Archive for the “seo”
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
This weekend I will be in Portland, OR.
Sunday night I will be drinking at the Hawthorne bars, so if any PDXers (like you David Mihm) or any of the SEMPDX crowd needs a excuse to get together. I plan to drink, but I have a couple of exciting opportunities to talk to the Portland crowd about.
I will also be [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I am in the San Jose area for today’s SearchMonkey launch party. It will be at Yahoo! headquarters and it looks like it will be interesting.
What is Search Monkey?
In a way, it is Yahoo’s take on gadgets within search results… sorta. The example they use at their SearchMonkey site is a movie website that has a [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
I will be leaving the trail to attend a few things in the next three weeks. I hope to see you there, and also this will be the window of opportunity to get some face time with me if I am working on your projects. Contact me asap to arrage meetings, here is where I [...]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Hi, this is just an open letter to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask spam teams.
I will be speaking in depth about SEO and widgets at a couple of upcoming conferences and highlighting some of the more “dangerous” behaviors that can lead to spam trouble within widgets.
I have sent an email to Matt Cutts and I hope he sees it [...]
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Affiliate programs often do not have many of the basic functionalities that I like to see that help me use them in gadgets.
I was surprised when I saw what Superpages was offering for their affiliate system.
SuperPages is a local search company and they have a simple and innovative system to distribute their services. It is [...]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
I happened across something that would make Michael Gray of Wolf Howl chuckle…
On the Google analytics features page there is a reference to paid links as if they are just as fine and dandy as can be, in fact you should definitely use Google Analytics because of the keyword and campaign comparison…
I have no real [...]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
This is kinda a no brainer I will be there and I am relieved it fits my trail schedule. This event is developer oriented and costs 300-400 dollars depending when you register.
Get all the details at the Google I/O site.
Posted in How to make Google gadgets, Open Social, google, google gadgets, iGoogle, seo, webdev | No Comments »
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
I will be leaving in two weeks on my backpacking trip (I am hiking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest trail).
I will be on the trail for the first month or so without ever leaving it, there is no way to contact me so if you need to talk to me about something, [...]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Ivan Pope, the founder of Sniperoo is presenting the WidgetWebExpo in New York on June 16th and 17th. This conference is his American version of the Widgety Goodness conference that he ran in the UK.
Except this is bigger. Way bigger.
I will be participating with this conference in a few ways, and can’t give out concrete [...]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
When marketers are planning gadgets I have seen over and over again the first fateful and almost universal mistake.
Marketing team gets together, has phone conference, drinks coffee, eats donuts, and then leaves meeting with a great plan and a clear vision of what they want…
“We need a gadget, and we need it to go viral”
Um, [...]
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