I forgot that I had one more SES San Jose video interview in my arsenal, so here it is for your viewing pleasure! (See SES, I'm like a gift that keeps on giving.) I caught up with Jonah Stein, goliath blogger and SEO from It's the ROI, to chat about the prevalence and impact of spam in social media,… [read more]
I sat down with the (now bald) face of Google, Matt Cutts, to revisit the widgetbait madness of 2008 and see if anything's changed in how Google's been handling widgets. Surprisingly, Matt says that the use of widgets to build links and distribute content has died down considerably, probably because… [read more]
Last week at SES San Jose I caught up with Topher Kohan, search engine optimizer for CNN, and interviewed him about the shift from print to digital media. He had some interesting things to say and is a big advocate of newspapers altering their business model and converting to an entirely digital publication… [read more]
Video continues to be a powerful medium to work with online. YouTube recently eclipsed Yahoo as the 2nd largest search engine. Participating in video for the purpose of promoting your business is becoming more important each day. Whether it's increasing brand exposure or simply getting across a "how-to"… [read more]
One of the easiest ways to raise the visibility of your site with video on YouTube is to use video "annotations". Annotations are short textual notes that you can post in the video player and publish to your videos. And while annotations don't yet allow you to link OUT of YouTube, they do allow you… [read more]
Have you ever wondered how videos show up in web search engine results? How do videos get hundreds of thousands to millions of views on YouTube? Who's watching my videos? Well, with a little hard work on optimizing and networking your video content and a helpful tool called YouTube Insight, you can… [read more]
Looking for a new way to attract talent to your organization? Follow P Diddy's lead and turn to YouTube. So far Diddy has received over 10,000 applicants who have all responded via a taped video that is then uploaded to YouTube. Want the job? Be sure to follow these guidelines: 1. Upload your… [read more]
The Wall Street Journal had a good article today about how to be a star in a YouTube world. What conclusions did they come to? It turns out that success in the new-media world depends on a lot of the same things as in the old-media universe. Just as in Hollywood, becoming a hit takes talent, effort,… [read more]
Google owned YouTube is going to start sharing revenues with users. They said they were originally against it because they wanted video lovers not money lovers. Now they realize that the money lovers can probably create some killer video. Co-founder Chad Hurley made the announcement today: We are… [read more]
Vidmeter can supposedly tell you. Launched in late December (I think the 30th to be exact), Vidmeter crawls the top 10 video sites (Break.com, Daily Motion, Google, iFilm, Metacafe, Myspace, Revver, vSocial, Yahoo, and Youtube) and ranks the videos to determine the most popular. First, Vidmeter's… [read more]
