Comments on: Lifehack: Decision Making by Popularity / Unexpected Uses for an SEO Tool

By: Jonathan Wegener

Jonathan Wegener — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:54:41 +0000

Cool, i'll check out seoquake. Thanks Fred!

By: Jonathan Wegener

Jonathan Wegener — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:46:00 +0000

Ahh, very good point — I had forgotten that ppl use delicious for that purpose! Interesting that you got different results too.

By: Jonathan Wegener

Jonathan Wegener — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:43:47 +0000

Good point, dan. Thanks for commenting.

By: Jonathan Wegener

Jonathan Wegener — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:38:03 +0000

Hey Marisa,
Yeah, I first started to realize the power of the seo tool for distinguishing real sites from fake ones when you sent me that site.

Jonathan

By: Colin N.

Colin N. — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:33:40 +0000

I use delicious.com when researching certain things. e.g. "mac ftp client" or "socks". This is my quick way of finding a solution that will probably make me happy.

By: Fred Sexton

Fred Sexton — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:03:31 +0000

I've never considered inbound links for site legitamacy but it def makes sense. Nice post.
Also, I've used and recommend the seoquake toolbar for firefox. And couldn't function without the web developar toolbar.

By: Quotes

Quotes — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:57:06 +0000

Thanks for spreading the word around, I was actually not aware of it earlier, now that I know it, will definitely use it to a great extent!

By: mas2124

mas2124 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:44:32 +0000

You used my msie.com example!

Also, at my last company we used the seobook on a daily basis in order to determine how legitimate companies are, as well as how much web traffic they get. Of course, as time goes on, these factors become all the more difficult to distinguish.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:43:17 +0000

That particular article by Watts bases its theoretical framework principally on the ideas of another famous Columbia sociologist, Robert K. Merton (although Watts never cares to mention Merton)–specifically, this is the “Matthew effect”, or the phenomenon that the 'rich' (or popular) get 'richer' (more popular). Merton refers to the tendency of well-known scientists to obtain more accolades for the same level and kind of research conducted by lesser-known scientists. Know your heritage!

By: Satjot

Satjot — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:30:05 +0000

great jweg – I'm going to use the stats as I browse from now on!