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There are a lot of talented SEO consultants out there but it never fails to surprise me how many of them are broke. As Quadszilla once pointed out, even a Snake Oil Salesman SEO shouldn’t have any problem making $200GR/year. 500 large should be the target of every good SEO Consultant.

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MTV owner Viacom Inc. sued the popular video-sharing site YouTube and its corporate parent, Google Inc., on Tuesday, seeking more than $1 billion in damages on claims of widespread copyright infringement.

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In the video, which is only four minutes long, Dabble founder Mary Hodder suggests that we need to get beyond the broadcast model of advertising; Digg/Revision3 CEO Jay Adelson responds that, at the very least, pre-roll video ads are doomed; Slide CEO Max Levchin and ViTrue CEO Reggie Bradford think we need to encourage consumers to create ads them

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I’ve been away for an extremely long hiatus but I plan to include this blog in my regular routine of updating in 2007. Until then, check out these hilarious Pick Up Lines for Nerds. (via DoubleViking.com)

I stumbled across this video on YouTube, featuring several Google “Mistakes” put to the classic Ludacris ballad “Money Maker”. It’s fun to watch, but not exactly accurate. Now I will break down exactly what these “mistakes” are.

1. Worst Band in the World search results bring up the Christian rock band Creed. This is attributed to the common SEO tactic “GoogleBombing” in which lots of incoming links are marked with the specific keyphrase in the anchor text. While I find it to be funny (and oh so very true), it isn’t a “mistake” at all. Check the Wikipedia entry for more GoogleBombs.

2. The Answer to Life The Universe and Everything brings up the Google Calculator answer as 42. This is an intentional reference to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Read more in the Wikipedia entry. Those Google folk sure do have a quirky sense of humor.

3. Heidi Klum’s Butt and Boobs St New York brings up a map of New York City with an apparent location of Heidi Klum’s special parts. The determining factor is the “St” and “New York”, which returns the result. The link to Google Maps doesn’t display an exact location of the search nor does it return a sexy photo of Heidi Klum in a bikini. (Sorry!) Rather, it returns locations that match some of the words in the search string. This technology will be tweaked with time. No rational human being would ever search for this, but apparently somebody stumbled across it by accident. I wouldn’t exactly call this Google’s mistake, but rather a mistake by the searcher.

4. French Military Victories search string and clicking the “I’m Feeling Lucky!” button returns an apparent “mistake” results page that shows no results and the “Did you mean ‘French Military Defeats?’” query correction. At first it appears Google is hatin’ on the French’s impressive military track record by deleting all results for their victories. However, that is far from the case. The “I’m Feeling Lucky!” button automatically returns the very first page in the results, which so happens to be a “fake” SERPs page hosted on the popular entertainment website Albino Blacksheep. While comical for all of us non-Frenchies, it’s definitely not a Google “mistake!”

5. Waffles brings up the homepage for Democrat Senator and former Presidential candidate John Kerry. This is simply Googlebombing in the political realm.

6. Miserable Failure plus the “I’m Feeling Lucky!” button takes you to the White House homepage of President George W. Bush. This is perhaps the first major Googlebomb to grab the attention of the media. And that’s simply all it is, political Googlebombing at it’s finest!

7. Elgoog plus the “I’m Feeling Lucky!” button takes you to the “Google Mirror Mirror” hosted at what appears to be a Belgian webhost at www.rb-hosting.de. Once again, just another clever trick down by somebody else, not a Google “mistake.”

So there you have it, all the Google “mistakes” debunked! All hail the Mighty G!

Welcome to Trickster’s long overdue blog pertaining to all things Search! Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, tricks and tips for your everyday search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Live and more! Stay tuned.