Amazon Product Ads
Outside of Google, Amazon and eBay own perhaps the 2 largest streams of ecommerce traffic. In fact, both are amongst the top 10 sites in Alexa (even though ~ 100% of their traffic is commercial while ~ 0.001% of Twitter’s traffic is). In spite of Googl…
Free Keyword Competition Research
The term “competitive research” conjures up all sorts of imagery like expensive tools, shiny buttons, cute charts, and fancy (sometimes foolish) language about precise insight into a particular site or marketplace.
In reality we know that such claims …
Increasing SEO Complexity Lowers Result Diversity
Changing the Cost-benefit Analysis
In the last post I mentioned how the US government tried to change the cost benefit analysis for some sleazy executives at pharmaceutical corporations which continue to operate as criminal enterprises that simply view…
Why all web developers should learn SEO
TweetWhen I wrote Why all SEOs should learn to program lots of people sent me compliments and praise. That was fun.
Now time for the hate, I suspect.
If SEOs need to learn to program, then web developers need to learn SEO.
Scream if you want. You can …
Scammers, Spammers & Industry Standards
A Friendly Warning
I got an email the other day titled “small business SEO scam”
My name is Ryan, and I head small business outreach for ConsumerAffairs.com.
Recently, we started receiving a rash of complaints from small business owners concerning ill…
Why Was Demand Media Torched by Google? Branding
We Are Not a Content Farm
When Google began speaking publicly about content farms Demand Media’s Richard Rosenblatt stated that it would be silly to call their stuff a content farm & he emphasized the quality of their content & care that went i…
Why all SEOs should learn to program
TweetEvery SEO should learn at least 2 programming languages.
Here’s why:
Two languages means you can program. One means you can read a manual.
You can easily learn one language and have no grasp of programming. Learn two, though, and you learn …
Why Content Farms Are Here to Stay
Much noise was made recently about Google taking a whack at so-called content farms — sites which apply industrial production techniques to the creation of content targeting the long-tail of the query distribution. This is a subject of huge interest …
Dan Cobley: What Physics teaches about marketing
I don’t think I’ve embedded a video by someone else on this blog in 5 years.
However, this piece about marketing and physics is beyond brilliant: It defines marketing in a way that totally, completely makes sense. It’s only 7 minutes long. Watch it.
1 tip for faster blogging: Use Textile
TweetThis is a tip that’ll either:
Save you 20 minutes per blog post; or
Lead to much better-looking blog posts.
I write all of my blog posts using Textmate, a text editor for the Mac. I write them all using a very simple text formatting lan…
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