I just got turned down for an extension on a paper that I had hoped to extend from the 15th of December to the 25th. My prof was good for it, but apparently faculty policy is no extensions except for medical reasons. Meaning I need to bust my chops to get this done…
My first impression of Guy Kawasaki was that he was a genius writing brilliant blog posts. My second impression of Guy Kawasaki was that he was an arrogant prick. Turns out I was right on both counts, as Guy’s new book, Reality Check, proves…
The video with my thoughts and questions is after the jump. Please give me some feedback on this – what can I do for you guys?
A few notes on the video:
First, I’m being facetious when I say I’m interested in comments on my blog only. Don’t take the poker face too seriously. It’s a [meagre] bit of self-deprecating, ironic humor…
Which of these link buying brand names is the best?
Paid Links FTW
I Heart Paid Links
Link Buyr
T3h Evil Link Buyer
Art of Link Buying
Art of Paid Links
Artful Paid Links
Artful Link Buyer
pollcode…
Trademark Productions steal other people’s content, edit it for the sake of passing through search engine duplicate content filters, and try to pass themselves off as experts you should trust? They’re stealing from Aimclear, Clickz and others. See the Sphinn thread I just linked to for more info…
The NYTimes’ recent bit on the Borgle’s censorship included the following entertaining excerpt:
“In the future, Wu [some scholar, formerly of Google] said, it might slant its search results to favor its own media applications or to bury its competitors…
Since the first time he impressed me with his SEO experiments, Marios Alexandrou of All Things SEM has consistently been one of the people whose blogging I most respect for being original and intelligent…
While I’ve been doing online marketing for a while now, I’ve had little to do with the link buying aspects of link building so far. That isn’t to say I haven’t read about it or even shared some new ideas on disguising text link ads … but my clients to date and my own sites have been able to rank using Google-approved tactics…
Jim’s thinking on buying links can’t be that far different from Aaron Wall’s or Greg Boser’s or Todd Malicoat’s thinking, imho. They’re all part of the Vet SEO independent webmaster school of thought. And if you have done any reading at all on search, you’d know that Aaron, Greg, Todd and others encourage big brands to buy text links to rank higher…
More on Trust Agents – This great post by fellow Montrealer Julien Smith is quite related to my ideas on social media analytics – I strongly encourage you to read it! Julien’s also got an intro on social capital which I’m hoping to listen to soon, but which I’m linking to now because the Trust Agents post impressed me so much…
Angelo Racoma wrote an excellent piece at Performancing on how the web affects our social skills in the offline world. His point is that it makes us shy to meet people face to face and kind of lazy about actually communicating with folks…
Pepperjam Network, you’re really, really useless. I have proof that you’re stealing commissions from affiliates and not paying them for all the sales they generate. I have proof that when a merchant’s tracking screws up, you do nothing to solve the issue for affiliates, let alone pay them what they are rightly due while you handle the merchant…
Some of you might have noticed I set up my clicktracking script to track clicks on feeds. If you click a link to get my rss feed, for instance, then a little statcounter tells me someone [anonymous] out there clicked the link to subscribe to my blog. Yay! Thanks 
. From a business perspective though, this solution is way less-than-optimal…
Survey Gizmo have powered my contact and quote forms for as long as I can remember. Recently, I upgraded to pro and thought I’d share my thoughts with you guys on what I like about their software. Full disclosure – I have dealt with Survey Gizmo, but am getting no money for this nor was I required or even asked to link as part of our business…
You're looking at my set of tools. The custom search engine helps me find the answers to questions more quickly. The RSS aggregator keeps me updated with industry news that matters. And, in the near future, I plan on documenting the major steps and considerations used in SEM as a check list (although it will also work well as a list of tutorials).
While I built (and am improving) the above tools for myself, it seemed like a waste to keep them to myself. After all, good will breeds good will, and perhaps you'll even help me find more great blogs to follow.
In the name of good karma, all my outgoing links on this site are followed. Treat others as you wish to be treated, right? Besides, I think the authors who we read daily deserve all the thanks (links) we can give.
I hope you find the SEM News feed and the free SEO search tool helpful.
- Brett at SEMNewsDaily.com
