Developing Developing Developing Developing…
My friend Peter Askew recently remarked about the power of “developing domains” to build audiences and achieve success: He was following up on a preior tweet where he showed traffic growth of an older dormant domain he has “revived”. The chart shows significant traffic success: This is what domainers call “development” and what SEO practitioners […]
Visit Spain in April : DomainingEurope.com
DomainingEurope.com is an annual conference held in Valencia, Spain every year. I’ve been the past two years, and it is one of the best trips I make in the web publishing industry. Thinking of gaining some fresh perspective? Fancy a trip to Europe? I’m going to post some stories and pictures, but in the mean […]
SEO Industry Growth, Widespread Failure, and SEO Industry Challenge
Google is doing a good job managing SEO. It has positioned itself such that it has so much cash and so much control, that it can manipulate the search experience to counter SEO efforts, even while hurting users and in many cases wrecking the search quality, without much risk to it’s own success. And now […]
Do you want to WIN, or just “Be the Winner”?
One of the best aspects of travel (aside from, well, traveling) is that I get to meet real people in pursuit of real goals. I get to discuss SEO and Internet business, plus careers, with people from all over the globe (as long as they speak English, sigh). This includes sharing unique experiences that really […]
503: GONE
There have been a few occasions when Googlers stated that a 503 server response code would be interpreted by Google as a “hold on, something’s getting fixed, don’t update the index with what you find here” situation. That made great sense. How else could a tech-savvy webmaster pause re-indexing while performing an update that would […]
We did it to MySpace, We can Do It to Google
Google is very aggressive, purposefully acting to “punish” those who attempt to influence their ranking positions with links or cloaked commercial endorsements. The hypocrisy has reached epic proportions. The blatant anti-competitive actions, the cloaked censorship, and the very effective yet denied stifling of innovation, as if to prevent the web from advancing faster than Google […]
Identity Poetry for Marketers
Identity. It’s central to what matters (to you). And that makes it essential to the art of persuasion.
Who I am.
Who I think I am.
Who you think I am.
Who I think you think I am.
Who I know I am not.
Who I think you think you are.
Sometimes, identity it seems to be the only thing that matters.
I’m […]
PR is where the Money Is
A shout out to all of you disenfranchised ex-SEO people out there: Public Relations is where the Money Is!
PR is a solid career with very little formal credentialing required. Even better, the consumers of PR services have less knowledge about PR than …
Google is an Addict
I have lost a few friends to addiction, and spent a considerable amount of time learning about addiction and the way individuals get caught up in a spiral of destructive, compulsive behavior that eventually destroys them (usually after causing consider…
Google Stifles Innovation, starts Strangling Itself
I’ve long claimed that Google’s efforts to regulate Internet publishing for it’s own commercial gain stifles innovation. I started this blog 2007 when it became clear that I needed to raise my profile as an SEO or get quietly destroyed via what could fairly be defined as anti-competitive practices. Google was getting big and […]
Flying the SEO Helicopter
A very long time ago I was a programmer. Not a “coder”, but a programmer.
In the beautiful stone and walnut offices of a global corporation, I sat at a computer desk. It was special, because it had a slide out keyboard tray, was arranged to accommodate a screen placed in front of me when I […]
Penguin 2.0 Forewarning Propaganda?
Eric Enge recently published an essay entitled “Penguin 2.0 Forewarning: The Google Perspective on Links”. I know about it because Matt Cutts referred to it as a “good article”. It was about links and link building, and Google’s Penguin updates. For those who don’t know, Penguin Updates are updates Google pushes out which penalize web […]
Dedicated Class “C” IP addresses for SEO
The liars and schemers in the world are costing all of us a lot of money and “happiness” every day, but get away with it because in general, good people forgive them. So the bad guys go on and on hurting others. What does this have to do with SEO? Hah! Everything.
I just spent 2 […]
New Domain Extensions (gTLDs) Could Change Everything
A slew of now top level domains are coming, thanks to a bold move by ICANN originally intended to spur innovation on the web. “What would you do if you could register any top level domain“, they asked the world’s entrepreneurs. Free of constraints of name availability on the standard dot com and other top […]
Kapost Review
My Kapost Review: Why I won’t be Using KaPost
I’ve been using various content workflow systems over the years and recently discovered KaPost.com via a brief, sentiment-free mention on CopyPress. I watched the demo. I logged into the sample instance, and “played around”. I spend about 2 hours with it overall, and another 1.5 or so […]