Thursday, July 29, 2010

Clarus Glass Whiteboard Review

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Vor etwa einem Monat ging ich zu einem Client treffen, wo Sie ein Glas-Whiteboard im Konferenzraum hatten. Dies war der erste ich je gesehen hatte, und ich bemerkte, wie cool es war.Die Leute von Clarus GlassBoards wurden für Schlüsselwörter auf Twitter Überwachung und streckte mir über das Senden einer Stichprobe für Zwecke der Überprüfung.



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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Use your iPad for your next presentation and make life easier

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  As I amazed will continue to make people, so use your iPad, it invaded the potential far outweighs the restrictions.  For example, say you have come a presentation or at one of the search conferences. You now have the choice: your heavy laptop or iPad your light and ultra portable to bring.Not sure what to do? here are some ways you can use your at your next speaking gig iPad, and then you can decide to take the best device.

Getting your presentation organized
There are some useful tools you can use on the iPad, can your speech to organize and prepare it präsentieren.Hier are a few that prepare you.

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How: articles and posts quality topics writing keyword focused,

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One of the things I often say that the most blogger get wrong to is focus keyword wise, cute or entertaining to sacrifice. Yes, it is important that you your blog posts as interesting as possible; but never the opportunity to tie in commercial concepts to ignore you. I often criticized get, you say, what wrong, but not, how to make you it right, here are a few examples are times how you write interesting blog posts are more keyword focused.First out of the gate an article from New York about how saw an artificial Tan without like Snooki is from the Jersey Shore. As we come in summer, many people look for due to look how have a tan without the time in the Sun or spend in a solarium.  Artificial tanning products been around for years, but the results hit or miss.This article discusses this issue with a draw in the coast of New Jersey, making a nice pop culture Haken.Wenn it my home page and no news page it would have some affiliate products links, but I think you get the picture.

Further to an other seasonal post but this is has a viral keyword catch. I know knew flip flops at the supportive shoes, but I don't you your Shin muscles work harder... made you? When I passed by the magazine rack at the gym, I noticed that toning shoes have begun on the front pages seem a lot, but I didn't know much about.Here is an article about muscle building shoes by USA today, who plays viral hook "Revolutionary sneaker or overhyped gimmick." If you come across articles is very likely that it knows teilen.Ich, I.Again, if I ran a site, and we have an article as it would have certainly some affiliate links in there.

Hopefully until now, that you're familiar with the concept of an editorial calendar and it to your advantage is use an excellent opportunity to try and some KWD concentrated - search with things as related to father's day to erfassen.Diese kind of posts are simply, because you know you come have a lot of time and can else to notice your release for maximum Zeit.etwas: see how interconnected, the mother's day post below... you don't miss out on ways in which.



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Advertising and usability

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As the Web matures and begins to displace, replace or work with established news, information and entertainment sources, will the ads created for this content, get pays also change. If you combine this with the growth of the smart phones like BlackBerry, Android, iPhone and appliances like the ipad, advertising will soon be confronted with new obstacles. … Publishers need to adapt and overcome... and you need to do it quickly if you survive... the problems, the advertising faces several fronts to come. First carrier are abandoning the unlimited, all you can eat business model in favour of tiered pricing based on consumption (see why you on AT & T's iPhone data plans, even if you don ' T own a iPhone care should).This leads to think consumers before with high bandwidth programs as audio or video streaming.Ein secondly is usability: some publishers have designs that take up so much is almost impossible properties that it works on usability and it, the content to read a normal website, let alone a smart phone (see Forbes or IDG).

In response to this problem consumers begin to use the software to remove advertising. Affiliate links for years have removed programs such as Norton and Adblock is one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox and chrome. A new contender in the market is a script that back convert a site known as readability view and navigation, removed the sidebar to text. The same applies to other programs such as instapaper or read it later. While many publishers partial RSS feeds as a way to drive advertising look on your websites to brackets, it is clear that they no longer are in partial feeds to a sustainable solution.With the announcement that Apple display, the stripping has adopted technology of readability in your OS this is always a problem, we have to deal with, to be sooner than you think Später.Wenn show not part of the computer operating systems you must reconsider your position.Publishers must adapt and overcome-and, you need to do it quickly if you plan to survive.

While this is still an evolving issue, fortunately there are solutions, you today implement can, for example, if you use as your CMS WordPress, can the problem with a commercial plugin yet another related post solve. here is a sample post presents five different ways: on the Web on readability from the mobile site in a RSS reader and instapaper.



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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

How: find up ideas

July 19, 2010in fun, how to

Chris Dixon had an interesting post about a while ago. The advice 85ºc spreadsheet ideas to keep and speak many intelligent people (entrepreneurs, potential customers, VCs, people in large companies).It is good beraten.Paul Graham wrote in 2008 about startup ideas he wants to finance.

