, on the right hand side.

Re: Alan’s Angle – April Fool’s Day, 365 Times a Year?

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:31:50 -0000

True PS3 news comes at us so much more quickly that it can be very shocking to hear it first and then realize it is real.

Re: Attention Website Owners: If You Aren’t on Google’s First Page, You’re Dead to Us

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:38:00 -0000

So are you trying to say if your not ranked on SE's you cant survive? I disagree. Search engines are only one form of traffic, I never see a myspace or facebook page in the SERPs and their websites does fine. Sure that is not the same as a etailer that would require search engine traffic, but to be dependent on the SE's for anything in your business is a huge blunder. Look at all the websites that are going through issues with this latest Dewey update from Google.

Re: Attention Website Owners: If You Aren’t on Google’s First Page, You’re Dead to Us

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:21:16 -0000

Michelle my point was not about MySpace or facebook getting index or getting SE traffic. My point is they don’t need it at all and they do fine, which was a counter argument to your article point.

Re: Here come the widgets!

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:13:02 -0000

As Vista grows widgets will gain in popularity.

Re: Best of the Web Aims to be the Next DMOZ

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:33 -0000

Exactly Jeremy. Dont remember the last time I was at one.

Re: Is Social Media an Impediment to Problem Solving?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:27:39 -0000

In the age of the information superhighway we have truly come to expect answers and directions when we need it, which is usual right away.

Like some have mentioned before, in the past before social networks, before the internet, you called someone who knew. Before that, you ask your dad or the local elder.

Re: Breaking: Yahoo Testing AdSense for Search

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:04:41 -0000

Would like to hear from big AdSense users to hear if they are seeing an increase in revenue from this as well.

Re: Dear Yahoo, Please Offer IndexTools for Free, K Thx Bye

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:19:40 -0000

This is interesting timing for his considering the Google AdSense going on right now with Yahoo. Maybe Yahoo will stay Yahoo after all?

Re: Breaking: Yahoo Testing AdSense for Search

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:38:11 -0000

Sorry meant to say AdWord users.

Re: Google is Cracking the “Invisible Web”

Jaan Kanellis — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:53:09 -0000

So the obvious question is we can stop Googlebot from doing this. Sort of a nofollow for forms.

Re: Why 8 Cyber-Bullying Teens Are Already Sentenced to a Life of Reputation Incarceration

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:15:14 -0000

So true Andy. I have been contacted by parents before for reputation management help for situations like this and even worse in some times.

Re: Google’s 2008 First Quarter Results - Hit or Miss?

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:51:05 -0000

I will go with miss.

Re: Advice for Managing Negative Reviews of Hotels or Small Businesses

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:12:50 -0000

I really love websites that offer client testimonials, reviews or customer feedback. Says a lot about them.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Widget Baiting Gone Bad?

Re: Google Website Optimizer: All Grown Up

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:52:27 -0000

It better stay free. All it does is make the AdWords product work and preform better.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Previous Query Reason For Crazy Google Rankings?

Re: Google’s Web Analytics Software Out of Beta

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:52:36 -0000

Still wish we can do basic stuff like set up traffic goals and compare those to our current traffic levels.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Previous Query Reason For Crazy Google Rankings?

Re: Compete.com Names Marketing Pilgrim as “Valuable Niche Audience” for Advertisers

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:59:59 -0000

Interesting to see WPW on there. I mod there and we get a lot of newbie SEO questions.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Previous Query Reason For Crazy Google Rankings?

Re: Compete.com Names Marketing Pilgrim as “Valuable Niche Audience” for Advertisers

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:58:54 -0000

Well put Andy.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Previous Query Reason For Crazy Google Rankings?

Re: Compete.com Names Marketing Pilgrim as “Valuable Niche Audience” for Advertisers

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:59:47 -0000

By the way just bought your book Andy, I hope it is good.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Previous Query Reason For Crazy Google Rankings?

Re: Facebook the Walled Garden, Twitter Anything But

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:50:01 -0000

I really wish they would have looked at other social networks when comparing like linkedin or mybloglog.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Yahoo/Google Ad Deal Closer?

Re: Yahoo & Google Can’t Keep Their Hands Off Each Other, Cut 2-Week Trial to 8-Days

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:22:26 -0000

So if Google earnings are bad today then Google can come back with positivity on this.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Yahoo/Google Ad Deal Closer?

Re: Google Offers Money-Back Guarantee* on 301 Domain Redirecting

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:18:13 -0000

Actually I think Matt is very magnanimous. Now that could be a domain name:

www.magnanimousmatt.com

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Yahoo/Google Ad Deal Closer?

Re: Google Offers Money-Back Guarantee* on 301 Domain Redirecting

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:26:25 -0000

yes adding a feature in GWT tools for moving individual pages or whole websites would be a god send for many.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Yahoo/Google Ad Deal Closer?

Re: comScore Did Cry Wolf About Google Growth, Just a Different Kind of Wolf

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:59:55 -0000

ComScore got burned on this, they need to just admit it.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..20 Answers from Google Search Guru Udi Manber

Re: 10 Reputations All Hotels, Resorts & Inns Should Monitor Online

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:27:34 -0000

This is great post for hotel marketing managers, but can be applied to most all that operate a business.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..20 Answers from Google Search Guru Udi Manber

Re: Eee PC Laptop Prize Giveaway - FINAL WEEK!

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:31:53 -0000

Doesnt get any easier than that!

