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I owe a big one to Allan Dick, who bought dinner tonight for myself, Danny Sullivan, Ammon Johns, Chris Sherman and about a dozen other SESers here in London. Unbelievably, I still have not slept since Sunday night, but managed to truly enjoy the wine, crab cakes and top-notch beef and Guiness pie. In return, I thought I'd take a quick dive over to Alan's site - a veritable haven for th...
Tonight, I got to meet one of my all-time SEO heroes for the first time in person - Ammon Johns. Living up to his mystical reputation, he instantly gave me some advice for the SEOmoz website that I think will serve quite well for the future. He also regaled me with some hilarious stories, some deep insight into the SEO field...
This is for French readers or French audience, especially in Europe and Quebec. It talks about French digg-like websites. Our blog has hit the first page of major French 2.0 digg-like websites for approximately 28hours now . I think most of our French readers would like to know which s...
It's 7:45pm in Seattle and 3:45am here in London. Why am I up? The same reason I was up last night at this time, and, for that matter, the night before that. My body can't seem to adjust to Greenwich Mean Time. Of course, I've been far too busy to sleep during the day, which leaves me wondering how long a 26-year old male can actually go without any significant quantity of shut-eye. Luc...
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Google Adsense is one of the best programs ever to hit the web. It allows webmasters to easily monitize their sites and has been a treasure trove for many. As good as it is, I think that it can be better. Here's my wish list of what I would like to see added. Some of these wishes are available to publishers with enormous traffic - but I would like to see them offered to anyo...
Someone has Yahoo!'s number down cold. Ranking on page one for thousands of the most popular search phrases in existence, the site isn't even offering content of its own - instead, they're aggregating content from others and serving what is, in essence, duplicated content that's been scraped and re-packaged. Their business model? Serving ads... What are they ranking for? phot...
I have had some problems with hosts lately so a couple months ago I signed up with Alertra. I give Alertra the URL of a tiny image and they have a server request that image every five minutes. If they get a failure they have a couple other servers located somewhere else in the world (honest - some of these are on other...
I chatted with a friend in the industry this evening who signed up a consulting client several months ago. My friend has been in touch with the client several times about starting the work, but apart from a couple general questions, they've never used the consulting time they purchased. I was immensely curious about the details and luckily, my friend could share a few specifics. The con...
I recently dug up this article from last summer in BusinessWeek online. Tagline creation isn't something we're experts in, but when you work with a lot of startup web properties or create your own businesses online, you're bound to need one and hiring an agency at $50,000+ isn't always a wise way to spend y...
Spotrunner, a mashup between an ad agency and a retailer of TV advertising time, apparently offers the ability to run 30-second commercials on television stations around the country on channels likes ABC, FOX, Discovery, MTV and many more (full list here). I'm dying to try them out: ...
I see powerful things in Digg, Slashdot, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Wikipedia, forums of all types, and other sites that attract people because of a common interest or activity. These sites are "communities" of visitors or authors. These sites drive massive traffic in a short blast or massive traffic that is cumulative over time.My guess is that these highly popular ...
Too many items from early this week and last last week are critical reading. Make sure you take notice of these, as a few have a strong effect on the industry: Wired exposes NSA wiretapping on the Internet Backbone at AT&T and they wrote an excellent piece on ...
Some terrific charts, stats and research came out of Yahoo!'s Analyst Day PDF file (too bad it's a PDF). I thought it would be worthwhile to explore some of the trends Yahoo! is pointing to out of self-interest and expand their definition for the whole of the web industry: ...
Just a quick note to those who might think that big names are immune to sandboxing at Google: Techmeme isn't ranking in the first 250 results for its name, despite having one of the tech industry's most robust reputations and a ...