Panelists Think Links More Important Than Text

SXSW Interactive Panelists Urge to Write for People, Not Robots

 

Search engine marketers discuss a variety of methods to raise website awareness and rankings within search engines.

 

Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 29, 2007 -- Flooding web pages with keywords is not only user-unfriendly; it's also a waste of time. That was the message Search Engine Marketers William Leake and Kelly Meacham had for attendees of the 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Panel discussion "Making SEO and Usability Work Together."

 

"When it comes to natural search results it's really just a robot analyzing the HTML of a site, with external and internal links being much more important than the text on the page," said Leake, CEO and President of Apogee Search. Both Leake and Meacham expressed the need for website content to be tailored to the user and not the search engine. "Keeping users engaged, ultimately keeps them satisfied," Meacham added. "If a site is full of jargon serving as keyword density, a user's interest and/or sales are lost."

 

The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of panels, keynote discussions, trade show and exhibition events. The wide variety of programming offered at SXSW Interactive in addition to the presence of SXSW Film and SXSW Music helps make it a completely original event. Together, Leake, and Meacham, have over two decades of SEO, web marketing, and website usability experience; and were happy to share their know-how to a room-overflowing crowd of 200+ people.

 

Attendance at the "Making SEO and Usability Work Together" power session was standing room only despite rainy weather conditions that dampened overall attendance that day. This impressive turnout reflects the intensity of interest in search engine marketing, as almost 90% of all websites are initially found through search engines. For those that missed the session, the SXSW website (www.sxsw.com) will be adding a podcast of the session in the near future.

 

As for better search engine optimization Leake stressed the importance of putting keywords within a website's title tags and letting in-bound links serve as the main bait for the algorithm robots. He explained this strategy by saying, "Google's search algorithms are constantly changing, and keyword density is only a small portion - typically no more than six percent -- of what drives those algorithm. Therefore, the most sure-fire way to keep up with their changing patterns is to always have a wide variety of outside sites linked to your site." Afterwards Leake closed the session by saying, "A proper site is one designed for humans and not robots. So if you want it to rank high and still be user-friendly, write fluidly and link constantly."

 

About Apogee Search                                                                                                                   
Apogee Search is a search engine marketing firm based in Austin TX, and was founded by early internet pioneers and McKinsey & Co. alumni. Since its inception in 2001, Apogee Search has rapidly grown to become the pre-eminent SEM agency in Texas. Focusing on a variety of search marketing methods that include: Paid Search (PPC), Natural Search (SEO), Affiliate Marketing, and Pay-Per-Call, Apogee Search's solutions are designed to drive qualified, targeted visitors to B2B and B2C websites for more leads, customers, revenues and profits.

 

About Expero Inc.                                                                                                           
Expero Inc is a website design, usability, and content development firm creating user experience solutions for software products and websites. Unlike traditional design and usability firms, which have a single point of expertise and focus on a portion of the user experience problem, Expero provides a user experience solution that strives to create a user-driven website on target with the needs and expectations of the client's audience.

 

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Infinidigm, Inc., a search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and software development firm, announces its cornerstone search engine marketing and search engine optimization technology-based service called Engine77. Engine77 is a robust software platform and service used to optimize web sites, perform market research, and develop sites based upon the analysis.

Chandler, AZ (PRWeb) March 22, 2007 -- Infinidigm, Inc., a search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and software development firm, announces its cornerstone search engine marketing and search engine optimization technology-based service called Engine77. Engine77 is a robust software platform and service used to optimize web sites, perform market research, and develop sites based upon the analysis.    

Engine77 is like a cockpit for SEO.     The software platform performs millions of calculations in real-time to visually feed data to the optimization engineer, who performs modifications and knows their consequences before spending a single cent on development--and more importantly, not spending costly waiting time for real results.    

