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Newsletter
Archive 2007
Link Popularity - The Search Engine Credit Score
There's an old saying out there that "content is king", and I agree that good content is the primary foundation for every website. Everyone who's in the know understands...
Date: 12.26.07
Google Talk Gadget Learns More Languages
Some announcements are surprising, while others are expected. This is neither; although we didn't know it was going to happen, it's actually quite logical that the Google Talk Gadget...
Date: 11.28.07
Eleven Link Usability Tips
Who ever said that underlining a part of sentence is the best way to reference information? Hyperlinks just happen to work like this, and the fact that they've taken off may...
Date: 10.24.07
Applying Social Science to the Web
Imagine waking up one morning, and not seeing your family before you leave for work. You get to the office and all of your colleagues are invisible.
Date: 09.21.07
Avoid Those Rough Landing Pages
Your budget just took a charge for a click, and a potential conversion will hit your landing page in a second.
Date: 08.23.07
Do Comments Add Value To Your Blog?
Do you comment on blogs? Do you read blog comments? Do you think comments can add value to a blog?
Date: 08.02.07
Fewer Comments Doesn't Mean The Conversation Is Dying
I've been pondering Mitch Joel's post lamenting the declining number of comments left on the blogs he reads. Readership has not declined, according to Mitch.
Date: 07.18.07
One RSS Subscriber Worth 1000 Links?
Aaron Wall thinks so and I tend to agree. The type of people who subscribe to sites are also the type of people who write about that topic.
Date: 06.27.07
Avoid Disrupting The Efforts Of Your SEO Business
As the importance of search engine optimization becomes more readily accepted as the norm among webmasters and web designers, the demand for the average search engine optimization company has been steadily growing.
Date: 06.06.07
25% Of Google Searches Are Fresh
A couple of items caught my attention yesterday. Aaron Wall reported that Google is claiming up to 25% of search queries run any given day are queries they have never processed...
Date: 05.23.07
Personalized Search (The Death of SEO?)
Search Engine Optimization has been a topic of debate since the concept was developed in the mid 1990’s. Some think of it as techniques to artificially inflate organic rankings, in essence, to “trick” search engines to send them traffic that they do not deserve.
Date: 05.02.07
Users Spent 1740 Years At MySpace In March?
Google's not perfect. The company had a chance to acquire MySpace months before News Corp., at half the price.
Date: 04.18.07
Corporate Bloggers, Rise of the Accidental Spokesperson
In the world of public relations, a spokesperson can sometimes seem like the most important element of any campaign.
Date: 03.29.07
Are
Blog Posts Ever Finished?
Today I came across an interesting post by Joshua Porter of
bokardo.com. The post, 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers, as
you might expect from the title are some lessons Joshua has
learned in his years of blogging. Darren Rowse has a follow
up piece, Lessons from the Heart for Would-be Bloggers, at
ProBlogger. While I’m not planning on talking in depth about
each point there’s a theme running through a few of the points
I would like to discuss.
Date: 03.15.07
SEM
is on The Verge of a Paradigm Shift
There's been a lot of soul-searching that's been going on in the world of SEM
lately and it's good for everybody. Some of this introspection has doubtless been
stimulated...
Date: 02.28.07
11
Quick and Dirty Ways to Increase Conversions
Increasing conversion rate can be a daunting task that requires a delicate touch
and some expertise, not to mention some trial and error. Don't be afraid to fail
at it - just remember to keep trying until you succeed.
Date: 02.07.07
Long
Tail PR
In his post,
"Long Tail PR: how to do publicity without a press release (or the press)," Chris
Anderson asks "But what of the Long Tail of media--all those new influentials,
from the micromedia of Techcrunch and Gizmodo to individual bloggers?
Date: 01.24.07
More
Trouble In Brazil For YouTube
YouTube appears to be out of options in Brazil. Last week, a judge demanded that
the site take down a certain video (which I'm told includes footage of a Brazilian
model having sex on the beach); persistent users made sure that it kept reappearing.
Date: 01.09.07
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