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Sorry to say i am not happy about commercial emails from SEOmoz, When i joined i never found any option where i opt-in for their commercial emails. This is the recent email I got from them "You may have seen our launch of our new SEO Video Training Series on the blog last week. Dozens of people took advantage of our special introductory pricing and the feedback on the series has been fantastic. We want to make sure everybody who wants to learn sound SEO fundamentals can get their hands on this awesome training product, so we've got a special offer for you. We promised we wouldn't offer the ridiculous Introductory Price of nearly 40% off again, but here's what we can do: make it more affordable than ever for you to get the SEO Video Training Series at the PRO Member price of $199 ($200 off of the Retail Price of $399)... Until Saturday, May 3rd, you can get the complete SEO Video Training Series AND 1-Year of SEOmoz PRO Membership for only $499! Purchased Separately, these items would cost $798. Even with the PRO discount on the Video Series, you'd still pay $648 for both. Look at it either way you want, you're saving a minimum of $99! To take advantage of this awesome, limited-time offer, simply go to the SEOmoz Store and add a 1-Year SEOmoz PRO Membership and The SEO Video Training Series to your shopping cart, then use the Coupon Code COMBO50 during checkout to receive your special price on this great package. Cheers,The SEOmoz Team PS-Remember, this offer is only available for Three Days, until Saturday, May 3rd! PPS-If you're thinking of attending SMX Advanced in our hometown of Seattle, PRO Membership will get you 10% off (early bird rates still apply!) as well as an invite to our incredible party (check out what happened last year)! This email was sent by: SEOmoz4314 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle, WA, 98105, USA" Update profile:
Ok i dont see an opt out link in this email. When i click on update profile i am taken to the login page where i have to find the email settings and then i need to remove tick to opt out. Why do i need to do this? . I think SEOmoz should ask whether i opt in for commercial emails from them when i register. i don't want to recieve couple of commercial emails and then run and find a way to opt-out, Thanks for understanding Search Engine Genie. Labels: search engines, Spam
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Today when I visited Digitalpoint forums I got the following Error, " Database error The database has encountered a problem. Please try the following: Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser. Open the forums.digitalpoint.com home page, then try to open another page. The forums.digitalpoint.com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists. We apologise for any inconvenience." Its very rare to see such popular forum go down. I feel its mostly due to over activity recently Google made a Pagerank update. Most of the visitors in Digital point forum are very addictive and passionate about Pagerank updates. I feel this pagerank update made a crazy impact on their server and it let to database crash. I think we should be hearing from soon about this, Search Engine Genie, Labels: search engines, SEO Forum
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Stumbleupon has been a great hit in recent days. Some of our sites get huge number of referrals from stumble upon. I went through a webmaster world thread which showed a similiar experience with Stumbleupon Pageoneresults explains here how to get started with stumble upon Getting Started with StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com/guide.htmlAfter you've read the Guide and fully understand the terms and conditions of being a Stumbler, then there are 3 Steps you'll go through to become a Stumbler... Step 1: Join StumbleUpon and become a Stumbler... http://www.stumbleupon.com/sign_up.phpStep 2: Connect with friends if you have them in that network. Step 3: Install the StumbleUpon Toolbar... http://www.stumbleupon.com/download.phpStep 4: Start Stumbling. As with any "social network", you will need to develop a reputation within the StumbleUpon Communities and there are many. With 4.99 million Stumblers, there are all sorts of "arms and legs" inside the community. Your goal is to of course become a Top Stumbler and that only comes with tenure. Don't expect things to happen overnight. Think of StumbleUpon like a Digg or Sphinn... Top Stumblers http://www.stumbleupon.com/community.htmlForum discussion in webmaster world, http://www.webmasterworld.com/link_development/3629897.htmLabels: social bookmarking
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I have seen Greybar display in Google toolbar for quite sometime, I am sure people are wondering what causes it. Personally I can speculate some reasons though i don't have any evidence it. Here are some reasons I see what causes Grey bar display, 1. New pages: When ever a new page is created i don't see a white PR bar anymore. Its grey PageRank display when ever there is a new page created. So as we know if Google has not assigned a PageRank it used to show white bar now its not the case any more we see Grey PageRank display for all new pages which is definitely new with Google. 2. Abandoned Pages: Pages which are not updated for a long time without any update are showing Grey bar i am seeing it across couple of our pages / websites. So probably it has something to do with abandoned pages. 3. Duplicate Pages: When a competitor or some spammer copies contents of that page and duplicates in his site pages the main page might loose its existing value and can display Grey bar. Seeing this substantially duplicate pages do have some reason for Grey Toolbar PageRank display. 4. Potentially penalty to those pages especially link exchange pages since I see more and more grey display in link exchange pages. This is just a speculation though penalty is the least reason I can imagine of since I see lot of grey PageRank pages rank in search engines. 5. A standard reason which has always been is that the communication between your toolbar and Google data center which delivers PageRank to toolbar is some how interrupted. Though this has been a reason given directly by Google employees still i wonder how one page can fetch PageRank from Google data center and other page cannot at the same time. This is a reason but very rare unless you see grey bar for all sites and pages you browse it cannot be justified. 6. Some people speculate Grey bar display has something to do with supplemental index. Google has been into controversy for a long time on supplemental pages debate. Pages in supplemental index never rank and some have seen grey PageRank pages also never rank so it could be a by product of supplemental results. Just an idea only. 7. Bad PR distribution for those pages from internal pages of your site. If those pages don't have good PR distribution then it could cause grey PageRank but for many sites i monitor those pages have ton of internal links. For Example our blog homepage has link from all over our site but shows grey PageRank display. We see this page is crawled regularly, contents from this page is indexed regularly but still it shows Grey PageRank very difficult to say this as a reason. 8. Lack of Good external links or consistent external links to a page: I seriously wonder whether this could be a reason. Most of the inner pages I have seen that shows grey bar has very less or zero external links from other sites coming into it. So i wonder whether this could be a reason for grey bar. PageRank algorithm probably sees that this page is important only for this site and is not a good page for Internet. I do have controversy over this too. Again our blog URL have good links coming to it from external sites but it displays grey bar don't know why. But recently our blog never got Good back links we seriously abandoned our blog for about a year and never posted any new information. So lack of consistent back links could be a reason for Grey PageRank display. 9. TPR ( Toolbar PageRank Reduction ) : Another reason i can speculate is the infamous Toolbar PageRank Reduction penalty which Google applied to sites which buy and sell text links. Is Grey PageRank bar a side effect of it? My final opinion is if a page is more than a year indexed in Google and has a PR grey bar it could simply be that the page is not of best value for its users. So they dont assign pagerank for that page which might result in that page not passing pagerank to other pages in other words not contributing any link juice to the pages it links to. Search Engine Genie Labels: pagerank, pagerank update
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Google recently made an update to their index and matt cutts commented on that here http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3615693-3-30.htm . From checking different datacenters I dont see much changes now and the small changes that was visible in the datacenters mentioned in that webmaster world thread is not visible any more. Most of the changes have reverted back and there are no visible signs of changes that happened on those datacenters propogating to othr DCs. Other cool thing is updates are not the hot topic anymore. People used to discuss 100s of pages for any major updates. When I see this dewey update thread i hardly see it go beyond 30 pages which is a good sign. People are becoming more and more aware of the changes and the communication between search engines and users have improved which has resulted in lesser worries for people. While Google update mania is no more Pagerank Mania still continues. False Pagerank update alarm has triggered 10 pages of posting in digital point forums http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=808970&page=2Labels: Google update, pagerank, pagerank update
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