From the monthly archives:

September 2006

Competing for Attention Against Politics

September 30, 2006

A view of the homepage of Netscape.com for Saturday September 30th shows anybody competing against politics is having a tough time competing for attention. (click image to enlarge). Incase your wondering the cool screen shot was taken with the Pearl Crescent Screen Saver plugin.

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Guy Kawasaki Social Media Panel

September 29, 2006

Guy Kawasaki heads a panel of teens and early twenty-something talking about a whole bunch of stuff. I think this one’s a must watch

http://www.veotag.com/player/?u=wgcqpthubc

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How to Win an Election With Keywords

September 29, 2006

Every few days I go through my “junk suspects” email folder to see if anyone got flagged as “spam” that shouldn’t have. I noticed a large increase in spammers using political topics as subject lines things like :
“URGENT: Bush admits Al-Quada and Iran Link False”
“IMMEDIATE ATTENTION: New White House Plan Endangers All Americans”
“ACTION REQUIRED: Show [...]

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Flying Lawnmower

September 28, 2006

Ok if this doesn’t make you laugh there’s no help for you
Sky Cutter – video powered by Metacafe

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Deep Crawling a Mini Site Part II

September 28, 2006

After correcting some “errors” in my mini-site architecture (see Deep Crawling a New Mini Site) I am happy to report posting links to all of the pages in the footer, got 90% of the site indexed in about a week.
So let’s clear up some of the confusion I created. For sites that are brand spankin’ [...]

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ITunes 7 You Suck!!!

September 26, 2006

I swear there has never been a piece of software that I’ve had to deal with on a regular basis that I hate as much as ITunes. I upgraded the other day after an annoying amount of pop up urging. It changed a whole bunch of config settings, started deleting stuff I hadn’t listened to [...]

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Example of Why You Should Encourage Social Bookmarking

September 26, 2006

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, getting your head wrapped around social bookmarking and why it’s important is really crucial.

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Good Karma Podcast

September 25, 2006

I’ll be on Greg Niland’s Webmaster Radio Podcast Good Karma Thursday September 28th at 1PM EST. Greg convinced me I was talking about my job being website coordinator for my kids elementary school, but tried to slip me a mikey so I’ll spill some secrets. Little does he know that my Google Lava Lamp contained [...]

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How Social Bookmarking is Supposed to Work

September 25, 2006

So last week I was browsing through my delicious network and came across something interesting I thought I’d share.

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Turning Bad Customers into New Business

September 24, 2006

Many moons ago before the tubes of the interweb occupied my days I worked in retail. At that time this retailer was legendary, some might say world renown for their quality, selection and most importantly customer service (sadly this is not the case today). At that time the “old man” worked with each of the [...]

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Sometimes Ya Gotta Laugh at Yourself

September 22, 2006

Every industry has it’s own inside jokes and hey if you can’t laugh at the sillyness of the whole thing the games not any fun. Top 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO » Small Business SEM
On a visit to the zoo, you realize that the graywolf, web guerilla, and randfish exhibits must be [...]

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Is P9 Back at Digg

September 22, 2006

Has P9 of Digg changed his mind and gone back to Digg?

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Deep Crawling a New Mini Site

September 22, 2006

Recently I launched two new mini sites and discovered something along the way.

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How Do I Get My Website into Digg

September 21, 2006

One of the more frequent questions I get from people via email is ‘How do I get my website into digg‘. Since I’ve been doing the Social Media Optimization thing lately I can share a few tips with you.

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Google Adsense Lava Lamp

September 20, 2006

I got mine, shoemoney got his so what about the other 148 of you did you get your Google Adsense Lava Lamp’s and did any get a color other than yellow? Hey thanks Google!

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MySpace Doesn’t Have to be Ugly

September 20, 2006

So if you’ve been reading Jim Boykin’s blog you know he recently set up his MySpace Page. Like most people Jim original page … well needed a little help as can be seen by the comments. Since I’m Jim’s MySpace friend and I’m in his “top 8″ I did the neighborly thing and helped him [...]

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Does Your Follow Through Suck

September 19, 2006

This weekend I was cruising through digg and came across an example of how you can completely “ruin the ride” by not giving me what you promised.

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Got an SEO, SEM or Social Media Question?

September 17, 2006

Ok I’ve got some creative funk rattling around inside my head, so if you’ve got an SEO, SEM, or Social Media question drop it in the comments. Use you noodle before you ask a question, asking ‘whats the best way to spam google?’ is probably not going to get you an answer, mmkay.

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Adwords Premium in 4 Hours

September 15, 2006

If anybody told me this I’d say BS but I created some new adwords adgroups this morning and I checked some of them to make sure they are OK and some keywords have already gone into premium positions. I’ve done it in about a week before but a few hours man that’s just crazy!

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Getting Real Friends in MySpace

September 15, 2006

One of the problem with MySpace is getting “real” friends. If you go through any of the really popular people you’ll end up with a lot of shills, but there are ways around that.

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