Using Contests For Link Building
Just a quick link building tip and a shout out. Offering a prize in a blog contest can gain you one or more links from the blog holding the contest, and will likely also gain you a link from the [...]
Seeing Beyond Our Small Worlds
Forgive this off-topic post, please. Yesterday, I took the day off for a little fun and recreation. We took a day-trip down to the Gulf Coast to drop a few quarters in some slot machines, do a little Outlet Mall [...]
Yellow Pages to resell Google AdWords
Hot off last August's announcement that R.H. Donnelley (No. 3 Yellow Pages publisher in the US) had begun selling ad placements in Yahoo! Local, comes today's news that Canada's Yellow Pages Group will begin reselling Google AdWords advertisements. Its agreement [...]
You Benefit using Twitter
The best thing to come out of Google buying the social site Jaiku is that it has put Twitter on the attention map of many people again. Every second article, report or blog post about the Jaiku acquisition draws a [...]
SEO With Q&A
Your mission for today, should you choose to accept it is to: Rummage through forum threads in your niche Make a list of 20 questions that forum members have asked about your niche topic Create Q&A content on your site [...]
Theory of Types and Stages of Online Professional Relationships
Establishing a strong Social Media Profile necessarily means establishing networks of (professional) friends/relationships online (aka online professional relationships ... OPR) that can be called upon to help you when needed. In some cases, your goal will be to befriend individuals [...]
What Kind of SEO Would Bob Dylan Be?
I thought it might be nice to sum up the last few days with a little tune and a bit of rhyme. I hope you enjoy it and feel it's worth the waste of time. ;)
Social Media By the Numbers: StumbleUpon
Of all the social media sites out there, StumbleUpon is by far my favorite. From an SEO standpoint, I
Video: Someone Make It Easier
I spent the entire day (and night) yesterday editing a video. This video, which was on my camcorder, covered a span of two years. We got the camcorder a month or so before Hurricane Katrina hit, and the first shots [...]
Have You Created A Reviewable Resource?
Imagine this. You sign up to one of the sponsored review services, or you approach a blogger in your niche personally, asking for a review of your site. The blogger takes a look at your site and sees the standard [...]
