Search Engine Marketing Expert – Michael Nguyen
Professional
Director of SEO for Shopzilla, Inc..
Interests
My current interests include online publishing, blogging, web standards design, usability, and search engine marketing.
Affiliations
- Tieng Magazine (Editor in Chief)
- Digital Web Magazine (Contributing Writer)
- Search Marketing Standard (Contributing Writer)
- Aid Scholar (Founder)
About Social Patterns
What is Social Patterns? It’s my personal site, which mainly consists of search engine news and search engine marketing discussion. I will also talk about blogging and its impact on the web. I hope that my site will become a resource for search engine marketing experts, search engine optimization experts, and general internet marketers.
I encourage participation here, so please feel free to join in on any discussion going on here.
Everything here is my personal opinion and does not represent the views of Shopzilla, Inc., its management, or employees.
Privacy
I fully respect the privacy of my readers.
I do require that anyone who posts comments to provide an email address. This is to prevent spam and allow me to reply back to comments personally. Email addresses will not be shared, in any shape or form with anyone else without permission.
Contact Michael Nguyen
You can contact me at dyn4mik3 {at} gmail {dot} com.
Michael Nguyen | | Comments (14)
June 3rd, 2005 at 8:30 am
Hola Michael! Jennifer pointed me to your site. This is wonderful. I am so glad that at least one of you from the old tech team is so interested in R & D. Did you know Rhoda posted your links about Google Sitemap submission in the WRC?
June 8th, 2005 at 11:10 pm
Hi Chantal, thanks for dropping by and for the nice comments! Yeah I’ve been keeping track of the search engine marketing space very regularly.
Drop by from time to time and leave some comments. Would really like to get your opinion on some of the topics.
June 9th, 2005 at 3:31 pm
Hey Chantal, how you doing?
July 5th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
Hi Mike,
How’s it going? This is Jennifer . . .
I think it would be interesting if you commented on the phenomena described in this article:
http://techdirt.com/articles/20040520/0136259.shtml
The company I am working at now, uses its own software to send out email campaigns, and is able to tell if an email was merely opened. I am not sure how they do this. I would like to know.
I think people presume that knowledge of whether they have opened an email (and how many times) is private and do not realize that this invasion of privacy is probably very widespread.
What are your thoughts on this?
July 5th, 2005 at 2:32 pm
Hey Jennifer,
Typically marketers will use a web beacon to track email campaigns. A web beacon is usually a small transparent image (1×1 pixel) that is placed in an email.
So whenever the email is opened, the web beacon is opened and that way someone can tell how many times the email was opened and gather tracking stats.
You can avoid this by using an email client that does not load html images.
November 1st, 2005 at 3:18 pm
Hey Mike,
Brad here (PM), just wanted to drop a line and say hello. I love the site, keep up the good work!
December 13th, 2005 at 10:51 am
Great site, Mike! I was led here when I tried to read up on the Alexa Web Search Platform Beta. I will bookmark your site and check back regularly for more news on search engines. – The
March 7th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
at SES NYC – one company has getting around the turning off of HTML Images, by putting a URL in the email – just the URL – apparently enough people are clicking (or Copy and Pasting)if there is a persuasive Subject in the emails
April 5th, 2006 at 10:38 am
I am glad I found your blog. I saw it linked on SEJ.
Very useful information presented in a very readable manner.
Keep up the good work.
April 21st, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Michael, just a quick thank you for your generous act of helping me figure out what was wrong with my blog sidebar. You were spot on (it was the bloglines generated blog roll that caused the long line – so you helped me see I was even LOOKING in the wrong place) and FAST! Thank you so much. As promised, you have my undying gratitude and I owe you a favor. Please feel free to call on me if I can return the kindness.
May 11th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Great site, Michael. High signal/noise ratio. Thanks! I liked the Adwords/Adsense Arbitrage video. Did you use Camtasia?
December 7th, 2006 at 8:19 am
Hi Michael,
I’ve just come across this blog and took a look at your main website (SEOinc) and was wondering if you also provide a web site design service, or purely focus on the SEO side of things after the site has been designed?
Many thanks,
Kyle
April 30th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
From The Isn’t It Ironic Dept: Google Product Search’s Results Show Up In Google…
Remember how Google said recently that it might crack down on listings pages that are simply search results themselves? Reader Michael Nguyen dropped an email today to point out how, ironically, Google is now listing pages from its own Google Product S…
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