I have received a number of emails asking for more info on how to determine which sites you should buy a link from. There are a number of great articles about this around the Web and I have been pretty jammed over the past couple of days so I thought I would take the easy […]
I came across this presentation on link development which Sugarrae Hoffman gave this week at Pubcon. If you are considering buying or begging for links to your site, as many businesses are these days, she provides a great overview on how to choose between hiring a linkbuilding company and training an in-house linkbuilder. While much […]
Yesterday D&B announced that it had purchased Allbusiness.com for $55 million. While the business as is may in fact be worth $55 million the acquisitor usually pays based on what they believe the future value of the acquired business will be. Part of that future value is based on what the acquirer thinks it can […]
A lot of you have been asking for a copy of the presentation I gave at last week’s Interactive Local Media conference. The subject was how to use keyword research and site architecture to help a site rank for variations of searches for service categories in a particular city.The challenge most local search sites have […]
If you don’t follow Jason this is probably a worthless read. He has developed quite a reputation in the SEO community and so this post is for my SEO readers out there. Jason was interviewed at the Kelsey conference last week by Peter Krasilovsky. I got to this panel late but here are my notes:
Last Friday, Allison Mnookin, VP Small Business for Intuit, presented results of a small business survey at the Kelsey Group’s Interactive Local Media conference. The presentation was full of interesting stats but the one that really stood out was that about 20% of those surveyed claimed that SEO was by far their “most effective” online […]
Haven’t had a lot of time to post over the past couple of days but I’ll be back next week with more recaps from the mind-blowing Kelsey Interactive Local Media conference. In the meantime I thought you’d appreciate the magic that is SEO by looking at the latest crazy search term that this blog ranks […]
What follows are my perceptions and/or misperceptions of the panel on local search ad targeting at the Kelsey ILM Conference: Panelists: Court Cunningham, CEO, Yodle Brad Geddes, LocalLaunch Simon Heseltine, Serengeti Communications Jon Kelly, SureHits Dorab Patel, Matchcraft
I just heard a presentation from Facebook on its social ads system where you can use referrals from a customer as part of your ad to promote your business across a social network. I am no attorney but I am pretty sure that there are several companies who have applied for patents on this concept […]
Here’s what I am getting from the ILM presentation by Chamath Palihapitiya, VP of Product Marketing & Operations, Facebook: Facebook = big: 55 million active users 250,000 new users per day One year from now 200 million people Greater than entire sum of paid and unpaid usage of newspapers in 2006