Engine77 helps the optimization engineer support the client by filling a Decision Support Analysis (DSA) role.     The engineer can weigh the effects of changes from the whole site downward to a single word of content.     Thus, Engine77 facilitates the best decision-making possible.     Engine77 converts live data into meaningful marketing analysis in minutes versus weeks or months, and it is a surgically sharp instrument when needed by those who must be precise and decisive.

Engine77 maximizes internet development efforts because search engine optimization is considered from the ground upward, instead of as an afterthought.     Development and optimization are concurrent with Engine77 guiding the project.

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Source: Infinidigm, Inc.

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China's .cn Internet Domains for Just $7.99

 

Pricing Promotion Sparks New Land Rush for China's .cn Internet Domain; US-based Registrar Offers Domains for Just $7.99

EnCirca (http://www.encirca.com), international Registrar for the .cn country-code top-level domain name, announces an 80% price reduction for companies and users residing outside of China. EnCirca is offering .cn domains for just $7.99, lower than normal pricing for .com domain names. The special promotion applies to a one year registration of all ASCII-based .cn domains. The promotion will end April 30, 2007. More details can be found at http://www.encirca.com.

Boston, USA (PRWeb) March 22, 2007 -- EnCirca (http://www.encirca.com), international Registrar for the .cn country-code top-level domain name, announces an 80% price reduction for companies and users residing outside of China.

EnCirca is offering .cn domains for just $7.99, lower than normal pricing for .com domain names. The special promotion applies to a one year registration of all ASCII-based .cn domains. The promotion will end April 30, 2007. More details can be found at http://www.encirca.com.

"China is determined that its .cn domain will compete with the .com domain name for companies and users striving to conduct business in China," says Tom Barrett of EnCirca. "This promotion will also attract more speculators into the market. If companies and brand owners have not protected all of their trademarks in the .cn domain, now is a good time to do so."

Trademark owners should not assume that their local intellectual property rights will prevail in China, as millions of business start-ups in China are claiming rights to domain names that may be trademarked in other countries. Google is discovering this in its efforts to claim the gmail.cn domain name.

The US$7.99 pricing includes all .cn extensions, including the 34 regional domains. The full list of regional extensions can be found at http://www.encirca.com/updates/cnindex.shtml

The .cn domain grew over 60% in 2006 to a total of 1.6 million domains, becoming the fourth largest country-specific domain. However, there are still more .com and .net registered domains in China than .cn. This promotion is designed to make .cn the dominant domain for ecommerce in China.

There are no restrictions on who can own a .cn domain name. This special pricing will generate a surge in new registrations for the .cn domain. Companies are urged to act quickly protect their trademarks, products and service names in the .cn domain name.

About EnCirca, Inc.
EnCirca, Inc., International Domain Name Registrar for the .cn domain, was founded in 2001 and supports many other top-level domains. As an ICANN-Accredited Registrar, EnCirca also supports generic top-level domains, including .travel, .jobs and .pro. For more information, please visit http://www.encirca.com.

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Loophole in RegisterFly.com's System May Save Domain Names

 

Poker Blog Finds Loophole in RegisterFly.com's System That May Potentially Save Over 1 Million Domain Names

Over 200,000 Clients, which include the Government of Thailand, the Easter Seals charity and Pop star Michael Jackson, could be eligible to save their domain names from loss. A Poker Blog Has Found an Emergency Solution.

Miami, FL (PRWeb) March 16, 2007 -- After over a year turmoil at the Registrar know as RegisterFly there may a be a solution to those inclined to save their domains from loss. RegisterFly has been in and out of courts and has a pressing issue with ICANN, and it seems that a lot of clients want to leave this registrar.

There has even been a website created by distressed RegisterFly clients at registerflies.com. In the wake of all this turmoil a poker blog has found the solution that could potentially help save millions of domains from loss and help RegisterFly's clients transfer their domains to another registrar.

The problem that current RegisterFly clients are having is that they have a lock on their Whois information and therefore cannot transfer their domains until they obtain Authorization Codes from RegisterFly.com. Mr. Valentino Viccetzar, writer for the Poker Rouge Blog, has found a solution that outlines exactly how to acquire the codes in the RegisterFly system quickly.

