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#13 (write less pages and less text to conserve ranking potential) is directly contrary to both the truth and my experience. The more content I add to my website, the better it ranks in aggregate and the better the front page ranks in particular. If you want I can even show you a graph of amount of content versus traffic as a result of Google. Let me spoil the surprise: it fits n * (# pages) ^ (1 + y).

Your pages do compete against each other in some narrow senses: for any given query, you'll typically be capped at two results in the SERP (results page), so if you had a third best option on your site it gets left out in the cold. However, pages on your website are (and should be treated as) comrades in arms.

The more links my page on, e.g., Jane Austen bingo cards collects, the more trust my domain will have and the more juice that individual page will pass to the literature category its in and the other page it links to. This helps me rank both the other literature pages (which have scant anything to do with Jane Austen) and also the almost wholly unrelated, e.g., Easter bingo.
This pretty much sums it up. Spore was such a disappointment. The first phase was awesome, lots of fun. Then it just turned into a super-simplified RTS with no depth. I enjoyed the game immensely at first, but it just kept getting worse the longer you played.
I'm not familiar with how rails has been developed but I'm guessing the explosion is due to there previously only being a small group of people with commit access, as opposed to a sudden rush of people working on it when it hit github, right?
Why aren't you multiplying yourself, then?
I'm still to be convinced that the bandwidth and storage costs of YouTube are economically viable. If he (and many others) had 'limiting beliefs', they were in overlooking that hugely popular businesses often attract buyers even when they're haemorraging red ink.

The only people who've made money off YouTube are the founders. I'm glad Google are kindly subsidising it for us, but then I'm not a shareholder or a recently laid-off employee. As a business it's a dog.
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That is the common case for a small company which was founded by managers of financial people who do not understand programming at all.

People who are familiar with software development processes are focusing on code readability and simplicity which means quality, instead of a skills of coders.
Well I'm trying not to talk about it too much until I get a few key sponsors, because if I can't do that then the whole thing will have to be canceled. But if you want to talk about it, or if you know of product companies who would benefit from being able to give a five minute pitch the world's most-followed bloggers, then send me an email and I'd be happy to discuss it.
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"That's easy: crowdsourcing!"

Whoa! competition! :-)
I imagine anti-gaming measures exist in Reddit which are not displayed on the image here or maybe they were introduced later.
I guess I was in the minor leagues when it came to tech support (no call center - just me in the backroom), but, yes, I think tech support is almost like tele-marketing (you're trying to sell the customer that you adequately provided service).
#9 -- Apparently, I stand corrected on this one--sitemaps do appear to help some people, just not me :). My main gripe with them is I expected my priorities to at least somewhat translate into what pages were indexed, and at least on my sites, these priorities seem to have no effect. A second gripe is that for some people they are difficult to set up, and so if you were going to pick whether to do link building or sitemaps, I'd choose link building. But I guess it is a case by case thing.

#13 -- It's all about your SEO goals & priorities. I just have noticed it and wanted people to be aware of it, because it isn't that obvious.

#6 -- sure, case by case it might make sense. I sort of offered an exception in the description. I'm just warning people of the rookie mistake of going after a key phrase without taking into account the likelihood of actually getting ranked for it in any useful manner.
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Lately it hasn't been working so well for them. They haven't produced a blockbuster in a long time. Be it a ripoff or original creation.

XBox seems to be the only exception. Did I miss something else?
"And while it isn't a Google-like success story, they are profitable and still growing."

Actually, Squidoo seems to have just hit the tipping point.
As I said in the blog comments, I realize #13 conflicts with #10 & #11, but who ever said it couldn't :) ? It's all about your SEO goals & priorities.

Sure, in general, the more content, the more Google traffic you are going to get. I'm not really disputing that. All I'm saying is if you take away stuff, the ranking that is left will be concentrated on what is left on the page.

For example, take the situation where you really convert on one key phrase and not much on anything else. In that situation, you really want to concentrate on that term and you probably want to strip out things that don't help you rank on that term. This advice becomes most useful on the homepage/landing page itself.

