Business Management Consultant - Stuntdubl Search and Marketing Consulting

• Danny launches Sphinn - cool new social app for SEM/SEO’s

- More links below

• Tamar has an awesome list of Digg api tools
• Shimon has some cool ideas on rep management
• Everett has some ideas ideas about using affiliate marketing for reputation management
• The SEO Chicks rock - terrible things to do on social media sites, SEO so easy a caveman could do it, and intro to SEOquake.
• Daniel tells us why SMM is the key to SEO link building.
• Patrick tells dummies (or drunkards) how to make google gadgets
• Copyblogger optimizes the SEOmoz landing page
• Rand gets SMM evil.
• Michael Martinez has some good backlink theories
• News in the domain aftermarket marketplace
• Eric Enge about 10 cool things you can do with clicktracks (and trust me, there are a whole lot more)
• Domainer’s get no respect (they’re definitely starting to get more)
• Mrs. Beal tells us how to stay positive when blogging.
• The sign in Mu’s Ron Paul Post alone makes it worth reading.
• Andy hearts domainers
• Cool new google global search ff extension from the guys at Red fly
• Almost forgot to check on Ms. Snarky this week - she’s talkin’ about simpsons and branding, and her current facebook obsession - good thing I checked.
• Michael had more luck with a problogger’s niche job board than craigslist

What else was good this week that I missed?

• The DNSscoop domain value tool is pretty cool - found via Dotsauce.
• Danny on Domaining More links below
• Signup for the DomainRoundtable Domain Auction
• Domainers are starting to pay more attention to SEO (and vice versa) - We really should be superfriends.
• How to SEO your site in under 60 minutes
• Bill has some patented goodness with info on google janitors and estimating, rating, and using quality score.
• Anyone with a blog better read this - 4 important criteria for your about page from Neil "The digg don" Patel
• The story of what made computers.net valuable
• Google adds to the list of discontinued valuable information, by breaking the supplemental index command
• Eric interviews Seth Godin at Stone Temple
• Helen gives us tips for effective marketing on linkedin
• Go big or go home - some great title tips from Lee of ZenHabits.net
• Why social media should be in your campaigns and the coveted "give it up" SMX session notes from the Lisa.
• This is just kind of funny - internet marketing sucks
• This is funny too - the new webspam initiative
• Cool google products map found via Philipp
• John has some great rants and raves (wish I knew you were at SMX man - gonna have to chat again at pubcon)
• Aaron tracks the growth of competing sites, interviews Michael Mann, talks internal link architecture, and discusses the awesomeness of SEO combined with domaining
• Donna has a great series on making a living in your pajamas, and made me chuckle with a thought I’ve often had - If you barter for a link, is that the same as paying for them?
• The trade was for a Grandcentral invite - which Reuben has a pretty cool writeup on.
• Google is cool with sIFR - yea!
• SEO is like music - it’s always good to see people with a passion for their craft - Nice piece Marty.
• What does googlebot really look like? I’m going with this.

Yes - I realize it’s monday, but hey - it’s summer and I like to relax a bit. I’ve missed the last few weeks, so I thought I’d get this up here now.

• Scott gives some great warning signs for your web project
• Presidential search marketing faceoff at 1020e
• How I became a professional blogger found via Hugh
• Google’s competitive advantage - data collection from Aaron

  "While everyone is running around polluting links on the web graph (and fighting over who the spammer is and what is spam), Google is busy building something only they can build, because they are the only ones who get a free pass on collecting user data as a feature." Nicely put.

• The blogger disclosure debate - Rand vs. Shoe
• 5 signs Andy Hagans wrecked digg and the 10 web 2.0 crack commandments
• Brian wants one BILLION dollars and gets traffic for everything
• Guillame has helped to launched the kickass Bounty Online Fishing Tournament
• Rae talks about supplementals and how to evolve as an affiliate (but unfortunately no Bon Jovi)
• Patrick talks about a Harly Davidson viral campaign while referencing one of my favorite books - Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintence (really, you should read it) I really respect his great plan and goals too.
• Todd Mintz’s story of popping his domainer cherry.
• Facebook’s plan for victory found via Brian (who also gives us the blueprint for a brilliant blog launch)
• Brad tells us Adwords quietly releases IP blocking
• Jason’s 301 Redirect Example When Using Wildcard DNS For Subdomains
• From the land of Moz - How to handle a google penalty, and an interview with Kevin Ryan of SES
• Max Action of the action squad hit SMX - now this is an interesting conference writeup with some different perspective on "networking"
• Dan on Google Universal Search (aka GUS)
• Graywolf talks about social media for b2b (I got this exact question at least 4 times at SMX), and Patricia talks about dating tips for b2b marketers.

