Web Strategy

This article-submission stuff *feels* just a little bit grey-hat to me... What do you think?

Awesome way to check your "personal brand" username availability!

The value of a product for users shifts as it moves through the product lifecycle. Initially it is about new functionality, later it is about user experience and price.

Good article on using Twitter over-all for promotion... while NOT actually promoting your product! Engagement is the key.

Testing your ad copy and your landing pages can significantly improve your paid search efforts. Of course, building a solid keyword base, creating an optimized account structure, and executing a well-planned bid management strategy are also crucial. However, testing allows you to understand how to optimize and improve your communication with your target audience. Conducting thorough tests on your landing pages can deepen your audience interaction and increase your conversion rate.

Search for a brand and see it's online popularity

what do you think of this article: "we don't need you to design anymore". Is the web designer in real danger of disappear to templates or bad design that still have success?

Holy Cow! This is Open Source now!!! What a video editor - for free!!!

Chris Farrell has the best membership site teaching internet marketing that I know of. This is my affiliate sign-up page to get his free book and start receiving the 26 video free course he offers. The membership site is the only way anyone makes any money, though after watching his videos, it is likely you will want more! Honesty and integrity in a very pleasant package.

About on page optimization

Dollars are a little tighter this year than last, so learning new ways to stretch marketing dollars is vital. Improving your landing pages so they convert more sales is a dynamite way to boost your Return on Investment (ROI). Here are a few tips for making your landing pages more effective. The goal is to make your landing pages more persuasive, more focused, more complete -- and provide the testing feedback needed to measure the success of your efforts.

Just ordered the book - Erik Qualman's website looks terrific as well!

systems thinking and design for integrated appliaction management

This post is part of a series examining some oft-neglected online customer touch points and exploring ways to optimize them. Today, I'll look at a type of page very similar to thank you pages - the logout confirmation, or logout thank you page.

Great point - Every touch point matters.. Use your logout/login/thank you/subscribe pages for good. Use them as content outposts. Use them to upsell. Use them to pull people back into your site

In continuing with my series of quick social media tips (check out 5 tips for LinkedIn) I'm covering some tips for business use of Facebook here. I've actually written about some of these tips in great detail before, but this can act as a quick primer for folks who like their info snack sized like this.

In continuing with my series of quick social media tips (check out 5 tips for LinkedIn) I'm covering some tips for business use of Facebook here. I've actually written about some of these tips in great detail before, but this can act as a quick primer for folks who like their info snack sized like this.

A couple insights to future Google additions to their ranking algorithm: brands as noise filters and relationship awareness. Exciting stuff....

If you ask Matt Cutts what big SEO changes are coming up he will tell you "make great content" and so on...never wanting to reveal the weaknesses of their search algorithms. Eric Schmidt, on the other hand, is frequently talking to media and investors with intent of pushing Google's agendas and all the exciting stuff that is coming out. In the last 6 months Mr. Schmidt has made a couple quotes that smart SEOs should incorporate into their optimization strategies - one on brands [15], and another on word relationships [16

New tool for Auto direct messages on Twitter, among other things. Still a little rough, but growing. Paul O'Mahoney (The Twitter King) is collaborating with the programmer setting this thing up and making it better.

Cool new tool to compete with Google's Website Optimizer

Recommended by many as best streaming "social-capable" site