links for 2008-07-16

"To put it mildly, your server log analytics are complete and utter fiction. That means clients who think these server side stats are actually meaningful are probably making life miserable for their web designers, SEOs and marketing staff."

"The Google Like/Don't Like feature, where you can move up results, hide search results or remove search results, seems to have been expanded to a group of test searchers."

"One of our clients recently began receiving nasty e-mails from people around the world accusing them of spamming. These people were, apparently, getting our client's home page served up as their Internet Explorer home page."

"I don't condone or respect anyone who uses these tactics, I think it’s just useful to know the types of things people may be doing. I try to mix myself with people who are performing 'dodgy' tactics to keep myself well rounded". Exactly.

"Looking at the gaining of traffic and links again, where's the value social media wise? There's certainly SEO value, links are valuable and so is traffic. I find it tough to see a social media return. How can you form a relationship with the community?"

Not sure about all 8, but I do like 'News via the logo', 'The product IS the homepage' and 'Conversion-Funnel based navigation'.

"You don’t see me posting about 'how to do social media' a lot as it’s talked about to death by so-called social media marketers who seem to think their job is to win a popularity contest on Digg as if that were the ends instead of the means". Go Mela

"The investigator obtained a copy of an October 2003 episode of the television drama CSI and noticed that there were several similarities between that show and Mr. Hickman's case". It seems he used balloons in order to shoot himself in the back of the head