I have used Twitter.com for several months and love it. I have found real value in public microblogging and consider it an important part of social media marketing. Follow me at Twitter.com/Cvos Checking my account today I saw this unique color collage from my random followers. These people created unique color shifted avatars to increase…
If you are looking for advice on how not to begin a search engine optimization project, the user SEO Quick Project just created a case study for you. this job has a 100% chance of failure. Here is the title of the job listing: SEO Quick Project – See original job posting at Elance »…
Scammers will never cease trying to give the Search Engine Optimization industry a bad name. One of my clients received a ‘bill’ from an SEO firm called Domain Listing Services claiming annual website submission services. The charges are $185 for 5 years. How many unfortunate people have been defrauded from scams like this? Domain Listing…
JCP has a huge amount of money (1.4 billion specifically) to throw at their website. This spells bad news for smaller e-commerce store owners. Not even a webstore optimized for the top of Google can battle 1.4 billion of viral marketing and high tech distribution. Their main site, jcp.com, did $1.5 billion in sales last…
If you were wondering what web 2.0 means to the future of the internet, it is all celebrity sex stories all the time. The Wall Street Journal traditionally has reported on things that happen in Wall Street, but now they are trying to broaden their focus to the Red Light District. Thanks WSJ, we don’t…
I got a pleasant visit from the past in my inbox this morning and a reminder that the web changes, but cannot get rid of its past. Failed business and empty handed CEO’s may hibernate, but they will always try to reinvent themselves with each technology paradigm shift. This morning I saw the attempted rebirth…
Many professional search engine optimization consultants choose to have a solo practice. Noteworty solo SEO’s are Graywolf, Stuntdbl, & SEObook. There are also a lot of excellent firms who provide search engine optimization services including SEOmoz, Acsseo, and Rustybrick. The benefits of being a solo consultant are freedom to set your own rates, schedule and…
Back in the old days of search engine optimization, software companies such as WebPosition Gold would sell you a program that autogenerated thousands of doorway pages that were of no value to a visitor. Most SEO’s have long since forgotten about doorway pages, but apparently some black hat search marketers still use them and Google…
It never ceases to amaze me how many power searchers and search engine optimization consultants still do not understand basic statistics and data mining. Using Google for SEO research can barely be considered data mining, since the information is so easy to acquire. When an SEO or anyone else tells you that the number of…
Gmail has become my primary email application, and I have it open all day long. The Gmail blog recently announced speed improvements of 20% which will help me be 20% more productive! Google engineers reduced the weight of each server request itself by eliminating or narrowing the scope of some cookies. They changed all our…