In any case, I've noticed it and wanted people to be aware of it, because it isn't that obvious. I'm not saying you should do it or that it is universally true--probably not; after all, what in life is...?.
There is a second reason - availability of reusable modules and it is that matters.
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As mentioned below, why on earth are these systems (still) connected to the Internet at all?

Sure someone might have though it was a good idea, but surely someone has got to have pointed out just what a dumbfuck idea that is?
The management modules are often considerably more powerful than what is necessarily exposed via IPMI -- A number of SuperMicro's IPMI modules have more than a few megabytes of flash, and do run an embedded version of Linux.

The module's capabilities are not all that different from OpenWRT; they run Linux, have a network connection, provide a web UI including a 'VNC' server for the VGA console, run (IIRC) net-snmp ...

If I wanted to obscure my intentions, I definitely would leverage such non-obvious embedded systems.
Can I encourage you in the future to provide transcript or a best of yourself? I read a lot faster than any sane person talks, I can read on my cellphone while packed in a wall to wall train full of salarymen, and I can read at the office to my heart's content whereas watching video is widely considered not-work-related.

Incidentally: getting me to key points of the talk without requiring 26 minutes of watching low-information-density video is a value-add for me.
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"Beware of nofollow links."

Is the end all be all search? Is it not worth trying to drive direct, actual traffic(as opposed to search engine referrals) to your site.

If I provided service "foo" or consulted on "foo" I'd love to have links to my articles/sites in the citations and or external sites list on the "foo" wikipedia article.
Am I the only person who finds Godin un-inspiring/non-thought-provoking?
Ever play the "Gorillas" game in GW-BASIC that shipped with many copies of MS-DOS.

Bill Gates wrote that.

And was proud of it.
Anyone is a lofty standard. Some is true, but you don't hear about the super smart guy who worked really hard but for some reason or another luck didn't go his way and then he had no safety net to fall on. I can take risks because although my parents aren't leaving me a trust fund, if shit REALLY hit the fan, I could always move in with them instead of starving in the streets. If you have nobody to lean on, risks seem a lot bigger when you have further to fall.
One often-overlooked aspect is that for business purposes, the first priority is to have something that gets the job done. Release early and often, then iterate towards perfection - but only for what your customer wants.

This generally means that its not great, but it works. If time permits, it is great to tidy / refactor bad code, but this is not always possible. Reminds me of an item posted a couple of weeks ago - "confessions of a terrible programmer"
The key thing that Zepolen points out that I think lots of people miss is your site/business/etc is about what 'they want', not what 'you want'.

Your business is about your customers. Customers don't want to sign-up, they want to explore or share travel (or whatever your site does).

I think i'm in one of the few markets where vistors are telling me they want a way to sign-up and get notifications, but that is after i've given them what they want, now they want more.
referring to 20Q as a mind seems stretching things a bit far. 20Q is just a huge decision tree that has been built by trial and error.
I tweaked it recently, because the increase in users has caused a few stories to get massive numbers of votes, and these were staying on the frontpage too long. Now it's

(p - 1)^.8 / (t + 2)^1.8

where p = points and t = age in hours
I kinda dig it, but it was, in the end, a let down. Here I am all ready to cowboy up and join a club for some stupid fun but there is neither club nor fun. It was a very "all flowers and no date" consumer experience.
I actually know a lot of people who did that. They all got by. America at least is a very easy place if you're smart and hard working. That is not true in many parts of the world unfortunately.
Most corporate environments don't allow you to install software that isn't authorized. As developers we're normally given full administrative control over our systems but that's not the norm in most moderate to large companies.
In a small place like that, consensus must rule because the founders are basically equal. At a place like Microsoft, Oracle, Apple - the answer is that the big guys built the place and gave everyone their jobs so therefore they answer to them. Who are you? Some guy who just went through college and took no risk in joining some giant in their field. Who are they? The guys who took the risks to start those places. So if they think your ideas are shit, then they can say it and you have to take it. But at a company of 4 people, who are you? You are just a co founder of a (probably as of yet unprofitable) little startup company. Where are you getting the power to call their work shit from? Plus, if its a guy like that their time is extremely valuable and you are wasting it with your shit ideas.

