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- What Features Would You Want in a Sponsored Post Market Place
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed, follow me on Twitter or sign up to my email list. If you want to talk about how I can help with your social & viral marketing campaigns, contact me. Thanks!I know lots of you out there are either bloggers or SEO’s/webmasters. [...]
- Online Political Market Research
Market research is the process of understanding the market, what consumers want, what they have, what they can afford, and what will make them want your product or service. I’m oversimplfying here of course, but bear with me. Political research is the same, it begins with understanding the voters, their wants and dislikes and the [...]
- Online Political Marketing
First, some statistics:
In 2004, over 40% of Americans got campaign information online. (source)
Another study said that in 2003, 68% used the net to keep up with political candidates, and 29% submitted their email address to receive more info. (source)
In 2006 51% of liberals got election information online. (source)More data:
Internet Use and Political Information
Internet Becoming an [...]
- Interactive Site Reviews and SERP Quality Control Forum
PromoPortal.co.uk
They’re looking to improve the URL structure of the site.
They have id= in their urls, someone on the panel says its not ideal, but its not a death sentance.
The site is a year old. They say this is a problem.
Matt Cutts says the content is duplicated by other sites that are using the same suppliers. [...]
- Duplicate Content Issues
Amanda Watlington
She says its an exciting topic, because she’s seeing a lot of it. (She’s talking very loud and enunciating powerfully).
Typical causes of duplicate contentMultiple domains
Re-designs
cms
subdomains
landing page
syndicated, scraped or shared contentTools for detection, your ability to search is your best tool, use a 10 word unique snippet, she lists a few tools.
Multiplte domains
they can occur [...]
- Yahoo Search Marketing Lunch Panel: The New Advertising Platform
Dan Boberg starts off by talking about pubcon history and yahoo’s involvement with it. Then he mentions panama, they’ve talked to a lot of users to get input on the new system. They’re going to do a demo of it. He’s saying they’re moving away from a search listing position to a marketing position and [...]
- SEO and Big Search
Melanie Mitchell Director of SEO/SEM at AOL:
She says that AOl can now find thir asses in the dark, they used to be in the business of sending out lots of CDs. They’re now giving away all their services and products, to generate an audience. They’ve changed their entire business model as a online network of [...]
- ReviewMe Leak
An unamed source sent me this a while before Review Me Too (seriously guys we want in on this sponsored posts thing too!) launched, but I sat on it, but now that the cat is out of the bag about a contest sponsored by the Review Me guys for their upcoming launch, I figure its [...]
- Comcast Boston Blocking Google?
I’m not home yet, but this is the word I’m getting.
And it pisses me off.
- Web Engagement Metrics and Conversion
In nearly every case I’ve seen, metrics that can be used to measure user engagement align with visitor-to-sale conversion. That is, site visitors who will eventually reach a goal page (checkout confirmation or lead submission) almost all exhibit certain common traits, including:
Much longer-than-average time on site
Much higher-than-average page views per visit
Much higher-than-average likelihood of being [...]
