Staff got some time on their hands? Here’s some SEO related bits n’ pieces they can handle
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: April 7th, 2008 Published in: Blogging, Link Building, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media Marketing, Traffic GenerationSomeone asked me the other day what their staff member could be doing to help with SEO as they had some spare time on their hands. While there isn’t really a perfect answer that will fit any business, these tips should be useful on the whole (not in any particular order)…
AOL buys Bebo for $850 million from Yahoo!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 13th, 2008 Published in: Social Media Marketing, YahooThe BBC are reporting today that Time Warner’s AOL have bought Bebo from Yahoo! for $850 million. Not a bad price tag for a site with 40 million members, but surely Yahoo! could have made better use of the traffic? I would have thought that Bebo would have tied in quite nicely with MyBlogLog.
Perhaps they […]
7 steps to get your crappy link spam articles on social media sites and / or forums
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 16th, 2007 Published in: Social Media MarketingWith the launch of Sphinn last week and the general popularity of community focused sites, I thought I would do a post about spam. :) I’m not entirely against spam, after it is a part of our industry in one way or another, but I do really dislike the approach some people take, so I thought I […]
Managing emerging brands and dealing with the PR fallout
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 23rd, 2007 Published in: Branding, Marketing, Public Relations, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media MarketingIt seems that 2007 brings us a “SEOs are teh devil” mantra from a multitude of newly crowned golden children of the web and to be perfectly honest it’s starting to annoy me.
No doubt the likes of Slashdot have already dealt with and got over the impact the SEO industry may or may not have on […]
Digg & your social marketing strategy
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 22nd, 2006 Published in: Blogging, Link Baiting, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Traffic Generation, Viral MarketingThere has been a lot of chatter on various blogs and forums lately about Digg banning domains (a lifetime ban it seems). Some sites have received this response from Digg:
“When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban the domain. The domain will not […]