Here is another way to get ideas with startup: walk around your House or apartment, and search for "hot spots".A hotspot to an area of high information density, clutter, stress, disorganization or any place, a suboptimal solution. then you think about a Web or cloud solution for these Hotspot.Werfen you a look at a few examples:

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Multi-Level Marketing BS

Jul
19

Ausgezeichnete Penn- & -Teller-Programm auf Multilevel-Marketing. BTW, NSFW. Diejenigen, die leicht beleidigt, sollte nicht sehen es.Nichts davon.Nicht eine Minute.....

Als Penn- & -Teller zu Recht darauf hin.... Is Easy Money BS

Diese Multi-Level-marketing-Systeme nicht nur zu Hause Parteien für Sexspielzeug, BBQ-Zubehör und Haushaltsreiniger, natürlich. Sie sind weit verbreitet im Internet. Wenn Sie jederzeit im Internet-marketing-Kreisen verbracht haben, werden Sie Hunderte, zweifellos gesehen haben.

Am schlechtesten Business ever.What ist Multi Level Marketing?

Multilevel-Marketing ist, in dem der Verkäufer verkauft Elemente auf Kommission - mit einem Twist.Die eigentliche "Chance" - angeblich - sein ist hatte Rekrutierung einer Downline.Eine Downline besteht aus anderen nur-Kommission-Verkäufer, die versuchen, anderen nur-Kommission-Verkäufer zu rekrutieren. Und so weiter. Einige können sogar ein paar Produkte verkaufen!

Anscheinend sind Sie nicht berechtigt, zum Verweisen auf das dreieckige ägyptischen Symbol mehr.... Das Problem mit Any Marketing Opportunity

Ein großes Problem mit MLM, oder Markt Gelegenheit, sei es Affiliate oder andernfalls ist die Größe des Marktes.

Alle Märkte sind begrenzt.Alle Märkte sind begrenzt, da die Zahl der Menschen endlich ist.Einige Märkte sind erheblich geringer als andere. Zum Beispiel, die Zahl der Menschen, die $ 2 K, oder was auch immer, ist ausgeben, sagen, ein Rapid-mass-cash-code-instant-money-generator recht klein.

Das ist nicht zu sagen, es nicht Geld gemacht werden, jedoch die mehr Menschen, die versuchen, flick Produkte oder rekrutieren eine Downline, und je mehr Menschen, die versuchen, Rang gut in den SERPS, die weniger Chance ein zahlender Kunde über einer Website kommen wird.Behauptungen über eine Menge des leichten Geldes auf-Verkauf solcher Produkte, sollten daher mit einem großen Körnchen Salz getroffen werden.Bewertung von Market-Size And Potential

Hochstilisierten marketing-Möglichkeiten oft nicht, weil Sie versuchen, Grunderzeugnis in sehr gesättigte Märkte zu verkaufen.Oder kann es sehr wenig Nachfrage nach dem End-Produkt.Wenn es eine große Nachfrage, würde sicherlich Sie Geld in erfahrene Vertriebsmitarbeiter investieren, um Marktanteil voraus zu greifen.

So wie tun Sie Größe einen Markt, MLM oder sonst?

Wenn es eine einfache Möglichkeit, gut.... Leben wäre zu einfach:)Wirklich, es geht alles um einige gebildete Vermutung.

Hier ist eine einfache Möglichkeit, darüber nachzudenken:

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What creates digital ghetto?

Jul
19

Open source software is awesome and I am the existing much reicher.Aber concepts in widely downloaded free software to work, are not considered elsewhere. One of the best books on this subject is Jason Lanier on a gadget, inspired much of this post.

Openness is one of the most common important ideal build on an online business.The reasons which it is preached as strong

everything is free not have about the penny gap, so it is easy to economies of scale, gain traction comparison against paid Alternativesopenness encouraged built on the work of others (and re-mashing bits of other works wrapped in a thick layer of show) growth and the margins, which created the above 2 enable the embedded value in the network effects on a greater fool for a huge number of your intrinsic value is to be flipped

But most such pieces are exploitative and temporary basiert.Sie are leveraged bets with hidden costs.

The free tool that you use is a free tool use.

People to publish open access content on your server means you spend hours per week, the fight against spam, and when you kiddie porn book (or similar) sets your website without warning.To create your website on this same "free" service that went without warning?Oooops.

Not long ago the publicity whore, the importance of loyalty & openness sermons all of its freelance authors with a notice 1 week in doses, but revoke their ability to delete their own content, before to break the news to you.

YouTube intentionally violated copyright because you thought someone else it would put legal invoice to eat $ 100 million.

The network of free content is a black hole PageRank creative flows PageRank on the shadow sites that show strong wrapped.

43,807 Friends have? how many of you know your name? I define a friend as someone who you know that something embarrassing about who also something embarrassing about you Weiß.Wenn it none inside jokes, there are no Freundschaft.Der only way you have thousands of friends is when the word friend is meaningless.

Networking seemingly only yesterday was top of the world is today's digital ghetto.

When you create exposure the openness that originally was vital to overcome obscurity can an obstacle geworden.Das is exactly why the highest web company completely off closed sind.Sicher you may be a public relations angle where you promote openness (and maybe you should too), but in addition, it is often better to go the other way.

