From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Helping Google Build a Better Bookmarking Tool

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A lot of the time I’m pretty critical of Google, and while I may not agree with everything they do, or every agenda they push, there is no denying that have made the web a better place, and have provided us with some really helpful tools. One of the areas that they have missed the [...]

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Thanks to this Months Sponsors – March 2009

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I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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The Corrupted Screenwriter

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The following is a guest post by a friend of mine, he’s a screen writer by trade and not an internet marketer. But I have exposed him to enough of the SEO world that it’s made a difference … mg
So I was at a Hollywood party tonight.  A good buddy of mine is finally tucking [...]

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Thesis Theme for Wordpress Review

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I’ll admit that when I first saw the Thesis wordpress theme I wasn’t really keen on it, in fact I really didn’t see the point. While I’m not a programmer by trade, I know enough HTML, CSS, and PHP to make things happen in the code. However after seeing some of the behind the scenes [...]

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Category SEO For Wordpress Blogs and Ecommerce

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I solved (at least partly) my problem maintaining rankings over time. Old pages that used to get traffic are once again seeing inbound search visits. I did it by tweaking my blog’s category pages, but I think the lessons are also helpful for ecommerce sites.

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Web 2.0 Weenies and Bullshit Social Media Economics

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This weekend I watched an amazing video from Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs at a Ted Conference, and what really hit home is how many people struggle to be new media douchebags in a web 2.0 world. If you’re the kind of person who wants to have 50,000 twitter friends, be a power Digg user, [...]

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Dear Matt Cutts, What We Have is a Failure to Communicate

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Dear Matt Cutts, I know you and I don’t always see eye to eye on everything, but I think we’ve got enough of a working relationship that I feel comfortable saying, that the way the brand update/ Vince change, went down could have been better. Indulge me while I make an analogy to prove a [...]

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Thesis Tutorial – Adding Date Based Triggers to Your Posts

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There are a lot of times when you are working on your blog template where you want things to happen based on how old a post is. This tutorial shows you how to do it. The programming is pretty simple and you don’t have to be using the Wordpress Thesis Theme to do it, but [...]

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Skittles Twitter Experiment I Call it a Win for Skittles

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In case you missed it, the official skittles website located at Skittles.com last night redirected their entire homepage to a twitter search for the term [skittles]. I applaud their effort to embrace bold new ideas but their execution leaves a lot to be desired. I thought I’d run through some of them in hopes some [...]

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Why You Should Be Worried About Google Search Wiki

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I’ve been beating the drum about why personaized search and google’s search wiki are bad since their rollout. Even though I understand why google does it, and get that why they push it’s adoption. But I still think it’s a bad idea, and late last week I saw an example of why it’s bad and [...]

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