SEO

Going Viral to Build Defensible Traffic

Late last year Darren Rowse on Problogger had a post about How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog. The post discuses how going viral can increase your reader/subscribers over time which build in long term defensible traffic. The graphs he used were hypothetical but accurate. Last week I created the situation so thought [...]

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Blue Widgets – Google and CSS Files

With all this talk about Google Crawling CSS files I thought it might be nice to get an idea what’s within guidelines and what’s not.

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Laptop Dead

Heat buildup, power coupling melted, no explosions but messy plastic goop on motherboard. No data loss, however outlook backups are incompatible do to version mismatch. Email may have been lost during redirection. some scheduled blog posts will publish, will return soon.

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Webmasterradio Shameless Self Promotion

I was on Greg Niland’s GoodKarma Radioshow earlier this week talking about a whole bunch of things and dropping some hints, tips and tricks. Sorry about not letting you know before hand but it was all very last minute. Listen to or download the podcast from WebmasterRadio

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Netscape.com Clearly Not a Democracy

Trying to offer an alternative to Digg Netscape.com is doing everything in it’s power to squelch the input of it users, even it’s most active users, instead opting for some draconian leadership that is pretty intolerant of differing opinions.

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TheDisneyBlog.com Delisted in Google

Not my site, not my client, not affiliated with me in any way, however I do read it regularly. Seems he’s having a bit of a problem with Google losing his site. Maybe someone in Google can give him a heads up. There I did my good deed for the day.

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Google Reader – The Borg is Watching

The blogosphere is buzzing today about the new stats being published by the Google reader, however I’d like to take a slightly more cynical look at things.

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SoloSEO Project Management Software Review

I was asked to review SoloSEO project management software. I had heard of the software but to be honest didn’t really know much about it before starting this review so here’s a look at what I saw and thought.

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Graywolf on Southpark

I am so looking to stir up some trouble and get into mischief … Trose and DG now go create yer own

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SEO – Something I Learned Today

Today I learned the SEO not only stands for Search Engine Optimization, but it also stands for Sewage Enforcement Officers http://seotraining.com/ . All I can say is good luck ever trying to rank for that …

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Picture Bait

Ok I am so getting out ahead of the pack on this one and am taking full credit for coining the term and of picture bait. Sure people have been doing, maybe even in very deliberate and manipulative ways, but gosh darn it I’m giving it a name, and if science has taught us anything [...]

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Oddities From the Latest Google Update

Man the latest update on Google is clearly showing some odd stuff. For example on one domain I own it says the site isn’t in google at all. If I do a site: search on the domain I get 300+ pages but everything except one is in supplemental. If I look back at the page [...]

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Web Based Email For More than One Address

In addition to playing with my feedreader I’ve also been playing with my email lately and I’m equally frustrated at not being able to do what I want.

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Viral Marketing for Long Term Sales

Over on threadwatch I recently made a comment that social media should not be used for meeting short term sales goals (link). I read an article today from Reuters that showed how giving something away to generate an early buzz resulted in more long term sales Disney learns lessons from “High School” In print and [...]

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Google Adwords Telling Fibs

So which is wrong Google Zietgiest or Google Adwords, either way one of you is lying … See the top searches for 2006 and look at #5 radioblog. Try and buy the keyword here’s what you get … Price jacked to $10 and I get told the keyword is rarely included in searches (new ad [...]

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Asking the Questions

Dean’s got a guest blogger over on his wordpress site. Jessica was nice enough to answer some questions I posted: Jessica On The Web « Speaking Freely Which do you use more email or text messaging? Texting. I send email to my grandparents. My friends all text, email is just too slow and you have [...]

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If Google Ran The World

This is the way things work in the real world this is the way things would work if Google ran the world any questions …

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Search Engine Glossary Review

SO I was asked to take a look at Aaron Wall’s Search Engine Glossary over on SEOBook.com

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Interview with Merrick Lozano of PRLeap.com

I know everybody says it but one of the most important parts of Pubcon is the networking. I met Mario and Merrick Lozano of PRLeap and had a great time “talking shop” one night. Merrick was nice enough to do an interview and answer a few questions about himself and his company.

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What is a Compilation Post

I came across a post today that was actually pretty interesting. I’ve been trying similar things but I think this execution was really good, for lack of a better name I’m going to call this a compilation post.

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