The solution came to Valentino Viccetzar after weeks of trying to switch registrars, when he was faced with the loss of his domains. "The fascinating part of it all is that we (RegisterFly clients) could have transferred the domains long ago ... had we known this loophole," states Mr. Viccetzar. On his blog post he outlines a 15 Step Process that "If followed to the letter, should give you the (authorization) codes and start the domain transfer immediately."

The Full 15 Step Process is Outlined Here.

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Problem with AARP Marketing Program

Message Sent to: strategicalliances@aarp.org; adsales@aarp.org; bulletin@aarp.org; modernmaturity@aarp.org; PCMNationalOffice@aarp.org

Hello,

I'm sorry to bother most of you, but I want to make sure this message finds someone that can address my problem.

I have attached an email that was sent by someone that is doing some marketing for you. They are constantly spamming me for a number of offers and do not stop despite my efforts to get them to do so. I never signed up with them and never agreed to get mailings from them.

Since I doubt that an organization such as AARP wants to use marketing methods such as this, I am taking some time to alert you before I take action.

That action will be the construction of a web site devoted to the issue and provide documentation on all spam received that promotes generally respectable companies and organizations such as yours. There will be no rants, no slurs, or anything else other than a presentation of the materials received and my attempts to get it to stop which will include this email.

Since I see in this article here, http://www.cio.com/archive/030104/aarp.html that you are concerned about this issue, I'm sure you don't want others to send spam on your behalf.

No reply is needed. I just want those responsible to get the message that what they are doing is wrong and to stop. Please be advised that I am receiving these messages not only at the address in the attached email, but also many others. Removing that one email address from their list will not stop the problem. They must stop sending to ALL non-opted in email addresses.

Thank you,
Chris Nielsen
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To: christian
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SEO Contest: Want Results With Those Rankings?

A Lesson Learned From The Pasternack SEO Contest

 

by Gord Hotchkiss, Thursday, March 8, 2007
WHY IS search engine marketing defined by diametric opposition?  It seems like for every question there are two extreme answers.  And these polar opposite viewpoints are held with a tremendous amount of passion.  The smallest questioning of our position can unleash a firestorm of retribution.  Blogs kick themselves into high gear as aspersions are cast without a second thought.  We rise passionately to defend our position, questioning the pedigrees and mental capacities of our opponents. How could someone be so incredibly dense as to not see it our way? 

 

Tempest in a Teapot
In the past few months, little has raised such a passion of opposing viewpoints as the questioning of the value of organic optimization.  The verbal feud that took place in the blogosphere is well-known to most of us within the industry.  If you've been one of the few that has remained blissfully ignorant of the David Pasternack (co-founder of Did-It) "Is SEO rocket science" debate, count yourself fortunate.  It's not so much the debate I want to focus on, but the fallout of that debate because I think there's a valuable lesson that we can all learn from it.  As the organic community rose to defend its collective value, Threadwatch.org had the idea of launching an SEO contest.  The premise of the contest was simple.  Whoever ranked highest for the phrase David Pasternack by noon on March 1 was the winner.  A Who's Who of SEOs rose to take the challenge, using every trick in the book to try to propel their page to No. 1 in the Google data centers.

 

One Set of Results, Two Interpretations
Predictably, the tactics ranged from the white to the dark gray.  The winner, when all was said and done, was the page that had been ranking previously for a chef in New York also called, coincidently, David Pasternack.  There was a post on Dave Pasternack's Did-It corporate blog that said, with a decidedly sarcastic tongue-in-cheek approach, "See? We told you so! SEO isn't rocket science and after you guys threw the best you could at the algorithms, the page that was there before the contest was still the one ranking number one on Google."  That's one viewpoint.

 

Ironically, when you look at that same page of search results, the opposing side also claims victory.  Their contention? They dramatically changed the appearance of a search results page, which shows that SEO does have tremendous value and that it's not a "set and forget," one-time endeavor.  Search results pages are dynamic environments and if you hope to do well on them, you have to be prepared to take a long-term view. That's the other viewpoint.

