The video above is Bruce Clay talking about the latest Penguin updates and the future of search. If you somehow managed to survive panda as a search only affiliate website, then there is a great chance that you got hit by the latest google update dubbed as the penguin. Organic / [...] Read more »
TWL- Links on Squandering Greatness, Doing Bad Business and the Concept of Patience.
It shoudn’t surprise anyone that I am very well read when it comes to things that interest me. These are links to great, thought provoking content that I found this week and “tweeted” or bookmarked for future reading. The Secrets to Good Marketing- Good Business- This article profiles a failing [...] Read more »
How to do mouse over effects in HTML with wordpress
One of the great things about using wordpress for design is that there is (literally) a plug-in for almost anything you could imagine you would want to do. This week, one of my musician clients called me and asked me if there was any way to create a mouseover effect [...] Read more »
What’s Your World View?
There is an element of planning when you step beyond the SEO curtain. SEO marketers focus primarily on niche marketing in pockets of “opportunity”. Because of this, the concentration is on things other than content. But the really successful blogs and websites integrate their world view into their brand [...] Read more »
Confessions of an Internet Marketer
Q. What’s the most dangerous thing a marketer can do? A. Grow a Conscience 13 months ago, everything changed. Not in the I no longer rank kind of way either. My whole world, what I believed I believed in regards to work turned itself on it’s head. Change is [...] Read more »
SEO Failing You?
There’s a lot of talk about all the changes going on right now. And a lot of panic if you live in a totally Google obsessed world. Negative SEO, Authorship markup, over optimization penalties, etc. If you live in that world, you have probably read something somewhere over the past few [...] Read more »
Your “Market” is a lot Smaller Than You Think.
The world is a lot smaller than you think. It is. I’m speaking to bloggers and marketers and anyone who is trying to get more traffic to their website. You may disagree with this. You may say that head terms like “SEO” shows exactly how competitive a market is. You [...] Read more »
What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Do Something Else. Read more »
Yes, Luck Plays a Role in Your Success…
Pay your Dues. I heard this a lot in my 20′s when I was a struggling musician. And I think that every business across the board has to pay them as well. But just because you pay them, doesn’t mean that anything will come from them. That’s the kicker. You can work [...] Read more »
All Marketers “Pay Their Dues”
I was having lunch with a new client yesterday and the subject of Instagram came up. “1 Billion dollars…with a “b” was pretty much how he put it. And it is amazing. But it isn’t necessarily the story that’s interesting…it is the rest of the story. It didn’t take 2 [...] Read more »