Posts Tagged ‘permanent-link’

Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors July 2010

Friday, July 30th, 2010

I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors July 2010

How To Get Customer Reviews on Your Website

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

While UGC and Reviews can often be a mixed blessing , as long as Google continues to reward rich snippets with enhanced visual listings, it’s probably a good idea to try to make reviews part of your website strategy. For those of you who haven’t seen rich snippets and reviews in action, here’s a sample of what they currently look like To qualify for this program you have to have reviews, format your data using microformats , and submit your website for inclusion in the rich snippet program . While it may change in the future, currently you need to have site level approval, so let’s clear the hardest hurdle: getting the review data.

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How To Get Customer Reviews on Your Website

You’re All Wrong! Paid Links From Offtopic Sites Do Count

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

“Paid links from off topic sites get devalued and flagged.” A common claim by otherwise savvy SEOs such as Ross Hudgens . Ross, would you take three links from the Wall Street Journal if its reporters write about internet marketing? Would you buy those links

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You’re All Wrong! Paid Links From Offtopic Sites Do Count

Clarus Glass Whiteboard Review

Monday, July 19th, 2010

About a month ago I went to a client meeting where they had a glass whiteboard in the conference room.

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Clarus Glass Whiteboard Review

Advertising and Usability

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

As the web matures and begins to displace, replace, or work with established news, information, and entertainment sources, the advertising that pays for this content to get created is going to change as well. When you combine this with the growth of smart phones like the blackberry , android , and iphone and appliances like the ipad , advertising will soon be faced with new obstacles.

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Advertising and Usability

How to Write Keyword Focused Articles and Posts About Timely Topics

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

One of the things I often say that most bloggers get wrong is they sacrifice keyword focus for being clever, cute, or entertaining.

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How to Write Keyword Focused Articles and Posts About Timely Topics

Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors June 2010

Monday, June 28th, 2010

I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here. Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links. CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action information from click tracking heat maps

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Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors June 2010

Why You Should Care About AT&T’s iPhone Data Plans Even If You Don’t Own an iPhone

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

While a lot of the attention on AT&T and Apple in the past few weeks has been focused on the release of the iPad and new iPhone,  the elimination of unlimited data plans is an equally important development, especially for website owners and publishers. Even though the iPhone is meant to render full web pages, research has shown that people still prefer mobile-formatted content on iPhones … In prior years, AT&T offered unlimited data for $30 a month; however, they maintained that a small percentage of users were using a disproportionate share of data. To compensate for this, they announced two new data plans and eliminated the unlimited plan.

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Why You Should Care About AT&T’s iPhone Data Plans Even If You Don’t Own an iPhone

$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Recently Slots.com sold for 5.5 million dollars , when the general public looks at a domain sale of six to seven figures it erupts feelings of envy, mysticism, curiosity and plain head scratching disbelief. Much to the delight of companies such as Godaddy.com people go out in droves registering hundreds to thousands of domains treating the url’s like virtual lottery tickets. Let’s be realistic, companies do not sink thousands of dollars into an investment unless there is a calculated ROI, here we explore the reasons such as SEO value, branding power and conversion

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$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

How to FTP Files From Email Using an iPad

Monday, June 7th, 2010

When the iPad was announced in January, it was the very first time Apple created something that I immediately wanted. I’ve never been an Apple fanboy, I don’t work on Macs for either my primary workstations or laptop – I use them for testing and ensuring compatibility only

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How to FTP Files From Email Using an iPad