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Why Momentum Is Important In Business

Tony Adam — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:00:45 +0000

I’ve enjoyed spending much of my career learning and pushing myself as much as I possibly can. It’s the way I do things, I like to be in a fast…

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Social Media ROI Presentation from SMASH at USC

Tony Adam — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:39:39 +0000

On Thursday of last week, I had the opportunity to present at SMASH (Social Media Advanced Skills Huddle) at USC. What I was really excited most about was the fact…

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Facebook Likes, Now with Meta Data and Thumbnails

Tony Adam — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:12:41 +0000

Well, it turns out that Facebook has included all of the meta data and thumbnail info for the like button around the web. This is great news for publishers as…

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Stop Complaining About Search and Content Based Business Models

Tony Adam — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:49:58 +0000

Tweet There is so much buzzing in the search industry from @arrington writing about why he thinks search still sucks and JCPenney being busted for paid linking. And, just weeks…

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An InHouse SEO’s story of feeling beaten down but always moving forward

Tony Adam — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:23:47 +0000

Tweet Sometimes SEO isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. You work your ass off, you do what you have to do to get things done, and you buy people…

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Internal Linking: The Benefits Of Great Information Architecture For SEO

Tony Adam — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:30:34 +0000

Tweet Every time I write a requirements document for SEO, I make sure to address Usability and Information Architecture. I like to think that Google will reward sites that do…

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Decision Making: How to be Better and Faster

Tony Adam — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:15:20 +0000

Tweet Being a good decision maker is one of the toughest things to be. It isn’t just about being smart, but, also has a huge dependency on being able to…

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Social Design & Optimization: The Power of Network Effects

Tony Adam — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:45:27 +0000

One of the most interesting things I’ve been studying over the last year has been the power social design and network effects. Even though many of us have used Social…

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Professionalism: Let’s have a toast for the douchebags

Tony Adam — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:30:24 +0000

One of my favorite quotes I try to remember every day is by Nas. In the song “Favor for a Favor” he recites “Favor, for a favor, that’s how we do business.” This is pretty much how people should operate. Now, I am not saying we should be literally counting the favors, but, at the end of the day, if someone helps you out, you shouldn’t let it go unnoticed. Most people might see this post as tangential at best, if so, feel free to move on…

Presentation: SEO & Social Media for Communications Professionals

Tony Adam — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:41:52 +0000

Thanks to Erik Deutsch, I had the opportunity to speak to a great class at UCLA tonight about SEO and Social Media for Communications Professionals.

SEO & Social Media for Communications

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AJAX & SEO: A strategic approach to rankings

Tony Adam — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:55:41 +0000

Dealing with the limitations of AJAX and Flash can be an SEOs worst nightmare. There are so many issues that come into play and usually you can deal with many AJAX SEO issues by developing Progressively Enhanced code. While, I’ve written about how to address crawling and indexing with AJAX and SEO. I wanted to take a little bit of a deep dive into this again, along with the bigger issue, ranking…

Digg 4.0: Is it coming sooner than expected?

Tony Adam — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:17:37 +0000

Last week I was working with someone and showing her the ropes of social media marketing and other general topics. I had showed her how to sign up for Digg, StumbleUpon, and various other Social Networks, but, I stumbled on this (no pun intended of course):

So, what does this mean? Does this mean that the new Digg will be launching sooner than expected? There has been much speculation about what Digg 4…

Site Speed: Reducing Page Load Times and Increasing Pages Crawled

Tony Adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:19:40 +0000

I’ve always been a big fan of quick page load times on sites from overall User Experience standpoint. But, ever since Google announced that they were using site speed in web search ranking I have become a big time stickler about this. After watching this for the last couple months, I’ve realized that my peskiness about the whole thing warranted just cause.

Proving that Site Speed is directly correlated Pages Crawled

I tend to keep an eye on Google Webmaster tools to see any blips in crawl rate, pages crawled, etc…

Creating Relationships vs. Selling and Closing: It’s all about Partnerships

Tony Adam — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:00:21 +0000

If you know anything at all about me, it’s likely that it’s this- I’m ALL about the relationships that I create. I’ll never blatantly walk up to someone and tell them they should be buying a product or service. It’s just not my style. Granted I’ll shamelessly self-promote something, but that’s typically just for the sake of shits and giggles.

For me, it’s never been and never will be about trying to win a client for the sake of numbers…

Job Hopping: A resume doesn’t tell the whole story

Tony Adam — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:38:38 +0000

I’ll start by saying this, I agree with Mark Suster’s points to never hire job hoppers, but, sometimes there is more to a story than a resume holds. And, according to Jason Calacanis, I might be a Gen Y Trophy Kid, but, in my opinion, there is more to it than meets the eye in some cases. My thoughts and opinions are those of my own and I will always stand behind them, but I do apologize in advance if this post offends anyone or is in fact unhappy with the stance…

Setting goals and executing with social media marketing

Tony Adam — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:27:33 +0000

While at SXSW, Chris Winfield and I had our presentation on “Social media marketing for your business.” My biggest focus for the presentation was to help people realize the power of creating a plan, setting goals, and executing them. Overall, creating a marketing plan or strategy should not just involve trying to get some traffic or a few links. There needs to be an end result that helps the business bottom line, like getting new users…

Find and Close Business Development Opportunities

Tony Adam — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:10:37 +0000

Having spent a lot of my career doing a lot more than just SEO, I’ve had to wear many different hats. One of my favorite hats to wear is actually the Business Development one. I’m total people person and I love the sales process. The feeling of closing a deal to me is almost as good as sex. (Sorry, I had to set the bar high).

So, rather than actually sitting here and writing another useless “SEO Tips” type post, I wanted to give to put together something a little more business focused, so I came up with the idea that I would write about how I find and close biz dev opportunities…

Moving back to Los Angeles for MySpace!

Tony Adam — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:23:37 +0000

For the last couple weeks, I’ve been tweeting a ton about “big decisions” that are on the horizon. The truth is I came to a major cross roads career wise and geographically. I had to evaluate where I was going and what I was doing career wise, but, also had to look at personal happiness. With that, came the decision to leave BillShrink to join MySpace.

Why leave BillShrink?

First, why am I leaving BillShrink even though they are one of the hottest startups I know? I joined because I was dying for an opportunity to really help impact the growth of a business…

Are Google’s real time and latest results REALLY based on relevance?

Tony Adam — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:20:31 +0000

I’ve had a few colleagues and friends lately ask me about Google’s real time search results since they launched real time search about two months ago. To some of you, this might be an obvious post, as Rae from Outspoken Media pointed out with her post about Google enabling real time spam.

I was then alerted by a friend that apparently Google is filtering people based on relevance and followers and all that jazz…

foursquare: The arrival of the location based business “game”

Tony Adam — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:05:00 +0000

I’ve been on this huge kick of creating visibility for products online lately. All I can think about is how to gain visibility for an online brand. Along with that, I’ve been really interested in two other things: Local and Location Aware applications. I’ve had my eye on Yelp for a bit, but even more so lately as the mobile market is growing. But, even more than Yelp, I’m a huge fan of foursquare since I jumped on the bandwagon back at SXSW…