With the popularity of sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, StumbleUpon & others skyrocketing, website owners, marketers, bloggers and, of course, spammers are seeking to capitalize on the traffic these portals can drive. Many have taken to creating great content in the hopes that the members of these sites will appreciate it, but others have turned to manipulative practices in the hopes o...
Technorati currently has two Top 100 blog lists - one according to favorites and the other generated based on link popularity. The first measures Technorati users who've marked the blog as a "favorite;" as per the screen capture below: ...
One of the earliest lessons I learned in the forums, blogs & communities of the professional, search marketing sphere was to keep my politics private. It's a sad reality that logical debate and discussion of something critical to our lives must remain sequestered, but the current political environment in the US and in many places abroad prevents rational presentation of fact and opinion on ...
A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optimization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided. So, rather than charging $400 an hour to give advice on the subject, I thought it would be valuable to share many ...
While attending an SES session last week I decided to put together some linkbait. The session itself wasn't particularly interesting and inspiration had struck so I figured I'd make better use of my time and write some kind of guide or howto article. The result was the 5 HTML elements you probably never use blog entry. My original plan ...
The search & search marketing fields have, over the last 4 years, become overrun with bloggers. It would seem that many of us have been drinking our own Kool-Aid and hopping on the blog bandwagon. Lately, more and more folks have been asking for my take on this trend - what do I read? How often do I visit? Who do I respect? In a controversial move, rather than simply creating a blog...
Along with their recent redesign, Technorati now has a "most favorited blog list," it appears both on the popular page (along with cool data like the most popular online videos, tags, searches and news) and in its own page as a list of the top 100. ...
When folks think of Digg, they're often misled into believing that the content seen on the homepage is representative of what a wide base of Internet users think is news-worthy and important. The numbers tell a different story - that of all stories that make it to the front page of Digg, more than 20% come from a select group of 20 users. Digg isn't shy about hiding this fact, their top users p...
The NYTimes, of all places, is covering Amanda Congdon's departure from Rocketboom: Rocketboom was an icon, the poster child for successful video blogs, the shining proof that Internet opens the power of the broadcast press up to anyone. But in the last two days, Rocketboom has fallen apart. ...
Dr. Garcia emailed me today to announce his new blog - IR Thoughts. I'm excited to see what he'll be putting forward; there's certainly a lack of daily content in that arena. Does anyone know of any other good blogs in the IR space?...
In case you're seeking some inspiration for writing on your own blog or in need of strong examples to point your executive team/marketing director/non-believer business partner to, I thought I'd share a few favorite blogs (outside the webdev/SEO sphere). I've just gone ahead and listed the titles, along with an excerpt: WaiterRant.net...
Here's the wish list features I gathered after many overseas conference with vloggers all around the world: the next step into vlogging. Here they are, spiced up by our own ideas:Resources center - Tons of resources about the vlogging movers and shakersAs we speak, there seems to be lacking that kind of 2.0 love from the blogging world. Vlogs platfo...
In my past two articles, I've been talking about vlogs business models and its vlogs audience. In this article, I'll be covering the 2.0 features they offer... and my 2.0 vlog wish list will be in the next article. To increase my interest in analyzing this whole emerging market ...
This is for French readers or French audience, especially in Europe and Quebec. It talks about French digg-like websites. Our blog has hit the first page of major French 2.0 digg-like websites for approximately 28hours now . I think most of our French readers would like to know which s...