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Re: Controversial Izea While I Slept

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:43:59 -0000

Have you tried searching for izea? Wonder how long it will take for them to overtake the zoo association.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=izea

Re: Controversial Izea While I Slept

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:43:59 -0000

Have you tried searching for izea? Wonder how long it will take for them to overtake the zoo association.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=izea

Re: Picture this: Digg adds photos, taxonomy

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:35:45 -0000

The dup image detection is very cool and I think it's going to be very useful in the long term for Digg Images.

Re: 13 Year Old Steals Dad’s Credit Card to Buy Hookers….Not

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:59:09 -0000

Actually it's gained 5,000 links and Google isn't going to be doing anything about it. They are just trying to discourage the practice.

Re: 2007/06/30/pownce-invites/

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:25:39 -0000

Please send one to patrick@blogstorm.co.uk

Cheers.

Re: 2007/07/13/now-get-paid-to-stumbleupon/

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:32:15 -0000

Why stop using stumbleupon? It's not their fault some people try to game the system.

The best way to stop this sort of thing is for everybody to vote the thumbs down button when you stumble upon content you don't like.

Re: 2008/02/10/fighting-spam-wordpress/

Patrick Altoft — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:53:11 -0000

Akismet gets most of it but I would prefer if the spam didn't even get submitted.

Re: 2008/02/19/gmail-antispam-filters-leaking/

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:02:02 -0000

I've been getting a load of spam emails too, just a sign of the times.

Re: 2008/02/19/v7n-for-sale/

Patrick Altoft — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:10:50 -0000

How was the SEO contest a hoax? Just because the words were made up doesn't make it a hoax.

Re: 2008/02/22/automatic-background-switching/

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:12:47 -0000

The flickr one is great, been using that for a while.

Re: 2008/02/22/firefox-500-million-downloads/

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:13:33 -0000

The market share figures are actually pretty good so they should be proud to show them off.

Re: 2007/09/30/seo-toolbox/

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:39:40 -0000

Link Assistant is quite a good one for checking rankings, we use it to build client reports.

Re: 2008/03/24/peerflix/

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:40:42 -0000

That's disappointing, its a good service.

Re: 2008/03/24/huffington-post-profitable/

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:48:39 -0000

They should be profitable with that amount of traffic.

Re: 2008/07/01/google-adobe-flash-search/

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:02:46 -0000

Stan your post is ridiculous, just because search engines can now index flash files doesn't mean they will rank them highly.

Being indexed and being ranked highly are two very different things.

Re: The best SEO/SEM info (crowd sourced)

Patrick Altoft — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:51:22 -0000

You might like to check out my blog, blogstorm.co.uk. Full of good stuff.

Re: The “Long Copy” format: can it work for you?

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:09:15 -0000

Would be interesting to know the conversion rate for people in the UK. Not one person I know from the UK would even look twice at a sales letter page.

Aaron if you are reading this you may want to test some geotargeting........

Re: The Only List of Search Marketing Blogs You’ll Ever Need

Patrick Altoft — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:19:46 -0000

My new years resolution was to read less and work more, this is just what I needed. Not.

Re: Cingular and Apple Dropped the SEO Ball with iPhone

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:52:33 -0000

Whether they dropped the ball for 24 hours of not Apple have a site ranking 2nd for iphone within 2 days of launch AND it has good content on it.

Re: Exclusive - Yahoo Using Dirty Tactics to Switch Google & Firefox Users?

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:38:18 -0000

Just another step in the road to Yahoo and MS partnering.

Re: Google Tries to Squash Cell Phone Reports

Patrick Altoft — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:36:14 -0000

Whilst one hand is denying the rumours, the other has just hired the creators of the Sidekick to work on the Google Phone.
http://www.mad4mobilephones.com/news/677/

Re: I Want Your RSS Feed!

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:03:29 -0000

Its not SEO but you might find some interesting mobile marketing / Google phone stuff.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/mobile-phones

Re: Are Blogs the Only Way to Discover News?

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:40:29 -0000

I set up RSS feeds on Google News, Serph, Digg etc for all my keywords and view it all in Netvibes.

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

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:00:13 -0000

The funny thing is at the end when he says "just e-market yourself well". If only he knew that SEO was just marketing but on the web.

Re: Is this the best we can do?

Patrick Altoft — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:59:42 -0000

As the owner of a 10 week old blog about internet marketing I would like to offer my thoughts.

The problem is that as a new blogger it is very hard to gain any traction so you end up writing about things that you think will gain links from other bloggers and social media sites rather than the general topics that interest you. I started to fall into this trap and stopped myself (hopefully) and just wrote about what I wanted to.

A lot of bloggers want to offer unique posts and avoid rehashing other content which is great. Unfortunately it means they don't link to other blogs very often leaving people needing to use linkbait to build readership.

Andy Beard is quite right, Digg bait and linkbait are totally different things.

Re: Digg for Greens = Hugg

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:17:41 -0000

I like meneame.net and scoopeo.com. They send thousands of uniques if you hit the homepage.

Re: Digg Adds Image Support, Restructures Categories

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:13:11 -0000

Maybe you need to read my guide to making sure your Digg story has a thumbnail:
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/blog/how-to-make-you...

If it doesn't show up then Digg probably couldn't find one.

Re: Why Nobody Should Buy Digg

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:52:24 -0000

If Digg bans you for being a spammer they don't respond to emails. If they ban you for some other rules breakage then they respond and let you back in.

Re: White Hat Magic for Pagerank 7 in 200 Days

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:25:47 -0000

Netscape is closing this week.......

Re: White Hat Magic for Pagerank 7 in 200 Days

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:56:47 -0000

http://blog.netscape.com/2007/09/06/upcoming-ne...

Re: 10,000 Subscribers

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:32:41 -0000

10,000 (or 9,999) is a big milestone. :)

Re: BIGLIST SEM Blogs Update 011108

Patrick Altoft — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:03:12 -0000

Thanks for the mention Lee. :)