25 of Digg’s Most Trusted Sites
Ever wanted to become a power Digger? Come on now ... sure you have. Here's how to start. Its a well known fact that Digg trusts content from some sites more than others. Why not ... the larger sites are [...]
Local Search Predicted to Be Killer App for Mobile Phones
According to a new Juniper Research report, 1.3 billion mobile users are expected to use local mobile search services by 2013. While the trends bode well for for the mobile search industry (agencies and marketers alike) the report goes on [...]
SEO is about to Grow Up
Those who have been in the industry since the late 90’s have seen huge changes in SEO. The industry has really matured. But in the grand scheme of things, if you were to plot SEO on a product life cycle [...]
How Search Really Works: Grabbing Most Red M&M’s
This post is part of an ongoing series: How Search Really Works. Previously: Relevance (2) Instead of painstakingly grabbing the absolute best matches for your query to then rank those with infinite precision, one time saving strategy has search engines [...]
Yahoo Acknowledges Canadians Live in Canada!
Great news this a.m. from the land of hockey ... Yahoo has finally acknowledged that yes, we Canadians live in Canada. What you ask? In essence, this means that Yahoo is finally automatically redirecting Canadians searching via Yahoo Search (ie. [...]
Transforming a Company Blog Into a Community Destination
When a blog becomes a community destination it is more than writers writing and readers commenting. Readers get to know the names and avatars of blog authors, and check to see what they are thinking and reading. Readers who have [...]
4 Pillars of Social Media Algorithms … Trust x4
Ever wonder why some Digg submissions go hot at 25, while others don't at 270+? Same with Stumbleupon ... why do some posts do exceptionally well while others with similar numbers of thumbs ups get substantially less traffic? One word [...]
Game on Matt … 1st to 500 Twitter Followers Wins!
Its true! Matt McGee and I have had a long time bet who would be the last to join Twitter. Following Michael Gray's session at SMX Social, we both saw the light and mutually agreed to join Twitter. Though in [...]
Its Not Easy Being Green
I'm a stats junkie. I just love surveys, research papers and opinion polls, so its no accident that I enjoy sharing my finds with the our readers. I look for ways to use the information in order to assist [...]
Make Those Image Hotlinkers Give You Backlinks!
Ever get tired of people stealing your bandwidth because they hotlink your images? I used to have Myspacer's sucking my bandwidth dry because their pages got so much traffic, and they were using my images for their backgrounds, etc. There [...]
