Archive for February, 2007

Rand Fishkin and his Super Proposal

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Rand finally pulled the trigger and proposed to Geraldine, aka “Mystery Guest” through a commercial during her favorite show, Veronica Mars last night. While it wasn’t during the Super Bowl as was planned and hoped, I personally think this route was a lot better.
It was an interesting thing keeping this under wraps considering there […]

What’s Your Banana Name?

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

No stranger to either online marketing or a sense of humor, Ed Kohler has a pretty fun project in the works called Banana Name where he’s writing names of blogs/sites on bananas and posting to the site, BananaName.com.
Here’s the post he did for OMB.
In a strange way, this reminds me of Chris Pirillo’s “rent my […]

Wednesday Search Industry Links 020707

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Eric Ward posts a wish list for Google’s new link analysis tools
SEOConsultants.com for sale
Reprise Media Super Bowl Study
Social Media Newsroom - SHIFT (This is cool and all, but our PR firm has been offering blog enabled media/news rooms with multi-media support for nearly 2 years)
Free Nexus blog at lockergnome.com
AdSense pays more for referrals
Sponsored By: […]

Down but not out and lessons learned

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Some of our regular readers may have noticed that Online Marketing Blog was not available for about 26 hours this week. We were informed after calling our hosting company, that the site was under attack by hundreds locations sending unresolvable requests or a denial of service attack. The host shut the site down without telling […]

Jill Whalen Interview - SEO Seminar Minneapolis

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Renowned search engine optimization expert, Jill Whalen of High Rankings is bringing her traveling SEO experts roadshow to Minneapolis this coming March 15th and 16th. I am honored to say that Jill has asked me to participate in the training as well.
The Minneapolis High Rankings Seminar will feature some of the most experienced and talented […]

Google Testing Left Side Tabs?

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Yesterday when I was searching Google on my partner’s laptop, I noticed down the left side of the search results the tabs that are normally displayed horizontally on the home page: Images, Maps, News, Groups, Books, Froogle and More with the option of drilling down your search using those filters.
I was using Firefox and not […]

National Pork Board Needs to Back Off

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

You know those kinds of people that have nothing better to do with their time, so they have to pick on others to justify their existence?  Laywers come to mind.  Especially corporate lawyers.
I am a little late to the story about our friend, Jennifer Laycock of Search Engine Guide, her blog The Lactivist and the […]

Search Marketing Blogs Update 020207

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Here we are again with this week’s update to the big list of Search Engine Marketing Blogs. For anyone maintaining their own Google custom search engine using blogs on this list, here is a plain text file list that should make it easy for you to update. The OPML file has also been updated […]

Widget Marketing

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

At WebmasterWorld Pubcon in Las Vegas last November, Lawrence Coborn who runs Sexy Widget as well as RateitAll.com, made quite a splash with his presentation on marketing with widgets. We interviewed Lawrence Coborn here on OMB late last year.
Since then, many marketers have been paying more attention to marketing blogs with widgets such as via […]