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Labor Day = Yeah
When you think of labor day what comes to mind? For me it is these 2 thoughts lower earnings because few people are online today since almost nobody is online, any hours worked today are me getting ahead of the market
Working hard & working long hours can almost be a disease…the web makes it easy to be addicted . But for every person who is putting in hard work trying to help people there is another person selling image . Continue reading
Are You Thinking Like Google?
No, not like that, but in the good way!
The following is a guest post by Jim Kukral highlighting one of the most fundamental tips to succeeding online. Have you ever really taken a step back from all the technical SEO stuff and thought about why Google wins Continue reading
Internet Killed Blockbuster. Who’s Next?
Dallas – The bomb blew up just a few days ago when a Los Angeles Times article reported that Blockbuster Inc., the video rental giant, is ready to file for bankruptcy. Overwhelmed by debt and losses amounting to over $1 billion since 2008, the video rental chain is yet another of the world’s most famous names to join the long list of once successful companies that have not been able to adapt their business to the radical changes in the market introduced by the Internet Continue reading
SES San Francisco 2010 Wrap-Up
QR code on the side of a building? Geek cool. Continue reading
Why ‘Spam’ is Everywhere & Why That Means Nothing!
Sigh, not this again.
Recently Rand highlighted his surprise at how prevalent search spam is . But the big issue with search today is not the existence of spam, but how it is dealt with Continue reading
Jon Glick Interview
Jon Glick is one of the leading experts on search, having literally both wrote the code at leading search engines and later becoming an SEO professional. I remember speaking with him in 2004 at the Ghost Bar in Las Vegas and it was perhaps the most fascinating conversation about search I have ever been part of Continue reading
How To Lie With Statistics
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics – Disreli We get presented with graphs and statistics every day. “Most SEOs think keywords in the title tag is an important ranking factor.” “Spending on search to rise by $10b”. Ever get that feeling that what you’re being presented with sounds plausible, but the conclusion just doesn’t make sense? Continue reading
CMO Cowboy: Jeffrey Hayzlett on Social Media, ROI & SES San Francisco
Photo credit hayzlett.com Jeffrey Hayzlett is the former CMO at Kodak and author of “ The Mirror Test : Is Your Business Really Breathing?”. You might have seen him on Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump or speaking at a variety of industry conferences. Continue reading