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Blekko cozy up to webmaster, offers killer free SEO data

Jul
20

Both Microsoft and Yahoo! have confirmed that werden.Ist a testing of the Bing algorithm of that live begin on some Yahoo! traffic this month the big questions from an SEO perspective, what happens to Yahoo! Site Explorer?If it goes away, then webmaster link data from Web indexes that receives perhaps built from SEO companies must either open site Explorer and/or majestic SEO.

Yahoo! offers a link: search in their BOSS program. While you have explained that the BOSS program will live on, there is little chance the link: operator working in it about the longrun, search on Bing has disabled as bing inbound link.



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Contents of agriculture - SEOs get it, journalists not

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Google's Brand Debacle Backfires

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13

Wie Google die Grenzen der erreicht gibt im Direktmarketing begannen Sie schieben den Wert des branding, (weil, hey, wenn Sie es bis zu latente branding Wert Kreide können keine Obergrenze für Ihr Maximalgebot ist).Überraschend, habe Sie selbst viele große Marken, ihre eigenen Marken und kaufen Sitelinks auf die AdWords-Anzeigen zu kaufen. Einige gingen soweit vorsieht, dass Fallstudien wie viel von ihrer eigenen Marke-Verkehr Sie waren jetzt bereit zu bezahlen, die Sie zuvor erhielten kostenlos. : D

Sicher, die Sinn für saisonale Promotions machen können, aber könnten Sie die gleiche Sache mit Subdomains und Schwester Websites.Dell.com können die Haupt-Website werden, Dell.net (oder deals.dell.com) können die Angebote & Promotions-Website werden und Dell.org kann die gutes Karma-Charity-Website sein.Keine Zahlung jemand anderes für Marke verbrachte Sie bereits um zu bauen. Schön.Aber ich schweife ab...

Im Oktober 2008 offenbart Google CEO, welche Ad-Dollar, die Sie jagen waren und welche Schlupfloch Sie waren erschließen in ihre Relevanz-Algorithmen

"Marken sind die Lösung, nicht das Problem,", sagte Herr Schmidt."Marken sind wie Sie sortieren, die Senkgrube."

Das führte zu der Marke-Update, und jetzt Google empfiehlt sogar bestimmte Marke Modifizierer beim Suchen nach Wörtern wie "digitale Kameras".

.. ...und hier ist das Problem...

Weniger als 2 Jahre nach Herrn Schmidts prophetischen Marke drivel, der Financial Times ist eine Reihe auf Google, in denen Google's Amit Singhal Marken als ein wichtiges Thema Schuld ist dabei:

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Provides links to third party Web sites

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Last week I was having a discussion on Twitter about whether some links were purchased.Some people were confused about how to buy link to your advantage, if you buy links to a site, you do not own (aka of a third party) can use. I thought I'd a little Ed ju Macating and some tips and tricks to share.

First standard link off, buying Disclaimer: purchase policy is links against Google. If you engage in link buying, you may be subject to up to and including removal from the index penalties.The following post is not a confirmation of the purchase link.It is for entertainment and educational purposes only. happy, Matt? OK, let's get to the point... hypothetical of course speak.



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The loss of privacy in an opt out world

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Anyone over the age of 30 spent loads of time online the gradual erosion of online privacy and how we to a point slowly move where has chosen our online lives consciously - in to be become by default.

... faster than an Aztec priest ever your still-beating heart... could a disturbing trend among people in the Valley ribs and other technology centric sites is the submission or almost complete delivery of work to sacrifice the copyright, intellectual property, your privacy on the altar, and lead sometimes even the large computer Singularity (a concept I shamelessly steal by Jaron Lanier am). Part of the collective sum of information is all your work and data.The value of the individual is subservient to the singularity of data.Your work is even if create it under copyright, used and often abused in mashups from others and sense of self-esteem and individuality are growing this Singularität.Ihren as you believe not Mark Zuckerberg would own: among the collective body of human Wissens.Wenn sum he it to the highest bidder sold should not you already have if you don't want that to happen



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Monday, July 12, 2010

Personalized Google News - be on the test

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For a moment I would like to think back to high school.Remember how it was, that a child would raise your hand and the question "is to be on the test?"Now, thanks to personalized Google News we have the answer.

… When was Google News to limit news sources I've read, I would never article have seen or had announced... week Google the idea last, will bring personalization to Google News.I have no love Google's personalized search, but I understand that Google thinks there is a POD (see point of differentiation) .the problem with this personalization is that if you limit your messages only for sources you agree, you the whole picture is missing. As the annoying child in school, so focused on passing an exam and getting a good score that is missing the big picture and the opportunity to think and learn.

Since I the iPad is one of the things I started, the news about newspapers do re-read applications.Put me ideas and concepts that I see when I hope lesen.Ich only SEO blogs and forums, make me a more educated and well rounded person, but I know you allow me to be more creative: I take things I read and use as a starting point for the projects, which I'm on.For example, was this article on Crown Victoria and Lincoln town car set me the inspiration to write a social article Prius and other "green" cars always taxis for an automotive site I work.If Google News would the news sources I was to read limitation, I have never seen that article or had this idea.