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..20 Answers from Google Search Guru Udi Manber

Re: MySpace Appeals to Advertisers

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:50:55 -0000

How about just creating a better linking infrastructure so these myspace pages can rank better, duuuhh.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..20 Answers from Google Search Guru Udi Manber

Re: If You Eat All the Social Networking Candy, You’re Going to Get Sick!

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:50:06 -0000

Over extending yourself in social media is a huge problem for some. I know I have over 50 blogs in my reader in addition to tweets, forums and subscriptions to past posts. It is a lot to take on, but it is up to you to organize it.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Music and Videos Rule YouTube Searches

Re: FCC: We Can Enforce Net Neutrality Now

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:55:42 -0000

If the internet pipe ever becomes taxed it will be one of the saddest days in technological history.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Set Geographic Target Tool

Re: 72% of Consumers Research Reputations Online, 59% of Customers Happy to Share Gripes With Them

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:26:28 -0000

Well they are going to complain no matter what. Things just happen when you run a business. It is nice to see so many business now embarrassing these reviews onto their own websites. Why not let the customers talk about your products in forum you can control somewhat through moderation. Better than them doing it somewhere else and forcing you to chase them all down to talk with them.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Set Geographic Target Tool

Re: Pilgrim’s Picks for April 24

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:24:33 -0000

Maybe the twitter post. Arrington at TechCrunch has been drilling him for weeks.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEG Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference

Re: I Want Your RSS Feed, Again!

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:26:09 -0000

Wow comments filling up fast:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/JaanKanellisSeoBlog

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEG Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference

Re: Eee PC Laptop Prize Winner Is…

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:29:39 -0000

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Get Answers From All Three Search Engines

Re: Eee PC Laptop Prize Winner Is…

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:21:46 -0000

I must admit to the book "Radically Transparent" is excellent thus far.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Get Answers From All Three Search Engines

Re: Your Ad Profile: What Sites Think They Know About You

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:06:50 -0000

Doesnt MSN already offer these types of demographics?

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Just Another Crappy SEO Article

Re: Google Must Save Yahoo from Evil Microsoft

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:15:53 -0000

Charging for video hosting. Good bye to millions of teenage daily vlogs, LOL.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Today is RSS Awareness Day

Re: The Main Factor Necessary to Convert Visitors to Customers

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:58:05 -0000

I am sorry but I am having a very hard time believing in these conversion rates.

Did all of these companies just give IR their conversion rates?

Is this the global average conversion rates across the websites?

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEO Blog RSS Feed List, The Ones I Personal Follow

Re: The Main Factor Necessary to Convert Visitors to Customers

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:23:14 -0000

Also how much are they spending to get these rates? It doesn't help if you to have a double digit conversion rate if your cost per conversion is through the roof.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEO Blog RSS Feed List, The Ones I Personal Follow

Re: The Main Factor Necessary to Convert Visitors to Customers

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:56:04 -0000

Sure they are independent, but I bet one is much worse than the other with this high of a conversion rate.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEO Blog RSS Feed List, The Ones I Personal Follow

Re: Live* Tracking of YHOO, MSFT & GOOG Stock Reaction

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:58:25 -0000

Yhoo Shares bouncing back after their lows.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEO Blog RSS Feed List, The Ones I Personal Follow

Re: Is SEO a Dying Industry?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:11:19 -0000

Nope Shoe is wrong her here. SEO will always be around as long as web developers keep ignoring titles tags. As long as developers keep making one page Flash website. SEO is not dying because of “Google Toolbar data, Google User history, and Google Analytics data” it is just changing. Even with that data involved in figuring out what each person will see in the SERPs, you have to believe that some rich girl in LA will see the same Amazon book page ranking well as some poor college student in NY.

You will also need to incorporate a universal search optimization plan going forward. Gone are the days of just text links that we click on. There will be more to it than that. Shoe has the right idea that traditional SEO is dying, but SEO itself is simply evolving. Could his post just be another long line of crappy link bait by people in our niche?

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEO Analogies Help Us Understand

Re: Pilgrim’s Picks for May 12

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:26:24 -0000

Andy looks like these "walled gardens" are going to open up. This Data portability seems like it will be just like a social RSS feed.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEO Analogies Help Us Understand

Re: Five Reasons I’m Not Going Gaga Over Powerset

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:28:21 -0000

Cant I create the same thing (probably better) in like 15 minutes using Google custom search, only searching Wikipedia?

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEO Analogies Help Us Understand

Re: Marketers; Are You Charging Your Clients Enough?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:47:18 -0000

A solid marketer should be able to charge what they feel comfortable with. If they dont get that they should be able to walk away from the deal and not have to worry about it.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEO Analogies Help Us Understand

Re: Google Friend Connect Makes Sites More Social

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:09:24 -0000

Nice to see social networks coming together to offer download and upload options cross-platform friendly. Sort of a social RSS feed of information.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..SEO Analogies Help Us Understand

Re: JetBlue Sued for $2 Million; Flushing Reputation Down the Toilet, Again!

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:01:15 -0000

When will any airline wise up and simply take care of the customers first. I am sure all of us have horror stories for most airlines. Delta is my personal whipping boy.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Can You Manage Your Email and RSS Reader?

Re: That’s a Lot of Spam!

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:38:21 -0000

Why does this guy get to slide? He should be pennyless and homeless for life. Credit card companies can completely destroy a honest man's credit yet you can do this type of thing and have nothing happen to you. Only in America.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Can You Manage Your Email and RSS Reader?

