Archive for January, 2007

Interview with MyBlogLog CEO Scott Rafer

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

MyBlogLog has been taking the blogosphere by storm the past few months, even before the acquisition by Yahoo. However, MyBlogLog is not a recent phenomena, it started out as a blog statistics service by Eric Marcoullier and Todd Sampson in March of 2005.
I’m a fan of MyBlogLog (TopRank Community) and despite some of […]

Finding a Search Engine Optimization Company

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

When KeywordRanking was still in business, we used to get calls about once a month from disaffected clients asking how to get out of contracts and to see if they were getting value for the $2,000 being spent. Most of those situations were the result of overzealous sales people, cold calling businesses and making […]

Shoemoney Interviews Brian Axe of Google AdSense

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

On Jeremy’s show tonight over at WebmasterRadio.FM, “Net Income”, he and Andrea interview Brian Axe, AdSense Product Manager. It’s a great show that starts out with quite a few clarifications of Google AdSense changes in terms of service ranging from not displaying images next to ads to the review and reinclusion process. Too many for […]

Tuesday Search Tidbits

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Wordtracker now offers a free keyword research tool - hat tip to SEOBook. Remember “hat tips” all you selfish, link hoarding bloggers out there? (no, I do NOT mean Aaron)
Yahoo Site Explorer adds new features
Andy and Jeremy, back and forth, back and forth about MBL. This is a good example of a blog post that […]

No Blog? Missed Opportunity

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Yesterday one of our account managers emailed me about a very nice hit (mention in an article) for a media relations client (way to go Bill!) in a prominent technology publication. This pub has an online version and the topic was pretty provocative.
I did a quick search on Google blog search and noticed a significant […]

SEO for Newbies

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Explaining search engine optimization to newbies is something that anyone with sales or account support responsibilities at a search marketing or interactive agency is going to have to get good at. I used to spend a lot of time using the notion of “organic” and the whole “making fertile ground, planting seeds, nurturing, cultivating, watering, […]

Blog Credibility and Ads

Monday, January 29th, 2007

When the first iteration of this blog went live, there was no intention of doing anything but documenting resources and sharing information. For a short time, we ran some Google AdSense ads and then participated in the beta of the Yahoo Publisher Network for a while. We even had a few image ads.
But ads just […]

Google Adds Wikipedia to OneBox Results

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Steve Rubel reports today that Wikipedia entries now appear in Google OneBox results. Just add “info” or “information” to your query and the first results will be from Wikipedia if there’s a match. Will an entry in Wikipedia be what a DMOZ entry used to be? Perhaps in more ways than one.
For a great […]

TopRank Weekly Recap 012707

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Here is a list of the week’s blog posts on Online Marketing Blog focusing on SEO, blogging and business of search marketing.
SEMPO Board of Directors Nominees (Lee) - Voting begins Feb 6.
Search Marketing Blogs Update 012607 (Lee) - 18 new search marketing blogs added this week. We’re now at 350 and Todd Malicoat […]

SEMPO Board of Directors Nominees

Friday, January 26th, 2007

SEMPO has announced the list of nominees for the 2007 board of directors.
• David Adress  -   Bitochon Technologies, LLC
• Chris Boggs  -   Avenue A/Razorfish
• Alan Boughen  -   NeoSearch@Ogilvy
• Paul Bruemmer  -   Red Door Interactive
• Massimo Burgio  -   Global Search Interactive
• BJ Cook  -   Digital-Telepathy
• Tim Daly  -   SendTec
• […]