... by limiting the your entries that you limit, a problem... I know your perspective and your ability to understand the culture of Google populated one by people in the singularity of life to glauben.Dieser believe in the singularity permeates everything you do as you approach your problems and life in the Allgemeinen.Es is why you're ready, all without a second thought to the singularity with an almost religious zeal to opfern.Dieser difference in beliefs was accentuated when I read Clay Shirky's book cognitive surplus (see book review)



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Excessive worry about competition

Missed opportunities

You too much about, you are against competing concerns? Feel competitive research leads to many more "move to please"instead of"Let's go!"Kinds of results? believe it or not, it can be a good sign.

Competition is generally a good thing, it means that lohnt.Viel try Kraemer to fight something slide ways, "revealing hidden markets that otherwise nobody knows, that it is millions of with little effort, and you can make for only $ 47."



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Google as Publisher...

Jul
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You may want to use different labels (to minimize fear in the market & slow regulators), and could claim that aggregate statistics the investment taxes & so you're not publishers but plan to slip a piece large markets away from the top of the many.

AdWords was just the beginning!

... You see videos, cards & product search like Google in any self deals while managing, call added a value it feature (or something similar).

If Google data, hosts data, possible data collects, recommends, personalized consumer habits and then small investment in new content is proven past artists (and then a bit stealth type promotion on your network)... as it is possible for Google losing money?(Outside of complaints)?

Google can "Media are democratisation" at the show a string of successful partnerships based on investment with real time data exclude none other than access to behaupten.Unterdessen if you are a Publisher to snag your business model by paying people your content and wrap you it display in their while you also redirect user's attention to the company and the actions which have invested.

"One day we had a discussion where we thought we could only try and... and then we decided the stock market predictions it was illegal.""So we stopped doing."-Eric Schmidt, Google CEO

Keep in mind that no moral debate was it on the table.Your only internal restriction on setting up a hedge fund and fluctuating markets the profits which would increase your trades, you are thought it was banned.

How much of the online ecosystem Google can consume before encourage publishers to other views of the Web?

One way to fight this type of strategy is Yahoo!'s sales or outsource everything, but the logo Strategie.Es increases in the short term but it makes so edges, in the longrun much anfälliger.Google can always buy the partner of choice and then free promotion & validation, who won the acquisition from previous partnerships riding. eyeballs, but volatile Ones.Tod by thousand compromises bring adding secure more noise to a noisy market.

The other is interested to define arbeiten.Oder markets too small for Google & create a new vertical how Zynga.Selbst with is as shady as Zynga's founder, long-term, which is in a better position than Yahoo!.

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Monday, July 5, 2010

Case study: I heard on Google and I failed

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This is a post of why natural link building seems no longer work despite Google not admit that.

I don't know how often Google said: "products great content and if users find it helpful, recommend and link to you." "But Google, how do I get these people even by your engine to come?"Great content to produce and you come (somehow). "You will find your content and recommend!"

It was January 1st. I have decided to start a blog and hear Google's advice.I started MixTheNet and decided I and some I wrote wollen.Bisher for rank 31 world on topics I write articles, all amazingly great content.My motto: I will not focus on building links for the search engines (by building you manually), I only traffic will get to my articles and hopefully, some of the people that see, how you find useful and links related to you!So I manually align 90% of my time on building useful content, 10% on building links.

I did that for 6 Monate.Einige of articles got on the front page Digg 5 times (it is easy to get if you know how with an average article on Digg FP but I got more diggs than average because the content was really useful) got marked on StumbleUpon .many you, that's all about good/interesting content (about got 10 of article 20 k)



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Webspam projects in 2010?

June 30, 2010in Google/SEO

Over a year and a half ago I asked for suggestions for webspam projects for 2009.The feedback we have hilfreich.Es was very is almost exactly mid 2010, seemed so it like a good time to once again questions: which projects think you webspam to should work, year 2010 and beyond?

Here's the instructions from a previous post:

Based on your experience, close your eyes and remember what areas you want Google work want probably about it for a while to think würde.Sie comments and I will without ads other people to mention any specific area bias, would; I want to consider people what you think, Google to decrease webspam in the next six months to a year should work independently of each other.

Once you come, you think the administratorische, are the most pressing, please add a constructive comment hinzu.Ich won't called individual sites or much discussion; only chime in once with what working on webspam Google want to see.

Add your proposal, below, and thank you!

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The inside line on SEO

There are so many blogs on search engine marketing.

Then there are so many forums.

And Tweets.

SEO so much noise, and so little time.

How give anyone with sense? the flood can for the experienced SEO, not to mention the poor beginners overwhelming •devices SEO just starting the ten areas should most of the time to spend, are here if you, to start.

1. Listen to read blogs, Forum, Tweets, Facebook auf.Zu much ADO, Takin ' all your time:)

"SPAM"



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Sunday, July 4, 2010

How does Google work?

