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A Visit to GooglePlex Irvine
A big thanks to Zachary Applegate from Plumber Surplus for contributing this blog on the subject of his team's recent visit to Google's Irvine complex. Hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I have: While our small team from PlumberSurplus.com was excited to be able to go to the Google open house in their new Irvine California office, we were u...
The Next Web: Amsterdam 2.0
It's been several months since we launched the 2006 Web 2.0 Awards, but the buzz is still going strong. Later tonight I'm meeting with one of the companies we reviewed. Then, next Wednesday I'm off to Amsterdam for The Next Web Conference, where speakers including Kevin Kelley (of Wired Magazine), Michael Arrington (of TechCrunch), and Kevin Rose (of Digg) will address the way Web 2.0 is changing the way people use the internet.
Keyword Difficulty Tool Upgrade
Matt's been hard at work this week, upgrading SEOmoz's KW Difficulty Tool. It's now faster, more accurate and comes with spiffier graphics. In honor, I thought it would be valuable to write a post on how to read this data: ...
Farecast - An Evolution in Travel Pricing Prediction
I've been using the private beta of Farecast for a couple months now and I've really enjoyed it. With the launch of their public beta release today, everyone (in Seattle & Boston at least) can take advantage of the high quality data mining and spiffy GUI that the Farecast team has put together. ...
Discussion on Persuasion Architecture at Cre8asite
Reading through the the thread - Persuasion Architecture and the Art of Agreement for Website Success - is inspiring. Although the discussion starts with a short review (by Kim) of the Eisenberg brothers' new book, it evolves into a stirring debate and exploration of how websites can influence user actions. From the t...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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My first true grey SEO technique...
Ok... Here's my first grey technique that I attempted last week for one of our site (not to hard to guess which one). Our company was confronted with the following elements: -Dire need to start growing our community on a young domain and newly started blog-Virtually no money to spend on it, only precious planned time from actual employees-No knowledge of any kind for viral m...
Compelling Blogs I've Stumbled On Lately
In case you're seeking some inspiration for writing on your own blog or in need of strong examples to point your executive team/marketing director/non-believer business partner to, I thought I'd share a few favorite blogs (outside the webdev/SEO sphere). I've just gone ahead and listed the titles, along with an excerpt: WaiterRant.net...
Bill Slawski - Interviewed
Finally, someone did an interview with one of the best and brightest in the industry. Thanks to Mr. Pratt (he's fond of that moniker, apparently), Bill Slawski, one of my favorite people, is featured today on SEOBuzzBox. I do take issue with Pratt's first statement, though: ...
Top 10 Fastest Ways to Squash a Spider
Are those pesky search engine robots crawling your site too much? Does the sight of even one result from a "site:" command at the engines boil your blood? Are you tired of seeing visitor after visitor trickle into your website from referrers like "Google", "Yahoo" and "MSN". Well worry no more, because below, I've listed the top 10 ways to keep those...
The Project: Generating AdSense Revenue From Low Traffic Site (pt3)
Note: If you are unaware of The Project topic, please read the previous parts: The project: In the beginning (pt1) The project: ... there was Silence. (pt2) Pretty often I hear people complaining about how hard it is to generate revenue from low tra...