I just received this email in my inbox, a thinly veiled attempt at sucking money out of me to register .asia domain names. Be watchful of notices to register domains to protect your trademark and intellectual property in International areas. The most common I have seen are Chinese .cn domains and .cm domain names. If…
Post about the Stompernet video about Referential Integrity and how to capitalize on the advanced search engine research from the stomper search marketing team. SEO strategies from an online help center.
There is a new way to access the unlimited datastore of the internet using google docs and the web. Google spreadsheets has a feature called GoogleLookup that lets you do real time automated lookups through their spreadsheet feature. What makes GoogleLookup really cool is that it references data not only from your spreadsheet (as with…
From the department of D’oh – several SEO firms are trying to get their job listings placed in front of applicants by keyword stuffing their postings. See this screenshot for examples of recent listings for SEO/SEM positions. I know you have to mention that you are a search engine optimization firm in the job posting,…
BooneOakley.com is a large advertising agency that has done 2 very revolutionary, and possibly damaging things: Created their website as a video Redirected their domain name to youtube.com Instead of the usual marketing Agency Flashturbation heavy websites, Boone Oakley has gone a different direction to present themselves to large corporate clients seeking an online marketing…
In December 2008 Dell Outlet announced that it had generated $1 million through their twitter account. Dell posted computer specials and closeout deals to its Twitter feed and grabbed the attention of the web. In the summer of 2008 Barack Obama announced his choice of vice president through a tweet. What Twitter can do for…
Nobody likes ads, and people really resent intrusive and irrelevant ads. SE Roundtable reports a post by SEO igloo where she laments on the excessive advertising on SearchEngineGuide.com I think that Jennifer Laycock is one of the best writers in our industry. Beyond the basic SEO subjects she addresses for beginners, the questions she asks…
Yahoo has a huge network of content websites, but they are ineffectively utilizing these website properties. Below is a good article on Yahoo real estate, but if you want to use Yahoo Buzz or Mybloglog you are out of luck. Yahoo has spend tens of millions of dollars buying, maintaining, and improving these social media…
A large domain name registrar has been an innovator of low cost domain name registration and web hosting services for over a decade, and they are always hunting for business. How do they want to grow in the competitive web hosting marketplace? By using search engine optimization of course! Unfortunately this SEO experience is not…
A tip when dealing with credit card companies: always use the telephone, don’t use email. Email is quick and easy but also offers the credit card firm an easy way to deny you. I wouldn’t be surprised if they automatically denied all requests sent via email. I had a questionable service fee charged to my…