Guys, what’s going on?? I have looked at the official sponsor of this “Globalwarming awareness2007” seo-contest Seoworldchampionship.com and found out that the latest date of change on the leaderboard is the 24th of February! And what did the promise?!

This scorecard is updated at least once a day. 

Nice people… today is the last day of Winter 2007.

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Not so long ago I have come across the interesting Social Bookmarking resource that helps people to share there bookmarks, their opinions, etc.

Then I saw some tips on the Russian forums how to use Stumbleupon.com in order to gain much traffic to your web-site. The only thing is that these guys write a bit chaotic I’ll try to rearrange here everything in steps and in a clear type of user-language:

1) Go to the http://www.StumbleUpon.com and download the toolbar from there. Install it on your FireFox browser - this is not an advertisement for Mozilla On FF - the whole process works faster.

2) Add all your web-sites to the Favourites.

3) Push the button - “I like it! ” on the toolbar with the big finger up. In the pop-up window - give a short description to your web-site. Do NOT neglect this step otherwise somebody else will give a description and you can’t be sure that it will be adequate Open one the most important web-site from you Favourites and give the desc.

4) Then go here: http://www.stumblexchange.com/register.php and Register. Do not forget to insert your nickname!

5) After the registration is completed, push this button on your left: userCP and insert the web-site you have determined in step 3.

6) The preliminary step is done and now it is important to grasp the whole idea of “bookmarks socializing”. You enter Stumble and see the list with 5 nicknames. First of all, you are to click on the nickname - a pop-up window appears where “Add friend” is the button we need. After you’ve done this, pay attention that close to the nickname there is the main web-site of this user. You must click on it as well and then push a button “I like it!” in your Toolbar. Haven’t you forgotten about this? The button should become green - then close the web-site.

7) Do this procedure with other nicknames and their primary web-sites.

8) Push the button Check and if there are red messages, it means that you’ve done something wrong or the web-sites in your friends profiles could not be accessed.

9) Repeat the procedure from Steps 6-8 in order to receive more and more points of your reputation.

To summarize, what you’ve done? You have earned your points and it means that the same number of people will add you, your web-site and your bookmarks into their favorites.

The result is guaranteed! Sooner or later you’ll start getting traffic to your web-site as well as to your web-sites that are in the Favorites/Bookmarks. Check it - you’ll love it!

Special thanks to Viktor Stilaw from http://ru-traff.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post_2641.html

Technorati Tags: Stumbleupon.com, social bookmarking website, Favorites, bookmarks, stumble, toolbar

Today I looked at my dashboard in order to find out that my blog gets a big number of incoming links and the most interesting fact - they are non-reciprocal! One-way!

People have started to link to my blog from their blogs and web-sites. All in all, this means that people LIKE my posts about search engine optimization issues and a the same time like to link to the contestant in Globalwarming awareness2007 seo-contest.

Anyway, I’m so delighted to find out that my seo blog is interesting to others! This has been the most important goal of creation and maintenance of Seoglobe.net.

Technorati Tags: globalwarming awareness2007, seo-contest, non-reciprocal links, seo blog

I have one peculiar web-site that my team is to promote. It is http://www.teendrivingacademy.com. The seo-work on this site has started at the end of 2006 and step by step it comes out for very competitive results in the Search Engines - Google, Yahoo! but not Live.com (MSN). To be frank, it is not even indexed there! You know, everything was done in order for MSNbot to index this web-site. Unfortunately, nothing has helped. It still can not be found in MSN. But there is a very weird thing: MSN shows backlinks to this URL! Type in there link:www.teendrivingacademy.com and you see 34 results! Strange, very strange! I’ll get back here when I find out the cause but what I see now is bringing me hope that sooner or later this frolicsome web-site will finally be indexed by Live.com

Technorati Tags: index, backlinks, www.teendrivingacademy.com, MSNbot

49^th in MSN? Weird but I cannot see it there – seoglobe.net is just at the very end of top100 – 98-99^th positions. I have checked it almost every day from different IPs for the phrase “Globalwarming awareness2007” and can’t say how Seoworldchampionship.com found it on  the 49^th position. I can’t believe that Live DCs differ so much! Even Google Data Centers have tiny fluctuations (5-7 positions).

