This is truly amazing — Google Image Search is now hosting millions of photos from the Life Magazine photo archive (front door here). There’s tons of good stuff there, all of which is available for sale from Life. I’m still sifting through all of this great stuff, but had to take a pause for the cause and thank the heavens that this image is now frozen in time forever:
Word to your motha, Google.
I didn’t think this was possible, that the mighty G, who dominates the online advertising business, could have a flagship product that misfires this bad. Ok, Ok, maybe I suck, right? Maybe. I went through all of the FAQs, studied the magic “google_ad_section” tags, configured my online account properly… and then waited a few weeks for everything to tune.
I just posted a poll “Who Will Buy Microsoft”, and took a look at the ads that came up for that post: Mitt Romney Out, and Hillary For President. There aren’t any tech ads that *might* have worked a bit better?
I spent some time today on the blog, doing a bunch of things I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I signed up for Google Analytics, Sitemeter, and Quantcast. A little overkill, maybe, but I’m evaluating these traffic analysis sites to see which is the best fit for me.
I also became a member of the Amazon.com Associates Program, and joined Google’s Adsense program. I have added one targeted Adsense for Content block at the bottom of individual blog post pages. I surrounded the block of ads with an “Advertisement” box, to make it clear its an ad (not that anything would mistake it, just trying to help). I hope that’s not too intrusive for people, if it is, let me know.
I also tightened up the sidebars a bit, and added the Google XML Sitemap Generator plugin, by Arne Brachhold. I have it up and running already, its really slick and easy to use! Check it out here!
Well, that’s about it. Gotta run, KidWonder is calling. 
Have a great Saturday everyone!
So I Google-stalked myself on a whim today. Things certainly have changed in the last year, working at AOL on Netscape, but have also changed the more I get involved with these newfangled social networks. So for those who are curious, this is what happens when you Google-stalk Tom Drapeau (not even in quotes):
1. LinkedIn. Wow, accept a few of those invitations for CEO types with 500+ friends, and add to it much improved SEO.
2,3. Netscape Blog. I work at Netscape, great SEO on Netscape as well.
4. Blogger.com profile. I am an expectant father, and while I couldn’t work on new dev too much, the new baby’s blog ended up there. It was a project run by a former Yahoo colleague, Pal Takasci-Nagy. Once you see this, Hi Pal!
5,6. My blog. This blog.
7. Twitter. Ah, twitter. I’m not even posting there too much anymore.
8. Emurse. Go Alex! You are an SEO ninja.
9. myfeedz.com, looks to be an RSS feed that picked up from the Netscape blog.
10. Techmeme.com, who gave a critique on a project I oversaw at Netscape.
You have to go to page 2 to see that I have been a member of the United States Poolplayers Association (UPA) tour, and to page 3 to see that I actually once finished a 5k road race.
Wow, I have to take my hat off to Web 2.0 sites and their understanding of SEO. I feel all goose-pimply seeing that every result on page 1 is actually me.
Tom loves working on the internet. Since 1997, he has built and maintained consumer internet sites for Barnes & Noble, Online Retail Partners, Yahoo! HotJobs, Ask Jeeves and most recently at AOL. The opinions expressed in this blog are his own and do not reflect those of his employer.
