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It’s been a pretty cool year in the world of search marketing, and the year end roundups are always a great time to build those bookmarks full of a ton of great information that you’ll likely never have a chance to go back and read (learn to skim or speedread). I thought I’d take a look at some of the topics I discussed last year, and see what panned out, and what hasn’t yet come to fruition (as well as some things I missed. It didn’t seem like I had a lot of new predictions, but there are a few near the bottom. Here’s my predictions from last year, and how I think they’re doing.

This probably isn’t a great idea since I didn’t spend NEAR enough time researching it, and I KNOW I am only scratching the surface - so I am relying on your help for this one in helping build a compilation of favorite SEO/SEM posts of the year for 2006. Feel free to submit up to ten - and please submit OTHER’s posts/articles.

I have 18 posts listed - which means I’m good for about 1.5 GOOD posts per month. To all the bloggers out there - it’s really not about quantity - it’s about quality. Each one of these posts took MANY hours, but the links that they garnished were fairly exceptional. The moral of the story is to put in the extra work it takes to make something GREAT instead of just something decent.

My favorite charities -
St. Baldricks
Leukemia Research foundation
American cancer society
FoodforEveryone

• Search Engine Journal 2006 blog awards - Thanks for the nominations - honored to be a part of such a great group of sites.

I tend to take it a bit personal when people hate on SEO - I guess I do understand sometimes - I suppose it’s like being a lawyer or something, and I should probably just get used to it, but I enjoy search and optimization so much it just bugs me at times. It makes me wonder about the reasons WHY anyhow, so like usual - I thought I’d make a list. I TRIED to give a compliment and some constructive criticism for Digg today - and managed to get hated off the homepage. We’re really not all out to get you, nor bad people.

Despite being incredibly sick of always hearing about “the new google”, and not believing it can happen due to the extremely high barrier to entry, I think there *IS* still opportunity for someone to gain significant share of the stagnating search marketplace. The ONE major reason it could happen - is geek mindshare. That’s where search was won by G. I read Rand and Matt’s excellent piece of the digg algorithm, and it got me thinking about why I like the site so well. If the same processes, and level of expertise can migrate to other genres - they have a winner.