Danger Ahead: Google Will Burn You
2 Sep 2010 4:08pm GMT It takes a lot for me to blog nowadays. To say my plate is full is an understatement when combining the lead gen projects I have going on and the Agency job at Ignite. One such article that appeared a few days ago, however, seems to have caused me to break my silence. In fact [...]
Stop Being Lazy With Your Content Creative
2 Feb 2010 6:26pm GMT Seeing a tweet from @jonathanmendez got me thinking a bit this morning. “Don’t be evolutionary. Be revolutionary.” There has never been a time where that is more true. With the Internet it is very easy to get in a routine or a siloed structure of creating things. Marketers are constantly copying others techniques and rehashing [...]
Tool Review: getst.at – Competitive Search and Analytical Tool
30 Jan 2010 8:27pm GMT Good friend and fellow code magician SEOcracy has come out with what appears to be a pretty helpful and usable search analysis tool. The site joins a crowded space of search analysis tools such as google analytics, google ad planner, yahoo site explorer, semrush, alexa and compete. Although getst.at doesn’t crawl and analyze sites itself [...]
Monitor Your Competitors Backlinks With New Google Reader Addition
26 Jan 2010 12:50am GMT Google has just dropped a bomb shell here in my opinion and is giving users the ability to monitor any page on the web, with RSS like updates on page changes. There are 23,423 different ways this can be used, such as Andys idea to use this for unblockable scraping. However, one simple method is [...]
The First Steps To Take After A WordPress Malware Hack
25 Jan 2010 5:39am GMT I recently got hacked on not one but two different WordPress installs I have. The intentions were made obvious to me after I actually saw a very sharp rise in long tail traffic from Yahoo. This might seem odd, but it made clear sense to me that something was embedded on the site causing it [...]