Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
An interesting post over at ARS Technica about how ad blocking hurts websites. The post is interesting for two reasons. First, the article, written by ARS Technica’s founder and owner, goes into more detail than is often the case regarding how ad supported websites work and how blocking those ads can hurt the website in … Read more
Google’s recent attempt to crack the social networking market comes courtesy of an ill-conceived service titled Google Buzz. The idea is that that Buzz provides similar status updates, and shared links, and so on, right inside of your Google email account. Of course, it is this very concept that dooms Google Buzz to failure, and … Read more
AT&T and Verizon have been going back and forth in their advertising lately regarding AT&T cell phone coverage and Verizon’s claims about it. If you missed it, the whole thing started with some television commercials in which Verizon showed AT&T’s coverage map compared to Verizon’s coverage map. The commercials were apparently effective, because not only … Read more
Update: It seems that Amazon is going out of its way to make me look foolish 🙂 Just kidding. Actually, just got an email update, partially excerpted below, from the Amazon Associates folks about a new way that the affiliate program will integrate directly with Twitter. Basically, it makes the rest of this post moot, … Read more
Most companies not founded in the last five years, and those with a long-term eye on the future focus their branding efforts on differentiating themselves from the key words that describe their business, not the other way around like SEO demands. But, these companies managed to create search optimized brands without any SEO at all.
Amazon announced a shift in the way it pays its affilitates, known as Amazon Associates, who send paid search results ad based traffice to its homepages.
How much SEO experience can someone legitimately claim? What about experience as an “industry leader” in SEO? Does anyone wonder about numbers that strain the possiblities of reality?
How to raise your credit score, er…I mean, how can I raise my credit score.
Who is worth following on Twitter? Are you?
I ran a Google search for Top 5 SEO Websites and got no exact matches. That seemed a little odd. The truth is, I know the Top 5 Search Engine Optimization Sites (at least in my experience), I just don’t have a list of them anywhere and I needed the URLs for an article I … Read more
Microsoft offers a great deal from its CashBack website and then either can’t handle the traffic (incompotent) or deliberately disrupts the ability of users to take advantage of the deal when they decide it costs too much (dishonest). Either way, a new smear on the Microsoft name happens on Black Friday.
An online retailer looks to a different color to stand out in a sea of Black Friday sales.