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Using Twitter Search for RSS and Atom Feeds

NitroMetricsAdmin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:02:56 +0000

Twitter used to feature a handy RSS feed button when ever you’d do a search so you could easily follow a topic in a feed reader. They have since taken that down but you can still get the results you want in a feed using this query:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=phrase

or if you’d prefer to exclude spammy urls in the results, remove the http with this query:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=phrase%20-http

Note: %20 represents a space of course

for more help visit:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/x-twitsrchapi/index.html

Keyword Data Filtering Formula in Excel and Open Office

NitroMetricsAdmin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:16:25 +0000

This searches for a specific word in a sentence and will apply a label in the new cell if the certain word is found (Good for making PPC Adgroups from a huge list of keywords)

Open Office

=IF(ISERROR(FIND("TargetWord";B2));"";"LabelWord")

Excel =IF(ISERROR(FIND("TargetWord",B2)),"","LabelWord")

Darn Good List of SEO Link Building Guidelines

Matt Gause — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:58:44 +0000

This is one of the best link buidling requirements list I’ve ever seen. If you are having a company or individual build links have them follow these rules. Most importantly, have them report the links they’ve built for you.

There are a lot of shady tricks out there and this list will help you avoid 99.9% of them.

GUIDELINES
1- One link per domain. No more than 3 links from the same Class-C IP address
2- Require One-way links only
3- Links should contain the target keyword/keyword phrase (we will supply the target keyword/keyword phrase) as text in the link anchor text hyperlink
4- Links must be permanent
5- Links must be in text, no graphics
6- Links cannot be from framed pages
7- Links cannot be through a JavaScript
8- Links cannot be through a redirect script
9- Links cannot be on Flash sites or pages
10- Links cannot include a rel=nofollow tag
11- No links using any automated techniques or black-grey hat techniques of blog comment spam, referrer spam or ANY other shady tactic.
12- Page containing link must not be excluded by robots.txt and the anchor text must not contain the rel=nofollow tag.
13- Linked sites must be in production and active . (Developed and not under construction).
14- No sites that require payments
15- No Scraped content, mirror sites, link schemes and sites overrun with contextual ads, popups, intrusive advertising, etc.
16- No link from: guestbook’s, social bookmarking, classifieds, dynamic links, link farms, link-exchange programs, forums, directories, articles submission, Free For All websites, hacker, pharmacy, illegal, pornographic or generally black hat sites.
18- Links must be manually submitted ONLY. No use of Automated software (e.g., Zeus, Arelis or others
19- We reserve the right to cancel any link if not found suitable.
20- Page containing link must be reacheable using normal flow navigation from home page and sitemap (if present)
21- Link page should be from English / German / French language sites only
22- Link page must already be indexed and cached by Google within last 30 days.
23- Links must be on pages with 20 outbound links at most.
24- Links should not be listed, illegal and other offensive websites (porn, gambling, spam, ban, or blacklisted).

What's wrong with the website now?

Matt Gause — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:38:25 +0000

In a recent conversation with a designer the question “What’s wrong with the website now?” was asked in response to the idea of setting up an A/B test on the homepage. Because he designed the homepage and would likely design the new tests I had to tread lightly. In a hurry I explained that “nothing” was “wrong” with the homepage but a small variation might have improved results. Changing the hero-shot, the title, or the color of the call-to-action button all might perform better than the current test. Conversely it could also perform worst. I tried to explain that we just don’t understand exactly what makes customers click. The only way to know what they really like is to ask them, through an A/B test.

I’m not sure I answered his question or aleviated any of his concern but his sentament is common. The idea that any one thing could be the best version the first time out is a pipe dream. The idea that a professional baseball player could step to the plate and hit a grand slam on the first swing is a pipe dream as well. Let’s face it, the first version isn’t always the best (which is normal). Why not try hundreds of versions and pick the best one?

So in short, there’s nothing wrong with the website, just your process.