Re: The 12 Hottest Trends in Internet Marketing

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:47:07 -0000

These all look pretty obvious to me

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Can You Manage Your Email and RSS Reader?

Re: Abandoning the SEO of Today for the SEO of Tomorrow

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:14:56 -0000

The problem is a lot of SEO people don’t test on their own. The read what has supposedly worked for someone else and then take that as gospel. A good example of this was the recent internal PR Sculpting madness where lots of SEO's proclaimed it as hugely successful technique without testing or showing results in which it worked.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Can You Manage Your Email and RSS Reader?

Re: CNET Acquired for $1.5B; Offers 45% Premium to Keep Dissenting Investors Happy

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:18:14 -0000

Now the CBS needs to hire someone to optimize those CNet properties:

http://www.jaankanellis.com/jana-to-cnet-you-ne...

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Can You Manage Your Email and RSS Reader?

Re: Microsoft’s New Deal Targets Yahoo’s “Milk” - Will it Go Sour?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:31:54 -0000

"Any other "partnership" is just slapping lipstick on a couple of pigs cows."

Exactly and well said.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Can You Manage Your Email and RSS Reader?

Re: The Sport of Reputation Management

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:37:27 -0000

Nice article about the importance of transparency. When the sh*t hits the fan and everyone is now in the know, come clean. That keeps the wolves from digging for more.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Lying Link Bait

Re: Rumor: Microsoft will Buy Facebook

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:57:55 -0000

Walling of googlebot could become the hot new way to compete with Google. Everyone chuckled when Mark Cuban suggested this to the ISP's:

http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/11/20/an-open-...

Maybe he was right?

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Hey Matt Is Reciprocal Linking Bad?

Re: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Vlogger Scorned

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:24:29 -0000

Is this nothing more than another gold digger?

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Steve Ballmer Egged At Hungarian University

Re: Google Straps Golden Parachute to Yahoo Jerry Yang’s Back

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:50:57 -0000

Just stoking the fires.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Steve Ballmer Egged At Hungarian University

Re: Google’s Radically Transparent (Almost) About Its Search Algorithm

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:15:45 -0000

When we think about it Google job is MUCH harder than most of us give them credit for. Just scaling search knowing that 25% of all queries are new is hard enough.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Search Quality Insights from Udi Manber

Re: Microsoft Gives Up Earning Your Loyalty; Launches “Cashback” to Bribe You Instead

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:16:14 -0000

"Is it any mystery why their CEO gets pelted with egg? "

LOLOLOLOL

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Search Quality Insights from Udi Manber

Re: Twitter Tries Being Radically Transparent; Two Out of Three is a Start!

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:14:28 -0000

Nice to see Twitter people at least talking about this now.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Matt Cutts Says Fake Link Bait Is NOT Good

Re: SEO Trademark “Battle” Continues

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:56:33 -0000

This is some guy living in his mom's basement and the whole SEO world is talking about him. I know something like this is somewhat newsworthy, but I think our whole industry is a little gullible sometimes.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic Page

Re: YouTube Gets Interactive With Annotations

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:11:43 -0000

Just look at the most viewed videos for today, they are mostly from that stupid card trick video a 5 year old could figure out. Guess these will be the new video marketing trick and will greatly clutter the video space with "partial" or "chapter" videos instead of the whole story in one.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Who Is The Best Looking Man of SEO?

Re: Pilgrim’s Picks for June 5

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:26:42 -0000

Andy I am huge Wings fan and have been for 20 years. Love to see them win 4 cups in the last 11 years.

officiating was horrible in the finals, just trying everything to get it to a game 7.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Who Is The Best Looking Man of SEO?

Re: Pilgrim’s Picks for June 5

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:49:32 -0000

Nope I am sticking with my Wings. I loved them through the Dead Wings period so I am going to love them now.

Columbus is a young team and will get better.

@Andy....OUCH

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Who Is The Best Looking Man of SEO?

Re: Why Sculpting PageRank Is Not For Everyone

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:38:17 -0000

Adam makes awesome points across the board. I really have not seen a better post on the PR Sculpting than this one.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Who Is The Best Looking Man of SEO?

Re: Linky Goodness, June 9

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 -0000

Why would Google reference other blogs when telling people how to deal with duplicate content? Um, why dont they just tell us from the horses mouth what to do?

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Who Is The Best Looking Man of SEO?

Re: Budweiser’s “Swear Jar” Online Ad Hits Viral Pay Dirt

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:02:26 -0000

This is pretty old. I think I saw it in January

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Who Is The Best Looking Man of SEO?

Re: Pilgrim’s Picks for June 7 - Google Favicon Edition

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:05:15 -0000

I just dont understand why would the use a lower case g when the logo uses an upper case G. Lets get some brand cohesiveness going here.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Who Is The Best Looking Man of SEO?

Re: Linky Goodness, June 9

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:55:14 -0000

@Jordan

I know what you mean Jordan, but my point is it would be nice to have direct instruction from them. Where in this piece do they tell us how to identify websites that have issues with duplicate content?

I greatly appreciate Google communicating with us, but I find far to often subject are briefly touch on by them and not completely explained.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Who Is The Best Looking Man of SEO?

Re: Google Trends Takes Baby-Step Towards Being Useful

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:49:12 -0000

Well these relative numbers are as useful as the numbers you get from Wordtracker, not very.

