Archive for July, 2008

Search Engine Strategies 2008 – San Jose

Search Engine Strategies (SES) is the leading global conference & expo series that educates delegates on search engine marketing (SEM), including optimization (SEO) and advertising strategies, tactics and best practices. SES Search Marketing Events provide instruction from the industry’s top Search experts, including representatives of the Search Engines themselves. I attended the New York show [...]

Get More Comments On Your Blog

Brad The BlogBoy made a post recently about 5 WordPress plugins that can help drive comments to your blog. I thought it was a great post, and I wanted to talk more about it. His first suggestion was to install Nofollow Free, a plug-in that removes the no-follow tag from comments left on your blog. [...]

Tyler Cruz’s 2nd Affiliate Marketing Challenge

Tyler Cruz is back with Affiliate Marketing Challenge 2, once again sponsored by MarketLeverage This competition has even bigger and better prizes than the last competition, with a total of 16 prizes up for grabs. Also, this time around there are 5 prizes available to be won just by blogging about this challenge. This allows [...]

Puppies More Popular Than John Chow

Evil blogger John Chow is getting smoked by a bunch of puppies! Daily Puppy boasts 47,847 Feedburner readers, and an Alexa Rank of 21,854. John Chow has 27,185 Feedburner readers, and an Alexa Rank of 43,681. And that’s with John’s 4-year head start! Apparently, cute puppies are more interesting than bragadocious bloggers.

The Best Shared Hosting Company

As I mentioned last week, we decided to move a large number of our websites from a series of shared hosts onto a single dedicated server. Frankly, it’s something that should have been done months ago.. We had almost 50 sites spread across 3 shared hosting companies. The first company was VERY cheap, and overall [...]

Randy Pausch – Last Lecture

For those of you who don’t know, Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch passed away yesterday. His last lecture, entitled “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, has been viewed on YouTube over 4 million times since it was posted on December 20, 2007. Today alone, there have been over 500K views! Randy Pausch gave his last lecture at [...]

PageRank Update In Progress (July 2008)

According to Matt Cutts: I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites. And wouldn’t you know it, that PR5 blog I just bought a few days [...]