Friday, March 14, 2008

Interviews With The Creators of The Top 20 Most Visited Blogs in History

Getting a position on the Technorati top 100 popular blogs is an impressive feat that only a minute fraction of Bloggers ever achieve.

Here are  collections of both video and transcipt interviews of the top 20 Bloggers who created  blogs that are now receiving millions of worldwide visitors monthly.

They discuss how their previous careers  before blogging and how ideas launched to create their now famous blogs.

Valuable resource for those Bloggers attempting to piece together the magic of mass popularity in this very competitive field. 

Technorati Top 100 Popular Blogs
http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/

50 top Blogs Summarized
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs


Interviews With The Creators of  The Top 20 Most Visited Blogs

Peter Rojas Creator of  Engadget and  Gizmodo
http://business360.blogspot.com/2005/09/interviewing-engadgeteer.html

(Current Editors)
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-04/mf_gadgetblogs/?currentPage=all

Mike Arrington Creator of TechCrunch

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/01/inside-techcrunch/
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/03/06/2/a-conversation-with-michael-arrington-of-techcrunch
http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/the-world-according-to/2008/02/29/An-Interview-With-Michael-Arrington

Pete Cashmore  Creator of Mashable
http://mashable.com/2008/03/13/pete-on-viral-live/

Boing Boing Founder, Mark Frauenfelder
http://www.appscout.com/2007/05/interview_boing_boing_founder.php
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nc3tskqA9qc


Eric Nakagawa, Founder of ICANHASCHEEZBURGER

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9g3jtoGiqa8

Arianna Huffington Post
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aJzhnWpUzvo
http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/this_is_the_fut.html

LifeHacker  Editor Gina Trapini
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZnbfI8QlZ80
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/04/19/interview-with-gina-trapani-of-lifehacker-part-1/

Arstechnica  Founder Jon “Hannibal” Stokes
http://newstrolls.com/audio/hannibal1.mp3 2017 kb
http://newstrolls.com/audio/hannibal2.mp3 833 kb
http://newstrolls.com/audio/hannibal3.mp3 1656 kb
http://newstrolls.com/audio/hannibal4.mp3 1577kb
http://newstrolls.com/audio/hannibal5.mp3 892 kb

Harvey Levin Foounder of  TMZ
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071115/tmzs-harvey-levin-speaks/

Frank Warren  Creator of PostSecret
http://austinist.com/2007/10/31/frank_warren_of_2.php

Markos Moulitsas ZĂșniga Founder of  Daily Kos
http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/controlled_chao.html

ProBlogger  Founder Darren Rowse
http://performancing.com/interview/story-problogger-darren-rowse-interview

Perez Hilton
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/fashion/29perez.html

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Google Job Interview Questions, Brain Teasers, Tips, Anecdotes from Developers

Compare this presentation by Google to the harsh realities revealed ex candidates:
alt : http://www.youtube.com/v/w887NIa_V9w&rel=1&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&border=1


They liked your resume, now it’s time for the phone interviews.
A recruiter suggested you, now Google begins pre screening phone interviews.
You aced the phone interviews, now it’s time for several grilling interviews - in person.
Take a tip from these seasoned Googlers and rejected candidates to avoid tragic mistakes.

Example Brain Teaser Questions:

Personal Interview Stories:

Work Life At Google - News Videos:


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Friday, December 21, 2007

‘SEO’ & ‘Search Engine Optimization’: High Ranking Websites Getting The Most Organic Search Engine Visits

Compete.com screenshot from a query comparing the top high rankings sites getting traffic from the major search engines for the terms SEO & Search Engine Optimization.

Additonal stats show the average monthly referrals and what percentage of overal traffic those particular search terms bring. Click each image for Full Size Version


SEO

SEO


Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization



  1. Compare Google and Yahoo for SEO
  2. Compare Google and Yahoo for Search Engine Optimization

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Comscore, Nielsen, Compete, HitWise:: How They Collect Data, Why There are Differences

Ever wondered about the difference in the methodologies? This explains why there are ranges among the various measurements.


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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Top SEO & Web 2.0 Bloggers - How Much Traffic Do They Receive?