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This image you may need in the coming years updated, but it does a great job which setting works when a query in your search engine is so easy eingeben.Suche to do, like Google, it is difficult to estimate, how complex it is, unless nehmen.Das is exactly a look under the hood, what does this picture: D

Beefy image, click the image to full size: D



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Book Review – Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus

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Clay Shirky hat ein neues Buch genannt "Cognitive Surplus" in dem er untersucht, wie das Internet ist verändern uns als Gesellschaft von Verbrauchern und wie wir unsere neu gefundenen Überschuss von Zeit, Energie und Brain Power verwenden, um erstellen, freigeben und miteinander verbinden.

…Obwohl so viel von was Kinder online tun trivial und frivol aussehen kann, was Sie tun, ist die Kapazität um die Kommunikation zu verbinden, Gebäude und letztlich zu mobilisieren …

Clay Shirkey

Im Geiste einer vollständigen Offenlegung möchte ich sagen, dass ich eine kostenlose Bewertung-Kopie des Buches bekam, aber dies in keiner Weise meine Meinung über das Buch beeinflusst. Ich bin ein Fan von Clay Shirky's Arbeit seit geraumer Zeit gewesen. Ich habe auch sein Buch Here Comes Everybody gelesen und genossen die Keynote, die er bei SES San Jose in 2009 gab. Der Schwerpunkt des Buches mit wie sind wir als Gesellschaft davon entfernt, eine Gruppe von sesshaften Verbraucher Inhalt beanspruchen, TV, Filme, Videos und print-Medien auf eine aktivere Gesellschaft, die nicht nur verbraucht aber auch teilt und Inhalte produziert, verschieben. 

In der Vergangenheit nur große Unternehmen und Konzerne zu produzieren und Verteilen von Video-und print leisten konnten.Dank des Internet, Websites wie YouTube und Blogs, kann jeder Produzent sein.Dank der Anstieg der sozialen Medien haben wir die Fähigkeit, in Verbindung mit anderen Gleichgesinnten und teilen diese Kreationen.Viele People–and gegründet nicht nur Medien Providers–wonder, wo Menschen die Zeit, um diese neue Aktivitäten finden.Wie das Buch bespricht sobald Menschen verstehen, wie diese Ressourcen in eine motivierende Weise zu erschließen und Sie sesshaft Verbraucher aufgeben, die Menschen entdecken, Sie haben eine Fülle von Zeit und wählen Sie es in einer Weise zu verwenden, die bereichert und macht Ihr Leben mehr zufriedenstellend, oft ohne das Ziel, einen Gewinn zu machen.



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The webmaster, programmer, developer and blogger's Guide to getting things done on an iPad

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As I my iPad, were some of the things I wanted to know how much could I really get iPad done one, where could it my laptop ersetzen.Hier are the programs and the apps that I use to do things.

Here is a screenshot of the programs I use



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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Thanks to this month's sponsors June 2010

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I say thanks to those who the blog would be sponsored this month without you not regular posts here.

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An interview with Johns Wu

Jun
21

Internet success stories get sexier than the story of Johns Wu each rarely.

In 2006, an undergraduate research student in the Neurosciences began Johns a WordPress blog it with the name Bankaholic.com.Eine one-man-Show, John used a SEO/SEM oriented approach to build traffic and revenue.Just over three years later he sold reported $ 14.9 million Bankaholic BankRate for one.

He was 22 years old.

Before recently gefangen-Up with Johns.Dies a challenge proved a bit, as how he currently enjoy, completes the ability all over the world to reisen.Er, graciously just long enough to some questions about his success and what it takes to create a multi million dollar website to answer these days.



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Create important people a business by focusing on angry overly?

Jun
24

I just read a WSJ article about how some hotel chains try people left to publicly advertise negative remarks about your brand.

' I hate my room, ' the traveler Tweeted.Ka boom! Upgrade!

In General, the idea is crap.

Essentially are resources that try to make the most disaffected segment of their market happy and rewarding people for throw away their brands with free upgrades & other benefits expenditure. And so it teaches complain more people & arbitrary things to complain to finden.Daher friendly presents the tip on how to get free tips, room upgrades, like: "You have a lot of online friends or followers.""Hotels will pay more attention to your requests."

Hey Ritz Carlton & Shangri La... We have 10, thousands of readers and you suck! Please save my free upgrades for the next time I'm in the city. : D

Thinks someone got these leading brands where you are by keeping track of complaints on Twitter? Customers who have complaints is actually worth hearing likely enter directly, rather than tweeting it.

The people dissatisfied are often the kind of people, the shopping by price and 0 brand loyalty. And no matter what you do, it's never enough.About two days after opening our membership site (almost 2 years ago) I got a call while on the road from someone who couldn't figure out how log. I pointed out where it was.This was spent genug.Ich not good about 6 hours, try digging through the PHP to make even more intuitive application for you. The next day, you request a refund, asked because I not 24 / 7 phone support bieten.Die application was not the problem. It was just an excuse, handy. The problem was, they were cheap and nothing good enough for you his.And only to a little more salt in the wounds, about a week later someone else complained about how the login wurde.FAIL changed! : D

Since then we have increased our price 200% (as we have added more tools, more staff and value my time keeps going every day) and we have many people who are happy as long-term customers at a higher price. In fact some people accidentally cancel your account I get 3-5 emails in an 8 hour period when I sleep because you miss the site so much.

