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7 May 2010

Alexa, Quantcast, ComScore, Compete, etc… Are they accurate?

We get this question all the time, so I’m going to answer it here and then point people back to this post.

Alexa is the most well-known of the traffic measurement services, but also the least accurate. Let me explain…

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14 April 2010

Why some technology companies fail and others succeed

Many folks speculate why Google has overtaken Yahoo! in search or why Facebook has dominated in social networking, versus Friendster. I believe there’s one key factor— if you’re running a technology company, you need a technologist at the helm.  Larry…

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14 March 2010

10 Commandments of Running an Ad Network

If you run an ad network, see how many of these 10 Commandments you actually deliver upon versus just say you do:

1.  Thou shalt deliver publishers better eCPM’s: Not the highest payouts, but just better than the competition. That…

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10 March 2010

Five Magic Words to Grow Your Online Marketing Agency

You don’t want or need to have every potential deal that’s out there. Be choosy. Would you rather have 40 clients that each pay you $1k a month in fees or 4 clients that each pay you $10k a month?

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24 January 2010

4 steps to make a KILLER Infographic and drive natural inbound links


Gather some interesting statistics and then make a chart out of it– and you’ve got yourself an Infographic.  Examples are showing a map of the world and income for each country displayed by green bars.  Or perhaps it’s…

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4 January 2010

Google now offers Pay Per Call indirectly

If local advertising companies aren’t already quaking in their boots with Google’s recent blitz of new enhancements in local– Place Pages, Favorite Places, Caffeine, ad extensions,

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2 January 2010

2010 Local Online Advertising– why we’ll see massive growth

Let’s first address the size of the local online advertising market, then show why these masses will have a good shot at finding success in 2010, but haven’t before. If you don’t like…

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21 December 2009

Google AdWords Bid Simulator– observations

 The new Bid Simulator, which you’ll see in the keywords tab, forecasts how many clicks and impressions you’ll see at different bid levels.  It only shows the simulator for some of the keywords– not sure what logic is used to…

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7 December 2009

One mistake in organic search you’re probably making

For the last year, Google has been showing personalized search results– did you know that if you are logged in versus not, you’ll often see different search results?  Thus, you may be thinking that you rank highly on a search…

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9 September 2009

Check your landing pages for this

Recently seen and heard again, starting anything with the words: “Do you need” or “Do you want” are big spam flags.  It’s mostly applicable to email, but also on web pages.  This will affect you in organic search and possibly…

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