PHPlist, the OS newsletter manager, reminds me once again why I check source code and remove links. Seems they are trying their hand at some GoogleBombing. Legitimate move or abuse of users trust?

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Domain legend Frank Schilling links to two more articles speculating on the “Google-GoDaddy merger” rumours. When asked about a potential union, Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons told eWeek, “I have no comment on that, but I’d like to.”

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I usually sign-up for most SEO related newsletters. Most of the material is too general or out of date but they are useful as an indicator of mainstream views on SEO/SEM. Over all though, as Mr. Adams would say, they are mostly harmless. However I was quite annoyed at the recent newsletter from Entireweb, entitled “Suicide in Cyberspace – Your Outward Links Can Kill your Rankings”, authored by SEO consultant Ben

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For all you new or experienced domainers out there. We have just launched our new domain auction portal: e3auction. The site offers Premium Domains from several key sources, offered for immediately purchase and access to Auctions run by Tucows as well as several tools.

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Damn, just get back from holiday and find out Graywolf is putting everyone on notice for partial feeds. Then again, as I only have 10 readers you can probably save the trouble of subscribing and we’ll just talk it out over beer. Social Media 0.1?

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When you’ve been on the internet a while, you realise that if a service can be spammed there’s a 100% chance it will be. So it was no great surprise to learn about the spamming of InterNIC’s WHOIS service. This isn’t about scraping the WHOIS data, it’s far geekier. People are actually spamming the data [...]

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A growing number of people out there are starting to feel uncomfortable about the search records that are kept by the search engines, Google in particular. Even though Google have reduced the time they keep this information, and stressed that they will make it anonomous, the infamous AOL data leak last year showed that users [...]

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The plug was finally pulled on the leading SEO discussion site, Threadwatch.org. It had a good three year run, having been started in 2004 by Nick Wilson. After Aaron’s announcement on Monday members and editors were left wondering if the doors really would be closed. Right up to the last minute offers to buy were [...]

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That’s actually pretty funny for a site that prides itself on human written results. I wonder if No one is going to be a particularly prolific writer at Mahalo? Hat Tip DaveN Update: All corrected now. We better stop messing with JC though, it’s affecting the natural balance of the site. Even with Mahalo’s awesome [...]

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For all you aspiring domainers out there, we’ve made some updates on our Domain Auction Tool. Email alerts can now be set up to search on keywords, contained in auctioned domains. You will see this section added to your daily email report, together with the No. of Yahoo links and Registered Date. To start email [...]

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