At least it gives you scale idea of how big of jump in popularity a keyword takes over time.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Best Looking SEO Poll Results

Re: Is this the Complete Guide to SEO Optimization for WordPress?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:44:05 -0000

iridiax, what problems could you have? Your just using the post title in the URL.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..So Did SEO Help The Candidates Get Nominated?

Re: Is Google Sick of Flash Web Sites? New Feature Encourages Users to “Skip Intro”

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:58:41 -0000

I am sure Google will offer some piece of code to allow you to opt of Google doing this to your listings.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..WordPress SEO In A Nutshell by Joost

Re: Is this the Complete Guide to SEO Optimization for WordPress?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:30:54 -0000

Understood now, but I guess I just don't get in the habit of naming posts the same name or pages and posts the same name.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..WordPress SEO In A Nutshell by Joost

Re: Rumor Mill: Microsoft Expecting $100M Powerset Acquisition to Save the Day?

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:55:58 -0000

Holy crap no way PS gets bought for 100 mil. Please tell me it is not true.

What is MS really paying for here? Cant I create the same thing in Google Custom search?

Jeeeez.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Martinez Rocks The PR Sculpting Peeps Again

Re: How Did We Get Lost in the Noise?

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:49:33 -0000

I agree lots of info out there. Just need to be smart on how you filter it. My pet pev is having to many RSS subscriptions that I dont read. I am not a huge Twitter guy, partly because it is down so much.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Thinks An SEO Is…..

Re: Breaking: Microsoft Acquires Powerset

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:09:09 -0000

Another dumb acquisition. Do companies even look at what they are buying before do so? Has anyone tried Powerset? The results for natural language searches are not fantastic at all, in fact are very poor IMHO.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Thinks An SEO Is…..

Re: Google Adds Approximate Search Counts to Keyword Tool

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:08:32 -0000

Just make sure that you use Match Type: Exact and you will get very accurate data compared to organic clicks for 1-2 spots.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google AdWords Keyword Tool Offers Search Volume Numbers

Re: Hosts to Provide Google Webmaster Tools Access

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:26:12 -0000

That is a good question Joe.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Tom Critchlow Rockin Whiteboard Friday at SEOmoz

Re: Just Bought an iPhone 3G? Sucker! Gphone is on the Way!

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:26:31 -0000

Really wish i could get a iPhone on Verizon.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Tom Critchlow Rockin Whiteboard Friday at SEOmoz

Re: Hosts to Provide Google Webmaster Tools Access

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:51:31 -0000

"Does that answer the question?"

Not really. I almost always get FTP access for my clients so my answer would be yes, yet I am not a host.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Tom Critchlow Rockin Whiteboard Friday at SEOmoz

Re: How to Get a Guaranteed #1 Ranking on Google!

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:16:09 -0000

Well if you have properly explained personalization to your client already they would understand how this all works already.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Tom Critchlow Rockin Whiteboard Friday at SEOmoz

Re: Using Search Engines Instead of the Address Bar to Navigate

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:34:46 -0000

Ask an average Joe/Jane how to use Google and the how to use the web address bar in their browser and you will get your answer for this little phenomenon. Nothing really interesting here. Average users are trained to type into fields now and don't use the web address bar as much. I bet most have trouble even knowing where it is.

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Re: For the Future of Search, Microsoft Takes a 10-Year Backward Step

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:21:32 -0000

Wow really sad. They really need to hire some people at least abreast as to what is happening in the online marketing industry as a whole to put the brakes on crap like this.

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Re: Cuil.com Claims to be Bigger, More Private than Google; Can’t Find its Own Page Though (Doh!)

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:03:51 -0000

Google rivals can keep coming out, but they have to realize no matter how "cooler" they search product is you need to have people actually using it to matter.

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Re: Stop the Press! Is this the First Official Apple Blog?

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:39:02 -0000

MobileMe? Yup that is a blog Apple.

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Re: Google Gets Radically Transparent with Search Customization

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:38:33 -0000

Wow this is a pretty big deal and makes localized optimization even more important.

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Re: Google Can & Will Shut Off Your Account Without Warning

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:51:38 -0000

Not sure how scary this is, just factually what Google can and will do if they feel like it. Who owns the information within their products? Thanks, but I will stick to downloading all my mail to Outlook from a server I control.

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Re: New Google Insights: Fact or Fiction? You Tell Me

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:52:39 -0000

LOL @ Joe

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Re: Pilgrim’s Picks for August 11 - Men’s Swimming Relay Edition

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:01:16 -0000

So you have to install Silverlight to watch videos on NBC :(

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Re: ABC News Looks at Protecting Your Online Reputation

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:27:25 -0000

Nice to see some good advice on main stream media for once :)

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Re: Google Makes AdWords Quality Score “Improvements”

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:23:00 -0000

So has anyone seen these changes in the backend yet? I have not.

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Re: A Nip & Tuck for Yahoo Site Explorer

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:23:51 -0000

I am not sure if I see much of a difference

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Re: Google & Verizon Becoming Frenemies?

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:25:02 -0000

I am also a Verizon customer. I have the Voyager, but I wish I could get an iPhone there. probably wont ever happen.

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Re: NBC Gets a Bronze for Online Video Advertising During Olympics

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:59:18 -0000

Obvious to everyone above requiring Microsoft’s Silverlight was the biggest mistake. I would be willing to guess they could have doubled or triple the revenue if it wasnt for that.

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Re: Barack Obama Picks Joe Biden–the Worst Google Reputation of All VP Choices

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:08:06 -0000

McCain/Paul? I can only wish.

