Just the links, folks:
- The folks over at DowJones Marketwatch are so clueless about social media, it hurts. Just read their take on Scott's blog entry from last week (scroll to the 3rd article).
- More on leveraging linkbait from the YPN blog, courtesy of yours truly
- Sadly, email spam isn't going away, it's getting more sophisticated and more prevalent
- Royal Pingdom has a genius heat map overlay of dangerous weather areas to help identify the best places for a datacenter.
- Eric Enge interviewed Google Analytics' Brett Crosby; definitely worth a read, but be aware that it's long and very in-depth (nice work, Eric).
- Werty explains why Netflix's online marketing will help them edge out Blockbuster.
- 2006 marked the end of Washington state's mini-recession after the dot-com bust.
- Michael Gray points out the value of data gathering from blog widgets and why the MyBlogLog acquisition from Yahoo! was so wise.
- One piece of advice we didn't take from Andy - Why Marketing Agencies Shouldn't Publish their Fees.
- New acronym - MFD (Made for Digg). Cameron talks about it, Ethan Kaplan coined it.
- Donna notes that Google seems to have changed the way they handle subdomains in site commands (and posits that more changes may result from this).
- Brian Clark has a few link building strategies that have worked well for him.
- Guy Kawasaki (I refuse to mention the name of his inappropriately titled blog) has then top ten marketing podcasts (sadly, no Danny, no Shoemoney, no SEO Rockstars)
- Vanessa posted a terrific year-in-review of Webmaster Central. Congratulations, WMC team - I admire nearly everything you do and love the way you do it (now, just blog more and my enamor will be complete).
- Mr. Boykin is itching for a fight with his Linkbait won't do it, you need link ninjas. Actually, I think you need both and it can depend on your site and your targets as to which is the better choice.
- Jon Mendez is touching on a question I get asked by client quite a bit - Should you purchase your branded keywords?
- The MindValley guys have a terrific post about one Adwords headline outperforming another... by 195%. Those guys have a great blog.
- Andrew's right - 30% year-over-year growth in searches is phenomenal.
- Dr. Garcia says - SEO is not and will never be a science. I agree with the statement, but his reasons aren't the ones I would have chosen.
What did I miss this week?
Google, like Yahoo, is lowercasing titles: https://www.firstpagefitness.com/blog/2007/01/...
Rand,
How about the conversation carried on by Stuntdubl, Nick Wilson, Lee & some others (ahem) about the technique of using widgets for link building? Maybe I missed a post of yours, but this is definitely something that many are watching out for, while others (ahem again) are going to make manifest :)
Hey Rand,
Pretty good roundup. I think there are some things missing though like google adsense allowing other advertisers on their publisher's sites. There is so much tech news going on its hard to mention everything though. Anyhow great post rand and look forward to more!!!
as for me I am off to affiliate summit ya'll!!! woo whooo!!!
Joe Whyte
DJ Marketwatch - totally ignorant, completely absurd!
Methinks Madison Avenue doesn't like playing catch-up to new PR vectors.
"If you can't keep up with 'em, keep 'em down," seems to be an appropriate mantra.
You're dead on! Problem is, they only hurt themselves further.
I work with agencies all day long and have been preaching the necessity of search in their offering mix for years. The smart ones have caught on - others are simply too afraid to learn.
As a friend to traditional marketing, it actually pains me to see someone pin themselves in a corner with such an uneducated position on a topic.
Please satisfy my curiosity. Why is Guy Kawasaki's blog inappropriately titled?
It's about marketing and business. It creates an expectation that the content doesn't fulfill. Guy is a great blogger, a terrific speaker, a smart investor and a good businessman, but on naming he perplexes me.
I am so glad I'm not the only one who think this. He REALLY need's to change that. The "Guy Kawasaki" is an incredibly powerful brand. Why go to all the effort of building it not to use it on your own book?
The danger of making a promise with your headline that your content can't fulfill. Good call Rand.
That first link to DowJones Marketwatch made me cringe. Ridiculous. Possibly an effort to gain links through controversy??
Or maybe just ignorance.