An interesting issue to find out that MSN has not switched over the data-servers to a new common pattern and this means that it can’t be served as a reliable Search Engine because people form all over the world can see different results and that’s not fair

Technorati Tags: MSN, globalwarming awareness2007, Seoworldchampionship, Live DCs, data centers

Stumbled on the Webmasterworld thread that is called “Nobody talks about getting #1 now?”. Well, I must say this is necessary to read - may questions will be out

The first post of the author:

2 years back all the SEO forums were full of how to top the charts by playing fair SEO tricks and also by dirtly tricks. Looking at the hot topics being discussed in past few months its quite clear that focus has been changed to
1) How to defend site from being kicked outta Google
2) Other problems with sites like supplemental page, hijacking, dupelicate content etc etc.
3) Genearal disussion about quality of results

Have we lost the game to Google? Are we assuming that it has been almost impossible to be certan that YES I can take my site to top?

or the veterans know the secret but nobody shares?

Frankly speaking, the author is either unaware of the current situation in the SEO-world or  just wants his questions to be answered This CAN be a trick to make people talk about the 1,2,3 issues.
“the veterans know the secret but nobody shares?”

Of course! Unfortunately, Search Engine Optimization is not a “trust everything community”. Guys, take it or leave it, but we are all competitors. We are already competing in many niches and everybody wants to be the first.

Another post:

“For people who listen, I share but most choose to just complain on here and eventually they go away over time because their site fails..” 

Absolutely agree here! What’s going on? The tendency on the Greater Forum is to complain about the results, about “how Google hates me” , about everything!

Anyway, I’m not a veteran but I’m TALKING! I do not conceal anything - I share here with everyone. The other issue, do you guys have time to listen to it?

P.S. I really hope that you understand that this blog was created not just in order to take part in seo-contests like Globalwarming awareness2007 but to present useful information for webmasters and seo-guys.

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Whatever happens next - I do not care! I have been on the official leaderboard two times already! This is the real sense of pride! “Globalwarming awareness2007″ can really cause the feeling of self-satisfaction.

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“Miss Dalloway, do you wanna take a ride?” (c) “Contact” movie

Well, I haven’t laughed so loud for the whole my life as I did yesterday when I stumbled on Google Copernicus Center Job

In a few words:

Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. This unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen.

Abstract and picture taken from here: http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

Well, there is a huge amount of questions to answer for this Google Copernicus Team. Many of them concern our sphere - seo sphere. For example:

Ha-ha-ha!!! Guys, this is really great! You MUST read it and, who knows, may be apply?

Long live Google - the space conqueror!

Stop playing with Globalwarming awareness2007 and join Google at last!

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Hoora! I’m back, I’m back, I’m back! Globalwarming awareness2007 continues!!!

Today I happened to launch my lovely program Semonitor that checks the current positions and has dozens of other useful seo-features. What a fun was to see seoglobe.net again in TOP10 in Yahoo!

Frankly speaking, I have already noticed in what the trouble was when I was kicked off Yahoo! I just waited to regain my position and this happened even two weeks earlier than I expected. Yahoo, respect!

Technorati Tags: globalwarming awareness2007, Yahoo!, semonitor, seo-features, TOP10

Froogle has always been one of the best shopping centers like Amazon.com or Ebay.com. At the same time it was presented by the “Big Boss” Google and was absolutely FREE for the advertisers. Well, why am I talking about it as if it is out of business or passed away?! No way, dear!

It has turned into Google Base completely! More than a year they have co-existed simultaneously: the first one - allowing simple but “friendly” tags that were necessary to describe you products that had all chances to be seen by search-engine visitors; the second one - allowing for the enthusiasts to “play” with a large number of attributes in order to provide their visitors with a thorough description of the services and goods as well.

Not so long ago I have received a email from Google:

From: “Google Base Team”
To: me@me.com
Date: Wed, 31.01.2007 21:15:55
Subject: New product upload requirements

That’s why we’re asking all Froogle merchants to send us
bulk uploads in the Google Base format, with five additional
attributes (along with the basic ones you’ve submitted in
the past). Because we think it’s important to provide a
consistent user experience, we will no longer list items
that don’t meet a minimal number of attributes by the end of
February 2007. Please review the following bulk uploads -
they do not currently meet the minimum attribute
requirement:

And then are following ALL my feeds So, I have a big amount of work to do till the end of February,2007.

I have often been asked what are the “minimal attributes” that Google Base wants to see. There information about is really not easy to dig up from the Help section. That’s why I just enumerate here the list of minimal attributes that you should use in your feed:

• brand
• condition
• description
• expiration_date
• id
• image_link
• link
• price
• product_type
• title

Hope that will help you!

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