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Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Link Building via Word-of-Mouth; Has Facebook Found the Key to Making Money via Search?; Yahoo Launches BOSS: Build your Own Search Service; and more.
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Great post by Gab explaining a real trick to competing in hyper competitive markets such as the Real Estate sector.

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This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We’d gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its top ten, and at the bottom, I noticed farecast.live.com.

The first thing I noticed was the unfortunate title tag and snippet. However, things got stranger when I clicked through to the site. Before I go on, I should say that before it was bought by Microsoft, Farecast was an SEOmoz client. They aren’t anymore, but the fact that I’d worked within the niche and with this site before was what caught my attention.

The page loaded, but I definitely didn’t recognise the content as belonging to either Farecast or Microsoft.

Refreshing the page brought consistently different results. Here is a sample:

Each refresh brought up another strange page, including several error pages. Attempting to complete a search on a page that did load properly was also impossible. I wondered what would happen if you visited Farecast’s previous domain: Up until a few minutes ago, www.farecast.com was not redirecting to farecast.live.com for me. Without the www, it was redirecting. It appears to be working now.

Web-Sniffer’s results were also amusing, as refreshing farecast.live.com’s Web-Sniffer result brought up alternate pages on every attempt as well. Whilst the strange, rotating content was interesting, the fact that the parked page showed up was more so. Suspecting that this was a DNS error of Microsoft’s making, Rob wondered if he could add Live.com to his list of parked domains. He could.

Holy Christ. Sedo thought that Rob owned Live.com and was crediting him with the commission from the page. The conversation went something like this, with a couple of edits:

 

23:02:05 Rob: oh s**t!
23:02:23 Rob: "Live.com has successfully been added to your parking account"
23:02:28 Jane: no
23:02:29 Jane: f***ing
23:02:29 Jane: way

 

A couple of weeks ago, Duncan wrote about Apple.com and the localisation issues they have in using Akamai, whose load-balancing system results in solely U.S. content being shown to Googlebot. Akamai serves content based upon location, and it seems that someone at Microsoft added a Sedo IP address to the routing system Akamai employs.

Since earning income in this manner is well and truly illegal, Rob emailed Sedo immediately. The traffic and commission has stopped and the problem appears to have been rectified. Similarly on Microsoft’s end, farecast.live.com now resolves correctly.

Because Rob can explain this stuff far better than I can (although he’s promised to teach me if I continue buying him pints of Guinness), I’ll let him spell out what happened:

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That’s 2pm UK time which I think is GMT+1.
I have only had 4 hours sleep as I had to solve last minute admin problems. I have tested and retested the Membership system and forum, lets […]
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Good news — now you can have your activity on Intense Debate, brightkite.com, Diigo, Mister Wong, and tipjoy as part of your FriendFeed. Bad news. Despite asking twice and being told FriendFeed is just too busy, Sphinn still hasn’t been added.

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Twitter has become a great place to network, vent, and share links, including your own blog posts. But how do you quantify the traffic you are getting from Twitter, especially if people are using applications like Twhirl, or even a mobile phone? I’ve got a special trick for you, and it’s really easy to do!
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So you say you want to be a part of the answer not the problem? Have you considered a Green Web Host? The lady Able has a great round up of Hosts that are environmentally minded…

Great read… and worth promoting methinks ;0)

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Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: orget Competition, the Search Wars Are Over; Testing Landing Pages with the Taguchi Method? Think Again!; Google Earth API and Browser Plug-in; and more.
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Social Media Marketing is sweeping the ‘Net now as the best way to market. Sites like Digg and StumbleUpon are helping sites get additional traffic, and working to achieve a better backlink strategy. Search Engine Optimization techniques vary greatly, and you should research the company you hire to help you with this. Make sure everything that is promised to you is in the form of a contract.

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Are you a developer? You may be interested in SearchMonkey, Yahoo’s new open developer platform, which was released to all developers yesterday.

The concept behind SearchMonkey is to empower developers to build applications that increase relevancy of search results. Developers can build Enhanced Results or Infobars under the Search Monkey API which can pull data from CitySearch, StumbleUpon, eBay, Epicurious, and more. According to the announcement, “Enhanced Results replace the current standard results with a richer display. All the links in the Enhanced Results must point to the site to which the result refers. Infobars are appended below search results and can include metadata about the result, related links or content, or links for user actions (such as adding a movie to a Netflix queue).”

Yahoo is also holding a contest that enables developers to create their own tools using the new API. Winners can receive up to $10,000.

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BBtv has a thought-provoking piece on some guerilla art with regard to Google and its China policy. I’ve written extensively on the background (for more, here). if you want to get to the good stuff quickly (I understand folks are busy,) the piece is long-ish, head to 4.45 min…
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Really, Twitter spam? I mean, how do you get spammed by people you voluntarily choose to follow. It’s like bitching that your Facebook "friends" are spamming you. Why did you make them friends, then.

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One of the benefits to spending time on Twitter is that it’s a great way to network. But if you are new to Twitter, it can seem difficult to find people that are in your industry or that share your interests. Here’s some tips to help get you start

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I remember being 10, or thereabouts, sitting in front of my parent’s stereo system, entranced by the albums they had collected in college. The system - tuner, turntable, and speakers - was a Craig, cheap, Korean, and dependable, an early indication of where the consumer electronics business was heading….
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Ok bloggers…Do you blog for business or pleasure? What results are you seeing from your blogging efforts? How long did it take to see those results? Do you feel it’s worth the time commitment?

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Web design and social media marketing are two topics that I enjoy studying, and the two certainly impact one another for website owners and bloggers who are attempting to increase traffic to their site. While social media is intended to put a spotli

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Social Media Marketing is sweeping the ‘Net now as the best way to market. Sites like Digg and StumbleUpon are helping sites get additional traffic, and working to achieve a better backlink strategy. Search Engine Optimization techniques vary greatly, and you should research the company you hire to help you with this. Make sure everything that is promised to you is in the form of a contract.

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