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Well it seems that the Google Videos Matt Cutts released before wasn’t simply a publicity stunt and he might actually stick to it!
Matt Cutts released three more sessions earlier this morning on his blog and these three sessions discuss link building and site building specifically in SEO.
Here are the next three Matt Cutts Google Videos Sessions 4-6:
Session 4: Static vs. Dynamic URL’s
Session 5: How to Structure a Site
Session 6 Supplemental Results
Written by cecil on August 1st, 2006 with comments disabled.
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USA Today is featuring an article about the man I call "fearless leader" - Danny Sullivan. A quick excerpt:
Sullivan, 40, says he shares common roots with employees at Google and Yahoo, even though he works thousands of miles away. He recalled his life over a lunch of soup and crisps (potato chips) at a small pub on a tiny, lush country lane with lots of sheep and barely enough room for one car.
He was born and raised in Newport Beach, Calif. After graduating from the University of California, Irvine, he spent a year in England, where he was hired by the BBC to type articles for reporters.
He met his future wife, Lorna, at the BBC. They married and moved back to California, where Sullivan worked at the Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register in their graphics departments.
Then search came into his life. At the time, a friend had put up a website and couldn't make sense of how to be found in search listings. Sullivan tried to help him and was so successful, he went to work with his friend helping others with their sites.
Overall, the article does a good job of giving a background on Danny, and, as is typical of Danny - he underplays his importance with the humility and goodwill that has become his trademark.
I actually spent quite a bit of time on the phone with Mr. Graham, who authored the piece. We talked about what Danny's done for the industry (legitimized it), what his ambitions are (my opinion is that he wants to make the life of people on all sides of the search industry easier) and my personal feelings about him (I believe I said "Danny's a hero to me, but don't write that - I'll never live it down"). Well, no more secrets for me.
What I think is so incredible about Danny is his amazing ability to be down-to-earth. In a recent conversation, we spent almost an hour talking about making the decision to get married. Danny approached that topic with the same logic, empathy and tact that he does when talking about the latest Google foible. Unlike so many people in the business world, there's nothing two-faced about him - what you see is what you get, no matter the topic or the crowd.
I'm proud to say that Danny is the representative of my industry, proud to know him and grateful for his leadership. Without him, I think that the world of search marketing would be vastly changed for the worse. Danny's actually more than just a hero to me - he's a role model, someone I aspire to be. Let's just hope he doesn't read this post before I see him on Friday or I'll be blushing like a school girl.
Danny, Mystery Guest & I in Seattle earlier this Spring
p.s. At the last minute before publication, Mr. Graham rung me up to put together the 3 "ways to attract attention" in the left sidebar. I was a bit on the spot and didn't give the best responses I could have, particularly on the URL issue, which I think should probably have been replaced with a note about accessibility or crawler-friendliness. Ah, well - such is the price of deadlines. 
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Most people consider AdBrite as the biggest internet marketplace when it comes to buying and selling links on big sites. Well a new competitor has emergedm AdEngage, and I have a testimonial from personal experience with them!
At the moment AdEngage is a small website, but the fact that most new sites are a $1 a week is nice. But the best part is the fact that since they are so small, they offer quick and personal support.
Pros
We have spent over $200.00 in advertising for 2 of our websites over summer and when we compared the sites in AdEngage and AdBrite, we noticed that sites in AdEngage are not only getting noticed by more advertisers, but they have extremely low prices (a few sites will offer ads for 12 weeks for $3.99 and get 50-100 clicks).
You can track ad stats in the manage campaigns section, just like AdBrite and you can make payments via PayPal or Credit Cards. Their phone support is quick and easy to talk to as well.
They offer ad packages which target websites in the field you want and organize them according to CTR, Average Clicks, Weekly Views and such. In addition, you can buy a Run of the Network Ad which is usually displayed on tons of websites into the ad rotation.
The Run of the Network Ads usually get you around $0.05 - $0.10 a click, around the same price as AdBrite’s Contextual Ads.
They have an option which displays how many clicks an advert on your site has recieved overall!
Cons
They don’t have an ONLY sponsored link like AdBrite, where only paid sponsors are displayed. In addition, they rotate the Run of the Network Ads into your rotation even after you have paid sponsors. Most people might not like this because they would want their customers to have a good amount of clicks rather than Run of the Network ads.
There are a lot of foreign sites which send traffic from the same IP Range (mostly the same person), which is false traffic. A few are King Games and Jaony.com.
They don’t have contextual ads like AdBrite, instead they display random ads from the network.
This testimonial is based on my personal experience with one of the websites in the Sixty6 Network: Sixty6 Arcade.
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Well reading up (mostly catching up) on the V7N Forums bought me to a thread John Scott posted which discussed how the DMOZ Listing can modify/penalize your websites title in Google.
Before V7 Inc was accepted in DMOZ Directory, they had the title “V7 Quality Web Hosting - Voted Best Host of the Year”, but the DMOZ listing showed “V7 Inc”.
Now most people wouldn’t have expected a simple directory listing to affect your Google Rank, but DMOZ is the biggest directory run by volunteers (most of whom are internet celebrities) and is owned by Netscape as well as partnered with AOL Search. Google and MSN are believed to leech a few search results from DMOZ.
However, Google has been notified of this and they have offered a solution to notify their crawling robots that owners do not want the DMOZ Listing specifics. All you need to do is simply add the following meta tag your header:
The reason DMOZ doesn’t offer all the keywords in the anchor text is common directory submission guidelines. No directory offers to put keywords in the link unless it is the title of your website.
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I haven’t been active on the web for the past month. But I just logged into Google Analytics and I noticed that Google Analytics is now letting users add up to 10 profiles per account (last time it was 5)! I went ahead and added 9 of my top websites with traffic as well.
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