Scientology Turns Into A Traffic Magnet
We know you want to stay on topic; we know you don’t want to resort to tabloid-style tricks. But we know you also want linkbait, and an excellent example of it has been identified in a new Hitwise post. read more More: continued here scientology turns into a traffic magnet
PubCon: Treading Lightly On Link Buying
The dominant search engine, Google, doesn’t have a problem with nofollowed paid links, but few webmasters want to pay for something that brings minimal value to their sites. WebProNews is at PubCon 2007 in Las Vegas, bringing you the latest in web marketing. John Lessnau noted several points about purchasing links during the Link Buying [...]
Stone Temple Consulting Publishes Web Analytics Shootout Results
What started as a great idea for linkbait turned into a comprehensive analysis of Web analytics packages rivaling research from the largest firms. Stone Temple Consulting has published the 55-page 2007 Web Analytics Shootout, the results of a nine-month study of seven top Web analytics packages on four sites. The report looks at performance, accuracy, [...]
7 Excellent Social Media Marketing Resources
Last week I gave my favorite traditional link building resources. Today we’ll look at resources from the new link building kid on the block, social media marketing, or as it’s commonly called, linkbaiting. I believe social media marketing is the best way to build links. It provides the best ROI for you [...] More: continued [...]
All’s Quiet On The Eastern Front …
Wired tattles on Scoble for twittering behind Jason’s back. Is Scoble Calacanis’s Rasputin? Will Calacanis man up and march on Mountain View? Searchenginewatching CivilWarLand In Bad DeclineWar coverage starts here. More: continued here alls quiet on the eastern front
7 Excellent Link Building Resources
Here are my favorite link building resources. Of course, because SEO changes so much, these may not be useful in the future. However, for now, they are immensely helpful. I didn’t include linkbaiting resources. That’s for another post. These resources focus on traditional link building.12 Different Types of Links and [...] More: continued here 7 [...]
Scoble Predicts Google Death By Facebook
Notify the SEC. Analyst blogger Robert Scoble predicts the demise of Google within four years. He boldly outlines a Future Search engine combination of Facebook-Techmeme-Mahalo technology that will spell doom for Google. The Naked Conversationalist has become the Naked Shorter. In a video worthy of the best linkbait, Scoble predicts SEOs — those reviled search [...]
A Quick Linkbait Primer, Part 1
Linkbait has been a term thrown around by many SEOs, webmasters, and internet marketers. Even Matt Cutts from Google has talked about it. What does this shady-sounding compound word mean?My definition of linkbait is this:Linkbait is interesting and/or useful content (includes tools) created mainly for the purpose of attracting many natural backlinks. Linkbait [...] More: [...]
A Quick Linkbait Primer, Part 2
In my last blog post, I gave two steps dealing with linkbait – preparing and creating the linkbait. Today I’ll go over the third step, promoting the linkbait.3. Promote The LinkbaitI’ll talk about social media sites and blogs because they usually send the most amount of traffic. Press releases can also help if [...] More: [...]
John Marshall Leaving Clicktracks
John Marshall, founder and CEO of Clicktracks is leaving the company. I learned this today from the Occam’s Razor blog written by Avinash Kaushik. I must admit that I was a bit shocked to see the news. I began my own, so far, brief journey into the world of web analytics because of a blog [...]
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