But the opposite end of the spectrum also there: potential "customers", request a free trial, begging for aggressive discounts or have 50 "another question" before he questions. Sold you probably are not enough to bother the sale value to be the solution.No matter what offer you his go to be probably not enough.Your lack of internal value is reflected in their perception of the works of others, and if you buy from you, without sold on you you are likely to ask a refund or want to, you can make abusive find a way.

In our support Suite mark your messages as critically. While the people many non-paying non-customers, customers pay a less use extreme level like normal.The levels that can select people are almost a Filtermechanismus.Haben spent $ 0 with us & select your problem as critical & use caps lock & rude slurs?Shift-delete.

I have not intentionally plan it, but our old programmers even another filter integrated into our business model.People who join and then immediately cancel gesperrt.Wir immediately receive refunds will then send, but this level of filtering filters out a large potentially abusive Kundentyp.Der won't type, to read in General or research, but questions, 5 different starts each every single day until its members that have annoyed that you are forced 8 different ways to reduce the noise.The person who makes over 100 contributions in their first 2 days is no time to read, hear or implement instead so that you only your community would damage without any value out of it.

This leads to my theory of filtering: If a person much support a customer (or before you become a customer) then you probably not going to be a good customer.And if you as a customer to take (or pushing towards this spend money) you will probably lose money.

The person who "should I install why Firefox" an angry email only sends me 5 seconds of my life wasted & will never be a penny with me verbringen.Und is fine.

Many of the best companies polarizing sollen.Sie choose your spots and define what you do and work hard is satisfied to stellen.Das this market segment, as Steve Jobs views to Flash, and it's, like Marc Andreessen like to invest.

Find out, find what people smarter than you do and a way, these issues in your business strategy to integrieren.Die are smaller, which can be more polarizing, you because you do not have to create something that feeds of thousands of employees to be profitable.

She could spend every day trying to make any unfortunate person happy with your listing.

... OR...

What, if you took these same resources that were spent, to appease the angry and spent for those who are happy to make that much happier? the free upgrade to go if it, a furious steroid addicted customer is given or go further, does when someone given, who remained with the hotel several times in the past? where are you on this circle?

To think the concept here is that if someone already pretty loyalty is to not make it much more marketing or attention



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Friday, July 2, 2010

A Look at Full and Partial Feeds in an Increasingly Mobile World

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I’ve long stated that I prefer full feeds over partial feeds. Now that I’ve spent the past few weeks using an iPad, I feel even more strongly that full feeds are the way to go and that offering partial feeds is an obstacle to getting your posts read by as many people as possible.
Two sites I read on a regular basis that offer partial feeds are Search Engine Land and Wired Magazine. I like both websites and read them on a mostly daily basis, using a either Google reader or the Newsrack iPad app. In an effort to be clear, I’ll disclose that I am also a regular columnist for Search Engine Land.

As use of blackberries, iPhones, iPads, android, smart phones, and other Internet consumption appliances increases, I think it’s time that publishers rethink the use of partial feeds …My typical routine includes scanning the list of feeds 1-3 times per day. If an article is interesting and something I want to read, I’ll send it off to Instapaper to read on the iPad while I’m at the gym later that day or (if absolutely necessary) on the laptop. The iPad has really affected the way I consume. It’s much easier to read on the iPad than it is on a laptop or desktop computer.

When I encounter a partial feed, it’s problematic because I have to send it through a middle service provided by Google. Google actually scrapes the content and provides a “light” version. You can see an example at this URL or the screen shot below.



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$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

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Recently Slots.com sold for 5.5 million dollars, when the general public looks at a domain sale of six to seven figures it erupts feelings of envy, mysticism, curiosity and plain head scratching disbelief. Much to the delight of companies such as Godaddy.com people go out in droves registering hundreds to thousands of domains treating the url’s like virtual lottery tickets. Let’s be realistic, companies do not sink thousands of dollars into an investment unless there is a calculated ROI, here we explore the reasons such as SEO value, branding power and conversion.

SEO – Needless to say one looks at a short, intuitive .com and sees obvious immediate value, but the real underlying benefit is in the Search Engine Optimization edge an owner gains. When you target a keyword(s) to rank for in Google what you are doing is attempting to gauge your prospects as they are having an internal conversation. Long story short (and what many people in the domain industry miss) is domains get you to the front page of Google for that term in a shorter amount of time. Many Internet marketers who read this are going to say,

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SEO Competitive Intelligence Strategy

It's bad enough having to compete with Google's engineers.

But to win the search game, you need to out-compete your competition, too!

Back in the dark, distant past - around the turn of the century - there was an "us" vs "them" mentality in search. "Us" being webmasters, and "them" being search engines.

