Sphinnaanites Unite! Welcome to the Sphinn Revolution

September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

Yes, it is my new best friend. A digg-like news and resource aggregator that filters based on the popularity of content. At its peak, I had over 100 search and marketing related blogs on my reader before turning to Yahoo Pipes to mash them up in hopes of finding the gems among so [...]

Popularity: 64% [?]

Sep

14

Social Marketing beats SEO?

September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

It is an important question these days. My own article “The Algorithm Apparently Killed Jeeves” reached the homepage of digg, bringing down my servers with thousands of hits a minute. While such traffic growth is rarely sustained beyond a day, the buzz, links created to your site, and broad reach awareness generated are [...]

Popularity: 61% [?]

Jul

19

Best Search Marketing Blogs on the Net

July 19, 2007 | 3 Comments

We’ve made the cut! Top Rank Blog has a wonderful list of search marketing blogs serving as an index of the cream of the crop. Has your favorite blog hit the mark? If not, give the list a read and you might find a tremendous resource right beneath your nose.
Some of my [...]

Popularity: 42% [?]

May

21

Acquisitions Keep On Rollin’

May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Will the madness ever end?!?
Microsoft is picking up online advertising vendor aQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion in cash almost doubling the Google’s price for Doubleclick
We’re not done there though with rumors flying the Google is adding RSS syndication vendor (and personal favorite) Feedburner to their roster. Following Yahoo’s brilliant pick up of MyBlogLog, [...]

Popularity: 55% [?]

May

9

Killer Startups and Web 2.0 Developments

May 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

I spent a few minutes at True Ventures last night, home to comparison shopping datafeed start-up SingleFeed (of which, from time to time, I’ve encouraged your consideration). That entrepreneurial environment holds tremendous appeal for me due to the passion, innovation, and risk taken by all who endeavor to create and I always enjoy translating [...]

Popularity: 26% [?]

Apr

28

Blogging with Wordpress

April 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

Well that’s the last time I ever do that.
I’ve spent the better part of my week redesigning SEO’Brien in WordPress after being convinced of its superiority as a blogging platform. Why? Might you ask. The site looks better doesn’t it? Cleaner and much more aesthetically pleasing. I hope you [...]

Popularity: 79% [?]

Mar

30

Build and Support a Community of Evangelists

March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“Bad behavior in the blogosphere”
That’s the headline from yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle referencing the recent threats against Kathy Sierra, a popular blogger (Creating Passionate Users) and author who stresses the importance of web design. I’m not going to make news of her terrible experience as, rather than an article worth repeating, it was that [...]

Popularity: 43% [?]

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