September 7, 2010

The practical summary of Latent Dirichlet Allocation for SEO

What's the hottest trend in search engine optimization that you've never heard of (yet)? The folks over at SEOmoz have been doing a great series on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), which is a context-based algorithm for determining search relevance. Their research has shown strong correlation between LDA and search rankings. However, it's little things like this:

June 7, 2010

Optimization demands exploration

Optimize, optimize, optimize. The creed of the day. Search engine optimization. Email marketing optimization. Social media optimization. With all this optimization, you'd think that organizations would be sales and marketing machines, banging out the profits faster than ever.

February 11, 2010

Why Google Buzz is brilliant and deadly to social media 1.0

From the moment it launched, Google Buzz generated buzz:

June 26, 2008

Would you buy .sex?

CNN is reporting that .sex domains may become available