http://daftseo.com Tried & tested internet promotion & marketing techniques for all web pros. Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:57:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Big Oak delivers seo comedy gold once again in their latest comic, Your Link Here. If you hate how people sell targeted and/or keyworded links in their posts and content, you'll get a kick out of this one. If you've got an SEO, or even a general Internet / Technology related ... http://daftseo.com/blog-comic-friday-your-link-here/ Here is the math behind the major social networks, the formulas worked down from analyzing their inner mechanisms and just exactly how a submission gets a "popular" status. Hopefully, these social networking statistics will provide some insight into how they work, and which ones might be easier to manipulate for ... http://daftseo.com/social-bookmarking-social-network-diagnostics/ Many of you probably already know, but in case you didn't ... Delicious has undergond a nice, overdue makeover, and it's residing at it's own dot com domain! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand its new design is totally gorgeous. Head on over and check it out now! Don't forget to bookmark DaftSEO as well! Delicious! Cheers! ... http://daftseo.com/delicious-20/ I've been noticing alot of start up companies developing more and more interesting concepts when it comes to search technology, and evolving it into a more aesthetically pleasing and less metciulous process getting your desired search results. Sure, you've heard about the advancements in user powered search engines like Cuil and ... http://daftseo.com/searchme-google-video-killer/ Once again, it's Blog Comic Friday! (What did you expect, it's Friday!) I'd like to take this opportunity to showcase a new comic by Jeffrey Rowland. If you like this comic, head over to his site, Overcompensating. Cheers! http://daftseo.com/blog-comic-friday-turnkey-websites/ I've made it a point to never use Dreamweaver, ever. I never used it as a Macromedia product, I never used it as an Adobe product. Please join me in a round of laughter as we make fun of everyone who uses it! Boy, I sure am glad I use PHPDesigner. :) http://daftseo.com/the-reason-why-i-dont-use-dreamweaver/ While on the manhunt for DoFollow blogs and websites that are related to your site (that also have nofollow disabled, and commenting enabled) ... you probably have come across your fair share of nofollow'ed blogs, as well as repeatedly finding the same DoFollow blog over and over again. Well, what would ... http://daftseo.com/find-dofollow-links-in-forums/ If you've heard Jason Calcanis speak, or keep yourself updated on his conferences, you might be familiar with his catch phrase, "SEO has no future." I think Jason might be right though, SEO has no "FUTURE" ... but only a "PRESENT" ... it is often too hard to look and plan ... http://daftseo.com/blog-comic-friday-seo-has-no-future/ Following up on my earlier post (actually, currently the most popular post on DaftSEO) ... Google's New Favicon Sucks. So, Google recently updated their blog with a word to the masses about the new Google favicon, and the process behind (and reasons for) the development of the horriffic atrocity. (Sorry Big ... http://daftseo.com/google-fesses-for-freaky-favicon/ I'm currently running experiments with different link sets and widget types for displaying products from Amazon's catalog. Currently the widget that converts to the most sales is using classic links placed within a well worded review with a nice picture of the product. Link them twice to the sales page in ... http://daftseo.com/which-amazon-affiliate-widget-converts-best/