Here’s a quick and dirty way to find pages from your domain that are in Google’s Supplemental Results:

site:http://www.yoursite.com/&

I don’t know how much longer this will work since Google did away with the previous way to find supplemental results and claims to be rolling these into their standard results. But, for now, this will work.

See my related posts Google Supplemental Index - Get Me Outta Here! and Sitemaps and Google’s Supplemental Index .

Note - Right after I posted this, Google dropped the “Supplemental Results” tag, meaning if you use the search above, you’ll get a page of Supplemental Results, they just won’t be labeled as such. The Supplemental Results are still with us at the moment. Google just doesn’t want us to see them.

As a sort of follow-up to my post Got an S E O Question? Blogs and Forums to the Rescue, I’ve added a page of S E O News Feeds to the WebOptimist.com blog. These feeds will primarily be from sites and blogs that are more news oriented than help related, so not all of my personal favorites are listed.

I’ll be adding more as time goes on, but I’m starting out with Search Marketing Standard, Website Magazine, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Journal.

To be honest, this page will be as much a tool for me as for my readers. Rather than scan through My Yahoo or log into Google, I’ll just roll my own list of SEO news services.

Unlike Google, who is sending out spymobiles in droves to take photos of unsuspecting citizens for viewing around the globe, number four search engine Ask.com has indicated that privacy is a concern by releasing a new product that will give searchers control over their privacy.

While Google’s Streetview fleet invades America, and, from early indications, some people’s privacy, Ask.com is rolling out AskEraser, which the company says will provide searchers with “unmatched control over their privacy when searching for information on the Web.”

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I recently had to take a Windows Media Center PC in for repairs. I had moved and the PC had been in storage for a couple of months. It worked fine when I packed it, but when I pulled it out of the moving box and connected it, all kinds of error messages were popping up. I tried running diagnostics, but came up with conflicting results.

It was time to call in the, uh, experts.

I first tried my local Best Buy store and their Geek Squad. Either they are real good or real bad. I didn’t get a chance to find out which because the geek behind the counter informed me that it would be at least ten days before they could even hook the PC up to run diagnostics in the store. On the other hand, if I wanted to use the (way more expensive) in-home service…

I passed. Down the street is a Circuit City which I noticed had recently put up a “We repair PCs” banner, so I took it over there. Their Firedog desk could take it immediately.

Anyway, here’s a copy of an e-mail I sent to Firedog outlining my experience: Read the rest of this entry »

As a companion to my article Keyword Research 101, I’ve posted a podcast version for your listening pleasure. You can download the mp3 file Beginner’s Guide to Keyword Research for Search Engine Optimization or listen to it on my S E O Quick Tips Podcasts page.

Enjoy.

You might also want to see my related article S E O 101 - How to Start Your Search Engine Optimization.