Or is Google really that much slower than Yahoo when it comes to indexing new content? It has been close to 24 hourse since the v7ndotcom elursrebmem contest started, yet Google still doesn’t return any organic results. (But there are some clever AdWords running.) However, Yahoo has managed to find 130 pages containing the phrase [...]

John Scott announced today that the keyword phrase for our little contest is "v7ndotcom elursrebmem." He also announced amended rules that allow contestants to use non-linked banners instead of a link to v7n.

Yesterday, I posted about some crappy Yahoo SERPS I was getting. I did mention in the post that it was more than likely a temporary glitch. But I didn’t include a screen cap of what I was seeing. (That would have helped the post to make sense even after the problem was fixed.) So for [...]

I will admit up front that I am one of Yahoo’s bigger fans. I root for them because I think they are close enough to getting it. (in terms of search) Strong competition among a handful of top players combined with evenly distributed market share is a search marketer’s wet dream. But everytime I start [...]

After installing the subdomain plugin, I realized that we would have plenty of urls that need to be redirected. Objection Redirection gives you an interface where you can setup redirects (301, 302 and 307) based on url, referer, or useragent. (IP address isn’t included yet, but I think we’ll add it).

Todd mentioned today that he found what he thought was a newer tool on our download page. It had actually been there for quite sometime. I posted the browser app in this category and everyone seemed to find it ok, so I figured I would go ahead and ditch the static page and just post [...]

Update 1-16-06: The keyword phrase for this contest has been announced. It is v7ndotcom elursrebmem Now that I’m back from vacation, I’ve had some time to read through all the responses (both on my blog as well as v7n) to my offer to pay prize money to anyone who wanted to compete in the V7N [...]

In my last post on competitive sabotage, I mentioned that using GoDaddy wasn’t a smart idea because of their asinine stance on spam reports. That brief comment caused several GoDaddy users to email me asking for some more information regarding GoDaddy’s spam policies Here’s a current example. (via ThreadWatch) I’d also suggest taking the time [...]