How will you build links if no one sees your content?Seems obvious doesn’t it. And yet how many people claim that Stumble traffic or digg traffic is useless? As I have said before, there is no useless traffic, just useless content.I write content for clients which gets seen by thousands of people, some have blogs [...]
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo is ready to formally announce a deal to incorporate Google AdWords into its search results -- potentially within a week. The deal could be part of a larger "open" system in which Yahoo serves the most lucrative ad in search results from its own platform, AdWords, or potentially other players, including Microsoft.
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CNBC interviewed Google's CEO Eric Schmidt earlier this week and the informative interview is now live for everyone to read. Video is available in three parts: part 1, part 2, and part 3. In a nutshell (thanks to engine and...
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A big "thank you" to all 375 of you who completed our Search Engine Land audience survey. We won't ask again for another year. Promise.
You're a very impressive group in terms of seniority and buying power. Here are a couple of the survey results:
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Then come and learn from local search expert Mary Bowling at the SES Training session in Denver on May 6. It’s a half day class on Local Search. Even its entitled Local Search Engine Marketing 101, it really goes way beyond that and pretty much covers everything to do with Local Search. Anyone who promotes [...]
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Tonight I saw the Iron Man blockbuster, starring Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark. The movie defines Stark as a precocious kid, by flashing an old photo of him with Bill Gates. Along with some additional life history, we learn that Iron Man is at the top of his technical game but has seen some better days.
In Iron Man, the Microsoft parallels could continue beyond this introduction. Bill has been thinking about how computing can positively impact the world for years. In Stark's case, a near-death episode makes him question the meaning of all his weaponry and its world-wide impact.
Meanwhile, Obadiah Stane has worked at Stark Industries for many years and serves as the second-in-command for the business. He bears an uncanny resemblance to Steve Ballmer, don't you agree?
As played by Jeff Bridges, Stane shares some of Ballmer??™s focus on the marketplace. If you leave aside the more sinister plot twists, Stark Industries is the biggest worldwide supplier of weapons. The company needs to stay technically competitive, and will do what makes sense to get there.
Of course, Microsoft is the worldwide supplier of desktop operating systems and has every intention of becoming a more potent online force. While in the game later, Ballmer wants to guide Microsoft in the most expedient ways possible -- with or without Yahoo.
So where does this movie metaphor take us? I think that Ballmer is saying that Microsoft will create an even better Iron Man now. It all about the war, not about saving the peace, right?
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The SEOmoz team released a two page PDF based SEO Web Developer Cheat Sheet that I personally printed out and gave to my RustyBrick developers. I did make a couple changes to it, nothing major. For example, as a matter...
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