Archive for January, 2008

How Much is a Wikipedia Page Worth to Your Business?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I recently published an article on Fast Company about how advertisers are using Wikipedia listings as a measuring stick for their advertising campaigns. The University of California, Irvine is even using their Wikipedia reference as the ad creative Leave a comment below if you want a Fast Company invite, and I ...

The Spamification of Trusted Words, Ideas, & Organizations

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I am going to go on record offering you this powerful life-changing advice that will be the most valuable information you ever consumed. Sound familiar? If you pay attention to spam you can view the trends and see where it is going before it even goes there. One of the big ...

A Cheap Thrill or a Lasting Memory… Who Will Remember You?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Open source content management solutions like Drupal get more powerful each day. But everyone has access to it. Firefox has extensions like Firebug that allow you to test modifying page layout or CSS in real time. Custom feeds, leading blogs, personalization, recommendations, aggregators, filters, and alerts allow us to consume a ...

Have a High PageRank Site? Link to Us for a Free Membership

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Would this be considered a paid link? Where is the line drawn? Nice business model too. Are those arrows pointing at the ads legit? How about the request to support our sponsors? Get a few hundred million in VC funding, buy some old domains. Fill the domain with user generated content. Place ...

SearchGuild.com Domain Auction at Sedo

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

The SearchGuild domain auction at Sedo just ended. $8,655 for a known brand, an old trusted site with references from sites like Wired.com, and 28,000+ inbound links. Even without getting the content that is still cheap. Some of my leading affiliates make that per year just from recommending my book, ...

Bundling & Selling Content

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

The WSJ let the "our content will be free" story spread for months to generate public relations related coverage and to misdirect competitors before announcing that they are going to keep their subscription service: Mr. Murdoch made his latest comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in answering ...

Example of the Google Ranking #6 Filter

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

When the Google #6 filter rolled out I did not notice it until after I read about it from the WebmasterWorld thread about it. But after I saw the thread I thought of my site that recently lost a couple positions. Then I searched for related low traffic queries where ...

Illegal & Illicit vs Who’s Getting Paid?

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Central hubs on the web fight off manipulation to keep their status and profit margins in tact. A side effect of this war on control over information access is the butchering of the English language. Digg is Illegal? Digg's CEO Jay Adelson said: I'm sure there could be blackmailers out there. We absolutely ...

Drupal Sessions Login Issue

Friday, January 25th, 2008

A couple hours ago the sessions table for Drupal needed repaired or emptied because it was not allowing SEO Book users to login. I just emptied it, so you need to login again to comment, but it should work well again. Sorry about that.

Find Top Paying Keywords for Google AdSense

Friday, January 25th, 2008

High Value Keyword List Data for YOUR Business This video is about more than just generating keywords for AdSense sites, it is about finding the most valuable keywords for any business. But most the people searching for top paying keyword lists are looking for AdSense keyword lists. ...