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Re: Watch the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates TV Ad - Boring or Brilliant?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:35:24 -0000

Not very well made at all. So many are mentioning that it worked because we are talking about it. I can guarantee that no one outside of the search/,marketing world is talking about it.

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Re: Pilgrim’s Picks for September 9

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:16:11 -0000

Thanks for the link Andy. Ami is right, i am sure we will see MANY more negative posts than positive on Sarah, especially from an image perspective. The GOP camp better get ready.

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Re: Google Search Options Live?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:18:14 -0000

I have not seen them yet. any certain queries?

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Re: Why Martha Stewart Needs Trackur’s Reputation Monitoring (and so do you!)

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:58:32 -0000

I dont think Martha has much to worry about since 99% of the people that follow, watch and buy from her dont know what the hell a back link is or the ramifications of asking for one.

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Re: Apple Threatens to Shut Down iTunes

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:02:50 -0000

"Empty threat" EXACTLY. love to see the music people go back to living off of just CD sales, LOLOL

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Search Like It Was 2001 with Google

Re: Gphone Sold Out; More iPhone Killers to Come?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:03:43 -0000

Cool so when do we get something cool from Verizon other than the poopy Voyager?

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Search Like It Was 2001 with Google

Re: More Google Changes: Content Attributes in SERPs

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:44:53 -0000

Makes sense on blog search, but not normal search.

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Re: Linky Goodness, October 10

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:04:48 -0000

I really didnt see anything helpful from the Webmaster Central Blog postings this week at all.

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Re: 6 Things We Heard Again from the Search Engineers at SMX East

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:32:14 -0000

@Brent nice post. I see that the Chi Tribune home page uses a hybrid of "SEO Level 2" and "SEO Level 3" from your images. Care to define these 5 levels and when to use them?

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Re: Decker Memo to Yahoos: It’s All Good

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:38:28 -0000

All that is left is AOL and MSN that have to do something with one of those two.

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Re: Microsoft’s Ballmer Not Interested in Being Yahoo’s First Runner-up

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:31:42 -0000

Good analogy Andy. Sometimes analogies like this can sum things up so eloquently.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..No Nonsense New Rules to Marketing and PR

Re: Net Neutrality Back on Congressional Calendar

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:57:18 -0000

OK if one major good thing can come from this Democratic ruled white house, house and senate is getting Net Neutrality into law.

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Re: CEO Jerry Yang Stepping Down from a “Stronger” Yahoo - Seriously?

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:28:55 -0000

Seriously though who really wants this CEO job right now?

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Re: Motrin Faces Twitter Headache Over New Video Campaign

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:01:57 -0000

I dont understand the issues here. The commercial was targeted at people who get back pains, from carrying babies. Not sure where in the commercial they said people who carries babies are bad people, LOL. Saying the ad simply targets "baby slingers" is not accurate.

If you dont get back pains then why are you all up in a tizzy?

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Re: Come & See the New Look for Marketing Pilgrim

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:02:54 -0000

The fonts are little to small for me.

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Re: Motrin Faces Twitter Headache Over New Video Campaign

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:50:06 -0000

David, I agree that sometimes people need to get a life and find something important to bitch about, but your comments about Andy are way out of line. His line of work is specific to this. He handles reputation management and right or wrong Motrin definitely needs some control over the situation at hand.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..President Barack ?Youtube? Obama

Re: PC Mag Goes All Online All the Time

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:15:03 -0000

Print just cant reach consumers fast enough with content/opinion. Waiting 30 days to read about something that happened 50 days ago is simply not going to cut it in the tech industry.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Search-Based Keyword Tool (New)

Re: Google Gets Personal

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:04:57 -0000

Great point Frank and Andy. If they anywhere near an avid searcher their results can quickly get crammed with "searching bookmarks" so to speak.

Talk about making the space for new textual content smaller in addition to the space being taken up by Universal search.

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Re: Google Gets Personal

Jaan Kanellis — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:45:21 -0000

Does this really matter? How many users have, will or ever know what a Google account is? I can ask all my friends and family what it is and they will all say...huh?

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Publicly Attacking Paid Links Again?Stop Already

Re: Microsoft Re-Branding Live Search to Kumo? It’ll Take More than Four Letters

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:09:47 -0000

Use our "Spider Cloud" technology to find what your looking for.

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Re: Over 70% of People Surveyed Don’t Enjoy Shopping Online

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:45:34 -0000

I think the title is very misleading here. Obviously these shoppers are mostly looking for improvements to shopping online, not that they dont really like it or will stop doing it.

As visitors to websites get more and more savvy they have come to expect a certain level of shopping experience online. When they dont find that you get the results above. Many websites hopping carts and general shopping experience is still poor from a usability standpoint.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Google Publicly Attacking Paid Links Again?Stop Already

Re: Teenagers Benefit from Hanging out Online

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:47:42 -0000

For some reason people dont realize that the kids that chat online with each other also see each other on a weekly or daily basis.

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Re: Blogs Are Always Reliable Sources of Information…huh?

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:50:30 -0000

You have to give to get. What worse, the throttling of free information because all of it might not be correct or the lack of users ability to decide for him/herself what is correct or not?

I will always go with the later.

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Re: Did “Lazy Sunday” Really Lead to a $1.65B Price Tag for YouTube?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:18:34 -0000

I love those SNL shorts.

