Where’s that time machine? Bing is using the meta keywords tag in its ranking algorithm again.
Kinda.
Danny Sullivan’s The Meta Keywords Tag Lives At Bing & Why Only Spammers Should Use It article offers awesome insight from Duane Forrester of MSN.
To summarize – the meta keyword tag won’t make a huge difference, but Bing may use it to identify spammers via tag stuffing.
If you’re like me, this doesn’t change a whole lot. Personally, I haven’t used the meta keywords tag in a long time; not worth the time and effort in my opinion.
For all the years I lived in Winnipeg, and since then, I was always very cynical about the NHL returning to Winnipeg. Even after last week’s announcement that TNS&E had purchased the Thrashers.
But the challenge of selling 13,000 season tickets was CRUSHED – more than half were sold through presale and the rest sold within 17 minutes of the general sale opening.
CONGRATULATIONS Winnipeg – thank you for proving me wrong!!
Suck it Bettman.
Every group has one. In the SEO industry, there are far too many – the folks who call themselves SEOs but are neglecting the knowledge behind on major factor – Online Reputation Management.
Read the story of SEO Columbus by my SEO friend Mike Halvorsen. If you don’t read it (though you really should), here’s the coles notes version.
Mike is an SEO. He recently moved to Columbus so on his PERSONAL blog, he created a navigational link with the anchor text “SEO Columbus”. Apparently there’s another SEO in Columbus (Joe) who is insisting he “owns” the term and is insisting that Mike remove instances of that keyword that confuse him with Joe’s business.
Google made a significant shift with it’s organic search results in the past few weeks. Now, by default, you are served results based on your geographic location.
Signed in or not, if your search query qualifies, you’ll see that on the right a map appears over the paid listings. See my search below for office furniture:
This is pretty handy if you’re looking to shop somewhere in person and for brick and mortar businesses, this is a fantastic change. But what if you’re an online retailer? How can you possibly compete with this? This is an issue and needs to be answered. I’d love to hear how you think this problem can be solved.
With all the major search engines long abandoning the META keywords tag (except for Yahoo, but its search results are soon to be powered by Bing), there seems to be less and less of a reason to use the META keywords tag.
Do you still use it? And by use it, I mean put effort into putting relevant keywords in the tag.
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I upgraded my iPhone to OS4 the other day (without drama, thank goodness). Yesterday I noticed a new icon at the top.
I thought, cool! It’s a compass pointing north! Then I realized that, from sitting at my desk at work, it was actually pointing southeast. That was my DUH moment. I realized it’s just the indicated that GPS is on. Then the other DUH moment. My 3G doesn’t have compass abilities.
Oh OS4, you did fool me there. But it’s ok, I’m smart again!
Last month, Raven Tools launched a contest to win a year long subscription to their toolset. Second place won a six-month subscription and third through tenth won a RavenHunt t-shirt.
I came in third. I may have won the first t-shirt, but I felt like the first loser for missing out on the big prizes.
This time around the prizes are even BIGGER. First place wins:
It never occured to me until today how hard it is to contact Twitter support with a unique request. On the Twitter Support page, they’ve got lots of information but no help on how to contact them unless you’re reporting spam (in which case you simply tweet to @spam).
After about 10 minutes of digging, I found a link that will allow you to open a new ticket for contacting Twitter support.
Without further adieu, here is the link to open a new ticket with Twitter Support.
Funny, pointless and a waste of time – does it get better than this?
Begin! Make sure you leave your statement in the comments.
Pick the month you were born:
January … I kicked
February … I loved
March … I karate chopped
April … I licked
May … I jumped on
June … I smelled
July … I did the Macarena With
August … I had lunch with
September … I danced with
October … I sang to
November … I yelled at
December … I ran over
We’re having some technical difficulties but @RavenJon promises we will have a demo.
Jon is showing off his desktop background, a Henshaw original painting.
And now he just yelled at me to pay attention. In the mic. Hmph.
Jon explains how the tool got started, dealing with the tedious tasks and made it into an automated process. Now the Raven tools are growing and growing with lots of new features all the time.
Whether you’re agency or in-house, it can help you manage your campaigns and keep track of your sites, help with keyword and competitive research, link building, contacts, content management, social media monitoring, search engine rankings, Google analytics integration and more.
by Tamar Weinberg
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