 

See?  The same set of search results -- but two dramatically different opinions of what happened in the contest.  And both sides swear they're right.  In my opinion, they're both right -- or, at least a little bit of each argument rings true.  The fact is, the page for David Pasternack, (the chef, not the cofounder of Did-It), has been around a long time and this Pasternack is a well-known guy.  Google is doing what it should be doing; putting the site first that most people would be expecting to find at the top of the listings.

 

The SEO side is also correct.  They did dramatically change the look of the page.  Other than the top0ranking page, the rest of the results looked decidedly different than they did a few weeks before, prior to the contest.  So rather than quibble about who's right and who's wrong in this debate, let's look at the takeaways and see what we can learn.

 

The (Web) Guerilla Approach
One of the most interesting entries was a late one by Greg Boser.  Greg's approach leveraged the existing notoriety of David Pasternack, the chef.  Greg's approach was not so much based on technical tricks (although they did play a role), but rather a very clever strategy that was aligned with the inherent nature of people who frequent the Web.  Greg didn't win the contest, but he came within a whisker's width of doing so.  The fact was, Greg reluctantly entered the contest late (more irony, both Greg and Dave Pasternack called SEO contests stupid, but both entered) and  he wanted to time his entry so that it climbed the search engine ranks and claimed the top spot within 12 hours of the closing of a contest.  He wanted to show that not only could you control your organic visibility, but you could do it with a fair amount of predictability.  His timing was a little bit off, due more than anything to variations in the various Google data centers, but he definitely showed that with the right approach, you can influence search results.

 

To me, the interesting thing in this was not the technique Greg used but the approach he decided to follow.  He played the innocent bystander card.  He appealed to human nature and understood how people would react.  The genius of Greg's approach was not in how he used redirects or turned on the "link juice."  Those were all techniques that were part of the execution and yes, they had to be done right, but they only mattered because they were aligned to a strategy that was very clever.  He outthought his competition, rather than hammered them to death with a bag of black-hat tricks.  He knew that if he drew attention to the real Dave Pasternack, the one that was having his rightful visibility usurped by a temporary blip on the online "buzz" horizon, he would have a better chance of gaining support because he was appealing to an inherent human value that we all generally share. 

 

We like to protect people, especially if they've been rightfully wronged in some way.  Our best instincts rise to the surface and we want to rush to the aid of the victim.  In this particular instance, the way to do that was by sending a little "link love" Greg threw out some irresistible link bait. And what was particularly impressive about his entry was the way he almost timed it down to the hour, letting the momentum of his entry roll right up to the final moment and coming within one datacenter of actually winning the contest.  Did he usurp the original Dave Pasternack page?  No, but he really shouldn't have.  That page had already earned its link love and should have been right where it was, on top of the listings.

 

The Value of People Smarts
Recently, I wrote a column about the future of SEO and SEM agencies.  And I said that the time may soon be coming when the technical wizardry that SEOs tend to rely on may have limited value.  One thing, however, that will never have limited value is the ability to understand how people think and work -- and then to be able to translate that into an online reality. 

 

That's what Greg Boser showed in this contest.  He understood what makes people tick and then anticipated how that might play out online.  That type of approach will always have value in the online world.  Over time it may translate itself from gaining results on a search engine to building buzz on Digg, creating more presence on blogs, or any one of the other 1,001 places where we would like to gain visibility online.  But the ability to take an understanding of human nature and then to be able to translate that into anticipated online behavior is an incredibly valuable commodity.

 

Greg, there are many things that we might not agree on, but in this particular contest, you showed that SEO may not be rocket science, but it can certainly be a social science.

 

Gord Hotchkiss is the president of Enquiro, a search engine marketing firm. He loves to explore the strategic side of search and is a frequent speaker at Search Engine Strategies and Ad:Tech. Check out his blog at http://www.outofmygord.com 

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Chris Nielsen from Domain Incubation says:
March 9th, 2007 at 3:20 am

Best article I've read in a long time. So often they are hyped or just plain wrong in what much of what they spew.

