Tonight, I had dinner with Dr. David Verebelyi, Chief of Laser Surgery for the Colorado Center for Photomedicine. They do liposuction in Denver, laser hair removal, and other laser-based skin procedures. We’re doing cosmetic surgery on his website– not his face or butt! We’ve celebrated one year with Dr. Verebelyi and he mentioned that in […]
Doing cosmetic surgery on a cosmetic surgeon– what we learned in 2009 Read More »
I look at ads all day– it’s part of my job. I even go out of my way to click on ads to see what competitors are doing. So rarely am I surprised. But today I saw this: Yes, it’s an ad not promoting Content Factory, but actually targeting Content Factory. How’s that for a
This Facebook personalized ad nearly made me fall out of my chair Read More »
Okay, I admit it. Some of the details can be a little challenging. I still have to look up a bunch of HTML that I’m sure other bloggers know by heart. I don’t know exactly how Google PR works, and I’ll be damned if Alexa rankings make any sense to me. What I do know
Blogging is as Simple as Pulling your Head out of your Ass Read More »
I wanted to know whether Albertsons was still open, so I did a Google Search. Here are the results: As you can see, Google saw that my search query had local intent, since I have a city name and state. And you can see they picked the two nearest Albertsons locations. So far, Albertson’s is
Albertsons’ botched local listings– are you making this mistake, too? Read More »
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 term for you or your client– but really it’s because you search for that term
One mistake in organic search you’re probably making Read More »
Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook.com wrote today about a service that sells fans for 10 cents. On the surface, sounds great, right? You could have 10,000 fans for only $1,000. But wait a minute. What share of those fans are based in the US? Probably very little, since the unsold inventory is for Turkey, Chile, India,
What’s a Facebook Fan cost? When is $10 a better deal than 10 cents? Read More »
You’ve heard about the rise of Farmville on Facebook– 63 million users and growing, representing 20% of Facebook’s users, not to mention that Facebook represents 25% of pageviews in the United States. But have you considered how game dynamics are beginning to permeate your life and that of your friends in ways that aren’t directly
Unexpected Ways that social media will ROCK your world Read More »
I get pitched a ton of ideas and most of them are pretty good. No doubt, it’s a GREAT idea! Odds are that it might not be truly unique, as is typical in web entrepreneurship. However, the winner in the space is the first to properly execute. No experience founding a company before, don’t have
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Ever gone into AdWords and seen stuff you hadn’t seen before? Google likes to keep releasing these features and not telling anyone about them– maybe to keep us on our toes or to use the general public for beta testing? Anyway, a couple of days ago, I blogged about sitelinks in AdWords— that you can
Sitelinks in Google PPC Ads– You don’t want to miss this! Read More »
We were doing a PPC audit for a home security reseller and noticed that the #1 paid spot has 4 site links below the ad. We’ve always known that you can get up to 8 site links if you’re the #1 search result and have sufficient authority. But to see these in paid search? Note
Have You Seen Sitelinks in Google AdWords Premium Ad Positions? Read More »