We all know that social networking is where it’s at these days, but it’s not all about the ones everybody knows – the Facebooks, the MySpaces, the Twitters, etc. At the recent Social Media Club gathering in Louisville, Chris Brogan discussed what he calls "velvet rope" social networks. Have you ever participated in an exclusive social network? Discuss your experience.
John Edwards Works The Second Life Corner
Various sorts of virtual destinations such as movie theatres, diners, media agencies and back alley prostitution rings can be found gracing the digital streets of Second Life. Now, you can add the unofficial campaign headquarters of presidential hopeful John Edwards to that list.
As if the virtual world of Second Life weren’t full of enough debauchery, now it’s home to a whole new form of prostitution and depravity — a process that these days we formally refer to as campaigning for the U.S. presidency.
Google To Literally Corner Online Ad Market
Google is on pace this year to capture a quarter of all online ad spending, according to eMarketer, further increasing its dominance in the sector as the sector itself is projected grow at blistering rates. As Google snatches market share from Yahoo, online advertising in general will gain more ground against traditional marketing vehicles by 2010.
At the Doorstep, on the Corner, in the Bedroom
A weekend of real life inevitably includes marketing experiences worthy of a blog post.
What a Crude Street Corner Come-On Taught Me … About Direct Response Marketing
Can’t get a date? No, I mean to your website.
SEO Corner – Keyword-rich URLs and search engine visibility (Part 2)
Reader question: I still want some more clarification on keyword-rich URLs and search engine visibility. We are an Outdoor Gear/Sporting Goods website with the generic URL outdoorworld.biz I gather from your article that breaking our Web site navigation into different categories such as:
SEO Corner – Keyword-rich URLs and search engine visibility
Question: Can an search engine’s bot distinguish between words in a domain name? For example, if a domain name is www.biggreenboat.com, will search engines “separate” these words (Big Green Boat) and then give prominence towards keywords or as if treated as keywords?
SEO Corner – Hiding Content from the Search Engines
Question: We have recently inserted an “encryption code” in our home page at http://www.imagelair.com to keep most from viewing our source code (meta tags/keywords). The code works fine, but we noticed that our stats program reflected that about half of the hits to the default page every hit the “encrypt” page (our home page now).
My question is this. Will the search engines index our encrypted home page and Web site when it must go through the default page first, which has the encryption?
SEO Corner – Keyword repetition in HTML tags
Reader Question: We have a client that has begun using an SEO service that uses multiple
SEO Corner – Search engines and Web site directory structure
Question: Will search engines crawl/index pages in subWebs? An example of this is http://www.companyname.com/subWeb/pagename.htm.