July 23rd, 2008

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Get your search fix with two videos

I was going to wait until part 2 was posted, but I’ll point people to part 1 now. The video from the SMX Advanced keynote is now live, so you can watch the first 25 minutes of questions and answers. Read the intro here, or just watch the video:

And Juliane Stiller from Google’s German Webmaster blog stopped by the Googleplex for a more fun interview. Read the intro in English or German or just watch the video below:

Thanks for setting this up, Juliane! Note to self: wear a different shirt for my next SEO video interview. I happened to wear the same polo shirt for both interviews.

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First Guest Post

I’ll be having my first guest post today from Melanie Nathan, I’m reaching out to other folks this week. Let me know what you think in the comments or in private.

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How to Turn Google Knols into an MFA Scraper

The following is purely hypothetical and should not be taken as advice or a suggestion.
Since all of the content wikipedia is free for public use as long as you credit it, what’s to prevent anyone from copying large chunks and importing them into Google Knols. Lets say you took the top 1000 pages from wikipedia, got some cheap labor from country with a weak economy like india, china, russia, united states and have them copy/scrape all the pages and create knol pages for them. You could get around the dupe content issues by rolling back 3-6 months of revisions on wikipedia. Beg, borrow, spam, or rent yourself enough links to get them indexed. Wait 9-12 months for Knols domain authority to kick in and then turn on the adsense.
Again this is all purely hypothetical and not to be interpreted as a suggestion or advice.
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Lessons in Linkbait and Social Media

One way to make sure your linkbait is successful is to pick a subject that you believe in, are passionate about, and that will bring out an emotional response from members of your target audience.
Or you could play it safe and write the 5 ways Twitter is helping web 2.0 businesses.
The first is memorable the second is utterly forgettable.
Everyone remembers Evel Knievel because he did things that were memorable. No one remembers the 500,000 people who thought jumping the fountains at Ceasars Palace with a motorcycle couldn’t be done, and gave up without even trying.
As my friend Alex tells me unless you have the guts to stand out, you’re just part of the pack.
Class dismissed.

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