Threadwatch ( and it looks like SEObook.com ) was titts up for the last 24 hours, I have no word on what’s going on hopefully nothing terrible.
Not my usual fare but a here’s a recap of the week for me…
My insight for the week
I had an AHA moment this week. The recent contest and the discussion on the tactics used finally made the whole “clickstream analysis” (link to Brian Turner discussing it) idea click with me. Massa made a post on threadwatch about post it note advertising to drive initially traffic to your site and encouraging people to search for your site in a search engine whether or not they can find it there. The shortened thought on it is if users can’t find what they want the engines ( maybe all I dunno) can detect this by analyzing the clickstream. If enough people exhibit behavior that is indicitive of poor results for the term then the engines need to fix this. So why wouldn’t an engine shake the results a bit to see if what the searchers are looking for comes up? Hopefully that shake includes your site.
Look Mom I can read:
Stuntdubl wrote a piece on finding your voice, and pointed out that I struggled with it:
I also urge you to consider to the advice of the emo-seo who has spent some time on the self-actualization front to develop a truly unique voice that is consistent and valuable to his readership.
I’d like to expand on that and my thoughts for the blog.
I decided, after a lot of though, that this blogs purpose is to communicate to established people in the field. I view it as sort of my introduction card to the SEM community. With that in mind I try not to post redux ( who really wants to read what brett or danny wrote and my analysis of how their hair combing strategy ), attempt to post one good tool or script a month, and post in areas where I feel I am a subject matter expert for others in the field. In short no talking out of my ass to get newbies to worship me there are enough sites like that already, no needless “shock jock” type crap, and to the best of my ability refrain from flaming.
Graywolf has been posting some great information on link building and social bookmarking . I have been reading his blog for a while and Micheal really has a great instinct for picking good topics.
SEOMoz had a post that illustrated why AJAX craze is so stupid. They create a tool with AJAX that doesn’t really do anything new other than not reload a page and they get tons of traffic. I’ll be joining the powered by AJAX craze because of this.
SEOBuzzbox cranked out another great interview with Danah Boyd. Danah I usually hate in this field interviews but I find Mr. Pratts interviews are worth reading. Mr. Pratt also posted an “award” for my Matt Cutts is a cobalt isotope post which was cool :-) thanks.
The makings of the Bat Cave:
I have been setting up a knowledge base in the secret Web Professor lab. Previously I maintained my note in word docs, spread sheets, and notebooks. This was getting out of hand so I have been building a office server to host a wiki [currently using mediawiki not sure if I am sold on it yet]. If you are not keeping notes in a easily searchable private database I recommend you start. The process of writing and categorizing my notes has been a good excercise for the brain.
Like it? Subscribe to the blog if you haven't already
Related Posts
I’m a Threadwatch Editor now..
Thread Hijacking
Threadwatch Closes, where to next?
Forging the Referrer
| Filed under: Misc — Scott @ January 19, 2006 11:42 am |
|
Just thought that you would like to know that Seobook.com and Threadwatch are back up and running. Didn\’t see anything mentioning what happened though
Cool ! I was Jonesing for TW all night… lol
It’s the second time in the last few, Aaron might want to have a word or two with his host…
I think a judo chop is in order for someone
Aaron should move TreadWatch to a hosting service able to handle such crap in no time, e.g. NationalNet ;)