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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007It’s all over the place: Google is looking at ways to get bitchy about paid links and hidden links.
I hate hidden links, simply because playing games with CSS to hide links from users is a clear sign of some form of dumbassery occurring.
But paid links are a really messy area. There’s a billion comments in [...]
E-mail Subject Lines: Who Converts on This Stuff, Anyway?
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Sometimes, I like to go into webmail, which doesn’t have a spam filter, prior to doing a POP download. The subject lines that are coming through are increasingly surreal, like things we would have written in Very Serious Navelgazing Poetry back in college.
Here are some doozies from today’s batch. Note that none of them will [...]
Webmaster Tools: Too Much Information?
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007I am endlessly fascinated by some of the reports in Google’s Webmaster Tools, but wonder if they don’t provide too much information for the average user.
For instance, apparently this site ranks for the search phrase ‘adjectives for hate’ right now. Checking in Keyword Discovery, I find they have a record for the query “adjective for [...]
Shame From the Past: Talking Urinal Cakes
Sunday, March 18th, 2007My pal Paul Jahn, Local Search Geek Extraordinaire — and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune — have revealed that talking urinal cakes were placed locally to discourage drunk-driving on a very drunk weekend in the Cities (St. Pat’s and the WCHA Frozen Five will do that).
True fact: I have purchased bathroom advertising in my past, including, ahem, [...]
Search & Real Estate Online: Ugh
Sunday, March 18th, 2007I’m preparing to sell my house. Everyone knows that the Interweb is playing a big role in that process these days.
But if you look closely, realty companies are clearly using the Web for brand presence, rather than search presence (save for PPC).
I did some SEO/SEM for a Major Real Estate Company(tm) about, eh, 2-3 [...]
Six Stupid Domain Tricks
Friday, March 16th, 2007Here are six odd domain strategies I would like to advise all builders of Web marketing plans to avoid:
I will buy 75 domains and build sites on all of them so I can dominate the first 7 pages of Google/Yahoo/MSN/my mom’s bookmark list.
I bought 75 domains, and I am using 74 of them to frame-in [...]
Spring Break: Comment Spam Gone Wild!
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