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Entries from April 2008

How Not To Write A Quality Post

April 30th, 2008 2 Comments

Some days it is difficult to come up with a quality topic, especially when you have been away for a few days. What can I say as I am trying to switch gears from vacation to work. I know that I need to produce content, at least to get my brain back on subject.
I should […]

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Dirty Sexy SEO Men

April 25th, 2008 8 Comments

A couple of months ago I had a wonderful day — I was the undisputed 2nd Sexiest Man in SEO. Not only that I was the first result for Sexiest Man in Search, which is more of an accomplishment considering that there are 29 times the number of results and the search for the sexiest […]

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Thursday Site Review: Foundation Seattle

April 24th, 2008 No Comments

Url: www.FoundationSeattle.com
Title: Foundation v5
Meta: N/A

The Foundation Seattle is a group that throws parties for charity events for organizations in Seattle and gets matching funds from companies like Microsoft. Right now they only show up for the domain name. Which is unfortunate, they really could use search both to their advantage and to the advantage of […]

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Some Of The People Some Of The Time

April 23rd, 2008 No Comments

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Some of you have probably noticed that StumbleUpon users are somewhat antagonistic toward people who are suspected of trying to game the system. Today I saw an amazing example of seeing what one can get away with.
While stumbling this evening I landed on a Sphinn posting for a MLM blog that is […]

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Marketing Through Craigslist

April 22nd, 2008 No Comments

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Craigslist is both a bane and a boon to your work. It is popular, easy, highly effective, and frequently abused.
Here are some tips for getting better results from Craigslist:

Get a Craigslist account – This will make posting and reposting quicker and easier.
Write like you are advertising – You are given plenty […]

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Do You Have A Complete Strategy?

April 21st, 2008 1 Comment

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Search Marketing is more than just search engines. One of the most amusing things to me is when people boast that they get the vast majority of their traffic from Google — sometimes as high as 80%. It is difficult not to laugh at that. Having a business that is entirely contingent […]

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Bring Home The Bacon In Image Search

April 18th, 2008 No Comments

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In the early weeks of April there has been an explosion in a very odd phrase, Bacon Bra, go search it. I’ll wait. There is quite a bit of content. But alas, no image content. The web results contain numerous versions of the original image from Flickr, but image search doesn’t […]

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Creative SEO

April 17th, 2008 4 Comments

Today’s SEO review is of James Kinloch site. Yesterday he stopped by to comment on “Are you Doing Opt-in Wrong?” and invited me to check out his site. He wants the phrase creative SEO.
What is Creative SEO?
To qualify as creative you need to be doing something that is notably out side of the norm. Link […]

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Are You Doing Opt-in Wrong?

April 16th, 2008 4 Comments

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Opt-in is all the rage. Seth Godin says don’t interrupt your viewers, get their permission and you will have a dedicated channel. The major problem with permission marketing is, most of the time, you don’t actually have my permission.
I get e-mails from Target, TicketsWest, Wild Ginger Restaurant in Seattle and Wrrl because […]

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Make Content Whenever Possible

April 15th, 2008 1 Comment

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Today I have been doing a good deal of “away from the computer work” and Internet exploration. Checkout a landing page review that I did at SEOmoz. I compare and contrast decisions that were made by the original designer and introduce the changes with a revised page so you can see the […]

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