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luni, 27 septembrie 2010

Damn Cool Pics

120 Hunting Dogs Being Fed At The Same Time
Bear vs. Cows
Epic Wins
15 Horrifying Couples That Shouldn't Procreate
Virginity for Sale: $5000
Samba Carnival in Japan
The Economics of Star Wars

120 Hunting Dogs Being Fed At The Same Time

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 09:54 AM PDT

120 hunting dogs being fed at Cheverny, France! Amazing!

Bear vs. Cows

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 09:42 AM PDT

This bear attacked the wrong cows. In fact, there were too many of them.

Epic Wins

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 09:10 AM PDT

Wins are not as funny as fails but they are very motivational.

15 Horrifying Couples That Shouldn't Procreate

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 08:50 AM PDT

For centuries unintelligent and rather unattractive people have been allowed to breed freely which is why the world is starting to decline so rapidly. Now I'm not agreeing with the people who say that there should be laws against ugly human breeding because that's not the job of the government. If we want to get rid of the uglies we should start by getting rid of the grub worms that are in our soil because ugly people love grub worms. Another way to get rid of ugly is through ultrasonic devices. They create a high pitched sound that will make the ugly people think there is another ugly person in the area. Ugly people are very territorial.

Virginity for Sale: $5000

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 08:43 AM PDT

Selling your virginity online is not something new. But it was never SO cheap. Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't buy this girl's virginity, but $5000 don't seem like a lot of money compared to such deals that we've seen lately. For example, 22-year-old American Natalie Dylan has netted a $3.7 million offer in 2009 and an Italian model was selling hers for 1m Euros in 2008. This 18-year-old girl Lera is making headlines in Russia right now after she posted these photos to her blog.

My name is:

Lera

I am 18 years old

I am a virgin

I decided to sell

the virginity

It costs $5000

I am waiting

Samba Carnival in Japan

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Every one knows the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. But did you know that there was a real samba carnival in Japan? This way Japanese people say goodbye to summer. The participants are wearing shiny colorful garments and dancing to samba.

The Economics of Star Wars

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:50 AM PDT

Some numbers on George Lucas' empire and how much money the Star Wars brought him.

Click to enlarge.

Source: personalloans

SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog

Replace Yahoo Linkdomain with Google Custom Search Engine

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Posted by Justin Briggs

Hey everyone! My name is Justin Briggs, and I'm an SEO consultant at Distilled. A few weeks ago, I packed up and moved across the country to come to Seattle. Some of you might know me better as "seozombie" on Twitter. This is my first post on SEOmoz, but you can expect to see more from me here and on our blog at Distilled.

With the transition of Yahoo! to Microsoft’s Bing backend, webmasters have lost the ability to perform advanced searches using the link: and linkdomain: parameters. Rand Fishkin wrote a post about replacing the Yahoo! linkdomain: data with other data sources. Although Linkscape and Open Site Explorer provide a great data source, there is some functionality that Yahoo! had that isn't present in other tools yet. The primary functionality I missed was the ability to perform searches against page content; not just page title, URL, and anchor text.

These link searches can help you identify link opportunities from other websites' (such as competitors) backlinks.

Searching Content of Backlinks

To solve this problem, I setup a Google Custom Search Engine using data from Open Site Explorer. There are two exports of data you can use, which are links and linking domains. I’ll briefly go over the pros and cons of each as a data source in GCSE.

Linking URLs

Pros

Only search content that has links
Less noise

Cons

Limited to top links
Limited to 25 URLs per domain
Multiple links per domain reduces domain diversity
Limited content (5,000 annotations = 5,000 URLS)

Linking Domains

Pros

Search all indexed content on a linking domain
Find linking sources not included in OSE export
Greater domain diversity
More content (5,000 annotations = 5,000 domains of content)

Cons

More noise
Large linking domains like Wordpress.com and Blogger.com have subdomains (lots of noise)
Results that don’t have link

Setup of Custom Search Engine

Setup of your custom search engine is very easy. For this example, I’m going to use linking domains from OSE.

1) Perform search in Open Site Explorer

2) Pull linking domains for all pages on the root domain, export to CSV

Link Domains in OSE

3) Get list from Excel

Domains in Excel

I used Find & Replace to add a * to the end of all URLs, for matching. You can sort by DA or linking domains. Google Custom Search Engine only allows 5,000 annotations, so only copy up to 5,000 domains.

4) Create Custom Search Engine

Go to Google Custom Search Engine.

5) Perform your searches

So here are the pages on domains that link to distilled.co.uk, that include “link building” in the content and “resources” in the title.

Replace Yahoo linkdomain with GCSE

This solution gives you a new way to mine for backlinks opportunities using your competitor's backlinks. You can also include linking domains from multiple competitors at the same time. However, you can only include up to 5,000 annotations at a time, so you might want to use some Excel filters to remove noise and duplicate entries.

Tips

Here are a few quick tips to speed things up.

Remove massive domains – Large domains like wordpress.com and blogspot.com can produce a lot of noise.
Use the –site: search to reduce noise – If a particular domain is creating a lot of noise in your search, use a negative site search to remove it.
Search brand mentions – A search for the brand can help find the linking pages on these domains.
Search top anchors from OSE – Find the pages that include the anchors the site is targeting.

