3 July 2009

How To Increase Aweber Sign Up Rate on Facebo...

My last post showed you how to add an Aweber newsletter sign up box inside your Facebook Fan Page. Now, I’m going to show you how to optimize it to increase the sign up rate.
Facebook is the biggest social network in the world and can…

3 July 2009

Steve Chicken Little Ballmer

by Sage Lewis

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has some pretty extreme views for the business world. I think he might be looking in the mirror too closely when he talks about the business world as a whole.

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3 July 2009

Comment on Silicon Valley Tweetup for a good ...

Cool post!

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3 July 2009

Comment on Why do some companies choose to ig...

Companies will likely be more willing to engage in Social Media when they recognize that all their “head in the sand” fear of transparency” and the resulting possibility of negative comments is self-regulated.

It seems to me that each Social Media community will squelch the bogus complaints leaving the legitimate ones. And in the end the legitimate complaints and frustrations have the most powerful call to action.

Answer that call and you begin to build loyalty!

3 July 2009

US Justice Dept. Formally Confirms Google Boo...

It’s not really a surprise or even news that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed yesterday it was formally investigating the terms of the Google Book Search settlement. This was known as far back as April and essentially confirmed last m…

3 July 2009

The 3 SEO/SEM Conference Personas

I recently returned from the successful SMX-Advanced search engine optimization and advertising conference, and I had an epiphany: as a speaker, usability principles are applicable to these conferences. Which usability principle, you might ask? Before …

3 July 2009

Friendfeed’s Real-time Search

Now that ex-Google employees start-up Friendfeed has real-time search, you can feed their engine with a keyword like google and embed it elsewhere, like below (I could refine this search by restricting it to results which have X comments only, or have Likes, or which are only from my contacts at Friendfeed, and so on):

PS: If you want to subscribe to my links at Friendfeed, it’s there.

[Hat tip to Websonic!]

3 July 2009

Is Twitter Killing Other Online Activities?...

The world may be all a-Twitter, but it seems the inordinate amount of time now spent there is costing other places traffic. Given the social aspect of Twitter, it could be a forum killer long before it becomes a serious threat to Google. …

3 July 2009

Whiteboard Friday - Crawling & Indexing...

Posted by great scott!

Crawling and Indexing. Without them you can’t rank. If you can’t rank, you can’t get search traffic. If you can’t get search traffic, your online marketing efforts are going to suffer; and in our industry that is a colossal FAIL.

This seems like simple stuff we all take for granted, but it’s critically important to understand what you must do–and avoid–to make sure your site is regularly crawled and then maintained in the primary index of each of the major engines. Even if you think you know it all, take a few minutes to watch this week’s Whiteboard Friday…you may just realize you’ve been ignoring some critical ranking factors.

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - Crawling & Indexing from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

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