Just wanted to drop some quick stats that I ran across in an article featured on New Scientist about the shocking volume of spam that is perpetuated on the Net. […]
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SEO Paranoia
My post for today got hijacked over at the search engine guide forum. OK, so that’s a bit of a lie. I had a post all ready to go for […]
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Local Search Marketing Considerations
Local search is one of the most attentions worthy aspects of SEM today. 63% of US Internet users (or approximately 109 mln people) performed a local search online in July […]
Do I Know You? Follow-up Is All About Relationship
The art of marketing is all about relationships. If you want to sell something you need to cultivate that relationship. And if you don’t have one, don’t pretend that you […]
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Truth in Marketing
If only there were a truth detector in marketing! Everyday, in every form of marketing, we are fed piles of BS. Everything from “wipe stains away instantly” to suggestions that […]
Moving Day!!!
Well, Friday was moving day as we finally moved into an office that allows us to work without sitting in each other’s laps! Internet has been down since then and […]
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Lame "Introduce Yourself" Post, With a Twist
What’s the twist? You’ll have to read through to the bottom. One of the problem with blogs is that you can’t accurately track visits or page views and you often […]
Pro-Sandbox?
Visit any SEO forum and undoubtedly you will find a heated discussion of Google’s dreaded “Sandbox” amongst the threads. The Sandbox is a well known, but as of yet unconfirmed […]
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Don't Ask Google
I just wanted to comment briefly on the recent announcement that Google Answers will stop accepting new questions this week. From my own experiences I can say that the personal […]
PubCon 2006 – Link and SEO Dev Site Review Forum
This was what I would have to say was probably my favorite session at PubCon. They were not necessarily there to teach us anything or talk on a specific subject. […]
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PubCon 2006 – Tools of The Trade – Turnkey Solutions
This session was created to take a look at “off-the-shelf programs that make life easier for the affiliate and SEO/SEM webmaster.” Although we already use most of the tools that […]
Serving the Client’s Best Interest is Not Always in the Client’s Best Interest!
While I’d like to think that business is as simple as doing what’s in the client’s best interest, it’s not. More accurately, we want to do what’s in the client’s […]
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SEO Smash Mouth
In the SEO industry, it’s pretty easy to badmouth other SEOs. Whether it be publicly, privately, unanimously or otherwise, I find that many times when an SEO bashes the work […]
PubCon '06: Duplicate Content Issues
I was only able to attend the last half of this session (having decided to use my ninja stealth abilities to sneak out of “Optimizing your Site for Higher Conversion […]
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PubCon '06: Keyword Selection
Nov. 16th – Wednesday morning I was able to sleep in a bit (thanks to a very agreeable boss). My first session of the day was Keyword Selection: Top of […]