What were your favorite recent articles that I missed?

• Bill Slawski is a genius, and he takes a lot of time to write great stuff (mainly derived from actual patents) like these on user query intent, personalized re-rankings, large scale machine learning, historical data followup, and mindmapping for keyword development. Fantastic stuff. More links below
• Check out the new SEO Chicks site - these are some damn smart ladies, so there’s bound to be some great stuff here
• Jim has re-rounded up has best posts, and is givin’ stuff away
• Smash magazine on the golden rules of linkbaiting
• Must read - Measuring Link Value - thanks Rand, I’ve been meaning to rewrite this post for a while - now I can continue to be lazy - Link strategy for enterprise sites is a goodie too.
• Search Engine People has an SEO lyrics contest going - fun stuff
• A couple throwbacks on Michael Gray’s site for fun - if google ran the world, sandbox is not the trustbox, and the newer can you make a living at blogging
• Do I hear sharks jumping?
• Shimon on why buying a second domain is a good strategy
• DIY PR on Guy’s site
• Shoemoney’s got some ideas for site audit tools
• Filed under "good to know" - people hate black jelly beans more than SEO’s
• Michael Jensen gives away all my anchor text secrets
• 100 billion cookies and no one is listening

• Got a chance to have some beers with Neil and Cameron monday night - brilliant down to earth guys, and they’re rockstars for a reason, checkout some of the recent brilliance from Pronet - A petition for a transparent digg, as well as an article from Neil on landing pages for social media visitors - more links below
• Joe has some advice on getting edu links
• A very nice post on buying websites as well as an interesting article on successful domainers - hat tip to kid disco the seo
• Patrick of feedthebot (a very nice information site on webmaster guidelines) interviewed some folks about marketing on a budget - great topic, it’s awesome to see folks "bootstrap it"
• Jim and the linkninjas got some dope new tunes
• How to rank for your own name - If your name is Matthew Berman
• Rand is grilling search engineers (You can’t handle the truth!)
• Muhammad Saleem is over at Copyblogger now asking if it’s okay to write MFD (made for digg) copy
• Chris Sherman interviews Seth Godin at SEL
• Russ has a cool digg entourage tool
• Jon tells us how to be the next big blogger

• Andy tells us why the world should love SEO’s, and about the lies domainers tell themselves - more links below
• Brian P. talks about internet marketing opportunity and scalability and the new internet superfriends
• Brian C. wonders if your metaphors rock
• Dave has a 3 step plan for paid linking
• Justilien goes on link safari
• The Mozzer’s built a team on the awesome non-profit service WorldGrid - Download the software, join their team, and use your powers for good (or awesome)
• Rand also some quality commentary on temporal data
• Shimon has some information on mobile search buys
• Danny has the lowdown on Google’s universal search
• Scott gives us a list of his many cool scripts
• Andy announced the SEM scholarship finalists
• Aaron interviews Frank Schilling
• Daniel thinks (google) seo is dead and some thoughts on marketing changes
• Doug gives us a nice best practices post on international domain issues
• From Pronet - Neil on the newest digg fiasco and Muhammed on social network ad spending and ROI
• Justin says loyalty is the life force of the economy

• An amazing roundup of web analytics solutions from Stone Temple consulting - can’t wait to see the final version. *more links below
• Neil has a new site about how to do shameless self promotion - quicksprout.com
• Brian tells us how to be a master of metaphor in copywriting (and also has a sweet new design)
• Graywolf on how to use digg
• Brad explains the psychology of search
• Why Aaron likes the supplemental index
• Top 100 ad campaigns of the century via threadwatch and Dean
• In case you missed it, Lawrence has a sexy widget for Rate it All
• Political SEO - from Marketingdrone - SEM for ‘08 Candidates, and Scott on the need for good political search marketing
• Jane at SEOMoz did an amazing job with the 2007 Web 2.0 Awards
• I might as well just link to everything Mozzer’s write - Rand’s got some goodies with 17 rules for ecom websites, and the Fishkin version of the seo playbook
• Danny must be the most patient SEO on the planet to continue to make eloquent defenses of it. All of us who prefer to just kick ass in the SERPs, rather than deal with haterz owe this man a gigantic thank you for taking the time to do so.
• Some cool digg tools from the API at pronet
• Subliminal advertising
• Church of the holy business model