SEO (Publish or Perish?)

Citations and Links from the Press

The press are an evil bunch:- they phone you when you are busy, ask you lots of difficult questions, try to trip you up or squeeze something juicy out of you, wasting lots of your time, and the buggers rarely give you a citation or a link for your efforts.

Google Bomb Returns, Hits Microsoft

A user of the Yelp social network managed to add an image to a Google Maps info box displayed for Microsoft's Redmond headquarters that the company probably would not have chosen for itself.

Under the Radar – Marketing Ideas

One of my main beliefs about blogging and marketing is that the title always matters.  It matters in selling a book, driving clickthroughs on blog posts or emails, on placing effective keyword marketing, and the list goes on and on.  For just about everything you can do with marketing, choosing the right title is a big deal. 

Community and ROI

The firms I talk to about community building seem to fall into two categories - those that want a Web community right now, and those that question the very value of communities.

YouTube Wars Enter Stage 3

It’s official, we are definitely in the middle of a massive multi-industry war on the level of the RIAA/filesharing and other major technology wars of recent memory. Today, the war entered its third major stage, with many of the opposition joining forces to announce a YouTube competitor, coming this summer. The chronology: