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Rhea Drysdale – SEO Industry Hero

Anywhere there is controversy you will find many marketers who will opine and try to shine the lights on themselves about how wonderful they are and how much they help everyone else and how everyone should link to them in the controversy. But when the attention dies down it turns out few marketers hold true to their promises and stick with their principals. It is usually the unsung heroes that make...

5 Cs that businesses should consider to avoid business disaster online

  I spoke at SxSW Interactive in Austin with Anjuan Simmons and I conducted a CORE Conversation at SxSW Interactive this year called: How Social Media Can Destroy Your Business Model.   I will quickly outline the five ideas that we had. The audience had many more, plus lots of questions and feedback. We also discussed a number of case studies, which you can look at in the Slideshare presentation...

Twitter Announces @anywhere Platform

Twitter should soon become more ubiquitous across the Web.  Today, the company’s cofounders announced something called @anywhere that should help integrate the Twitter experience into standard sites, and a number of impressive organizations have agreed to take part in the initial rollout. Evan Williams essentially handled the SXSW side of things this afternoon, discussing @anywhere during...

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 15, 2010

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";

10,000 Downloads Strong, Can’t Be Wrong

Today marks the third week that my free affiliate marketing guide has been available to the public. In that short period of time, it has been downloaded over 10,000 times! I am extremely pleased with the launch of this free guide. I have received a ton of emails, PMs, IMs, etc of people who have learned a lot from the guide. If you’re new to making money online, I highly recommend...

Facebook Unseats Google As Most-Visited Site

Although the "thud" wasn’t verified until this afternoon, it seems that an online giant fell a couple of days ago.  According to new data from Hitwise, Facebook managed to beat Google in terms of visits between March 7th and March 13th, becoming the most visited website in the U.S. for the week. The graph visible below makes the changeup pretty clear (blame the sloppy enlarged...

Report: Yahoo’s SVP Of Revenue To Quit

Joanne Bradford started at Yahoo about a year and a half ago, assuming the title "Senior Vice President, U.S. Revenue and Market Development."  Now, a fresh report’s indicated that the high-ranking exec is on her way out again, ready to take a position at Demand Media. Kara Swisher wrote earlier, "According to several sources . . . Bradford is planning on leaving the Internet...

Liveblogging: Twitter CEO Evan Williams Keynote at SXSW

We’re here at SXSW Interactive waiting for the keynote with Twitter CEO Evan Williams who will discuss "The Next Generation of Social Media." There has been some speculation that an announcement of Twitter’s ad platform could occur at this event, but that may or may not happen. We’ll see. Either way, I’ll be liveblogging the keynote below. Please forgive...

Professionalism

Some people email you out of the blue accusing you of things that are not true while being rude and condescending. One person stated that they were certain I sold their email and that I am unethical and etc etc etc My response was short and sweet “go ___ yourself. we don’t sell our user information.” To which there was a response about how I am not very professional. And the thing...

JetBlue Runs an Interesting and Successful Twitter Promotion

In the social media world, it is so important to try to do things that haven’t been done before. Why? Well, since social media is so new and the applications of it have not even begun to be thought of yet, you must be a risk taker by default to see if it will work for you and your business. We hear more about social media flame-outs, which I attribute to our human nature to feel that news is...

Google Hires XML Co-Inventor

Today, Tim Bray started working for Google, and had the search giant just put out a one-sentence press release stating this fact, the development would be worth reporting.  But what makes this move especially noteworthy is that Bray announced it in a 1,260-word blog post mentioning an absolute hatred of the iPhone. Bray is a rather important person in a lot of tech circles.  Two interesting...

A Few Warnings When Selling Online Business Websites

When Transparency is Valuable If you are selling a site which you just want to get rid of and lack passion for then there is nothing wrong with being fairly transparent and shopping it for the maximum amount you can get at an auction or such. And if you have high growth and contact an investment banker to get a bidding war going then limited transparency can help then. But if you have a high growth...

Google, China Edge Closer To Face-Off

The odds of Google keeping its Chinese search operation running are starting to seem quite small.  The Chinese government has started advising Google’s partners to prepare contingency plans, and one anonymous person who’s supposed to be close to Google even said the company is 99.9 percent likely to shut things down. The "99.9 percent" comment, which we first mentioned over...

301 Redirects Do Not Pass Full PageRank & Link Value

Eric Enge interviewed Matt Cutts of Google and uncovered a few interesting tidbits about Google, but the most significant piece of information was that 301 redirects do not fully pass the PageRank from the redirect. Let me quote you the interview from that piece: Eric Enge: Let’s say you move from one domain to another and you write yourself a nice little statement that basically instructs the search...

Keyword Data in Google Webmaster Tools Goes Blank For Some

Over the weekend there were several reports in the Google Webmaster Help forums that the data in the keywords reports within Google Webmaster Tools was empty. Here are some of those reports: Yesterday and for the last few months the Keywords section in google webmaster tools had keywords listed, now today it says “No Data Available”. The GWT shows no keywords… any idea why? Google...