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Still Think You Can Ignore Social Media, Blogs, YouTube and Blended Search

September 7, 2008

Still think this whole social media, blog, youtube, universal search business isn’t here to stay or doesn’t effect you. I suggest you look at the SERP’s for Vice Presidential Candidate [Sarah Palin]. Not only will you see lots of blended and social media results but take note of the fact that a squidoo page for [...]

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Google Knols and Opportunity

December 21, 2007

Since I spent the early part of the week discussing how Google Knols will ruin the internet, I thought it might also be fun to discuss potential ways you can use it to your advantage.

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Is This the 11th Hour for Thin Affiliate Sites

December 19, 2007

While some people realized affiliate marketing has has slowly been changing for some time now many others missed the memo, or are on are sailing a ship of blissful ignorance up a famous river in Africa. For those few people I hope the announcement of Google Knols last week serves as a wakeup call.

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Cleaning up After the Dave Pasternack Mess

March 4, 2007

Now that the Dave Pasternack SEO contest is over it’s time to exercise some professional responsibility and clean up the mess we created.

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13 Ways to Promote your Local Business for Free

February 8, 2007

Many local businesses struggle to find ways to promote themselves, get links, rank in search engines, and ultimately drive traffic to their websites. Most small businesses also have limited budgets making the task more difficult. For those businesses here are 13 ways you can promote your business online for free.

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Local Search Articles and Information

February 8, 2007

In addition to the post, and interviews in this series I’ve compiled a list of a few local search related resources. You can browse through the list below or use a google custom local search engine I created.

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Jason Calacanis

December 5, 2006

In a keynote address today Jason Calacanis said “SEO is bullshit, if you generate a web page with good content Google will rank the page properly” Let’s see if that’s true.
Jason Calacanis – The Weblog
Jason Calacanis – Weblogs, Inc.
Jason Calacanis – via Wikipedia
Jason Calacanis – via JenSense.com
Jason Calacanis – Gothamist
Jason Calacanis – Technorati
Jason Calacanis [...]

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Michael Gray

November 28, 2006

Well some search engines seem to be having a hard time with the whole date/trust thing so let’s see what happens in two weeks (starting serp)

Michael Gray
Michael Gray on Squidoo
Michael Gray on 43 People
Michael Gray on 43 Things
Michael Gray on 43 Places
Michael Gray on Allconsuming
Michael Gray on Wikipedia

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Feeds and Other Alternative Optimization Opportunities

November 14, 2006

Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR
There are lots of different alternatives for promotion, but there aren’t any clear cut winners comparing news search, vertical search, local search, blog search, and social search. They did a case study with Marketing Sherpa. While the case study was a failure they did still learn things. They compared optimized and [...]

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Social Bookmark Scripts and Widgets

October 24, 2006

Everyone who’s looking to bring traffic to thier website is pretty focused on social bookmarking right now. However one of the things a lot people miss is making it easy for their readers to do this. So here a tutorial on how to implement some social bookmarking into your site just like the picture below.

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Profiting from Social Media

October 4, 2006

Since you’re reading this chances are you know I’m a big fan of social media, and while I do like to ‘get down with my bad self’ keeping up with all the latest trends, I see lots of other people beating up on social media because they can’t correlate actions directly with profit.

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Wikipedia Versus Squidoo

August 14, 2006

I’ve mentioned Squidoo here a few times, and if you aren’t playing with it I think it’s time you start. It’s starting to look more and more like Wikipedia’s little brother and you can still get in on the ground floor.

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Suggestions for Improving Squidoo

June 28, 2006

I’ve got a few lenses over on Squidoo, and although I’ve made less than $1 from them and haven’t gotten any meaningful traffic from them, I still think it’s too early in the development stages to give up on.

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Reputation Management – Case Study, Part I

June 1, 2006

Since my experiment in reputation management is actually getting much more interesting than I planned I thought I should go back and do a proper writeup.

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Google Notebook Review

May 16, 2006

Google Notebooks mentioned in Google Press Day is now live (signup here). The cliff notes version of Google notebooks is think of it as a javascript collection of word processing documents (makes the writely purchase make a lot of sense now).

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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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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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Constant Contact Review

March 11, 2006

In an earlier post (see Bridging the Gap Between Email and Blog Marketing) I mentioned how I’m trying to use email marketing to bring some customers to my sites who weren’t yet up to speed with reading RSS feeds. I looked at few solutions and decided on Constant Contact, because it seemed to offer the [...]

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23 Squidoo

December 20, 2005

Ok so I’ve got two modules up in Squidoo, SEO Newsroom, and CSS Guide. One got ranked as high as 269 but dropped back down in the 400’s, the other is in the 1800’s. Right now there are about 120,000 pages indexed in [...]

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Squidoo the Online Elevator Pitch

December 12, 2005

I’ve been playing with Squidoo today, and here my take on how to get the most use out of it. It’s not meant to be a replacement for blogging in any way. I think the best way to think of Squidoo is as an elevator pitch. Put your ideas out there and convince people you’re [...]

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