Friday Funnies: Behind Digg’s Bury Brigade
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Using Yahoo Answers To Capture Long Tail Searches
Credit: Bocavelhma Yahoo! Because We've Got You Too Yahoo answers is a great resource for Q&A when you just can't seem to find the information you're looking for. Aside from authority sites such as Wikipedia or dedicated niche forums, where [...]
Matt Cutts, Why Am I Still Being Punished?
I dumped text link ads. I nofollowed paid links. I javascripted links that might be mistaken for paid links. I canceled my sponsored review accounts. I switched to a different method of monetization (Scratchback) that serves Google-friendly, nofollowed links. (And [...]
What are the effects of Google Local Listings on Adwords Conversions?
Oh oh. Changes are afoot when it comes to Google Local Listings, and while I haven't had an opportunity to employ and thus take advantage of relative keywords, I'm wondering if anyone else has and if they've noticed any changes [...]
Digg: Timeline of a User Revolt
00:00 - Digg goes down for maintenance. When it comes back, something has changed... 01:00 - The Digg Algorithm has Changed "Digg went down today for a short time. The results may be that many diggers will go down for [...]
Affiliate Marketing – How many people are in YOUR marketing Department?
Affiliate Marketing today is so much more than what it used to be, when simply having someone place your banner on their website to drive traffic was the norm. Back in the day, your banner would catch someones eye, they [...]
Improving Search Traffic … Using Social Media
Just a very quick post today, about a quick and simple technique to increase quality traffic to a site, while appeasing everyone in the social media space ... the content creator, the social media themselves, and search engines. This technique [...]
Social Media – Are we all just a bunch of Sheep?
Groupthink is fairly common in the board room but more and more I'm starting to see it in social media too. Groupthink is defined as "a type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach [...]
The Ballad of Social Media
After my recent posts on SEO, social media, and goal setting, I thought it'd be nice to break away from my addiction to search marketing and focus on something more light hearted. Inspired by our SEO funnies contest a couple [...]
How Search Really Works: Keyword Links
This post is part of an ongoing series: How Search Really Works. Last week: Meta Keywords. A web page can only have a limited number of words -- but can receive an unlimited number of links. It's not rare [...]
