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Is excess links from social bookmarking sites harmful?

We get this question from our readers. I believe yes too much of anything is harmful right? If you are into building links from social media sites we need to make sure its done correctly. First of all we need to make sure social media links are not no-followed. No-follow links are not counted by Google.

Even if the links are not no followed there are too many links submitted in sites like Digg.com so most of the time it's not worth doing excess links in social bookmarking sites. Keep in mind, you are building a "link profile" right now. Do you want that profile focused in the Social Media space? If so, you're on the right track but maybe going about it the wrong way. The way the question reads almost sounds as if you are abusing the Social Media outlets where this stuff was supposedly submitted.

Social bookmarking sites are meant for communities which want to share pages and sites they like on the web I am sure if you want to abuse it then you are in wrong track.

Labels: social bookmarking

Google introduces webmaster tools access provider program

Webmaster tools Access provider pilot program,

Google has recently come up with a new option in webmaster tools where they enable hosting companies to integrate webmaster tools features into their hosting plans as well their servers. Google has recently read this new technology and it works great.

With the help of Google APIs webmaster tools can be directly integrated in web hosting control panel. For products like Cpanel its very easy to get something like running using webmaster tools hosting programm, Also hosting companies which uses Google webmaster tools will receive a badge which says Google webmaster access provider which will help web hosting providers an other reason to promote their business.

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Help customers understand how Google sees their site
Google Webmaster Tools helps your customers understand site traffic and diagnose potential problems by providing insight into how Google crawls and indexes their site.

Integrate directly into hosting control panel
With the Google APIs, you can integrate Google Webmaster Tools into your customer's control panel, so customers can create accounts and submit Sitemaps without leaving your service.

Promote your business with Google's name recognition
As part of the program you will receive a Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider badge to highlight the value of your integration to new and existing customers."

You will get the following badge when you join their programme,

Labels: Other Search Information, pagerank update, social bookmarking, website

Delicious IE extension a useful tool for IE / Delicious users

Internet explorer delicious users now have a new reason to smile. Del.icio.us has released a very neat extension for IE with some useful features.

IE features.
Near instantaneous searching with very large accounts (over 10K bookmarks)
Full del.icio.us sidebar and toolbar implementation with bookmark sync and typedown search
Toolbar indicators for new network activity and links for you
Works on IE6, IE7, and IE8 beta on both XP and Vista

From the day Yahoo acquired Del.icio.s this social bookmarking site has some sparkling features. Though i prefer Digg over delicious i feel delicious stands out better than Digg in features like this.

Way to Go,

SEG

Labels: social bookmarking, Yahoo

Sanford wallace AKA Spamford wallace awarded 234$ million fine for spamming

Well people in online marketing industry for a long time should be knowing the long term spammer and one of the worst email spammer of all time Sanford Wallace. His company cyber promotions started in 1991 is one of the foremost email spamming company. He closed his company due to lawsuits and public pressure and now is resorted to spamming through more sophisticated methods.

Wikipedia has lot more information on this spammer . Well Now he is faced by a lawsuit by myspace for spamming their members using fake IDs. Now a civic court has ruled against him and he should pay 234$ million as fine to myspace for abusing their services. Well i am sure he is not going to pay this anyway i dont think first of all he has any where near that money to pay. I am sure this is just a warning lawsuit from Myspace to everyone trying to spam their users. Wallace was previously asked to pay FTC more than 4 million dollars as fine which he never paid http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0423142/WallaceFinalJudgment.pdf now i am sure for the type of low life he lives he will never pay the 234 million.

I am not sure whether its his personal blog ( no way to authenticate ) but seeing from the postings it seems its the real sanford wallace.

The thread about recently lawsuit really attracted me.

his post

"$234 million dollar judgment
I just read that a court awarded MySpace a $234 million dollar judgment against me. That's pretty amazing since I haven't even been served in this case since the preliminary injunction about a year ago. Regardless, the check's in the mail.
"

and his replies

admin Says:
Good demonstration of how some people base their thoughts on erroneous information. #1 The poster doesn't understand the meaning of a civil judgment. #2 The poster clearly feels I send crap in his or her inbox even though I haven't sent a mass commercial email in over 10 years.

admin Says:
"Innocent until proven guilty" does not apply to civil actions. And I am still waiting to be served. And I haven't been hiding either. The whole case was one big PR move.

admin Says:
There's a big difference between crying "its not my fault" and "they won a $234 million dollar judgment without even serving the defendant." I'm not asking you to care about me. I'm asking you to care about what happens when a huge corporation and the gov't have a common interest.

I personally want all the email spammers to go to hell or serve Capital punishment they are just a disgrace to internet and Internet freedom

Labels: social bookmarking, Spam

launching inhouse team SEO challenge

We have about 8 teams working on SEO, Currently we are organizing a small inhouse SEO challenge. The team that comes up with the best tactics that brings maximum attention to the client site/sites they work on will get a treat in one of the best local Star Hotel and one day outing to a favourite play they choose. We are running this challenge for a month and results to be announced around May 25th. May the best team win.

Tactics like Controversial articles, top level quality attractive articles, amazing tools, new innovative ideas are all allowed. We are waiting to see who is the best SEO team in our company. All teams have already started working hard and are doing lot trial and error ideas to come up with the best strategies.

Wish our teams good luck

SEG

Labels: Search Engine Marketing, social bookmarking

Effect of Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon has been a great hit in recent days. Some of our sites get huge number of referrals from stumble upon. I went through a webmaster world thread which showed a similiar experience with Stumbleupon

Pageoneresults explains,how to get started with stumble upon

Getting Started with StumbleUpon "http://www.stumbleupon.com/guide.html"
After you've read the Guide and fully understand the terms and conditions of being a Stumbler, then there are 3 Steps you'll go through to become a Stumbler...
Step 1: Join StumbleUpon and become a Stumbler... "http://www.stumbleupon.com/sign_up.php"
Step 2: Connect with friends if you have them in that network.
Step 3: Install the StumbleUpon Toolbar...
Step 4: Start Stumbling.
As with any "social network", you will need to develop a reputation within the StumbleUpon Communities and there are many. With 4.99 million Stumblers, there are all sorts of "arms and legs" inside the community.
Your goal is to of course become a Top Stumbler and that only comes with tenure. Don't expect things to happen overnight. Think of StumbleUpon like a Digg or Sphinn...
Top Stumblers
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