From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Linkbait – The Shirt and Tie

October 31, 2007

I love it when people use creative ideas to linkbait really boring subjects like how to match a shirt and tie

I’m totally OK with it being in flash. The only thing I’d do to improve it is include a bit of text below the flash app, funnel some of that inbound link juice around a [...]

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Wordpress the_tags is Missing NoFollow

October 30, 2007

Really wordpress when you decided to screw up the whole category system adding tags would it have been that hard to add a “nofollow” parameter flag to the_tags? I mean does anybody on the wordpress team get duplicate content as a concept?
You can get the Robots Meta plugin from Joost de Valk which makes the [...]

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Why Offline Stores are Doomed and Letting Consumers Consume

October 30, 2007

Full admission I’m a pretty difficult person to buy a gift for, my tastes are somewhat bizarre eclectic and seemingly random to almost everyone. So when it comes time for relatives to buy me a gift I get a lot of gift cards. For my birthday earlier this summer I got a $50 gift [...]

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How Stumbleupon is Beating Google, Yahoo, and MSN in Social Search

October 29, 2007

Stumbleupon is one of may favorite social media sites, Not only can it drive traffic that matches or often exceeds that of Digg, stumbleupon users are much less critical/confrontation/judgmental than the typical Digg user. In addition they are much more likely to subscribe to your blog/rss feed and click on advertising compared to other social [...]

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Hey Stephan Spencer and Andy Beard You Guys Going to Update

October 27, 2007

Hey are you guys going to update your plugins? Custom Query String – UTW Edition and SEO Title Tag 2.0 aren’t wordpress 2.3 compatible? Now that wordpress 2.3 has entered nag mode with the 2.3.1 release, I’m reminded I still haven’t migrated 80% of the blogs I manage/run.
Puuuuuhhhhleeeeeze … I’ll be your best friend … [...]

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Chinks in the Google Armor

October 25, 2007

Google’s grip on the hearts and minds the internet population is starting fade and people are starting to wize up, read Technosailor on Google Can Kiss My DerriÃ¨re.
I’d love to be able publish a dirty little secret I found out about the paid links FUD campaign … cause it is good …

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Google Adwords More Pricing BS

October 25, 2007

Holy Cow Adwords you really have gone off the deep end with this one check it out

Today, we’d like to revisit a common misconception, about which we receive quite a few questions. In the first part of the post, we will very briefly cover the most important facts and in the second we’ll take a [...]

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New York Times Best Seller List and Billboard Top 40 were the Original Digg Homepage

October 24, 2007

I was reading a post earlier this week by Seth Godin about the New York Times Bestseller List and was reminded how social media sites like Digg, Reddit, Propeller really aren’t a shift in the way of thinking and doing things, they are just a shift in the places it gets done.

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Clever Video Adsense Integration

October 23, 2007

Some of my colleagues have seen a few of my more cleverly integrated adsense ads, however I just watched an adsense video ad and didn’t realize until after it was over it was an ad. Hannity Disses Ron Paul (skip the content if it’s not your thing) the lower video unit is an adsense unit [...]

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For Jason Calacanis

October 22, 2007

Manufacturer
Speaker
Price
Amazon
PC Magazine
PC World
CNET
Epinions

Logitech
Z-2300 Speaker System
$78.94 – $149.99
Highly Rated
n/a
n/a
Top Rated
Highly Rated

Klipsch
ProMedia Ultra 2.0
$78.00 – $100.00
Highly Rated
Editors Choice
100 Best Products of 2005
n/a
Highly Rated

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Do You Want Your Ancillary Pages in Googles Index

October 22, 2007

Since I did a less than stellar job explaning what I meant by keeping your ancillary pages out of Googles index when I reviewed Mahalo last week, I thought I’d try and correct that error.

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Attending a Conference Without a Laptop

October 19, 2007

Since I am now smartphone equipped I figured this would be the perfect opportunity to roll like a rockstar test how powerful a smart phone is ,and if I could live/work/function without a computer for two days while at SMX social.

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SMX Social Teaching an Old Dog Some New Tricks

October 19, 2007

Earlier this week I went to SMX social, and here’s my take on the conference …

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Jason Calacanis Please Stop Bad Mouthing SEO’s Because You Won’t Take the Time to Work With Good One’s

October 19, 2007

Ok so Jason Calacanis is talking smack about bad SEO’s again and I think it’s time to clear the air. First of all if you want to talk to SEO’s and good one’s go to an SEO conference not a web 2.0 conference. I don’t know who spoke there and really don’t care, but if [...]

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SMX Interview

October 18, 2007

Here’s an interview I did with Kara Ratliff of Web Pro news

You can check out more videos from SMX social in the archives

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My BFF’s and My Smartphone

October 18, 2007

I’ve been looking to upgrade from my Motorola Razr to a smart phone since July and here’s the tail of how my BFF’s help me get there

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MyMac Melbourne Threatens Blogger

October 16, 2007

It’s amazing in this day and age that companies really don’t know how harness the power of the internet for good. It’s so much easier to try and solve problems and create evangelists instead of threatening legal action. However MyMac Melbourne did the opposite they took a bad situation and made it worse threatening to [...]

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