Posted in Internet Related on Oct 5th, 2008 5 Comments »
In the midst of a plummeting economy, one man sells his financial Wordpress site, Bankaholic, to Bankrate dot com for $12.4 million plus. How did he do it? Well, it all goes back to his early days as a student at the University California, Berkeley. Learning SEO as a young student helped boost him into [...]
Posted in Internet Related, Reviews on Jul 22nd, 2008 9 Comments »
I’ve just finished reading Web Design for ROI which was recommended to me by a colleague I’m assisting in restructuring an ecommerce site. While it’s an easy read and pretty intuitive to active marketers, it does serve as a checklist of sorts — although it claims not to be one — for anyone interested in [...]
Posted in Announcements, Internet Related, PPC Related on Feb 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
Many companies and individuals, including myself, are making final preparations for the upcoming Affiliate Summit West next week in Las Vegas. If you haven’t checked out who will be speaking on panel or presenting in the exhibit hall, it is an impressive mix of the top affiliate networks, expert affiliate marketers, and corporate media giants. [...]
Posted in Internet Related, PPC Related on Dec 17th, 2007 18 Comments »
Dave Davis of RedFly Marketing was kind enough to answer some interview questions for me regarding his search engine marketing business, and included some tips on what to keep in mind for those of you who are thinking of branching out and creating your own consulting start-up. Thanks again, Dave!
You and your partners operate RedFly [...]
Posted in Announcements, Internet Related on Dec 6th, 2007 14 Comments »
Tonight I figured I’d spend some time cruising my RSS reader since it’s been feeling mighty lonely lately. And I came across some great stuff! Check it…
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What do you get when you combine two second tier search engines? A second tier PPC platform. Bet most of you didn’t even know Lycos was still around… The [...]
Posted in Internet Related on Nov 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
Do you guys read MarketingSherpa? Well if you don’t, I recommend it — they publish some of the best email and online marketing tips and studies that I try to keep up on. Every once in awhile I run across something that jumps out at me and I think, I can relate to that! What [...]
Posted in Google Related, Internet Related on Nov 20th, 2007 14 Comments »
This is something super geeky and fun that I like to do — checking which keyword searches people use to find my site. Many of you are probably like me and get a kick out of what you find. I use Google Analytics to check my keyword traffic, which can be quite entertaining and informative. [...]
Posted in Internet Related, Networking, PPC Related on Oct 18th, 2007 9 Comments »
A while ago I wrote an article about the perceptions of PPC vs SEO in business, and how I assumed PPC to be trailing behind SEO for particular reasons (read the article!). Well, I checked Indeed.com today to see how PPC and SEO job trends were going, and decided to throw Social Networking into the [...]
Posted in Announcements, Internet Related on Oct 9th, 2007 16 Comments »
Today, I thought I’d throw out some link love in two parts: first, by listing my September top commentators, and second, by listing some great articles currently floating around the blogosphere.
Thanks go to Derek Semmler for sending me the code to retrieve last month’s top comment counts from my SQL database (rather than having to [...]
Posted in Internet Related on Oct 1st, 2007 9 Comments »
Here’s an interesting article I came across this morning at NetworkWorld. Researchers are looking into a possible “radical redesign” of the internet’s underlying routing architecture. The gist of the article is this:
Under debate by the IRTF is how the Internet’s backbone routers operate… Slowing routing table growth would provide other benefits to enterprise network operators… [...]
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