Hitwise has released a blog post detailing the consequences of a google blacklist. The UK car insurance site gocompare.com was Chart showing the demise of gocompare after it lost the #1 position for its top performing keyword in the UK search engine results pages At this point I have no clear evidence of gocompares sins,…
I rarely link to podcasts and radio shows, but this is a particularly illuminating podcast about public relations and how to get your business and brand name mentioned in top tier publications. Basically you need to generate relationships with editors and writers at magazines/newspapers/blogs you wish to be featured in. How do you meet these…
Michael Robertson has created a wiki for companies that shows financing and deals for startup companies. This wiki allows users to enter venture capital financing rounds, company sales, IPO’s and mergers & acquisitions. You can view a list of all startup companies and read press releases not created by corporate PR. Dealipedia lets you get…
Jonathan Simon posted the questions and answers he received while at Las Vegas Pubcon 2007 on Google Groups. The search engine optimization crowd grilled the engineer on several pressing online marketing questions and he provides useful advice to improve your rankings and reduce stress. Scrapers If your content is being scraped, it is a nuisance,…
Serious controversy in SEO land. Google is handing out manual penalties by the truckload, and fellow SEO’s are steamed. SEO’s are like soldiers on the front line, we always get hit first and take unrelenting punishment for pushing the line forward. Ok Google, we understand that you hate paid links and have waged a battle…
Blah Blah tech has created a great wordpress plugin that lets you connect with users of other social networks. Most online marketers are members of multiple online content sharing networks and tend to read a lot of SEO blogs. Using the Socialize Me plugin lets visitors interact with you similar to mybloglog.com From SocializeMe: with…
I love reading CNN for news as it has the most updated articles and good reporters. They spend way too much time reporting on Britney Spears and other Hollywood starlets, but that is not the focus of this post. Instead of trying to bait web surfers into pop culture they take a giant leap backwards…
Stompernet Mastermind search engine optimization coaching and web based classes is about to change. The biggest change is a price increase, so you better signup now. Read more for the stomper press release to the online SEM’s: Checkout the discount price on SMARTS sem system. Only The Stomper gives you access to this multi faceted…
Stompernet has created a new video player to display search engine optimization tutorials and seo training clips. Unfortunately they call this SquamBido, which sounds like “spam libido”. Fortunately the video player works much better than it’s name, and the content is very helpful.
The best part of the SEO video player is it allows you to embed your affiliate link into the player, giving you auto tagging and creating an auto generating cookie on the users computer. Yes, you now have my affiliate id, just by loading this page. Don’t let me have all the benefits to this search engine marketing program, signup for yourself and make hundreds of dollars per sale.
What would happen if your ecommerce shop cancelled all advertising and offered customer free shipping instead? You may be petrified at the thought of stopping all pay per click ads, online banner ads and targeted ads but there may be better ways to virally create business and fortify your sales. Offering customers something special can…