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Re: Google’s SearchWiki Is Here To Stay: Is This The Death of SEO?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:21:04 -0000

I think it is completely ridiculous that people can simple move results where ever they want by only looking at how attractive the title and description are. Google gives webmasters zero control on how your title and description appears in the SERPs yet this is how most that use Search Wiki will judge. No one is going to go back and forth from SERP to website to take the time to rank websites. They will be moving websites around by the way they appear in the SERPs. I think that problem alone is not getting enough coverage and is far more troubling than the fact that this feature is being force feed to the webmaster community. I say webmaster community because let’s face it, how many other really have a Google account anyways.

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Re: Web Video Watchers Have Short Attention Spans

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:36:51 -0000

I think Hulu is trying to change this by offering episode long shows. When people know from the beginning that they are looking for longer programming then they have no problem watching it online.

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Re: Online Commerce Struggles While Online Communities Thrive

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:01:48 -0000

Well said Stuart

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Re: Cyber Monday Numbers Uninspiring

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:26:54 -0000

I think this is very much a positive considering the economy.

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Re: AOL, Bebo and Being Stupid

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:56:56 -0000

I agree these social media outlets are finding it hard to make money by placing ads on there website. They need to re-think how they show ad inventory. if they would let the users of these sites control how and what ads are shown a little better I bet they would find that they would make more money.

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Re: Black Hats Salivate as Google Prepares to Add SearchWiki to Algorithm

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:02:41 -0000

Spammers Delight. What a joke. Come on Google. Is your algo really that bad that you need us to tweak it for you?

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Re: Only 16% of Consumers Trust Your Corporate Blog; Time to Delete or Re-Think it?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:52:38 -0000

Yellow pages and print newspaper in the top 5 still? Whats the age group of this sample?

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Re: Procter & Gamble Doesn’t Understand Social Media

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:47:38 -0000

First off I highly doubt that P&G does their own marketing like this. I am sure agencies handle it for them. I know GroupM just won their search engine marketing contract so maybe thing will improve.

Also I dont think it is a bad thing to give away items to attract people to your social home pages at all.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist Released, Sarah Palin Rules

Re: Google Search Suggest Gets Sponsored Listings and More

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:59:34 -0000

So basically they are saying right off the bat PPC is more relevant than organic. Terrible. What happened to letting the users pick. What happen to the great Google algo that gave us such good results? Why is the average Joe being force feed PPC?

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Re: Open Web Awards: People’s Choice Winners Announced

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:34:28 -0000

Aritition link is dead.

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Re: Hulu Losing Viewers and Advertisers?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:40:23 -0000

Considering YouTube's previous dominance and issues with epople uploading Network shows and clips I would have to consider Hulu a success so far.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist Released, Sarah Palin Rules

Re: Small Business Don’t Get It–Still Failing to Invest in Search Marketing

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:43:15 -0000

How is this shocking considering that some 70-80% of the Fortune 100 doesnt even employ "good" organic SEO?

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Re: AdWords Editor Gets an Upgrade – Google Releases Version 7.0

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:34:16 -0000

Hey at least the updated worked and didnt crash my computer like the last one.

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Re: Who’ll Leave Google First? Marissa Mayer or Matt Cutts?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:04:56 -0000

More importantly if Matt C does leave, who will become the "face" of Google to all of the SEOers and marketers out there?

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Re: Why I’ve Never Been More Embarrassed for Yahoo

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:56:42 -0000

i stopped using Yahoo years ago because of the incentivized traffic, but seeing this might be worse. Are they nothing more than one large arbitrator of fake traffic and now can spend as much as they want on that shitty traffic?

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Re: Redirect Case Study: Transferring Google PageRank

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:52:50 -0000

If the client is worried about PR in the toolbar then they might not be as educated as they need to be. As traffic flow from old URL to the new ones is what is really important.

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Re: Google’s Organic Results and Ads Merge…Kind Of.

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:00:44 -0000

Sorry Joe they are completely different for me. I understand what your trying to say, but until you can produce examples across a wide range of keywords and locations in the US then this is a poor example and doesn't really show more than coicindence.

Jaan Kanellis's last blog post..Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions Book

Re: Google’s Organic Results and Ads Merge…Kind Of.

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:09:02 -0000

Well in the image posted I cant see the URLs at all because the image is to small. And when I look on my side it is totally different

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Re: New Yahoo CEO Deciding Whether to “Hold” or “Fold” Search Business

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:36:52 -0000

Good point, yahoo Search bad and good (bad) does keep it in the business news. Of course that doesnt help its bottom line at all.

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Re: Google Cutting More than Jobs–Shuttering Five Products

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:17:36 -0000

This is what happens when you start projects and dont commit resources to finish them.

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Re: President Obama Promises to Bring Transparency to the White House

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:08:01 -0000

The radically transparent White House!

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Re: MSFT Shares Down 8% - Why I Don’t Think it’s Due to Announced Job Cuts or Profit Decline

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:05:00 -0000

Makes sense to me. Do lots of other companies that size say they cant off profit forecasts for the rest of the year in January?

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Re: Do Fake Viral Videos Hurt More Than They Help?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:12:30 -0000

I never heard of http://www.witchery.com.au/ before this video. Now I have. PR job accomplished in my opinion.

If you are looking to go from no where to somewhere why not try one of these campaigns?

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Re: Yo Yahoo! The “Truth” is, Your Search Marketing Changes Suck!

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:29:16 -0000

Amazing Yahoo is not at least giving an effort to visit this types of blogs to at least try to fan the flames or at least place reasoning behind these issues.

