From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Why Sphinn Needs a Dumbass Button

by Greg September 13, 2007 Google

The cool thing about a specialized vertical social site like Sphinn is you tend to get a better concentration of smart people contributing  stories to the community. But that’s not always the case. Rose Desrochers posted a link to a story claiming BlogCatalog doesn’t pass PageRank because their links contain OnClick. Her evidence was a [...]

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SEO Rockstars Returns!

by Greg September 11, 2007 Search

The most common question I got throughout the summer was “What happened to the Rockstar show?”
The answer is that it went on hiatus for awhile do to scheduling conflicts. No matter how hard we tried, Todd and I couldn’t seem to come up with even a two week chunk of time where we [...]

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The Patent Troll Dance Contest

by Greg September 10, 2007 Search

Things have heated up a bit in the Bodog domain dispute case. Since I posted about it last week, Calvin Ayre entered into a North American licensing agreement with the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group.
The agreement turns over control of the Bodog trademark as well as all Bodog domain names to MMGG. That [...]

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Bodog’s Battle of the Brand

by Greg September 6, 2007 Google

Early last week, Bodog Entertainment lost control of over 3000 domain names, including bodog.com due to a default judgment in a patent infringement case. I’m not going to delve into the specifics involving the suit, or the potential ramifications to the web as whole, because that has already been covered in great detail in other [...]

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Retiring the Guerrilla

by Greg September 4, 2007 Blogging

Monday marked the official end of summer, which means my self-imposed blogging hiatus is now complete.  Going over 4 months without regularly reading any blogs or blogging myself was quite enlightening. The biggest thing I learned was how much time I actually wasted drifting around in the blogosphere every day.  Not starting the day firing [...]

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