Stories behind 14 of the Blogs and Bloggers

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0714_bloggers/index.htm

Sample of Top 100 Popular Blogs - Top 100 Favorite Blogs on Technorati (including: Gadgets, Web 2.0 & Politics)

 


Top SEO Blogs (courtesy of SEOMOZ)

http://www.seomoz.org/articles/search-blog-stats.php

Monitored by BelStat - Your Site Counts
web counters


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Friday, June 15, 2007

How to Recover Lost Webpages without Backups & Upload Web sites without Software

If anyone has  lost all or part of their current Website without having recent backups, or lost access to their  Web host’s filemanager here are several  recoverable  tactics.

USE the CACHE on Google, Yahoo and MSN and use the ‘SITE’: Command for archived  HTML.  Find old images by using the Internet Archive and searching for your URLs.

Here is and interesting add on for FireFox that Searches ALL the major caches for missing sites:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570

There is another option that surprisingly, many people have not thought of -  GET THE TEMPORARY FILES from any computer that has recently viewed the site that you can get access to.

This means you will find also: Flash, CSS, JS files as well as images.

This add on for FireFox actually allows you to search and organize the cache files without the troublesome manual commands

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2489

for IE users, just go to TOOLS –> INTERNET OPTIONS  –>
then locate the appropriate submenu and copy and paste those files into the desktop or another directory for safe keeping.

Once at the temporary directory, it might be helpful to GROUP BY Name or Internet Address

If no FTP program is available, and you are really desperate…

you can type  ftp://domainname.com (replace with your Domain name)  in the Internet Explorer address bar, and when the popup appear, put in the username and password to immediatly access your Web site ’s Webpage files to begin pasting or dragging in the ‘recovered files’

or you can use ftp://username:password@domainname.com (wipe away your traces if others use that PC)

You can also use this strategy to get YouTube videos or MP3 files that you have already accessed, without using any of the youtube downloaders.

If you need to do a HTML modifications and do not have any WYSIWYG editors around, just  open View Source for the webpage  and put in the  ‘BASE HREF= ‘ tag in the head with the URL of the domain name -
then save the page locally to the desktop as an .html file.

This allows for modifying and  instantly previewing the design without having to make constant round trips to the server to inspect.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

‘Search Engine Optimization’ on Google SERPs - Winners & Losers Over time

Because SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is one of the most professionally optimized terms, it is useful to analyze the changing serps to gain insight into Google’s changing algos and ranking priorities, and what SEO tactics are working:

1- Compare the page ‘frozen’ from the beginning of the year-
http://www.freezepage.com/1173265083BAOMJYSUXM

2- Compare this interactive  chart  archiving the past six months-
http://www.rankpulse.com/search-engine-optimization?p0=on&p1=on&p2=on&p3=on&p4=on

3- Compare the latest SERPs as of today-
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=search+engine+optimization

4- Compare this archive of sites added from the past three years/ organized by dates (90% accurate)

also interestingly, if the parameter ‘&btnG=Google+Search’ is added, the serps are slightly different-
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=search+engine+optimization&btnG=Google+Search


It does appear that two new main factors are now fueling Google’s algos:
The first would be giving a priority to informational or reference sites,
the second would be factoring in how frequently new backlinks are added, and filtering out backlinks that their algos are red-flaging as paid links (which may factor into the TrustRank of a site).

These new modified algos that just went current a few hours ago, appear to attempt to filter out any SEO tactics, thereby allowing popular reference sites to gain rankings (generally, they are less likely to be seo’ed or to buy links) 


 

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Friday, March 30, 2007

FreeWare Equivalents of Popular Adobe & Flash Web Developer Softwares: Parts I & II

FreeWare Equivalents of Popular Adobe & Flash Web Developer Softwares: Parts I & II

http://blogs.download.com/Daily-Download/post.php?p=1402

http://blogs.download.com/Daily-Download/post.php?p=1404

site statistics

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Saturday, March 3, 2007

Top SEO Search Queries - Archived, Combined Totals of 200 Top Search Engines

These results were obtained via Keyword Discovery analyzing queries from 200 Search Engines http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/engines.html