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Re: Google Grabs Almost All Search Growth; Others Flatline

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:41:25 -0000

Michael I want to believe you on this but my raw logs don't lie. I have top 3 rankings on all three engines for lots of keywords. So why does Google always send more traffic directly from their search website versus MS?

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Re: Do You Have a Twitter Twin?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:43:46 -0000

Andrew M

I am seeing a ton of new followers as well. It is real pain for anyone that uses Twitter not just the popular ones.

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Re: How Michael Phelps Screwed-up His Google Reputation in Just 24 Hours

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:20:34 -0000

LOL, this post in its self is contributing to his poor online reputation.

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Re: The Best Super Bowl TV Ad? Here’s My Vote

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:29:58 -0000

This website has a good list of all the commercials from all the past super bowls:

http://commercial-archive.com/

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Re: How Michael Phelps Screwed-up His Google Reputation in Just 24 Hours

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:52:53 -0000

I know Andy, just giving you a hard time. I agree though linking to one of "weed" articles does promote it somewhat.

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Re: Fake Social Media Profiles: The Biggest Online Threat of 2009?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:04:40 -0000

This is already a huge problem at Twitter.

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Re: 44% of Small Businesses Still Don’t Have a Web Site!

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:30:39 -0000

Actually I would think that 44% would be somewhat low.

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Re: Social Media and Sacrifice

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:21:33 -0000

I think people need to look at Twitteraholics before Facebook users as addicts.

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Re: A Great Example of Hosting the Conversation When Under Attack

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:45:05 -0000

Just another way how blog posts can help control reputation issues.

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Re: Ryanair Hits Reputation Turbulence; Apparently Doesn’t Care

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:32:14 -0000

Whoops by Ryanair, but still Jason was trying to steal airline tickets and show his blog followers how to do it. I would understand a knee-jerk response like this because of that fact...behind closed doors.

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Re: ABCNews Tries to Be Cool but Stumbles a Bit

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:22:12 -0000

Did Twitter themselves cause the outage or did ABC website go down?

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Re: Win an Amazon Kindle 2 in the Easiest Contest in the History of Contests!*

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:02:48 -0000

Pick me, pick me!

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Re: Facebook Redesigning Pages, But New Research Suggests Engagement is Low

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:11:41 -0000

I see tons of issues with FB pages all of the time, namely constantly being bombarded with ads to click on when trying to install widgets/apps.

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Re: Google Offers Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) Program

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:17:00 -0000

Just because you can work within GA and produce some nice reports doesnt make any better at SEO that is for sure.

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Re: Win an Amazon Kindle 2 in the Easiest Contest in the History of Contests!*

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:41:55 -0000

LOL, I know I will be keeping my eyes open for it.

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Re: Why Google & Twitter Need to Ditch “Nofollow” for All Our Sakes!

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:47:52 -0000

"create yet another tag that instructs the search engines to follow, but to not pass on any “Google Juice” from the site doing the linking"

So the page doesnt get any internal link juice from the domain it resides on, but it is more than welcome to get outside link juice from other sites? Damn well that would be interesting and I am not entirely sure it would work the way Google does things.

Can Google strip the vlaue of pages internal link juice with just one tag? Matt?

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Re: Why Google & Twitter Need to Ditch “Nofollow” for All Our Sakes!

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:08:22 -0000

OK so no link juice in the URL, then you wont be seeing many Twitter posts ranking Google. Probably as many as you see now.

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Re: Goliath Picks on David: The Tweet-Wars Begin

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:30:51 -0000

I like Twitter but I find myself not being bale to keep up on everyones tweets. Doest anyone work that is on Twitter?

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Re: Optimising Images for Search Engines - SMX West

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:48:12 -0000

So per Google having your image hotlinked is a good thing as far as getting it ranked in their image search?

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Re: Fortune 500 Cos. Fall Flat with SEO Efforts

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:28:21 -0000

SEO is dead or dying? Hardly just look above.

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Re: Adobe Introduces Flash Info Site for SEO’s

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:14:31 -0000

Just think how much harder you have to work and how many more links you will need to get a Flash site to rank above a comparable site in HTML

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Re: Win an Amazon Kindle 2 in the Easiest Contest in the History of Contests!*

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:44:53 -0000

I assume the post has not happened yet as I have not seen a secret message yet.

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Re: Corporate Responsibility? Who Woulda Thunk?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:42:29 -0000

Not really newsworthy really when all three are billionaires many times over.

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Re: Corporate Responsibility? Who Woulda Thunk?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:58:33 -0000

Jaded and repelled? Hardly. The fact is their stock options are pay enough and allow them to be wealthy enough to NOT require a salary. Why would they want to cost the company more money for no reason? That would make no sense?

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Re: Corporate Responsibility? Who Woulda Thunk?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:00:10 -0000

The fact is many Americans everyday reinvest what they should be paying themselves back into the company for the better good or future profits. I dont see anyone waving flags for them or blogging about their struggles.

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Re: Trackur Rebrands to Twackur, Emphasizes Twitter Monitoring

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:05:43 -0000

April Foooools!

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Re: RIM’s App Mall Opens at BlackBerry AppWorld

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:13:08 -0000

Not many apps available there yet.

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Re: RIM’s App Mall Opens at BlackBerry AppWorld

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:46:01 -0000

Nick:

www.blackberry.com/appworld/

The worst part is you have to be on IE to access it. WTF?

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Re: Amazon’s Affiliate Program Ends PPC Arbitrage

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:18:33 -0000

Linda your right. This doesnt make sense. Their has to be more to this story than is public right now.

