Is it too much to ask that the WordPress spammers be a little inventive? I'd almost rather go back to "Great post"! Not having ever been an annoying WordPress spammer, I wonder, does the | help somehow? Does it make it look less spammy to Akismet? Interestingly it's pointing to a Facebook page. See for …
Google Places Guideline Enforcement Plan – from @mblumenthal
Mike Blumenthal of commissioned this funny cartoon about the Google Places Guidelines Enforcement. It doesn't look good for the B&B owner. "Google Places Enforcement Plan"by Margaret Shulock is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at blumenthals.com.
Search Influence Brief
Search Influence is a national, full-service, online marketing company based in New Orleans. The only New Orleans company on the 2012 Inc. 500 list, Search Influence is the largest online marketing company on the gulf coast with 35 full-time employees and 40 contract writers supporting our hundreds of direct and white label customers. For direct …
EdgeRank: Explained in 4 Bullets
Facebook search is driven by EdgeRank, FB's internal algorithm: Affinity - demonstrated "like" Edge Weight - depth of connection Recency - Self-explanatory Media Types - Images, Videos, Polls, etc. get more weight So, more fans are better and if they interact, better still. That said, you can't necessarily affect the degrees of separation which can affect Edge …
Scarf Wearing Vespa Riders Likely Own A Mac
It must be true, I read it on Statistical Fiction. Apparently those who ride Vespas and wear scarves are more likely to own a mac! Vennsday Diagram – Mac Owners, Courtesy of Statistical Fiction
The Sun is Up Somewhere
This is among my favorite quotes of all time. I read it originally in Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat". Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the …
New Orleans Recycling Routes
So I got my shiny new New Orleans Recycling bin and started filling it up. Bad news was, I had no idea when they were coming. So I emailed Richard's Disposal Service (btw, I love that the trash company does email so effectively) and they emailed me a route map and the guide for what can go …
Google Reviews Tip
Mike Blumenthal shared an incredible tip at SEMpdx SearchFest 2011 regarding creating a shortcut to Google Reviews input box. Shortcut to your Google places page: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=17890642534106265499 You can truncate the very long, awful main URL. Better still, link directly to the input box for reviews: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=17890642534106265499&dtab=2&action=openratings&ct=write-review Note the addition of &dtab=2&action=openratings&ct=write-review Awesome!
Google Blows
Google blows. They're running a utility company without so much as a Public Utilities Commission for oversight. It's negligent business homicide. Taken from an earlier email thread in regard to Google's mis-attribution of reviews from the UK to a US company and Google's inclusion of absolutely awful review snippets. If they were the telephone company …
Will Scott 