Map Those URL Redirects To Profit
There are right ways to do URL redirection that will make a big difference in one’s site performance, as shown in a recent case study about a plumbing website that made their URLs more readable.
Insurance Co: Blogs Are A Liability
An insurance carrier told a New Jersey law firm that they could not cover the firm’s Web site if they had a blog. The insurance company Chubb saw the blog as a liability and fretted that the content could be viewed as legal advice.
Statistical Significance – Overrated
I’m a big advocate of measuring the success of your site, but many marketers find the statistics intimidating. Many marketers are more comfortable with the dreaded "anecdotal evidence" than they are with numbers—that’s changing, but slowly. I am wondering if the intimidation might be caused by statisticians themselves.
Study Shows Marketing Power of White Papers
White papers bring great value to those seeking them, according to a major study of more than 4,000 business-to-business marketing and business professionals.
This is especially true in the technology world, where white papers are one of the leading sources of lead generation.
Interview with Compete Inc. Co-Founder
Late last week I had the pleasure of catching up with Compete, Inc’s CTO and co-Founder, David Cancel. During this time I had the opportunity to chat with David about the history of Compete Inc and got some insightful background on their product Compete.com. Here’s how it went:
The Upfront For A Theoretical YouTube Killer
In an recent article on MarketingVox with the headline “Advertisers Line up at YouTube Killer’s Door” they talk about how big advertisers are all getting behind a video site being planned by NBC. Wow, what a great idea, ignore the site that is serving 100 million video clips a day and put your advertising dollars into a site that no one cares about or is likely to care about.
Beating The Unbeatable Google
Topix CEO Rich Skrenta thinks someone out there can compete with Google, and he offered suggestions on how that might happen (hint: think vertically).
Is More Text on a Single Page Better For SEO?
Dear Kalena…
Having just bribed you with a coffee, I have a question which might be interesting to other readers. Say a web site has 500 words of text. Would the site have a higher Google PageRank if all the text was on one page (using scroll bars) as opposed to spreading over 5 pages?
For example the home page of the Oz site (http://www.lowercall.com.au/index.html) is currently spread over 4 web pages. The latter pages do not have any PageRank whereas the first page does. Is there any reason why we should not put all the text on one page and use a scroll bar?
Social Media – Is it a Form of Hysteria?
If you want to know if social media traffic is worthwhile, or not, I recommend attending the free online Social Media: Should You Digg It? class. I sat in on today’s presentation and found it informative and insightful, especially when Matt Bailey delivered his statistical information.
DMCA Harbour Safe for YouTube?
In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a lawyer for entertainment giant Viacom writes what amounts to a thumbnail summary of the company’s $1-billion lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement. In a nutshell, Michael Fricklas says that the case boils down to whether the video site — now part of the Google empire — is protected by the so-called “safe harbour” provisions of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.