Tech stock day traders rejoice – the web 2.0 bubble is getting enormous, and everyone with a forex software program and a home computer is trying to get in on this deal. Microsoft is serious about buying Yahoo to compete with the mighty Google. Many news junkets with Bloomberg TV, Techmeme, Mashable, & Techcrunch puts…
Sara Smith does a great interview of Rand Fishkin on Search This. I really respect rand for offering so much information about SEO, and he is great at explaining search engines in a very user friendly manner that has wide appeal. He also doesn’t pretend that there are dark secrets to search engine optimization, and…
Forbes has an article about the Google supplemental index, and as usual for a major publication, gets many facts about Google wrong, despite Andy Greenberg interviewing Aaron Wall, Jim Boykin and Michael Gray. To summarize the article, Andy interviews several e-commerce website owners who hired shady SEO firms and now find traffic to their site…
Yahoo has purchased the remaining 80% of Rightmedia it does not own for $680 million in cash and stock. VentureBeat & Techcrunch report that yahoo purchased 20% of the company in October 2006. Redpoint Ventures was the venture capital firm that funded the online advertising tech firm Rightmedia, and its safe to say th Redpoint…
As Vinny Lingham says, Commission Junction now has an external advisory board. I have been using the CJ affiliate program and am generally pleased with it. Here are my top requests: allow us to have affiliate links for cj.com – why are you so stingy that you won’t give your thousands of existing affiliates incentive…
Interesting video montage on the shift of information and population in the world. It’s easy to get tunnel vision and not see the big picture of a huge world. We have shifted into an exponential period of growth. Some stats: If you’re 1 in a million, in China there are 1,300 people just like you.…
Want to improve conversions on a landing page 20% by adding 2 words? Many of your customers won’t click on images unless you tell them to. Add the text click here and watch your conversions soar. Before: After: This is a report brought to you by Grok Dot Com.
I took a flight on Alaska Airlines from Los Angeles to Seattle on March 1 of this year and it was fine, save for my bags. Yes the bags were lost but returned to me the same day. I was very happy to have my bags back within 24 hours, but contacting Alaska baggage recovery…
This year the 2 premier SEO conferences, PubCon and Search Engine Strategies Chicago are in the same week. What is a dedicated SEO to do? Search Engine Roundtable lists the pros and cons: Weather: PubCon Wins. Chicago in the winter is cold Venue: PubCon Wins. Vegas is a lot more fun than Chicago, but Chicago…
Successful websites get a lot of traffic, and usually there is a skilled SEO behind this. Its hard to have an online business with no visitors, which is why the first websites were directories that listed different content websites on the web. The adult industry had always been underground, and took to the web like…
