If you were at the Traffic & Conversion Summit last week, we hopefully got a chance to chat...and you got made some deals and learned a few new tricks. That is one of the 2 big internet marketing events of the year...hands down. The other one, is Yanik Silver's Underground event. That one is coming up very soon, and yours truly will be speaking there. :) I'll be sharing some new … [Read more...]
The 7 Most Fascinating Internet Marketers of 2011
December 15, 2011 By 28 Comments
Who were Barbara Walter's Most Fascinating People of 2011? Who cares when you can find out who The Most Fascinating Internet Marketers of 2011 are? :) ...and being Internet Marketing related, I HAD to go with the Top 7 instead of the Top 10. These are the 7 people that I found the most interesting for various reasons these last 12 months. I'm not specifically endorsing them or any of … [Read more...]
Google Updates Even Freak Out Puppies
December 12, 2011 By 14 Comments
Google updates scare the poop out of all SEO's (and even puppies as proven by the pic to the left). "The latest Google update" is always the hot topic in the blogosphere, and there seems to be a new one every month. What the hell does Google want to go with all these changes? Let me start quoting the definition of SEO Google gives in its Guidelines: Search engine optimization is about … [Read more...]
A Letter to Google from Inbound Marketers
December 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
Hi Google. It’s been great between us, hasn’t it? You’ve always provided great research and measurement tools to support a great search engine, and in return, I’ve done my best to create quality material on the web. Inbound marketers and Google working together, we’ve been improving the Internet one quality web page after another for a while now. But lately you’ve been doing a few … [Read more...]
Just How Smart Are Search Robots?
November 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Posted by iPullRank Matt Cutts announced at Pubcon that Googlebot is “getting smarter.” He also announced that Googlebot can crawl AJAX to retrieve Facebook comments coincidentally only hours after I unveiled Joshua Giardino's research that suggested Googlebot is actually a headless browser based off the Chromium codebase at SearchLove New York. I'm going to challenge Matt … [Read more...]
Robots Made From LEGOS Invade Google Headquarters!!!
November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“He makes his way down the field, finds his target, aims—can he make it before time runs out?” Nope, we’re not at a sports game, but rather watching a robot, made of Legos, and built and programmed by a team of young students, compete at the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) robotics tournament. Last Saturday, November 19, marked our sixth year hosting a qualifying tournament at Google … [Read more...]
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