I bet if you go into microsoft and sit in on the development meetings between a team on basically the same level on the org chart, they aren't nearly as hostile as top down reviews.
"Am I the only person who finds Godin un-inspiring/non-thought-provoking?"

No! I find that most of his books are blown up versions of very obvious ideas. Maybe he is a genius and visionary and I just don't see it. Shrug.
My favorite BillG story (told by the CEO of a startup I worked for - and just found the real version via Google). Yes, it is a standard business koan (e.g. why would I fire you because we just spend X amount educating you) but can you imagine any average CEOs doing that?

"What are the greatest business lessons Bill has taught you over the years?

Very early in my career at Microsoft, around February 1984, we found a data-crashing bug. I wondered if I would get fired over it. I went to Bill with the head of development. I was then the product manager.

It was a classic meeting. Bill was on the couch looking down. I explained that we found this bug and that we thought we were going to have to recall the product. He nodded, did his rocking thing and kept looked down. We were both wondering if we would get fired. Bill wasn't saying anything so my anxiety was growing.

I explained that we're going to have to recall the product, and that it's going to cost several hundred thousand dollars and be a hit to our reputation. Bill rocks and looks down. We didn't have anything else to say. I thought: Is this when the ax comes?

Then Bill looks up and says: "You came in today and lost a few hundred thousand dollars. You come in tomorrow and hope you do better."

His expectation wasn't that we weren't going to make mistakes. He wanted to know that we took it seriously and learned from our mistakes. That's very motivating."

http://www.forbes.com/2008/06/25/raikes-bill-gates-tech-cz_v...
Somethings dont change. So much true even today :)
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The first 3 steps seem to be optional. Larry and Sergey didn't have rich ancestors or get their ideas by buying them, and it doesn't seem to have harmed them.
Like many economic concepts, that only works in theory. In practice any "temporary" stimulus tends to become a permanent budget increase and then we're all worse off. Once federal government programs get started they develop constituencies and become near impossible to kill.
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I totally forgot about this, but remember seeing my friends "in the library" or dorm room.
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The point that the article makes is not a technical one.

It is a philosophical one instead. The ideas of tomorrow must look beyond what is possible today into anticipating what may be possible tomorrow.

The execution of such an idea would then hold the promise of innovation to break today's barriers.
Might not public libraries be one of the places MOST in need of upgrading? Ditto to corporations.

[Aside: Can you imagine how many other dysfunctions/vulnerabilities are likely to exist in a system still using IE 6? ]

OTOH: I haven't noticed that GOOG itself is taking such a bold (hostile?) move to disrupt surfers still clunking along on IE6.
Now, if I remember correctly, there were theories as to "who" was in that photo. Groups on FB started popping up seeing if it was this one kid from a certain school that was used in that photo.
Reminds me of the "Bloom" iPhone app co-designed by Brian Eno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-swFqAT8yaA
These rates are lower than I would have guessed.
"I'm not going to support IE 6"

I think you're missing his point...you should support IE6. We all know it sucks, but why risk alienating 20% of the Internet just because you don't want to take the time to make sure your site complies?
Best of luck to it: I doubt that its guess about whether I am awake or not will be very accurate unless maps my own behavior over time. I'll bet this is true for a lot of hackers as well.
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Too bad you have to be a multi-billion-dollar corporation to be free from heavy-handed enforcement actions.
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> and Yes, he's not a great hacker (he's smart and knows enough about technology but the couple Gen 1 Microsoft employees I've met say he can't code worth a darn)

I disagree. I've met & talked with an early Microsoft employee who interacted directly with Gates. He was very impressed with Gates' technical ability, and more importantly, his ability to convert technical knowledge into business advantage.
Yes, I'm sure that's their reasoning. But we'd never accept it if, for example, they shut down an entire office building or mall because of a crime in just one tenant's space, or even a crime by the landlord... on the off chance a tiny bit of evidence might be in one of the corners of the building.

