Archive for March, 2008

Free Firefox Rank Checker - Check Your Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Search Engine Rankings

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Want to check your rankings on Google.com, international Google search results, Yahoo, and Microsoft? Try Rank Checker, our free Firefox extension which tracks your rankings, and allows you to automatically check ranking changes over time. If you have any questions please watch this video. The tool has ...

Are You Using Twitter Yet?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

While I signed up nearly a year ago, I just recently started using Twitter. As a marketer I find it both interesting and fascinating...as it is more transparent than most social networks are. People often write back and forth using @username when they want to send another person a message, ...

Are You Using Twitter Yet?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

While I signed up nearly a year ago, I just recently started using Twitter. As a marketer I find it both interesting and fascinating...as it is more transparent than most social networks are. People often write back and forth using @username when they want to send another person a message, ...

Huh. 10% of FBook Folks Are Xooglers

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

From Justin: Since there’s been a lot of press lately about Googlers jumping ship for Facebook, I thought I’d search Facebook’s network to see how many folks at the company used to work at Google. As it turns out, over 40, or almost 10% - and mostly engineering or product ...

Need an SEO Consultant? Hire Jonah Stein

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Finding a good SEO consultant who has enough time to take on more work is a tough job. The large SEO companies rarely have a competent employee working on your account, and the best smaller SEO firms end up spending most of their time building their own website and/or are ...

How to Hone Your Persuading Skills by Reading Biased Splogs

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I was amused and a bit irked by this irrelevant and disturbing spam post from a fluff website promoting Wealthy Affiliate. I enjoy reading material plagued with disconnects and false information like this post. You can really learn a lot from both your mistakes and others'. They attempted to compare ...

Yahoo Marketing: Why Not Take A Page From Intel Inside?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I've heard Yahoo's local radio ads a few times while driving around the Bay area. I'm going to save my detailed thoughts on them to an audio post, but suffice to say, I had mixed feelings when I heard them. Radio ads in general seem to play over on the ...

Seen on Facebook

Friday, March 28th, 2008

This house ad. Love the implied jab at Google.

SEO Porn Links

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Great interview of Ken McGaffin about keywords and market research. Free open source link analysis tool from Patrick at Blogstorm, which shows how many links point at each page of your site. Using it does require setting up a MySQL database, but it is quite easy to set up and ...

How to Sell Remnant Ad Inventory

Friday, March 28th, 2008

ESPN recently decided to stop selling remnant ad inventory via automated ad networks / exchanges. "We're heading down a path where it no longer suits our business needs to work with ad networks," said Eric Johnson, executive vp, multimedia sales, ESPN Customer Marketing and Sales. Sources say that ESPN would ...