July 2008

Somewhere in the middle of all the drama last week was a discussion on fake social media profiles, and as usual the white hat zealots were ready to crucify anyone associated with them, claiming they were yet another tool disparaging the SEO and internet marketing industry. Well it’s my profession responsibility to provide some examples [...]

One way to make sure your linkbait is successful is to pick a subject that you believe in, are passionate about, and that will bring out an emotional response from members of your target audience.
Or you could play it safe and write the 5 ways Twitter is helping web 2.0 businesses.
The first is memorable the [...]

Here’s a perfect example of how to shoot yourself in the foot on Digg (link)
What’s going to get more attention, clicks, or votes …
“How to avoid laptop loss at the airport”
or
“US Airports Lose Over 10,000 Laptops Every Week”
If you’re wondering why your submissions flounder look at your titles are they more like #1 or [...]

So Seth Godin and Robert Scoble talk about a video by Fred. When you look at all the views of his videos he has over 45 million youtube views

Scoble and Seth go on to say how the traffic numbers aren’t important and it’s the quality of the viewers. Umm hey did you guys miss that [...]