Archive for February, 2008

Steve Rubel, from Edelman, the PR Firm Behind the Fake Wal-Mart Blog, is Concerned About SEOs Gaming Blogs

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

How can a guy who brushes off his own company's overtly underhanded and deceptive marketing behaviors care about what others are doing? What does get me hot and bothered is when consultants and bloggers propose launching such an initiatives solely for influencing search. SEO, like word of mouth, should be a ...

Tracking Bogus Google AdWords Conversions

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

I recently bought a few AdWords ads for Microsoft adCenter's affiliate program. These links were direct affiliate links that headed directly to Microsoft - the searcher never touched my site. Compare the following 3 AdWords ad campaigns The first campaign is a strategic one, where I do not mind losing money ...

Does Your Golf Club Sweep the Ground?

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Sometimes I can drive a golf ball about 350 yards. Sometimes I can throw my back out on a swing and a miss. Sometimes I hit the ball straight up and it comes crashing down hard. I have never had a birdie. But at least I have never hit a ...

Warning Spammers: We Only Promote the Ethical Use of This ____ Generator Tool

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

When I read must we piss in every public fountain by Dan Thies, I thought it was a great post. But at the same time, as an internet marketer you have to be pragmatic. Which is why I was unsurprised when 6 months later StomperNet sent out an email suggesting ...

Data Visualization & Discovery

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

I have heard of Last.fm, Pandora, and a few other similar sites, but I really think Musicovery is a cool online music tool. Once information is online it is hard to make it disappear. Recently a US judge closed down Wiki Leaks. But that did not work out too well. Scribd's iPaper ...

Nice Keyword Research Guide

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Brian Clark recently launched a great 5 part series on keyword research.

Thank You!!!

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

We had 103 community members sign up in the first 2 days. Which is way beyond what I was expecting! I still have 2 big problems though... I still have about 25 emails left to catch up with. The subscription button is only charging $50 still and the programmer is not around ...

Entitlement & Miscommunication: Understanding & Fighting Email Burnout

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I get hundreds of emails a day, and am always behind on email. Recently I sent out emails to affiliates letting them know that I was changing my model, and let high volume affiliates know that I wanted to give them a free limited trial so they could see what ...

Internet Marketers are the Canaries in the Web Advertising Coalmine

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

The Decline of Public Forums About a year ago I decided to close Threadwatch so I could focus more on expanding this site. The Searchguid forums and site went away, and the domain name was recently auctioned off for $8,655, and it redirects to SEONews.com. John Scott, the owner of V7N, ...

SEO Book Community & Internet Marketing Training Program Now Live

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I still need to work on making the sales letter better, but it is hard to have an optimal sales letter until you get a good bit of consumer feedback. Here is the sales letter for anyone wanting to join our private community and training program. If you prefer to ...