Things You May Have Missed 2-25-2007

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Here are some thing you may have missed from the week ending 2-24-2007

Social media and viral events it’s nice to think they happen naturally but it’s better to have a gameplan

What Is Your Pre Post Gameplan

So you’ve got a post brewing that you know is unique, has appeal to a much broader audience, and darnit, you think should be extremely popular. Problem; You are a small time blogger without the reach that the A-list bloggers have.

Lee Odden is onto something, and you should be paying attention …
SEO Training: Small is the New Big » Online Marketing Blog

Have you noticed the number of regionalized or small scale search marketing conferences that are popping up?Jill Whalen has been running her High Rankings Search Engine Marketing seminar for a few years now (disclosure: I am a speaker for the Mpls event and my PR agency works with Jill) that is very hands on focused. The speakers all share a very similar philosophy about search marketing so there are not the mixed messages you get at larger events.

Agreeing with Ted Stevens?!?! Ack that just seems like a bad idea. I’d just like wikipedia banned from Google, I’m fine with it being everywhere else U.S. senator: It’s time to ban Wikipedia in schools, libraries - Computerworld Blogs

Diggers Can’t we all get along ….
The Scarlet Letters - an SEO’s Open Letter to Diggers

So please, dear Diggers, the next time you see an article on Digg talking about Search Engine Optimization, before burying it on sight, take just a moment to actually read the story and decide whether it was in fact written by an SEO or a Spammer, and remember, the two are NOT the same thing.

Google Adwords the Quality Score debate rages on, and Pepperjam who bids on way more keywords than I do has a much wider set of data to look at

pepperjamBlog » Blog Archive » Google Adwords Quality Score Debacle Continues; Is Google Price Gouging Advertisers?

n addition, there appears to be growing fear among advertisers that Google has too much power to control market prices, which has resulted in apparent price gouging. If the Google Adwords Quality Score debacle that occured this past weekend is an example, I believe advertisers should be seriously concerned about price gouging.

I think Tamar found her groove, two nice one’s in two weeks
How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business: The Definitive Guide

A lot of people want to get their page on the Digg main page, but in terms of popularity of other online social mediums, it stops there. There are other means of getting good — perhaps better, when considering that it’s targeted — traffic, such as StumbleUpon.

I Love shopping at places that aren’t politically correct, check out the name of those shirts

Nice to have you visit

if you run an adult website check out the Blogger Power: Safeguard the Web for Children and see if you can do your part.

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2 Responses to “Things You May Have Missed 2-25-2007”

1. infonote Says:
   February 25th, 2007 at 6:16 am

   Thanks, found the stumbleupon link useful.

2. 45n5 Says:
   February 25th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

   thanks for the mention Michael.

   that prom queen stuff really does work!

   (aside my host is down at the moment (what lousy timing), will be back up very soon I hope)

   thanks again.