Here are the top Online Promotion  releated terms.  If you are an Online Marketer, these are the to 10 search  phrases that appear to bring in the most online visitors or have the most searches;


search engines 7,559,292
search engines placement 1,952,649
major search engines 1,039,958
search engines optimization 278,237
adult search engines 269,340
internet search engines 142,786
pay per click search engines 111,528
mp3 search engines 100,863
job search engines 91,285
free search engines 88,


search engine optimization 3,638,572
search engine optimization services 994,218
search engine optimization company 524,587
web search engine optimization 511,400
dsl search engine optimization 118,512
search engine optimization service 98,722
search engine optimization specialist 55,744
search engine optimization search engine placement 35,660
search engine optimization google 31,108
search engine optimization firm 28,555


seo 945,125
seo services 73,968
seo company 33,131
seo optimization 32,656
seo firm 32,597
internet marketing seo 24,554
seo keywords 19,358
seo tools 18,698
customized seo 17,204
seo tips 15,609


search engine marketing 1,598,655
search engine marketing company 32,085
search engine marketing services 29,906
search engine marketing firm 28,889
search engine marketing service 13,640
internet marketing search engine 13,592
search engine marketing news 13,403
ppc search engine internet marketing 9,592
internet marketing search engine placement 8,725
ppc search engine web marketing 8,442


search engine submission 3,887,714
free search engine submission 135,324
search engine submission service 91,270
search engine submission servi 46,478
search engine submission software 25,621
yahoo search engine submission 17,854
engine pro search submission 17,584
search engine submission services 11,748
search engine submission tool 9,401
search engine submission and optimization 8,971


search engine positioning 1,312,408

search engine promotion 1,786,524

search engine ranking 1,507,178
ranking search engine 300,965
top search engine ranking 151,253
high search engine ranking 122,912
increase search engine ranking 118,740
improve search engine ranking 88,046
improved search engine ranking 42,800
ranking high on search engine 35,460
improve my search engine ranking 32,850
higher search engine ranking 32,222


search engine placement 3,269,045
search engine placement services 519,298
improve search engine placement 136,117
better search engine placement 130,717
top search engine placement 73,613
high search engine placement 50,038
higher search engine placement 44,423
search engine optimization search engine placement 35,660
internet search engine placement 33,986
search engine placement service 11,927


website promotion 3,438,254
gardening website promotion 30,688
free website promotion 15,826
website promotion company 8,762
website promotion service 7,385
website promotion marketing 7,145
website promotion services 6,278
website+promotion 6,247
website promotion software 5,672
website promotion free 4,681


web site promotion 2,231,400
web site promotion services 148,609
web site promotion marketing 72,222
web site promotion service 61,236
web site promotion software 54,620
internet web site promotion 54,151
web site promotion company 52,424
web site promotion internet marketing 52,233
adult web site promotion 46,365
web site promotion tool 38,554


website traffic 1,261,193
buy website traffic 24,698
free website traffic 17,620
increase website traffic 14,603
targeted website traffic 11,781
traffic to your website 6,020
traffic website 5,847
targeted traffic to website 4,777
website+traffic 4,303
attract traffic to website 3,731


yahoo google 2,224
google yahoo 1,880
account email free google yahoo 1,054
search yahoo com/search p google 809
engine google search yahoo 778
google and yahoo 753
search google yahoo 724
google pagerank yahoo 439
google yahoo altavista 409
search yahoo com/search p google com 375


internet marketing 14,493,112
internet marketing company 776,533
internet marketing tool 175,934
internet marketing online 155,098
internet marketing ebook 153,272
internet marketing strategy 147,340
strategic internet marketing 143,876
internet marketing services 136,173
internet marketing advertising 116,228
internet marketing solution 113,948


Here are lists of  Top 10 queries organized by Categories
http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/keyword-directory.html

Compare this to JUST using the Overture Keyword Suggestion tool by itself http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/?mkt=&term=search%20engine

Or the WordTracker Tool
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/?seed=search+engines&suggest=Hit+Me&adult_filter=remove_dubious

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