The Art of RSS Jujitsu
For those of you following the drama from this morning, I thought you might enjoy this. It really is a work of SEO art:
TheSamSchwartz.com Websites & SEO Services Suck
This is a test to see how Google indexes posts from my site v. crap sites like TheSamSchwartz.com which copies posts from my RSS feed and provides no attribution back to my site. I have no idea if the Sam Schwartz Company sucks or not, but based on what they do with my content, I […]
Hyperlocal on Mobile: #SFSW12
The subhead of the session is “Right Time, Right Place, Right Ad” Greg Sterling moderating Eli Portnoy: CEO, ThinkNear Anne Bezancon: President, Placecast David Staas: CEO, JiWire Staas: Jiwire rolling out free wifi in exchange for engaging with the brand’s advertising. Launching with British Airways, Comcast & Hyatt. Oh joy. Portnoy: Finds stuff around you […]
Next Gen Customer Loyalty Programs: #SFSW12
Moderator: Anthony Ha of TechCrunch Angus Davis: CEO of Swipely Derek Webster: CEO of LocalBonus John Valentine: VP Local of LevelUp Webster: There are 50 start-ups trying to make loyalty punchcards obsolete. Valentine: Typical LevelUp merchant does about $1MM in sales, mostly restaurant customers. 60-70% of business comes from repeat customers. Difference between daily deals […]
Nitin Mangtani of Google Offers: #SFSW12
Nitin Mangtani is the Product Chief of Google Offers and I am liveblogging his talk at StreetFight Summt West 2012. He tells a story about his kid pretending to open a restaurant and makes a sign with lots of stars reading “best restaurant of all” to try to get customers. Note to Nitin, your kid […]
Street Fight Summit West: Laura Rich Keynote #SFSW12
Liveblogging Laura Rich’s (CEO of StreetFight) keynote kicking off Street Fight Summit West 2012 Conference. The old guard forgot something really important: understanding consumers. Laura saw a Foursquare sticker on the window of a coffee shop in Boulder. Foursquare has hundreds of thousands of businesses using their platform, displaying their stickers, but no salesforce. Local […]
Google Business Builder Approaches The SMB Wall
Lots of good stuff this morning on Google “Business Builder” – GOOG’s roll-up of high-powered SMB marketing tools slated to roll-out in July. Here’s a nice infographic from the Wall Street Journal: Mike Blumenthal has a nice overview and some healthy skepticism: “When this occurs the real Google+ Local will be rolling, not just a […]
Will Google+ Local Be A Ghost Town?
There has been a lot of hub-bub since the Google+ Local hit. I pretty much agree with what Mike, David, Greg & Chris have had to say on the matter. And I pretty much agree with what I had to say on the matter about one year ago. While I have been pondering what this […]
Don’t Mess With Shanghai SEOs
I am in Shanghai this week checking out the SEO scene. These guys rank #1 in Baidu for “shanghai seo”. Thinking I may have to redesign my site to make it a little tougher. If you are looking for some “brand hype” I can get you a good deal.
So What If Google Previews Count As Active Pages In Google Analytics Real-Time?
A client pointed out interesting behavior in their Google Analytics Real-Time report – when a user mouses over previews of your site’s URL in the SERP, it is reported in the Top Active Pages report. This may not be a fully-rolled out feature as I cannot replicate it on other accounts I have access to. […]