Internet Marketing Links & Comments
October 27th, 2008 Posted in Internet Marketing
There were quite a few good news stories in the last couple of weeks and I thought I’d start sharing some of them here with you all in case you did not catch them elsewhere.
Here’s the list:
- The conversion sequence: C = 4m + 3v = 2(i-f) – 2a An interesting post about the conversion sequence formula. If you’re interested in understanding some of the science behind the conversion process of a page you should give this one a read. It’s in fact the first of a series of posts on conversion.
- 30 Internet Marketing Blogs You Must Know to Succeed OnlineThis list of 30 internet marketing blogs is worth a review. If you’re trying to stay abreast of the industry this would certainly be a good starting point! For those SMB’s out there I recommend you have a look at these sites. The regular information they frequently release will help you in your question to leverage internet marketing even if you’re just looking to hire an outside agency to help you out.
- Google Diluting Quality To Remain Profitable Is the “chrome” coming off of Google? Well it appears that may be the case. Recently ShoeMoney and others have noticed some clear acts by Google of lowering the quality of their search results and AdSense services by for example sending AdSense traffic to syndication pages, or showing an AdSense search box instead of an Ad. Clearly this contravenes their own quality guidelines and the only reason for doing it would be to collect more revenue from clicks. Google - don’t go crazy because you’re still the search giant and have everything to lose and much less to gain. For more on this have a look at ShoeMoney’s story!
- Google Hit With Typosquatting Class Action Another story about Google getting tarnished is this one about Google making money off incorrectly typed domains by placing AdSense on the them. “As co-counsel in a class action suit, Edelman suggests Google could be making money from a million domains or more.” Checkout the full story on WebProNews.
- Looking for instant audiences? Try Google Hot Trends Google Trends provides great information for understanding which keywords are popular over time. Recently Google launched Google Hot Trends which attempts to show which terms are gaining in popularity right now. These trends are a great source of potential traffic for you website if you leverage the topics effectively. Jeff Woelker provides a short introduction to the concept in his post.
- EFF Echoes McCain’s Call For YouTube Fair Use Reviews I find this story actually quite hilarious. YouTube has been taking down debate clips as a result of DMCA take down notices from CBS. McCain as a result has been upset over the matter and the EFF is now backing the requests. It brings to light that the DMCA does not recognize fair use and that YouTube is just following the DMCA. So legislation that the US Government created is now interfering with the Elections! Maybe they will now create an amendment and fix the DMCA to recognize the concept of fair use. For more on the story read the WebProNews story.
- Google Launches Gmail 2.0 for Mobile While I’m a Gmail user it’s not my primary email address and I’ve got it forwarded to my primary email account. That being said, if Gmail is your main email account having it on your Windows Mobile Phone may in fact be important to you! For the full story visit the WebProNews site.
- Yahoo Offers Inquisitor Suggestion Tool for IE and Firefox Yahoo has made it’s Inquisitor plugin for Safari available on Internet Explorer and FireFox. The tool provides search suggestions on the fly. I’ve used it before and it’s quite convenient. If you want to give it a try I suggest you read this post before downloading it!
- Travel SEO – How to Target Searchers at the Right Stage of the Buying Cycle I bring along this story for the Travel Industry business out there. It’s a great read if you’re interested in understanding how to target travel industry searchers and some tips for converting them!
- Good Times With Inbound Links From the Google Webmaster Central Blog comes this simple overview of how links factor into the Google Ranking Algorithm. If you want to understand the role links play for your search engine optimization I suggest you start by reading this post.
- Alerting Webmasters To Webserver Vulnerabilities I’m not a big fan of Google policing the internet so I put this right up there with them alerting searchers to malware on sites. See the problem is that websites can get hacked and good webmasters are always battling this. In my opinion it hurts good webmasters before it hurts the bad guys. Any how, they are now alerting us webmaster to webserver vulnerabilities such as out of date software. I guess this is OK, but if it shows up in the SERPS I don’t like it all!
I hope you find this content as useful and informative as I did. I think I’ll make this a regular post each Monday going forward - a roundup of some of my favorite stories from the past week!
October 27th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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October 27th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I liked the “EFF Echoes McCain’s Call For YouTube Fair Use Reviews” story. That was great :)…
October 27th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
@Ben Forest Thanks! I liked that one too!
October 28th, 2008 at 1:16 am
if you leverage the topics effectively. Jeff Woelker provides a short introduction to the concept in his post.
October 28th, 2008 at 7:03 am
I have not come across your blog before but I am really impressed, I have bookmarked your site, really good information and the links were really interesting. I read shoemoney’s opinion on google at the min - good read.
October 28th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Thanks for the link. There’s some other great ones in here as well. Cheers,
Jeff
October 28th, 2008 at 9:13 am
@Jeff Woelker - You’re welcome! I’ve been a subscriber to your blog for a while now!
October 28th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Thanks for the collection! I will be checking quite a few of these out.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I especially like the information about ‘30 Internet Marketing Blogs You Must Know to Succeed Online’
Thanks for this!
October 28th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Good read on ‘Good Times With Inbound Links’ very informative on how links calculate into the rankings of your site :) Thanks for the post!
October 29th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Thank you so much for sharing a good collection. I did learned a lot from your site. Keep it up.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Thanks for sharing, interesting to read
Nick
October 30th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Thanks for sharing this wonderful post and did enjoy reading it.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
It is such a enlightening piece of information that I am really rejoiced over the fact that I now know something as cool as that. Thanks bro , you made everything quite clear , discussed every minor details. Nice sharing :)
November 1st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Google diluting? I don’t believe I agree.
Thanks for the links!
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:29 am
Interesting list you have there. Thanks for sharing.
I have a suggestion to make your blog post more readable… can you make the links bold or color them differently? I was busy searching for the links when I am reading your post!
Cheers
November 6th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
have not come across your blog before but I am really impressed, I have bookmarked your site, really good information and the links were really interesting. I read shoemoney’s opinion on google at the min - good read.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:52 am
It’s a quite decent post, informative and well to the point. I am fond of Google analytics truly an informative tool. Like the presentation.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Excellent list of resources.The list of 30 internet marketing blogs is very helpful to me because I´m in the same niche.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Definitely the most of the links in this site are workable. I liked the post. Many thanks for sharing…
November 9th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
You have spent quite a bit of time putting this list together. There is some great information here and everyone should take the time to review it all if they are serious about the success of their site.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
What a nice collection!. Your site is very resourceful. Keep up the good work.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
As another example of Google giving up on quality for the dollar, their new flu tracking map has one state on it when the authorities there are saying not a single case has been diagnosed yet. Obviously they have bad data or the map does not work
November 14th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Thank you very much for sharing a nice collection. keep up the good work.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Well done!!
Good read on ‘Good Times With Inbound Links’ very informative on how links calculate into the rankings of your site :) Thanks for the post!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Jeff Woelker provides a short introduction to the concept in his post.
November 24th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Nice one. Thank you very much for the information provided. Keep up the goodwork.
November 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Good Job!Thank you so much for the nice list. It is very interesting.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:42 am
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November 25th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I really like your blog.. it is well to the point. I have a good time reading it.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Many thanks for the great resource, too much information to read in one go, I have bookmarked it and will come back to it.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:39 am
Thanks for the link. There’s some other great ones in here as well. Cheers,
Jeff