I still hear from people who get confused by solicitations in the mail. Here’s an example one:
At first glance, this semi-official looking letter seems to require bill payment for some sort of “annual website search engine listing.” But if you read the fine print at the bottom, you’ll see:
This is not a bill. This is a solicitation. You are under no obligation to pay the amount stated above unless you accept this offer.
In other words, feel free to throw this letter in the trash. If you want to submit a url to Google, there are at least a couple ways to do it, for free:
- Google offers a free “add url” form where you can submit your domain name.
- You can make a Sitemap (a list of urls for your site) and submit it for free as well. Start here. There’s a lot of other free, useful tools from Google […]
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Hey Matt I can’t be the first person who ever wanted a link on Google maps straight to a Google calendar, how come you don’t offer that? I look up the location, add my starting address (which Google never seems to remember despite me telling it multiple times it’s my default address) you have be “smart” enough to know I have the Google calendar service on my account why not offer me a quick link to add it to my Google Calendar, prefill the address, and all I have to enter is the time.
oh and I’d love to be able to sync my gmail/google calendar with my windows mobile phone the way I can with an exchange server, but that’s just crazy talk I know, since AT&T won’t let me download/install the gmail app on my phone as it is.
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The folks who publish Search Marketing Standard approached me with a special offer for you readers. If you subscribe between now and December 10 2007 you can get a 1 year subscrption for $4.95 (yep that’s $5) if you use the following code when you subscribe:
coupon code: HOLIDAY67
In addition for every person who does subscribe with that code they will donate $1 to Toy for Tots.
When I first heard about the magazine before it came out I didn’t think there was going to be much there for me, but it is one of the 4 remaining print magazines I read (the other three are non search related). This month has articles from people like Chris Boggs, David Temple, Eric Ward, Jessica Bowman, Kim Krause Berg, Joe Whyte, an interview with Chris Winfield, and whole bunch of other people who are going to totally hate me at Pubcon next week for […]
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Here’s a prime example of how to ruin an otherwise amazing piece of linkbait. It’s hot, it’s fresh, it’s easy to get, but where are the damn pictures! A huge component of social media is the eye candy! You need it especially if you are playing the celebrity space. If someone produced this for me they’d be fired … twice … for not putting in the pictures … idiots … I swear idiots …
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Spotlight on Search: Interview
What we have for you today is a double scoop, double feature and two times our regular interview spunk involving Kevin Ryan, Global Content Director for Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch and Kevin Heisler, Executive Editor of Search Engine Watch. I’ll have to say, there are a few gems in this one, so read on:
(Heisler photo credit, Christine Churchill)
Let’s cut to the chase on SES Chicago and Pubcon happening at the same time this year. I am not sure most people realize it was not intended to happen that way. Do you anticipate there being much of an effect on attendance? How different are the audiences these two events are attempting to attract?
RYAN: I am not aware of any other conferences at this time <grins>.
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I know Google’s been trying to get more involved in the social game, but here are a few suggestions on how they can make the integration a little more seamless, and I’m totally name dropping Mihai Parparita so he catches this one ego surfing.
Currently when you mail yourself something you get this at the bottom of the email
Pretty useful and helpful, however the email a story could use some options, like say for example allowing me just to send the URL. Why would I want to do that, so I could use twittermail to email things to my twitter account. This becomes even more useful for those of us who run/manage multiple websites with role accounts. Sure I could just click through, open the URL, copy the url and change tabs to webmail and copy and paste it, but just think how much better, faster, easier it would be, if […]
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