Archive for April, 2008

Link Love: Why I Love Giving It Away

Since we’ve been on the topic of gifts and freebies let’s talk about giving away links. One of the things we all love to get are inbound links but do you pass the link love? Linking to other sites is actually very good practice and has multiple benefits affecting differing aspects such as the site’s […]

Viral Marketing Idea Friday - Dry Cleaner

I got asked the other day by a dry cleaner owner what could be done to drive more local traffic to his site. With a big smile on my face I told him to read this post today! I did start to have a conversation with him about the different things that I […]

Barack Obama is Rocking the Youth Vote

Search and online marketing are playing a significant role in energizing the youth vote. But the way each candidate is using social media is very different. Continue to read more…

How SEO and Blogs can help boost real estate sales

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Blog Monetization: From Soup to Nuts

Get the nuts-and-bolts of how to turn a blog into a “profit center” - generating wildly positive ROI by making sales, attracting leads, and generating ad and affiliate revenue. Our panel of expert money-making bloggers will share step-by-step advice, most profitable tricks of the trade, pitfalls, hazards, resources required. Learn… Learn how to […]

Microsoft Sees Ad Growth, Shrugs at Yahoo

Microsoft reported net profit of $4.39 billion in Q3 of its ‘08 fiscal year, and suggested it would consider withdrawing its proposed bid for Yahoo. Continue to read more…

Viral Marketing Idea Friday - Lasik Surgery Center

Just wanted to share a quick idea for this weeks “VMIF”, and apologize for not being able to post last week. Last Wednesday I woke up with severe pains that ended up putting me in the hospital for a few days because of a need to get my appendix removed. I am still […]

Recording an IRC channel on Linux/Ubuntu

There are a ton of Interney Relay Chat (IRC) clients for Linux/Ubuntu, e.g. Gaim (now called Pidgin). One IRC client that makes recording an IRC conversation pretty easy is Irssi. Install Irssi on Ubuntu with a simple command: sudo apt-get install irssi Then run the program “irssi” from the command line. Now suppose […]

Google Benchmarking Tool

Sometimes it takes a few days before I can test new features the engines offer. Such is the case with Google’s new benchmarking tool. I got my notification of it’s launch back on the 9th but unfortunately it was last night before I could actually do anything about it (darn those “pesky” clients […]

Today’s Social Media and SEO Linkforth

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