They get away with it here because the data center is out of view and the losses are abstract. But the costs they're imposing on third parties, just to save themselves a little trouble and risk of misidentifying evidence, are unreasonable.
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Hey PedalPete, wow, I really appreciate the effort you're putting in writing the review, I agree with you, I'm not happy with the home page and honestly out of ideas, but what you suggested makes perfect sense.

OKay, i need to go back to the drawing board for the experience. thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it. I'll check out Planeteye now
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Very good feedback, thank you, and point taken.
...no Pandora either, guess her box is closed for us in Canada.
It may not be 20% of the internet, depending on who actually uses your site/app. Check your analytics.
You could always set your alarm clock on Twitter

http://sleep.fm/7am

Besides clicking to set it... your friends/contacts know when you will be available to respond & chat.
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Assuming the linked chart is accurate, it seems that ruthenium is currently about half the cost of palladium, however it has in the past been much more - up to $800 per ounce.

Current price of palladium: $237 per ounce
Current price of ruthenium: $80-90 per ounce

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It's not old, it's just wrong to emphasize _the tool_ so much. Don't know about the author, but being productive doesn't equal being masterful typist. I had a member of the team, who was above average productive in notepad (yes, notepad!) and I also had someone who was below average productive in emacs (I always let the programmers decide, what tool they use). And I am not talking about being fast, but about producing quality code.
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If you're a startup, be careful not to accept the sneaky certitude of randfish's opening paragraph uncritically.

#9: I've installed Google sitemaps on many, many client sites and have never gained anything as a result. I believe Google sitemaps help GOOGLE in some edge cases, so of course they'll recommend them (they're not doing the work!), but on a costs/benefits basis for clients, it's a giant waste of time. Well, a little waste of time, at least.

We know that you get virtually no traffic if you're not in the top 10 in Google. We know that if a term is driving any significant traffic, there are more than 10 websites vying for that term. We know that your page needs link power (PageRank, anchor text) to rank for a competitive term. If your page doesn't have enough link power to even be indexed, it's certainly not going to rank for a competitive term just because you submit it via a sitemap! And if it's already indexed, inclusion in the sitemap doesn't do anything for you.

If there's some problem on your site where Google isn't spidering a significant number of pages, fix the linking structure of the site. Now the missing pages get indexed and, since they're part of the coherent link graph of the site, Google can use linking signals to rate them for SERP placement.

Now, you can use the sitemap to alter the priority with which Google visits your pages, but frankly, instead of spending even a moment's thought on that, hunker down and write more content or research new keywords or obtain backlinks or look for other traffic opportunites. Instead of hassling with a sitemap, I'd ALWAYS rather be doing something more productive.

#13: Well, yeah, this one seems a little confused. There are ways to channel your link power to achieve the effect the author intends.

#6: Totally right. You should waste no specific effort on a term for which you can't get in the top 10.

Let's be clear that we're talking about making hand edits, etc., to increase the rankings for one term, NOT making systemic changes intended to improve the rankings of a broad range of terms. That's a completely different issue.

Traffic increases exponentially with position[1] and if you're not in the top 10 the traffic's essentially zero. In fact, for most terms, if you can't get in the top 3, you're wasting your time by hand optimizing for them.

PS - For the vast majority of people and businesses, #7 is right on the money.

PPS - SEO pros all sound like they really know what they're doing, even when they're saying things that directly contradict what some other SEO courtholder is saying. Be wary of anecdotal information. Be wary of pro SEOs.

[1] With a little googling one can find a position/traffic curve based on leaked search engine data.
This is meaningless unless people also list how many hours they work per month. I once made something crazy like $5000 for a job I finished in like 18 hours. I now have a steady consulting job(that may become a fulltime job soon), but I don't get paid anywhere near 250+ an hour.
Security researchers make significantly more than the high end of this survey; I'm sure database performance experts do too. It needs more options.
>> Anyone know if the metal/organic catalyst is toxic?

I don't know about ruthenium in particular, but almost all heavy metals are toxic to humans. That's because they can often substitute for similar, desirable metals (almost always lighter) in various biomolecules, but not function properly when substituted. In other words, the heavy metals are similar enough to bind to some active site, but not similar enough to perform the correct function. Ruthenuium's properties are very similar to iron's, which sounds like trouble.