My trip to the Consumer Electronics Show this year was shortened to just one day, so from the time the doors opened until I left for the airport, I roamed up and down the aisles and squeezing through the hordes trying to find the “next big thing”.
Searchfest 2008, Oregon’s annual search marketing conference will be held on Monday, March 10, 2008, at the Oregon Zoo’s Cascade Crest Banquet Center.
We’ve now got the prices posted, the sign-up form live, and I’m sorry, but it’s already too late for you to be the first person to sign up…
Sorry, here’s another quick thing that sucks about Office 2007, this time in Outlook. (There are so many things to hate in Office 2007 that I’ve added now added MS Office to my blog as it’s own subcategory of Microsoft for future rants.)
A client emails me back their end of month report – right click the attachment, choose “save as” and I get “Cannot Save The Attachment”
Somehow, there are still some slots available for site reviews at next Mondays SEMpdx Search Engine Marketing Hot Seat event.
For those who don’t know, Vanessa is a top speaker on the conference circuit. Formerly head of Google’s Webmaster Central team and more recently Zillow.com, Vanessa has transitioned to features editor at Search Engine Land and to helping startups at Ignition Partners.
In August of 2005, I put some money into the new Ask sponsored listings program, and after a couple of months of practically no activity, I completely forgot about it.
Today, over two years later, I received an email telling me that I may be entitled to a refund for failure to prevent fraudulent clicks, directing me to a website with a claim form to fill out.
There is no single magic bullet for search engine visibility. However, there is a process that acts as an entire arsenal of magic bullets, and those are structure, content and links.
- Search engine friendly structure and fundamentally sound SEO principals.
- Fresh content appropriately added on a regular basis commensurate to the level of your competitions activity.
Here’s what I went through on Christmas Day, just to get songs we legally purchased through Itunes to play on my kids new MP3 players…
I will never spend another dollar with Itunes after what I went through. Tell me again why anyone would pay $.99 a song, only to (eventually) figure out that you’re not allowed to listen to them on any device other than an Apple brand music player?
Although it’s been reported by lots of news outlets and search engine writers, my kids still had not heard that Google has teamed up with Norad this year to help improve it’s Santa tracking using Google Earth.
It’s pretty amazing, and you’d better go take a look right now!
I have personally suffered from many of these afflictions below, and as a result, I’ve had a loss of productivity, loss of time, and most likely a loss of income.
This started out to be a quick list of things that I could do to improve in 2008, and it wasn’t going to be an actual list of New Year’s resolutions.
Virus Marketing -
When I ran a computer store in the late 90′s, a lot of people would bring in computers with viruses and spyware to be removed, and they would usually ask us what the “point” was in these acts of cyber vandalism.
Since I’m not taking clients new clients at this time, and I’ve yet to find someone I can reliably send referrals to, I’m still offering my free basic SEO video site reviews.
This review of is for the site of a law firm that phoned me, and I was happy to give some free advice to in exchange for their willingness to share, and they were.
Do you want to know what fascinates me the most about Internet marketing, and that I find really enjoyable about this business? It’s the speed at which things can happen if someone has an idea.
A person can go from an initial concept to an actual reality in a matter of just a few minutes, especially if they’re not bogged down by a committee of “deciders”.
