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Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video. The short version looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s The “#t=31m08s” takes you to 31 minutes and 8 seconds in a video. I just found out that you can also start embedded videos at a certain timestamp. To do it on an embedded [...]

Calling for link spam reports Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you’d like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links (e.g. paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers, etc.), here’s how to send us [...]

Leaving the iPhone I’m three weeks into a new 30 day challenge: no iPhone. When I got a Nexus One in December, I spent a few weeks carrying both phones around in the pockets of my jeans. It took a little while to adapt to Android, but I’m very happy with my Nexus One and I don’t plan [...]

My speaking plans for 2010 Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten (!) trips in 2009. This year I’ve resolved to travel less for work. Right now, here’s my current speaking/travel plans for 2010: March 2-4, 2010: SMX West, Santa Clara, CA. I’m doing a “Ask the Search Engines” panel. May 19-20, 2010: Google [...]

Finding the best cell phone carrier Okay, someone tell me if this device exists (or build it!). I want a device where I can pay $10-15 to get a gadget in the mail. The gadget would sit in my pocket for a week wherever I go. The device would record cell phone signal strength for each of the four major U.S. [...]

Blog to Book? I recently went looking for some software to make a blog into a book. Here’s what I found: - Lulu will take PDF files for a book. Blogbooker.com will try to create a PDF from a blog. Unfortunately, my blog made BlogBooker choke (I have 991 posts from my blog) — even when I excluded comments. - [...]

Chrome support for Greasemonkey Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said Whoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome (4.0.266.0 on Linux). Chrome offered to install the GM script, [...]

Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches: Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters. Now, [...]

Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04 I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). These are mostly notes for myself, so don’t feel guilty if you skip this post. - Make sure your system is up-to-date: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade - Install Java sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk - [...]

Keep an eye on changing pages Google just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes. This works even if the page doesn’t have its own RSS feed. This sort of thing is very handy. You could use it to spot new things on a privacy policy page or watch for changes [...]

Are Yahoo Buying Links? I’ve been away a while again, so to quickly answer a few of the usual questions – No I am not dead, no the site is not for sale and yes I am still trying to write here, although only when I have time which is not a lot at the moment unfortunately. Anyway, I don’t [...]

Using Clients To Rank For SEO This is another subject I have been meaning to discuss that I haven’t seen debated a huge amount openly even though everyone in the industry is aware of it. Simply checking the UK agencies ranking for ‘SEO’ (as an example) it’s very easy to spot that some of them are using their own clients as a [...]

Big Geo Problems Still Exist In Google UK SERPS It was back at the start of June that a number of SEOs spotted a change in the Google UK search results where by US sites seemed to be ranking unusually high for queries in Google UK. Geo filters have always been fairly strong in Google UK for generic phrases for obvious reasons and many, [...]

Bing So Microsofts new search engine brand Bing is live in the UK. I think some negative matching might be required for Bingo PPC advertisers. :-)

Googles Disappearing Blog Post Phenomenon This is something I have been meaning to discuss for a longtime and is not something that I have really seen anyone talk about much. I noticed this quite sometime back when Google started crawling and indexing new blog pages within minutes and ranking this content very quickly in their search results. Crawling and indexing content so [...]

Linkfromdomain Command ? Much Underused I still love the linkfromdomain command on Live.com. Like MSN / Live (perhaps Kumo?!) search platform, it’s often forgotten about. But actually it still has much value for SEO. Here are 3 quick reasons why - 1) Check Your Outbound Links – You can’t always control who links to you, but you can control who you [...]

This Site May Harm Your Computer Looks as though Google has a bit of a problem today because it’s labeling every site with the ‘this site may harm your computer‘ warning accross all it’s SERPS. This seems to be on Google.co.uk and Google.com. Oops. Even for their own sites.

Hyves Subdomain Leak & Analysis So if you missed it yesterday Mediadonis posted about a very strange subdomain trick that he and others claim allowed anyone to check if a domain was penalised in someway by Google (from selling links or loss of pagerank from other ‘malicious’ means). Google have since this morning stopped this from working, but the basis was [...]

How To Use Match Types For Maximum Return As noted by Barry over at Seroundtable, apparently Google is now recommending that you do not have multiple match types for the same search phrase. So for example, you shouldn’t have the keyword ‘golf clubs’, set on broad, phrase and exact match types. Broad -   golf clubs Phrase – “golf clubs” Exact -   [golf clubs] Now I haven’t heard [...]

Adwords In Google Search Suggest ? Scary Google have started testing Adwords ads within Google suggest, like this example below from Search Engine Land - Normally Google do not charge for clicks on new advert testing like this which is good news. But for me it’s quite scary how far they are taking the expansion of where they show their adverts. At the top [...]

Google's SEO Report Card - Information Nuggets or Fool's Gold Sifting through Google's SEO report card to see what informational nuggets are hidden inside.

Killer Campaigns Volume Four - The Color of Branding Good Web videos are not as much about making a sale as they are about making contact to re-enforce a message and a brand.

39 Free or Low-Cost Tools for Marketing Your Small Business Online Help round out your small business marketing toolkit with this list of the most popular low-cost or free small business marketing tools.

Ten Top Tips for Video Marketing Your Online Business How to stand out in the crowd on video channels and search engines.