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Re: Like the Phoenix from its Ashes: StumbleUpon Buys Itself Back from eBay

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:41:59 -0000

just 3-4 years ago they was craziness in mergers and acquisitions, now since the economy has tumble poor ones are easy to spot.

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Re: Twitter Agency Emerges from TV Character

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:01:19 -0000

Havent they been doing this for years on myspace? Also what about achieving the #1 ranking for a fake character on Google and then trying to monetize it. How long would you last doing that?

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Re: Would You Pay to Read a Twitter Stream?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:26:44 -0000

If I dont read them for free, why would I pay. Seriously I love the idea of now being able to search twitter streams for great content and even use this plugin so they show in my google search results:

http://mt-hacks.com/20090302-realtime-twitter-s...

but no way I pay for them. Do I pay to use Google search? No.

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Re: Would You Pay to Read a Twitter Stream?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:30:48 -0000

I agree that would be cool and if it could remember which ones I dont want to see Twitter results for as well.

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Re: Crowdsourcing is Hot Now, But Will Participation Fatigue Set In?

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:15:50 -0000

Or a better question is when will online participation in and at so many levels really start to fatigue? Just updating Twitter, Facebook and other social networks already seem like a daunting task for some.

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Re: FeedBurner Makes the Jump to the Google Mothership

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:49:15 -0000

Looks like they just threw a copy of the Google home page code onto http://feedburner.com/. Maybe Google wants to cause some duplicate content issues with themselves.

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Re: New Changes to AdWords Keyword Tool: Local Search vs Global Search Figures Added

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:45:39 -0000

Why would global numbers be less than local numbers for some keywords?

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Re: Proof That Nielsen is Wrong; Twitter’s Retention Rate is Not 40%

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:59:54 -0000

I am sure if I am advertiser I would like to know the difference...WHEN twitter starts offering advertising that is.

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Re: Forget Skynet! Computers Still Too Dumb to Spot Flu Outbreak

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:18:55 -0000

Not sure if that is correct. I bet the flu trend always goes up that time of the year. Coming into Winter people just tend to get more colds or feel like they have the flu.

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Re: Wake Up! Google Was Just One Big Dream!

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:40:35 -0000

I bet a lot more great ideas come in dream form than we know.

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Re: Gaming Google Trends; So Easy, a Caveman Can Do It!

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:42:16 -0000

I see them all of the time, usually from people getting some spammy domain listed as a popular search

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Re: Would This Google Chrome TV Ad Make You Switch Browsers?

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:52:18 -0000

Well you can tell it was made for the Japan market. That would not fly well in the US.

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Re: Would This Google Chrome TV Ad Make You Switch Browsers?

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:12:45 -0000

Well I will guess fail here, but then again no one has seen a Google commercial EVER so intrigue may win over quality and effectiveness. Especially the command at the end of the commercial to download Chrome now, LOL. If I wasnt internet savvy, I would not know what the hell they were talking about still. The lay person barely knows what a "browser" is when you ask them to open one. They just knowthe IE icon is how they get online.

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Re: CEOs and Twitter

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:14:45 -0000

Not really a surprise here as most of them make their dollars online.

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Re: Win Copies of Dan Schawbel’s “Me 2.0″ Book

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:57:55 -0000

Comment left!

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Re: Google Gets New SERPs

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:30:24 -0000

I dont like the idea of rich snippets. Until Google releases some real data showing that these listings get more clicks AND conversions I am not sold.

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Re: The Sasquatch Gang is here

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:40:41 -0000

Looks very funny!

Re: SEO Baloney From USATODAY

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:09:54 -0000

Lee I felt the need to blog about it at my website. I had mostly the same feelings you did and I emailed the author to let him know. Like I mentioned in my blog the best part of this is the authors website doesnt even have a title tag!

Re: SEO Baloney From USATODAY

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:13:52 -0000

Right, Lee. I did put is responses to my email on TW and of course their could have 30-40 solid SEO's I could have listed, but that wasnt the point so much.

Re: Is Your SEO Firm Outsourcing Your Work?

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:37:44 -0000

I have worked with many interactive agencies and represented the SEO part of the company on their behalf. I think it is just the nature of the beast. If the client ever wondered, I was always up front and told them I was consulting for XYZ Interactive.

Re: 3 Reasons Why Blogs for SEO Fail

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:07:39 -0000

2a. Passion. You really need to love what your doing here so you can explain it with excitement. Using analogies that makes sense to everyday folks yet at the same time not dumbing it down to much for the experts. Keeping that passion up can be really draining to some.

4. Dont just talk SEO. Talk about other topics on your SEO blog. It is OK to do that :)

Re: 3 Reasons Why Blogs for SEO Fail

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:48:32 -0000

Sure it is Ned. I am talking about other topics that can tie into marketing. I agree you should know your audience and write to what they want or feel like they would want to read.

Re: Is Your Web Site SEO and Social Media Friendly?

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:50:20 -0000

I am have been pushing for the "easy to share" idea for years now with clients and some are starting to finally get it. The easier you make it for the visitors to your clients sites to syndicate your content the more chance you have for social network exposure.

Re: Video SEO “Posers” Piss Me Off!

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:24:09 -0000

The funniest part is that these guys want you to pay them to make crappy video like the one above for you!

Re: Video SEO “Posers” Piss Me Off!

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:37:41 -0000

Andy I am obviously talking about the crappy video in the posting. What the hell else would I be talking about?