Back then, in those simple times, in-the-know webmasters gathered in dark forums to discuss and share cunning strategies to crack the algorithms. There was a time when the postings of the secretive GoogleGuy were a big deal. Imagine - a search engine rep actually fraternizing with the enemy! How strange was that!

Times have changed.

These days, webmasters are more likely to work with the search engines, in the form of Adwords and Adsense. GoogleGuy is now the non-mysterious Matt Cutts, who helpfully announces indexing changes before they happen, even if he is still rather vague on detail.

Unfortunately, the collective "us" - webmasters - do not share the same level of camaraderie we once did. As search marketing is now above radar, competition levels have become fierce.

It's more dog eat dog.

Winning The Search War Against Your Competitors

Once we've figured out what Google wants, or we think we know what Google wants, we then need to out-compete everyone else who thinks they've figured it out, too.

Typically, webmasters reverse-engineer competing sites. Who is linking to them? What pages are linked? How old are the links? What keyword terms are they targeting? What are their most popular keywords? What Adwords are they running? What meta keyword tags are they using"? ;)

Good questions - apart from the last one, obviously - and a legitimate strategy for emulating high ranking sites. Tools like SEMRush provide a valuable insight into what our competitors are doing. BTW: Not pimping, I've been using SEMRush a lot recently, and I think it's a great tool :)

However, there's more to it. We also need to look at some other, non-technical factors that reveal something much more lucrative and interesting.

Competitive Analysis

Competitive intelligence is an ongoing, systematic analysis of our competitors.

The goal of a competitor analysis is to develop a profile of the nature of strategy changes each competitor might make, each competitor's possible response to the range of likely strategic moves other firms could make, and each competitor's likely reaction to industry changes and environmental shifts that might take place. Competitive intelligence should have a single-minded objective -- to develop the strategies and tactics necessary to transfer market share profitably and consistently from specific competitors to the company.

The essential question underlying competitive analysis is this: "why do some web businesses do a lot better than others?"

In terms of search, we not only need to look at the technical aspects of the sites positioned above us, but we also need to analyse the markets in which they exist, what our competitors goals are, their pricing and products, and even obscure details, such as who they are hiring and firing, and why.

As you can see, it's not just about getting ranked higher for a certain keyword term. It's about getting ranked higher in terms of overall business performance. It's about seeing what market they capture, and where that market is heading in the future. Once you've figured out that, you might be able to discover new keyword streams that your competitors have missed, and may never think of.

Ok, so how?

How To Undertake Competitive Analysis

It would be nice if you could call up your competitors and ask them exactly what they're doing, and where they are heading. But we all know that's not going to happen.

We have to do a little investigative digging.

The problem is we don't want to do too much digging, as it is time consuming and can be expensive. Thankfully, a lot of the answers we need are sitting right in front of us.

Ask these questions:

What is the nature of competition?Where does the competitor compete?Who does the competitor compete against?How does the competitor compete?

The nature of the competition is the overall market, and market forces. Take a look at Google Trends, trendwatching sites and other market research tools to figure out where their market is now, and where it heading. Does the market require significant resources? Why are these competitors in these markets? What related markets have they avoided, and why?

A concrete example. A few years ago, many SEOs competed as service agencies. Market trends showed that a lot of SEO was moving in-house, particularly at the top end. As SEO moved in-house, demand rose for training. A lot of SEOs are now engaged in training.

Ask yourself where your market will be in five years time.

Where does the competitor compete?For example, are they limited to a certain geography? Culture? Language? Do they have an offline presence?

Who does the competitor compete against? Make a list of the, say, top ten competitors in a niche. Compare and contrast their approaches and offerings. Compare their use of language and their relative place in the market. Who is entrenched? Who is up-and-coming? Who has the most market share, and why? Can you grab some of this share?

How does the competitor compete. What are the specifics of the products and services they are offering. Lower prices? High service levels? Do they provide information that can't be obtained elsewhere? Do they have longevity? Money, staff and resources? Are they building brand?

Whilst we could go into great depth, the value of even a basic competitive analysis is considerable.

By doing so, we can adjust our own offering, like altering price and service levels or by targeting a specific niche. We may slice a new niche in order to avoid direct competition with a highly resourced, entrenched market leader. We might make a list of all the things we need to do to match and overtake that fast rising new challenger. We then position against keywords aligned with the competitive realities we face.

There's much more to search competition that algo watching, keywords and links. And many more diverse ways to compete, too :)

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Thursday, July 1, 2010

SEO Flows Through Everything

Anyone who has been an SEO consultant knows that SEO is often bolted-on as an after-thought.

Which is, of course, the worst way of doing SEO.

Part of the problem is that SEO is often thought of, by clients, as a fix. It is a fix applied to solve the unforeseen problem of not showing up in search engine result pages.

Whilst some businesses get it, we know most never will. But this fact is to your considerable advantage if you build and run your own sites :)

Relevant Traffic Is Everything

We know that a site without traffic is like a billboard in the desert. If no one sees it, it doesn't matter how pretty it is, it is useless.