Link Building Best Practices - A Guide to Effective Link Building Methods Some of today's popular links building methods that allow you to spend your time in the most productive way.

Social Media and Conan O'Brien A lesson on how to create buzz, but more importantly, content for internet buzz fodder.

Post-Click Conversion Optimization For Long Sales Cycles My latest Search Engine Land article is out titled: Post-Click Conversion Optimization For Long Sales Cycles. In this article, I describe a low-tech approach to tracking clicks to conversions when your sales cycle is something like: Buy click to website User downloads whitepaper after giving you name & email address Those who download the whitepaper are sent an email [...]

New Videos for the week of 2/22/10 Most of the new videos are fairly basic. If you are marketing to Canada, there are some decent videos from FastForward. In addition, as SES has a nice channel ? I?m including all the new SES videos (as well as Pubcon). If there?s an SMX channel, please let me know and I?ll also add that [...]

New Videos from Google for the week of 2/19/2010 Google has not created many new videos for AdWords in the past few weeks. However, they have launched a new social networking option in GMail called Buzz. Our featured video looks through Google Buzz. Another video that is worth watching is about reaching Mom?s online: MomDotCom Webinar 2/9/2010   New Videos from GoogleChannelUK Opportunities tab – keyword suggestions [...]

What Does the Browser Say About Your Site? You should always be aware of what your sites look like in different browsers, and check your Web of Trust rating. The other day I was looking around at CrowdSpring, a website that is fairly trustworthy and does not have any major security flaws that I?m aware of ? definitely not a site that is trying [...]

Advanced AdWords Seminar Coming to Washington DC The AdWords Seminar for Success series is heading to Washington DC. When: March 9 & 10 Where: The Westin Grand 2350 M Street NW Washington D.C. 20037 The AdWords Seminar Curriculum has been completely revamped based upon feedback from previous attendees. We?re now offering a two day seminar. [...]

Broad Match + Negative Keywords = A Profitable Long Tail My newest Search Engine Land column is now out titled: Broad Match + Negative Keywords = A Profitable Long Tail. Start with these 4 ideas: The ?long tail? of keywords is useful to add to PPC campaigns 20% of all searches on Google have not been seen in the past 90 days (you just can?t have every negative [...]

New Videos for the week of 1/25/2010 The new video for this week our out and there are a few favorites we?re going to promote this week. The first does not come from YouTube, but from Yahoo. See the major changes at Yahoo Search Marketing. I don?t know  many people who have bought Google TV ads yet (if you have [...]

The AdWords Seminars for Success Series is Stopping in San Diego The AdWords Seminar for Success series is heading to San Diego. When: February 23 & 24 Where: DoubleTree Hotel San Diego Downtown 1646 Front Street San Diego, CA The AdWords Seminar Curriculum has been completely revamped based upon feedback from previous attendees. We?re now offering [...]

The SEMMY Nominations are Out ? 2 More Nominations for Brad Geddes The SEMMYs honor the best articles and blog posts in various search marketing categories for the previous year. This year, I received two nominations. One for a post here at bg Theory, and another one for an article at Search Engine Land. Since others nominate these articles, I can?t choose them. If I would have nominate [...]

AdWords Updates Display URL Policy ? New Policy Still Falls Short Google has finally updated their Display URL policy so that if you use a shared domain (such as blogspot), then you need to be more accurate in your portrayal of the destination URL. For instance, if your URL was: mybusiness.blogspot.com, all you had to do was use blogspot.com in your destination URL and you would [...]

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ActionScript 3 Tutorial, Using Shared Objects to Show a Visitor's Browsing Time By March 9, 2010 Flash developer Paul Flashdaweb from the FlashKit Forums wrote this ActionScript 3 tutorial which will show you how a SharedObject can be used to show the time a user has been visiting a page on your site--even after they have closed the

Defining an Abstract Class with Restrictive Constructors in PHP 5 In this second part of a four-part series, I rebuild the example application developed in the previous tutorial. As you'll recall, it used a protected constructor to prevent the instantiation of the base array iterator class. In this case, a better

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The Total Newbie?s Guide to jQuery, Part II: Progressive Enhancement and the DOM Reader Rating: Not yet rated Page: 1 2 Next In last week?s article, we covered the most basic jQuery concepts. We?ve learned the steps to use the jQuery statement: make sure the document is ready, select elements, and change them. In this article,

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The 5 Digg Tools You Need These are the 5 Digg tools you need. Are there more? I doubt it!

HostGator Billboards? Will HostGator billboards drive revenue like Web affiliates or be put to sleep in the zoo? Let's find out.

Weird Google Indented Search Results Have you seen these strange Google search results that show multiple indentations?

Merry Halloween Lowes is starting the holidays early this year.

WordCamp Birmingham 2009 Pictures Pictures and thoughts from WordCamp Birmingham, which we attended over the weekend.

RSS Water Fountain Strange occurance of the RSS logo in real life. See for yourself.

Twitter Spam Attack? Within a few hours time, over 9000 Twitter users retweeted the home page of an online pharmacy site... or Twitter was seriously attacked by spammers.

McDonald?s McCafe Promo for Atlanta is Great Advertising I love you McDonald's for this creative form of advertising.

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Social Media and PC Online Games: A Perfect Marriage with Steam? Some of the best social media relationships are built in PC online games.

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