At the risk of further becoming a target, I'd just like to comment that these contests are interesting and educational, but rankings are a pretty poor indication of SEO success. I would much rather see a contest that uses traffic or better yet, SALES as a measure of success.

Rankings may or may not equal traffic, but trafic is finite. The only question then is about the quality of that traffic, and that is validated by conversions.

Given that kind of contest, I think many of those in our industry would fall far short of the goal and those that focus on what really matters, traffic/conversions would prevail.

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India To Get "Google Adwords-Like" System

 

Web2Corp's WBTO ByIndia.com to Launch "Google Adwords-Like" System in India

Ads.ByIndia.com will Support Growing Advertising Demand for the Online Media Markets in India

Orlando, FL (PRWeb) March 5, 2007 -- ByIndia.com, India's #1 India-centric search engine and social networking site, has seen remarkable growth since it was acquired by Web2Corp four months ago, and will soon be adding another new feature. Starting on March 15, 2007, ByIndia.com will have keyword powered advertising available that is similar to Google or Yahoo.

Ads.ByIndia.com will feature keyword listings on the top of the page as well as on the right margin, similar to AdWords' functionality. However, unlike AdWords, inline images will be supported on advertisements on the right margin, affording advertisers an opportunity to reinforce advertisements with extra visual punch.

"Google's AdWords program netted the company more than 7 billion dollars in 2006," said William Mobley, CEO of Web2Corp. "While the market in India is smaller than Google's overall reach, it's undergoing an almost explosive growth. According to Heernet Ventures, the Indian media market will grow from 9.2 billion US dollars in 2007 to 17 billion in 2012, or 766 billion INR. We will be able to gain significant market share in India quickly, because we're the first serious contender in their social media market. This is crucial both for ByIndia and for advertisers because early movers will have the opportunity to get a large share of the average Indian web user's mindshare quickly and at a tiny fraction of the price of advertising in more developed markets. Ads.ByIndia.com is looking to get more than just Indian advertisers, though, and will accept payment in INR rupees, GBR Pounds, US Dollars, and Canadian dollars. Google's own Eric Schmidt stated that India is going to be the largest Internet market in 5 or 10 years, so the potential to start generating brand loyalty in the fastest-growing economy in the world while it is still inexpensive is very valuable.

"As the #1 Indian search engine and social networking site, ByIndia.com offers advertisers clear value, both in terms of traffic and content, as it allows businesses to target the Indian market. 53% of India's population is under 30, and ByIndia.com is a remarkable vehicle that will get advertisers in front of adults who are approaching the top of their earning potential, freeing up disposable income and developing families."

About Web2Corp:
Web2Corp is a Web 2.0 internet technology development firm dedicated to rapid creation and adaptation of technologies. Web2Corp addresses new markets of users by creating and simplifying useful products, reducing the level of user technical skills required, and lowering prices for consumers. Web 2.0 technologies have become increasingly popular, with the use of Web 2.0 applications such as e-commerce or blogs up more than 25% over the last year, according to comScore networks. The Web 2.0 market generates more than 20 billion dollars of revenue a year, with well-known companies like Google.com, Flickr.com, MySpace.com, eBay.com, Craigslist.com, and Blogger.com making up the majority of the income.

For more information on ByIndia.com or for rules and details of the ByIndia.com 5 Million Dollar Sweepstakes, visit www.ByIndia.com

For more information on Web2Corp or to see Web2Corp's Safe Harbor Act Disclaimer Notice, go to www.Web2Corp.com

Contact:
Trevor Longino
Communications Director, Web2Corp
407.540.0452 (Office)
321.256.2939 (Direct)

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Free Mobile Lottery Application At LottoFactor.mobi

 

Gaming Solutions International Launches Free Mobile Lottery Application At LottoFactor.mobi

Free lottery application now available for all lotteries in U.S. and Canada for mobile phone delivery.