A site without relevant traffic is a cost, not a benefit. Traffic that "just passes through" presents a major opportunity cost. What did that traffic really want to see, and why aren't I providing it?

Someone else will be.

We know that search is the ultimate internet marketing research tool. Search is marketing nirvana. Visitors tell us what they want, using a keyword query, and all we need to do is match that query up with our site.

Most people, outside search, still do not get this.

But we do.

Integrating SEO At Every Step

One thing some SEOs may not get is that SEO needs is an integral part of business strategy.

SEO is not just about positioning a site in the search rankings, it's about positioning a site in the market.

For example, it is pointless getting a #1 ranking for "cheap t-shirts" if a site sells designer t-shirts. Whilst this may result in a few rouge purchases, the site will constantly lose out to sites that offer cheap t-shirts.

Because the visitors will reformulate their search queries until they find the service that is most relevant to them. From a business point of view, it may be better to run two sites - one offering cheap t-shirts, and one offering designer shirts.

That's what being relevant really means. Being relevant to a target market.

An SEO strategy should look like this:

Identify the target marketConduct a competitive analysisCreate a business plan that shows how you will compete in that marketResearch keywordsCreate a brand identity related to those keyword termsCreate a search-friendly siteGet links

SEO flows naturally out of the demands of the target market.

The visitors tell us what they want. We look to see if anyone else is providing it. If they are, could we do better? We create a basic plan showing how we will supply the need, and how much money we'll make, after costs, if we succeed. We develop a strategy, as opposed to tactics. We investigate the many ways people phrase queries. We create a "language" for our site copy, and brand, that includes those queries, and addresses the intent behind them. We build a crawlable, well-ordered site and then we tell the world about it. We hope the world will talk about it, the send some attention our way.

SEO Is Ongoing

Just as business strategy is something we must do each day, so too is SEO. Integrate SEO into all you do. Even sending out a bill is an opportunity to ask someone to engage with your site. And hopefully link to it.

Ask your friends, associates, suppliers and customers to link to you. Do the same for them. Create a personal link network of like-minded people and grow that network wider and wider. Think of it as a circle of trust.

Your keyword referral stats are pure gold. Find the keyword terms people have used to find you. Use them as ideas for new page topics. Integrate their language into your copy. Repeat. Grow organically based on the demands of visitors. It's just a case of "listening" to them. And responding with new pages.

Join related clubs, forums and organisations. Find out the top sites in your niche that accept advertising, and advertise on them. Write articles for them. Contribute to discussions. Go to wherever your potential visitors are.

Every page should link to another page on your site in a strategic, meaningful way. Think of any page you write as the start of a funnel that leads to other areas of your site. You want to subtly direct people to the page or action where they'll engage with you. For this to work, you need to have a clear business directive in mind. What is it you want people to do? Every page is a step leading to that point.

Be newsworthy. And remarkable. What do you do that's really interesting? Social media thrives on, and rewards, the different - the thing that is new. Same-ness - not so much.

Position for both business and rankings :)

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iPad Apps and Social Media

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In case you didn’t already know, I’m the owner of an iPad. Like a lot of other people I didn’t get it when it first was announced: like everyone else, I thought it was meant to be a laptop replacement. It’s not. While you can use the iPad to get things done, be a content producer, and a publisher (look for more details in an upcoming post), it really wasn’t meant for that (see iPad was made for everyone but us). It’s a consumption device. Having spent a few weeks with mine, I have a few thoughts about what makes a good iPad app and what you can do to get more out of yours should you build one.

In my opinion the ability to synchronize to a website or cloud based data, is a key component…For those of you who don’t have an iPad, a brief primer: applications that were written for the iPad use the full screen and work better than apps written just for the iPhone. All iPhone apps will run on an iPad, but, unless they have an iPad component, they run miniaturized and (quite simply) suck. The experience is like going back to an amber monochromatic dumb terminal. It’s wholly unsatisfying. The Facebook app is this way, so I just run the normal Facebook website on my iPad.

Being a consumer device, one the things I use it for is reading the news. Some of the apps I use are the NPR app, USA Today app, BBC app, and New York Times Editors Choice app. You can see screen shots for each of the apps below.



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Scribe SEO Promo Code Ending June 4th

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I’ve reviewed Scribe SEO and mentioned it as a tool I like to use a few times here. If you’ve been thinking of using it but where concerned about the price, theres a promotional offer ending today.If you use the code PROMO27 when you checkout you can get the $97 level for only $27, but it ends June 4th 2010. If you’re still unsure they offer a new starter plan for only $17 a month you can only put it on one website a month and run it 15 times, but it’s a great way to test it out IMHO.

I still think you’re going to get the best value for your money with the $97 expert plan discounted to $27 with the code PROMO27, especially if you use writers from places like eLance or TextBroker, who arent always the most SEO savvy writers, and need a little cleanup. I find that with most articles I can make sure the right keywords are emphasized and get into the high 90% or higher range with 2-3 evaluations and suggestions, and I have definitely made affiliate sales because I used Scribe SEO.

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