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Akismet is telling me that it has now successfully blocked over 5000 spam messages posted to my blog. It feels like just yesterday I broke the 100 spam mark - it took three months of blogging before I got to that point. Three months later, I broke 1000, and now, three months after that, I have broken the 5000 spam mark.

I have decided to commemorate this grand occasion with a poorly-written haiku:

Akismet Haiku
Akismet is cool
it happily blocks my spam
without bad failure

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Ogletree describes a great way to employ Google Adwords to track if your competitors are actively performing SEO by placing bids on typical ‘SEO’ terms such as ‘allinurl:example.com’, ‘link:example.com’, etc.

Handy little tip, one I will keep in the toolbox for the future. Of course, I wonder how effective it is considering that whatever you pointed it to could possibly be unrelated, resulting in a low quality score and high click prices. Your competitor could easily shut you down by clicking your link like crazy then.

Thanks again, Ogletree!

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I just got this through the e-mail, and had to share it with the rest of you:

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After reading Guy Kawasaki’s post on ‘Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn‘, I realize that LinkedIn is catching on at a quick rate.

I think it has a lot of potential both for job hunting and just for having a professional contact network. Additionally, with the new LinkedIn Answers section, it will only become greater as a resource for professionals to rely on.

I’ve had my LinkedIn profile up for about a month and a half now, and have built a small contact list. However, there is nothing about it that even really shouts out my interest in SEO or Web Design. I know I am a capable programmer and decently knowledgeable about the SEO industry, but due to a lack of professional experience (I’m only in University, remember), I don’t have a wealth of previous positions to include which might indicate my knowledge and interest in these fields. Additionally, none of my previous employers use LinkedIn, and so I can’t draw on their recommendations either.

I want to clean up my act a bit on LinkedIn. So how would you suggest I optimize my LinkedIn profile and make it more professional looking? I want to be able to apply for jobs via LinkedIn and not immediately dismiss me based on the sparseness of my profile.

Any suggestions are very much appreciated. Additionally, if you want to add me to your contact network, go right ahead. My email address is brian@caydel.com. Thanks for any help!

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The other day, I posted a bookmark.html file containing all the links Rand Fishkin mentioned as being in his bookmark list. I put a comment in Rand’s post, and he ended up linking to me in the main body of the post.

Now, I don’t get tons of traffic through this blog, so the effects of the SEOmoz link love were quite noticeable. I got nearly 120 visitors through the SEOmoz link in the last 48 hours, resulting in approximately 325 extra pageviews. Additionally, my Feedburner Subscriber bar is showing 72 subscribers today over 34 subscribers yesterday. Of course, I take this with a grain of salt - the Feedburner number varies by as much as 10 subscribers on a regular basis, depending on how many new posts and traffic my blog gets in a day.

At any rate, thanks for the link love Rand - it’s been like a shot of Viagra for my blog. Hmmm… I wonder what that will do for my Adsense ads…

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So, thi s weekend my system died while playing with a forensic imaging tool. I managed to write binary data directly to my hard drive, overwriting everything in the process. That thing should have come with a warning label. So, I’ve spent the past couple of days reinstalling Linux on my system. I decided to go with Suse 10.1 this time around. I used the internet installation - very handy.

At any rate, because of this, I haven’t been posting this weekend. Now that things are back to normal, we will now continue with your regular scheduled programming.

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If any of you out there are serious news junkies, I would suggest you take a look at MappedUp. MappedUp is a cool way of keeping track of the news across the world. It displays a world map, and displays the headlines from the news in each area of the world. It does this by keeping track of a huge number of RSS feeds from around the world.

You are also free to submit your own tagged feeds. While they will not show up on the large World Map, they will be available to users with accounts at MappedUp who chose to include them on their personal maps.

WorldMap is available both online, and downloadable as a screensaver, or desktop widget. Check it out!

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