Example Queries

"powered by wordpress" "distilled"

Find pages that mention the brand “Distilled” and include “Powered by Wordpress”. This is an easy way to find the blogs linking to Distilled.

“guest blogger” OR “guest post” OR “guest article” OR “guest column” -site:blogspot.com -site:wordpress.com -wordpress.org

Find guest blogging opportunities, but filter out domains that may create a significant amount of noise.

"powered by vbulletin" AND seo

Find vBulletin powered forums mentioning SEO.

“link building” intitle:resources

Find link building resource pages.

Give it a Try & Search SEOmoz's Backlinks

A few queries to try:
"top seo tools"
“link building” intitle:resources
"open site explorer" "powered by wordpress"
allinurl:seomoz

Go ahead, try it, you know you want to!

I removed linking domains with a DA greater than 90, just to remove some noise from larger domains. (Selecting this value to filter by was completely arbitrary and is just to make the example easier to use.)

Need More Queries?

Long List of Link Searches (SEOmoz)

21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries

74 B2B Link Building Queries

106 Sponsorship-Based Link Building Queries

I hope this helps everyone replace some of the functionality of the Yahoo! linkdomain command. If you've got more link searches or ideas to add, please share.

Technorati Tags

linkdomain, yahoo, link building, link queries, link searches

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Daily Snapshot: Relief for Small Businesses

Your Daily Snapshot for
Monday, September 27, 2010

Photo of the Day

President Barack Obama, along with First Lady Michelle Obama, addresses a reception for the United Nations General Assembly at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, New York, Sept. 23, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Today's Schedule

All times are Eastern Daylight Time

8:00 AM: The President is interviewed live on NBC Today Show

10:15 AM: The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing

10:45 AM: The President meets with senior advisors

10:45 AM: The Vice President hosts a backyard discussion on the economy and issues important to America’s middle class families

12:10 PM: The President hosts an on-the-record conference call with college and university student-journalists (audio only)

12:30 PM: The Vice President attends an event for Representative Paul Hodes and Representative Carol Shea-Porter

1:45 PM: The President signs the Small Business Jobs Act

5:00 PM: The President departs the White House

5:15 PM: The President departs Andrews Air Force Base en route Albuquerque, New Mexico

8:55 PM: The President arrives Albuquerque, New Mexico

Indicates Events that will be livestreamed on WhiteHouse.gov/live.

SEOptimise

How to Use Yahoo Pipes To Track Potential Questions on Yahoo Answers

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:13 AM PDT

This is a guest post from Kelvin Newman at Site Visibility.

I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for Yahoo, not only are they seen by most people as a bit of a joke, largely the stick is unwarranted. They've got some great little products and services, two of which I use to this great little way of keeping tracking of easy social media interaction opportunities.

The main service is Yahoo Answers, its a hugely popular social site where users ask and answer questions. If you've not checked Yahoo Answers recently, go over now and have a look, there will be dozens of people asking questions related to your industry – no matter how obscure or niche it is.

The nightmare though is having to revisit the site everyday to see whether there's anything new or relevant. Fortunately the main categories have RSS feeds so you could set up the feed in your RSS reader to keep track of the mentions in your chosen category, but your a busy digital marketer, you don't have time to check through every question asked on the site. That's where Yahoo Pipes comes in.

If you've never heard of Yahoo Pipes don't worry, nobody has. It's simple tool which allows you to do some very simple filtering and sorting of web data like RSS feeds. It can do some pretty clever tricks but what we want it to do is really simple. Take a feed from Answers, search for any questions that contain your keywords, discard those without and deliver those that do into a new RSS stream.

Start by dragging and dropping the a fetch feed icon from the side bar into the main screen. This will then create a box with a text field. Cut and paste the feed url from your most relevant category in Yahoo Answers. If more than one category is applicable click the addition/plus symbol and it'll add a new text field for another category.

Next click the Operators expanding button in the side bar, find the filter button and drag and drop it between the Fetch Feed Box and Feed Output. It'll have a text field you can type the word or phrases you want to monitor for. The drop down fields give you flexibility whether you want to look just in the Question Title and/or description Etc.

You can add more than one keyword by clicking the plus symbol, it gets quite clever now as well, you could filter questions that include SEO and PPC or you could set it up for questions that include SEO or PPC. It's pretty self explanatory when it's in front of you.

Now you need to connect the feed to the filter and from the filter to the out put. Click the circle and the bottom of the feed fetcher and drag it to the start of the filter, then do the same from the filter to the output. It should look something like the picture below.

Nearly there now, just save the pipe and hit the 'Run this Pipe' button. This will take you to a page where you can subscribe to this new feed. But I'm too lazy/busy to check my feedreader daily, so I take it a step further and use FeedMyInbox to take the feed address and email me whenever there is a suitable question.

Clever time saving trick which with a little tweaking you can use on dozens of social sites with RSS feeds. Do you monitor any social sites like this? Any tips to save time checking back for opportunities?