Shownotes Searchcowboys on Webmasterradio - episode 2

Fri 28 August 2009 10:00, Bas van den Beld

We had our second live webshow this week on Webmasterradio. Bas and Roy discussed several topics and were joined by Dave Naylor to talk about the Twitter hole he discovered.

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Shownotes

We started off with some news-items:

Thoma Promny pulling a link bait with Gina Wild
Thoma Promny gets 40.000 euro fine for pulling a link bait with Gina Wild.
He tried to get links via linkbait, but ended up paying for the links big time.

Links to related stories:
http://archiv.mopo.de/archiv/2009/20090824/hamburg/szene/kein_spass_gina_wild_blaest_zum_gegenangriff.html
http://blog.gimahhot.de/april-april-michaela-schaffrath-zieht-gegen-gimahhot-vor-gericht/
http://www.dr-bahr.com/news/40000-eur-fuer-einen-tag-was-gina-wild-so-verlangt-die-hintergruende.html

Yahoo Portal in UK shifts to Google Search
Yahoo decided to get a new search engine for their portal they handle together with BT. Instead of Bing they chose Google

Links to related stories:
http://www.searchcowboys.com/yahoo/935
Connected Internet/
http://searchengineland.com/guess-who-the-new-search-provider-is-for-the-yahoobt-portal-google-not-bing-24690

Some Google news
Several European countries are opposing to book settlement deal while the Swiss privacy commissioner demands Google to close Streetview. Also six new European languages added to Google Translate.

Links to related stories:
http://www.searchcowboys.com/google/929
http://www.searchcowboys.com/google/927
http://www.searchcowboys.com/google/931

Google retracts acTcreditation of SEO Course
Google decided to back up an SEO Course and then pulled back of it

Links to related stories:
http://www.vervesearch.com/blog/seo-training-events/google-retracts-accreditation-of-seo-course/

In our main part of the show we talked to Dave Naylor. He and his team discovered a big hole in the Twitter security.

Links to related stories:
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/massive-twitter-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability.html
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-exploit-still-works.html
http://www.searchcowboys.com/socialmedia/937

The Search Engine Ranking Factors 2009
In the final section we talked about the SEOMOZ report. A report which shows how SEOs think how one should optimize. It shows conversion and links are important.

Links to related stories:
http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
http://www.searchcowboys.com/research/926

The UK SERPS: Matt Cutts responded, but what's really going on?
Then the Google UK SERPS. Matt Cutts declared nothing was wrong, but examples prove otherwise.

Links to related stories:
http://www.searchcowboys.com/google/923
http://searchengineland.com/the-curious-case-of-googles-bizarre-uk-search-results-22598

The danger of Google Trends: A 'trend-bomb'
Finally we shortly talked about Google Trends which saw a strange search term gone 'hot'.

Links to related stories:
http://www.searchcowboys.com/google/934

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Comments (2)

- Evert Veldhuijzen
- [website]
Well, it's not that Thomas or Gimahhot were fined to pay 40K. Michaela Schaffrath a.k.a Gina Wild sued them to pay 40K. Unfortunately the court of Hamburg is known for it's anti-internet decisions.
By the way: great comment of Thomas "we got an offer of Dolly Buster. She would do this joke for 1500 Euro" :)

Sun 30 Aug 2009, 11:46
- Roy Huiskes
- [website]
Evert, thanks, There was a bit lost in translation then. Thank you for the update.

Sun 30 Aug 2009, 17:13

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