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 getting an audience large enough where we … Click to Read More →
The Power of Digg Beyond Traffic
There has been lots of debate this week about whether social media traffic is good or bad. I lean pretty heavily towards the GOOD side. But let’s look beyond that for a minute and look at another example of the power of social media with two very different companies: Sprint and Linden Lab. Last week, … Click to Read More →
The Other Impact of Social Networks: Discussion and Criticism
The New York Times and similar newspaper websites have the “Share” button on their site for a reason: to promote stories and to encourage commentary. Once your content has been recognized in the social sphere, a byproduct of this promotion is discussion. The discussion, as we know, is not necessarily positive. In fact, in some … Click to Read More →
Social Search and Why We Should Care: A Chris Sherman Webcast
I’ve really taken a liking to these SearchMarketingNow webcasts. In today’s webcast, I have had the pleasure to listen to Chris Sherman who tackled the topic of Social Search: New Marketing Opportunities. With a lot of social networks out there, where can you leverage your traffic and what problems can you foresee? Chris discusses these … Click to Read More →
The Digging Debate: Is Social Media Worthless?
There’s a big debate in the blogosphere about long term effects (if any) related to being Dugg. Kim Krause Berg, who recently posted a ton of useful links relating to web design, had her post hit the Digg main page. From the exposure, her blog got 28,000 new hits. Her reaction? Not very positive. Kim … Click to Read More →
The Power of Links and the Google Bomb
Don’t kid yourself — determination does play a part in Google results. This past weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was Google-bombed for “miserable failure” in Google’s Hebrew results, just like George W. Bush is in English results. The Google bomb is a way of manipulating the search engines to bring up “preferred” results (by … Click to Read More →
Strategy from Private Investigator to SEO
As I touched upon in an earlier post, I once worked as a private eye and researched trademark concerns. When presented with a brand new assignment, I was given a trademark and its “intent of use” (whether it be a restaurant name or a logo of a haircare/skincare product), but little else. It was my … Click to Read More →
Should We Still Be Anticipating Yahoo's Downfall?
Yesterday, an interesting article appeared on Wired about critical mistakes that Yahoo has made that has caused them to “blow it.” Reporter Fred Vogelstein takes an in-depth look the failures of Yahoo over the past few years that has allowed Google to pull ahead of the former giant. The 5-page article, summarized, goes a bit … Click to Read More →
How to get Google to notice YOU by USA Today
Last week I took a look at a site for USA Today’s Jeff Graham and gave my feedback on some of the things that they should be concentrating to help raise their rankings for Google. The site (yourheartfeltsolutions.com) is owned by Yaffa Balsam and is for her small family therapy practice in California: USA TODAY … Click to Read More →
You Know You Wanted More MyBlogLog Tools!
MyBlogLog is really a viral product. As more and more people blog about it and more and more people discover ways to exploit it, there are others (well, okay, the same guys) who have found ways to use the service to enhance user experience. SoloSEO has recently come up with a few excellent MyBlogLog tools … Click to Read More →