May 13, 2008 on 10:22 am
Filed Under:Around the Web
Some of these are good, some are not so good. As it tends to go…
Web Analytics: The Power of Knowing it all
This guy caught my eye because of the clever use of the keywords and by dropping a reference to one of my favourite bloggers/online personalities, Avinash Kaushik.
THEN, either through limited use of the English language or just stupidity, question one of Avinash’s statements after taking it completely out of context.
I’m thinking this one gets some sort of award for Jackassery or something.
Four Easy Ways to Tell They Love You – Thinking Outside the Box and Outside, Looking in
Decent article and points for awesomeness because the guy’s name is Zvi. That’s just wickedcool.
Good stuff about what to do with the top tools out there, though personally I don’t find much use for Alexa as it only tends to have data for sites that are quite large, and most of my client base (if not myself) has sites that don’t quite rate on there yet.
Web Analytics Demystified
Okay, here’s a fun game of linkbaiting. Avinash writes a great column a while ago, this guy links to it with his comments, then I link to his linking with comments with my comments. It’s great!
Seriously, I’m such a fan of Avinash that I’ll throw links to people who are fans as well. Maybe we’ll print some T-Shirts and stalk him at restaurants or something. Heh.
Web Analytics Australia – 13/5/08
May 13, 2008 on 10:14 am
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Another few of the slim pickings today. The alerts has stuff in it, but more and more it’s MY stuff, so that actually kind of gets in the way.
Firefox market share nears 29 percent in Europe, down in the US
It’s funny how this kind of thing doesn’t really occur to me any more. I simply cannot fathom using IE exclusively, as FF just kicks it’s ass so thoroughly, and I forget that it is still the minority. Mind-boggling.
Internet Marketing Perth – 13/5/08
May 13, 2008 on 10:11 am
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Not much on offer today for a phrase like this one. The nice effect of passing on links to articles and such is that I can feel some of the love coming back to me. A good, and bad, effect as well is that MY posts are starting to show up in all of these alerts. Good, because of the obvious. Bad, because I get all excited about an article whose title is EXACTLY what I’m looking for… and it’s mine.
Email Newsletter Writing Tips
Really becoming a big fan of this guy. He’s simple and straightforward, seems honest enough, and has a nice marketing presence. He doesn’t feel slimy, like others in our industry (that I won’t link to but will only allude to), and actually seems to write things with the possibility in mind that he’s going to help somebody out with this information. I find that quite refreshing, even if I don’t particularly need the information.
Search Engine Marketing – 13/5/08
May 13, 2008 on 9:18 am
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Most of these seem to deal with either Search Engine Optimisation or Pay Per Click Advertising, but both count into Search Engine Marketing, so there you go.
What Do You Do When you Have Done Everything that You Can with SEO?
Not the most fantastic grammar or writing, but a well encapsulated list of 5 important things, BASICS, for SEO and such. A sound strategy involves all these things, especially the 4th one "Plan for Change".
I preach it all the time to my clients and try to prove it in my work. Adaptability is key. In almost everything I reckon.
SEM Scholarship
WHOOHOO! Love hearing about stuff like this!
All I have to do is write up an article that pretty much espouses the same things I say 57 times a day to clients, peers, and in my blogs?
DONE.
Now let’s see if I can actually get some people to read it, as that’s how they determine winners.
Combining PPC With SEO For An Immediate Response!
This, to me, is the way I used to think. In fact, it’s the way I used to write too, with lots of keyword sprinkling and marketytalk. It doesn’t read terribly well, but it gives a sales pitch to both human and bot alike. It’s what web sites used to look like, I suppose.
I’d like to see some things change along those lines. This site especially. While I am a complete hypocrite for decrying this article yet having pages that are similar on my own site, my recent entries should speak more to what I’m trying to achieve. Transparency.
Web Marketing Australia – 13/5/08
May 13, 2008 on 8:43 am
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Two articles that actually made me quite happy to read. Usually my alerts are kind of full of some junk with only a gem or two, so it’s nice to find two actual "gems".
Link Popularity: Improve your Search Engine Rankings
Talita writes some good stuff, honest stuff, about what Link Popularity actually means. It’s a simple enough explanation, and therefore an article that is more for the education of the beginner rather than something revolutionary to the industry. But hey, all of the articles that I keep and catalogue like this make it that much easier next time to explain it to a client.
Sadly too, the link to their Link Popularity Checker is broken. That’s alright though, I’m building my OWN. Watch this space.
Blogs are an opportunity to share
NICE article. This is the kind of thing that everybody that’s ever wrinkled their nose and said "Blog? Why do WE need a blog? We’re rent shoebuckles!"
Doesn’t matter. A blog isn’t about sitting in your mum’s basement and reviewing the latest XBOX game, it’s about the power of the internet and spreading your opinion through it. Your words, your thoughts, your space… all of it out there and available to all.
I’m all for it. Heck, it got me a wife and some kids. Even if I did have to move 10,017 miles.
Web Analytics Perth
May 12, 2008 on 11:47 am
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Holy Cats AND Yammers! While this isn’t the reason I’m updating the site with relevant articles and sites from my Google Alerts, it is still pretty impressive to watch Google in action and see the results of your efforts. Today’s entry for "Web Analytics Perth"
Internet Marketing Perth
The first one of my alerts that I posted today… about an hour ago. Crazy eh?
Web Consulting Australia
May 12, 2008 on 11:29 am
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Not a lot under this one today, mostly the same old mismatches.
Dark Horse Marketing Takes Top Creative Award
Another one that has little, if anything at all, to do with Australia, it showed up in my alerts though, and I always love hearing about firms that started a lot like mine and then did something noteworthy. And let’s face it, winning an award is noteworthy. For every award there is probably 5 sourgrapists, decrying it’s value, but I would take every one of those awards deemed "worthless" and more if I could. Sometimes, it’s just nice to be recognised.
Search Engine Optimisation Australia
May 12, 2008 on 11:26 am
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While this is one of the many Google Alerts that I pay significant attention to, Google is SO smart that they figure I’m interested in "Search Engine OptimiZation" as well.
Thursday Roundup for the Week of 5/4/08
This is the kind of thing I love to find as well, because this is one of my favourite sites and Rebecca is an absolute peach there at SEOmoz.org. I would link and link and link to ALL their articles if I could. Hey, I actually could. Except that I’m not going to. Heh. I will for this one though, although it has barely anything to do with Australia.
Search Engine Optimisation
May 12, 2008 on 11:22 am
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Frequently this one gets me every spammy blog entry from Indiana to India.
Organic Search Engine Optimization for Google
Probably yet another blog-for-the-sake-of-it marketing tool (I can’t say much about that as I’ve tried it too), this one also has some info on it that has been around for a while but, once again, that makes it no less relevant. It’s more for the marketing impact than for actual education, and I’m not all for that, but it’s decent information for those that are new to the game, as it’s fairly thorough and well-written.
Search Engine Marketing Australia
May 12, 2008 on 11:17 am
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Business Owner’s guide to SEO
Though the "blog" that this one comes from is either an automated regurgitation of someone’s site’s content or an extremely poor attempt at blog design, it’s still a decent enough article. Sadly though, many of my Google Alerts are sites like this one. It appears that they’re working too, because more and more of them are cropping up all over the place.
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