Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 1st, 2008 in Search Engine News
I don’t often blog about acquisitions, but I have to throw my kudos at Microsoft today for acquiring Powerset. I started paying attention to Powerset back in November, 2006, and beta tested it for a little while a year later.
I haven’t played with Powerset’s natural language search engine since then, and I’m sure it’s gotten better by now, but in any case, it’s the one search engine that I’ve felt all along had the potential to be a Google killer. I think Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset is a much better deal than if they’d purchased Yahoo. And by “better deal”, I…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on July 1st, 2008 in SEO Tips
You know I’ve been on a mission to help rid ourselves of all the problems we see with sites being defaced, hack’d, crack’d, and pillaged. Frankly, if you have a WordPress blog that hasn’t been upgraded to the latest version (currently 2.5.1), it’s not a matter of IF but a matter of WHEN you can expect to see it attacked.
Luckily, I’m not the only one who has been noticing the ever-increasing problem, and lucky for all of us, there are now some steps you can take to help defend your sites from these kinds of attacks. Below I’ll list the various…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 30th, 2008 in Guest Posts
The following post is a guest post. SEO Scoop endeavors to showcase and highlight guest bloggers, in the hopes of giving up and coming bloggers and SEOs a chance to shine. Please take some time to appreciate their efforts by visiting their sites, or by networking with them.
SEO Scoop does not necessarily agree with or condone any tactics mentioned by guest posters.
By: James Duthie
Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 28th, 2008 in SEO Tips
A year or so ago, I checked out LinkXL and considered selling contextual link ads through them, but for some reason I never did. I don’t remember why I didn’t. I probably just got busy with something else and forgot about them. I do that alot unfortunately.
Nevertheless, I was alerted to them again recently, and when I found out that they offer the ability to sell contextual links with nofollows on them, my interest was peaked. Say what you will about nofollows, but I learned my lesson last fall when Google slapped me upside the head, and I promised Google then…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 27th, 2008 in Guest Posts
The following post is a guest post. SEO Scoop endeavors to showcase and highlight guest bloggers, in the hopes of giving up and coming bloggers and SEOs a chance to shine. Please take some time to appreciate their efforts by visiting their sites, or by networking with them.
SEO Scoop does not necessarily agree with or condone any tactics mentioned by guest posters.
By: Paul Steven
First off in my guest post I would like to thank Donna for not only giving
me the chance to post on SEO-Scoop but also to congratulate on her 4 years
of commitment and hard work within the blogging environment.…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 26th, 2008 in General
SEO Scoop is having its 4th birthday (or would that be anniversary?) today. In the blogging world, that’s fairly old. Are the gray hairs showing? 
To thank everyone for their loyalty in visiting, guest posting, interacting, and commenting over the years, I’ll be holding a random drawing tomorrow morning and will be giving away one of my products - the online press kit template. To enter the drawing, simply comment below on this post before midnight tonight (CST). One lucky commenter will be the winner, and I’ll announce the name of the winner tomorrow. (The product will be sent to…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 24th, 2008 in Guest Posts
The following post is a guest post. SEO Scoop endeavors to showcase and highlight guest bloggers, in the hopes of giving up and coming bloggers and SEOs a chance to shine. Please take some time to appreciate their efforts by visiting their sites, or by networking with them.
SEO Scoop does not necessarily agree with or condone any tactics mentioned by guest posters.
By: Paige Filler
Once Upon A Time
Years ago, I remember a rumour about a guy who bought 21stcenturyfox.com, 22ndcenturyfox.com and 23rdcenturyfox.com then sold them to the Fox Broadcasting for millions of dollars. - I don’t know if it’s actually true or…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 18th, 2008 in Other (NonSEO) Tools
Ok, maybe I’m easily pleased, I don’t know, but when a tool can save me a long, long, long, mind-numbing boring amount of time watching files slowly ftp up to a server, over and over and over again, for what feels like forever…I tend to fall in love with that tool.
And when it’s free…with no strings attached…I purrrrrrrrrr like a very satisfied cat.
If you’ve ever had to upload WordPress to a server more than one time, or you ever expect to have to do it again, stop. Wait. Grab the EasyWP Installer first.
Installing a new WordPress blog (or upgrading an existing…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 17th, 2008 in SEO Tips
Yesterday, Andy Beal tweeted the following: “In case you missed it: Google Toolbar for Firefox 3 is out at http://ping.fm/lzr9f - works perfectly for me” and I tweeted a reply, saying, “@andybeal and u use the google spybar for what reason?”
Of course, that led to a series of tweets back and forth, such as:
Andy: easy access to site search, cache, highlighting keywords.
Me: *shakes head in wonder* wow, that’s mighty trusting of you. *makes sure tinfoil hat is firmly in place on top of my dazzlin head*
Andy: Google has my email, RSS, analytics, docs, and my search history. I gave…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 17th, 2008 in Search Bloggers
List of search bloggers:
The following is a list of bloggers who routinely write about search-related topics. I put out a call to all search bloggers to send me their info, so that I could include them in this list. I know that this list isn’t comprehensive, but I’ve included everyone who heeded the call. If you didn’t email me your info, you didn’t get included. Luckily, you still can be. Although it’s a fairly time-consuming task for me to put this together, I’m happy to continue adding to it, so if you want to be included on the list, send…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 11th, 2008 in General
If you are a blogger that routinely writes about SEO or any search-related topics, I’d love to know about you. Even if I already know about you, I want to include you in a list. So, big or small, A-list or Z-list, if you want to be included in the list, please email the following information to scoop [at] seo-scoop.com
Your name and/or nickname
Your blog name
Your blog url
Your avatar and/or photo
Please pass this information to everyone you know that should be included in this list. Thanks!
Added: People are asking about photo image size. 100 pixels wide is preferable, but I’ll make…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 9th, 2008 in SEO Tools
Anyone know when the All in One SEO Pack plugin went belly-up? I recently noticed it now says this:
This plugin is no longer supported or maintained.
Does anyone know the plugin author, uberdose? Anyone know why he’s no longer supporting or maintaining it? Anyone want to try to get him to allow someone to take the project over? It’s a nice plugin, and I hate to see it go bye-bye.
I know it still works, but that may not always be so in the future. I would think it would need someone looking after it to keep it updated as needed.
Just thought…
Posted by DazzlinDonna on June 2nd, 2008 in SEO Tools
Last week I ranted about a couple of things that Google did that just really got my goat. (That means they annoyed me, for anyone who doesn’t recognize that old slang). So as I do, I ranted and raved and moaned and groaned until someone decided to solve the problem for me.
Ok, so first let’s refresh your memory on why I was annoyed. Here’s what I wrote back then:
Google recently told all Adsense publishers that they had to have privacy policies that had to meet certain Google requirements, but they couldn’t actually spell out those requirements. Ok, fine, we all…
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