Web 2.0-style Conflict of Interest
When is a conflict of interest not a conflict of interest?
Google Desktop Arrives For The Mac
Earlier this week, Google announced the long-awaited release of its desktop client for Mac owners. Google Desktop users will be able to index content from their hard drive in order to find information about their documents, music, e-mails and pictures, as well as content from the web, quickly and easily.
Social Media Marketing: Get it Straight!
It’s an interesting thing when concepts get defined according to the intentions and goals of a few influential voices.
Take social media optimization and marketing (SMO/SMM) for example. What started as a set of tactics unique to their channels (blogs, images, audio, video) became a more closely defined set of tactics ala Rohit’s Rules for Social Media Optimization.
Reviewing Joost Beta 9
Got done reviewing Joost Beta 9, and it just keeps on getting better, and this time it did not bring down the network.
One Box Goes Gold At Google
Yet another advertising-related change has come to Google in the run-up to Search Engine Strategies 2007 New York: Google shifted the One Box background color from blue to yellow.
Has SEO Jumped The Shark?
All the factors that contribute to a high search ranking have been the object of much research, debate, speculation and reporting over the past few years. With the amount of data that has become available over that time, however, have we reached the saturation point of SEO knowledge?
CEOs – They Should Get Out More
A Globe and Mail article this week by Tavia Grant suggested that CEOs are ‘still in the dark’.
(Hat tip to Rick Spence for mentioning this.)
Domain Names – Choosing Them Alphabetically
There was an amusing aspect to the Google Search Engine Ranking Factors version 2 that SEOmoz put out this week.
Is Linking To Pirated Content A Liability?
The online video copyright issue is set to get more intense as legal lines come closer into focus. The YouTube and Viacom case, in the unlikely event it sees a courtroom, would be large enough to solidify some ground rules. There are also international complications, which makes one wonder if the World Wide Web will one day necessitate a Virtual World Court.
Exerting Influence and Moving Markets
There are two basic ways to do SEO. One is to look for the criteria you think the search engine wants to see, and then work to slowly build it day after day, chipping away doing great keyword research and picking up one good links one at a time here or there. If you understand what the search engines are looking for this is still readily possible in most markets, but with each passing day this gets harder.