(PRWeb) March 5, 2007 -- Gaming Solutions International, a division of Tinbu, LLC, is pleased to announce they have launched a free mobile lottery results application available at www.LottoFactor.mobi .

"As the worldwide leader of interactive lottery results we are pleased to extend our services to the mobile phone community free of charge," said John Brier, Tinbu's CEO. "This free service is currently available for customers of most major cell phone carriers who reside in the USA or Canada. We will be making the service available in additional languages and covering lottery play in Germany and the UK, as well as some Latin American countries, later this year."

Gaming Solutions International has several patents pending on their interactive technology, which is currently used to produce multilingual interactive lottery and horoscope data modules that are being used by online and wireless media in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Germany, Latin America and Canada. The free mobile product allows people to select from over 200 lottery games played weekly in the U.S. and Canada, and to them have the specific results and jackpot information from those lotteries text messaged onto their mobile phone for free. It takes less than a minute to enroll online at www.LottoFactor.mobi , and customers can deactivate the service anytime they wish.

"We plan on letting our current media clients use this free mobile application in a private label environment. This will allow them to extend their reach and brand into the wireless world in a cost effective manner. With over 90 million lottery tickets played each week in the U.S. alone we feel this free mobile application will be embraced by thousands of consumers across North America," added Brier."

About Gaming Solutions International, LLC:

Gaming Solutions International, LLC, is a Pensacola, FL based technology company that produces patent-pending interactive lottery and horoscope data for online and wireless media properties, to include newspapers, television stations, radio stations, portals, and news and information web sites. Lottery data coverage, available in English, Spanish, German and French, includes all state and government sponsored lotteries in the United States, Canada, Germany, the U.K., and Ireland. Content partners include AOL, AOL Latino, AOL Canada, MSN, MSNBC, USA Today, Washington Post, Toronto Star,MSN Espanol, Quepasa, Telemundo, MSNBC, ATT, ABC Television, NBC Television, CBS Television, CBS Radio, Media General, St, Louis Post Dispatch, Boston Herald, Bell South, AccuWeather, Clear Channel Television, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, and many others. For more information visit their corporate web site at www.LottoFactor.com.

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Press Contact: JOHN BRIER
Company Name: Gaming Solutions International, LLC
Email: email protected from spam bots
Phone: 8502922590
Website: www.LottoFactor.com

Bring out your dead! (Links, that is...)

Some of you may remember Traffic Power (www.trafficpower.com) and how bad they were and how they moved to a new domain, 1p.com? Well I just happend to spot something to day in the www.dailydomainer.com newsletter that I get (Highly recommended!).

 

Top Domain Sales Feb 19 - Feb 25

Refresh.com $115,000.00
PopupBlocker.com $75,000.00
Moka.com $72,223.00
FreePornMovie.com $59,750.00
Career.net $52,500.00
Office.de $50,540.00
Submission.com $42,000.00
SexVedio.com $42,000.00
SexVidoes.com $41,250.00
Buff.com $40,500.00
BloodTest.com $40,251.00
LatinoPorn.com $40,000.00
FreePornoVideo.com $39,638.00
Maklare.se $39,366.00
Villa.de $36,383.00
NudeBollywood.com $35,250.00
Dressy.com $34,501.00
Hentei.com $30,250.00
BollywoodNude.com $30,250.00
XXXCams.com $30,000.00

Other notable sales include FruitGiftBaskets.com ($26,250), 1P.com ($20,500), Behind.com ($13,000), Utoob.com ($10,000), ESD.net ($7,500), Rental.info ($7,000), CharlesDarwin.com ($6,766), and Spanish domain Yell.es ($13,230).

Did you catch it? 1P.com ($20,500)!

I have nothing against the new owners, whoever they are, but I'm going to pull all the old links that I have pointing to the domain. There is a reason that the domain, a 2 character or NL.com went for so little, and that's because it's TAINTED.

(hris