Going Viral to Build Defensible Traffic, Part II
In my initial post Going Viral to Build Defensible Traffic, I posted some graphs showing how going viral built up my RSS subscribers. Yesterday I pushed out another viral post that did WAY better than...
View ArticleAre You A Master Link Baiter or Just a Flasher
You know what linkbaiting has been getting a bum wrap lately. Everyone from Nick W, to Eric Ward, to a majority of the readers at copyblogger. Well I’m going to take the unpopular and politically...
View ArticleSocial Media – It’s the Backlinks Stupid
Since Google is giving away more backlink data, and I’ve been saying social media is really about getting the backlinks I thought It’s time to put up or shut up and show some stats. Here are my top 10...
View ArticleYes SEO’s Digg Hates You, They Really Really Hate You
In case you missed it SEOMoz had a piece on digg today Dear Digg.com: I’m going to save you a million dollars with three lines of code. Oh sure it bit sensational in title but the advice is sound, Matt...
View ArticleWebmasterWorld Social Media Tagging and Bookmarking Optimization
Since I received a few ‘hey are you ok it’s been more than 2 days since you blogged emails’ Thought I’d let you know I’m alive and doing well just buried under a mountain of work with some looming...
View ArticleWe Don’t Need Less Robert Scoble We Just a More Filtered and Relevant One
Vanessa recently spoke about Twitter By Phone, Now With Default Scoble, and I agree with her it’s a problem, however what we really need to do is deal with the cause of the problem not the symptom. The...
View ArticleDaveR Twitter and the Disney Job I’ll Never Get
So I’m cruising through twitter this AM and I get a message from DaveR about a job he thinks he’s found for me. Now my first thought was Dave sent me a link to the Disney Chief Magic Officer job, which...
View ArticleWhat Search Engine Conferences Should I Attend
One of the questions I get asked frequently is “which search conferences should I attend”. Seeing as conferences end up costing you between $3500-$5000 a pop when you include travel, lodging and meals...
View ArticleSo I Made it Onto Some Silly List
So while I was away I made it onto the Most Influential Online Marketers of 2008 list. Not that I don’t appreciate everyone who was nice enought to vote for me, and all the hard work that went into...
View ArticleHCards, Microformats and Address Data does it Matter for SEO
A few weeks ago @etnainteractive asked me a question on twitter about HCards and Microformats, and do they matter for SEO. I’m going to explain what they are for those of you who don’t know what thay...
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