A Seattle-based seed stage investment and technology development organization.
Soople is basically another (ugly) but effective user interface to Google. It gives you a series of search entry forms so you can access the more advanced, but hidden, search features of Google. For instance, one can specify a search by one particuliar site or filetype( word, excel, powerpoint and pdf) or an imagesearch by size and type.
Ever wonder how big is big? How big is Digg? How much net participation happens before you become a Digg phenomenon? Well, there must be a thousand ways to answer that question. However, some interesting numbers show the following:
Google Links: 69,400
Yahoo Links: 1,251,860
MSN Links: 1,089,510
Blogrolling Links: 191
Technorati Links: 2,826,630
Google indexed pages: 5650000 Google indexed pages for www.digg.com
Compete Monthly Visitors: 22,541,770
Quantcast Monthly Visitors: 7,200,000
Alexa Rank: 95
Google Page Rank: 8
Holy crap. I’ve never met Brad Feld but we are nonetheless co-invested in Shelfari with Amazon. So, I read his blog. Ever notice how long his blog roll is? If he can really keep up with this much material call me very impressed! Great link list actually…
As a tech guy living and working in Seattle I can’t tell you how many MAJOR consumer internet sites I’ve come to know (here) that are not SEO optimized. They have raised tens of millions of dollars. They are household names. They have been on national television. But they have failed SEO 101. I will not mention any names. I cannot mention any names. Fortunately, I can say that our own start up at Imagekind.com gets a significant amount of daily traffic. Nonetheless, I’ve finally realized I need to turn my attention to my own sites. Kellysmith.com and this very site (Curious Office) need SEO help. Both sites run on the fantastic WordPress blogging platform. But now I need to really optimize the heck out of them. As such, I started doing some research. Got a WordPress blog? Then check out these links and optimize your own blog too!
Recently I discovered a great Seattle based company called SEOMoz. If you care about site rankings and how to best position your company for success on the web this should be added to your SEO bookmarks. Besides a great blog they have fantastic tools to include: