Posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 by Barbara Palmer
I hear it all the time: “I tried to find you on all the social media sites and you were nowhere to be found.” That is not by chance. While I run a online marketing firm that has a social media practice, it isn’t something that I subscribe to as an individual. All of my [...] [...more]
Posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 by SEO Lamp
"Someone" high in the search food chain said SEOs are criminals. But is that really a fair AND accurate comment? Here's what I think. [...more]
Posted on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 by Mike Solomon
I was listening to a podcast the other day and the speaker referred to this phrase, “what gets measured, gets improved”. This is a really powerful statement that can be applied to business and life in general. The applications to online marketing are too numerous to count. Looking at our business, this truly captures the [...] [...more]
Posted on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 by Grant Simmons
When Ben Bernanke talks of the economy grown men have been known to break into applause or leap from windows. When Matt Cutts flaps his SEO wings in Singapore, a tidal wave hits New York. Such are the influence of today's influencers... read on. [...more]
Posted on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 by Frank Eybsen
Dear Facebook, You had to begin your vanity URL landgrab at 9PM on a Friday. I guess I am lucky to be in Los Angeles – a New York residence could have made this a much darker tale. Please do not take my anecdote lightly, as this is not a simple note from a single [...] [...more]
Posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 by Alec Green
No other social networking site has gotten as much hype in the past few months as Twitter. Time magazine recently proclaimed that Twitter is going to change the way we live. Really? It does provide real-time insight and updates from anyone we care to “follow.” And it satisfies our innate desire to stay connected. Even [...] [...more]
Posted on Monday, June 15th, 2009 by Dewey Northington
You work hard for your clients. You create ad campaigns, speak at conferences, blog about new technologies, spend countless marketing dollars, all in an effort to send more clients to your site and garner their business. All your efforts may be in vain if your conversion point is a poorly developed form on your website [...] [...more]
Posted on Sunday, June 14th, 2009 by SEO Lamp
Hello! I’m a lamp…or at least I look like a lamp. I’m actually a great and powerful black hat SEO wizard that was turned into a lamp by the Google gods. They turned me into this lump of cork and wires because I got caught trying to trick the Google algorithm one too many times [...] [...more]
Posted on Friday, June 12th, 2009 by Darren Kelly
Tonight at Midnight ET, Facebook users can grab a vanity URL for themselves. This is a great opportunity to go from a randomly-generated id string (who doesn’t want to be known as id=505900947) to your preferred online identity. The big competition for www.facebook.com/darrenkelly is myself , the former college basketball star, and an Irish footballer. [...] [...more]
Posted on Monday, June 8th, 2009 by Thomas Seiler
Are you missing out on millions of potential customers because you are put off by Amazon’s commissions? Or because you feel that the integration into the Amazon system is too complex or might even cost you the control over your clients? Then there is good news for you: Amazon Product Ads. Amazon Product Ads is [...] [...more]
