From the monthly archives:

April 2006

BOTW – 420

April 30, 2006

When I went to Pubcon in Boston I finally got to meet Greg Hartnett and Brian Prince of Best of the Web Directory or BOTW. The rule of thumb with most directories today is let in who ever is willing to pay, cash out quick, don’t give a damn about quality, or a long term [...]

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My Space a Parent’s Opinion

April 28, 2006

While this post can be considered as part of my MySpace series as it doesn’t pertain to marketing or search in any way I decided it should stand on it’s own. As a marketing professional I’m excited by what MySpace has to offer, however as a parent I have some very serious concerns about what [...]

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Good Karma, Bad Phone

April 27, 2006

So I got a last minute invite to be on GoodKarma with Greg Nialand (GoodROI) and Todd (Stuntdubl) today and we were talking about clickstreams. Everything was going well until my phone battery died.
GoodKarma Clickstream Podcast (MP3 format)

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Dark Alley’s of MySpace

April 27, 2006

In part II we looked at legitimate Marketing Examples on MySpace however it’s hard to take a complete look at all that MySpace is without acknowledging that it does have a dark and seedy district. There are some adult areas with lots of nudity however as of this writing none of the pages linked to [...]

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Google 301 Redirect’s Completely Messed Up

April 26, 2006

So I have been getting about 2000 searches per month to my blog for a not even remotely search related posting. Last month I finally got annoyed by the whole thing, so I bought a new domain, moved the content there and set up a 301 redirect to it. Now Google has found the 301 [...]

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Adding Value in Comments

April 26, 2006

I know comment spam is not only a headache and time sucking machine, but I’m also firmly of the opinion that comments and discussions can often add value to an original post.  Since I have no qualms about shameless self promotion I’ll point you in the direction of a comment I made today over on [...]

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Marketing Examples on MySpace

April 26, 2006

I will admit when I first stumbled into MySpace I really didn’t think it was much more than a bunch of horrendously ugly pages with really cheezy music. However if you are willing to dig a little deeper you can find some legitimate companies and organizations who are using MySpace. If you’re ready let’s dive [...]

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Google Current and Google Zeitgeist

April 25, 2006

So there I was cruising over to Google Zeitgeist hoping to find some data on local searches and I’m still upset that Zeitgeist doesn’t have an RSS feed (Hey Matt Cutts if hook you up with some Red Bull’s in Vegas can you make that happen for code jam 2006?) and I stumble across Google [...]

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Getting to Know MySpace

April 25, 2006

While I’ve only been playing with MySpace for a few weeks and I’m no expert, having gone through a lot of it I’ve prepared a little primer that can help get you up to speed and understand how MySpace works. Hopefully my newness puts me in the same boat as other newbies who will have [...]

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Looking at MySpace

April 25, 2006

After reading what my buddy Martinibuster had to say about MySpace and learning that MySpace was the 10th most visited website on the internet ( via ZD net). I knew that the time had come for me to get on the MySpace bandwagon or get left behind.

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So Want to be an SEO via SEO Rockstars

April 24, 2006

If you’ve ever wondered about what you should think about when you’re ready to start taking on some SEO clients and diversify outside of the affiliate playgrounds then your should check out so you want to be an SEO podcast (that’s an mp3 file for some of you), oilman and webguerilla do a kick ass [...]

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How I would Fix Yahoo

April 22, 2006

I was reading SEOMoz The New Yahoo! Home Page – Why isn’t this News? and am still feeling the halo effect of Gladwell’s keynote at pubcon. I actually started to post this in the comments, but it got to long and wordy so decided to post it here (sorry Rand).

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Tips for Controlling the Top 10

April 21, 2006

While this strategy is never going to work for anything that’s even moderately competitive it can usually help you score the majority of the top 10 serps for your company name, your clients company name, or the CEO/CFO/COO’s name.
1. companydomain.com
2. profile.companydomain.com
3. Googlebase
4. Google page creator
5. companyname.blogspot.com
6. companyname.wordpress.com
7. squidoo.com/companyname/
8. companyname.newsvine.com
9. spaces.msn.com/companyname/
10. myspace.com/companyname/
Just don’t forget to “water [...]

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Google AdWords CPC Price Increases

April 20, 2006

If you’ve been following WMW (see Sudden increase of CPC recently?), the Blogosphere ( see Technorati Search: adwords cpc increase), or even my blog(see Google Adwords Broken or Price Gouging ) you may have seen some some people complaining about increases in min CPC prices for AdWords campaigns. Basic recap of my situation if I [...]

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Easter Happy

April 15, 2006

Easter Happy from the Jedi Council!

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Spamming Google Calendar

April 14, 2006

Want some groovy nofollow links from a google subdomain? Go start a calendar put a web address in the comments field for an appointment and make the calendar public.
Update:My Bad you’ve actually got to be logged into get the nofollowed link, not sure what the spiders are going to do with the XML file when [...]

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Blogging Light April 2006

April 14, 2006

Todd, totally gets a kick out of it when I go all scobalilicious like this, and who am I to disappoint. Starting on preparing Easter dinner for this Sunday, and going to Pubcon next week, don’t expect to much until the 25th or so. Hopefully my MySpace reporting will be done by then.
Hey if [...]

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Malcom Gladwell, Mavens, Connectors, and Digg

April 12, 2006

So I’m finishing up Malcom Gladwell’s Tipping Point before my trip to Pubcon next week where’s he’s the keynote speaker. Now if you are serious about real marketing (not the push button kind) this book is required reading, you really get an understanding about how viral marketing works. Which leads me to one of the [...]

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Google Adwords Broken or Price Gouging

April 11, 2006

So I’m creating a new campaign with 40 or so keyword phrases, I submit them and I check and 38 of them are disabled with an “inactive for search increase quality or bid” message telling me I have to up my bid to $5 or $10 dollars. First of all how do they [...]

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Googlebase Preliminary Results

April 11, 2006

So it’s been about 2 weeks since my Googlebase test and it’s time to look at some preliminary results. One of my favorite public SEO tools is Jim’s cool SEO Tool. It give you all sorts of information but one of things I really like is looking at domain age. I’ve included a screen [...]

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