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Killing this blog, softly…

Since the only ones who read this blog seem to be comment spam bots, I’m officially killing it off. I enjoy my work, I enjoy SEO. I enjoy doing it though, not writing about it. I’ll leave the writing to the ones who really enjoy it.
I’m trying to get better at focusing [...]

Posted 20 August 2008 † Aaron § Other ‡ Comments (0) °

SEO for Wordpress Blogs

Here is a free white paper released by Blizzard Internet Marketing and written by my Pubcon friends Mary Bowling and Carrie Hill.  If you’re blogging – or getting ready to start – this white paper is an easy to follow guide on setting up your blog with Wordpress and tweaking it in order to maximize [...]

Posted 18 February 2008 † Aaron § Optimization Tips § SEO § Search Engine Strategies § WebMasterWorld ‡ Comments (0) °

The Perfect Internet Marketing Conference

Today a guest post from SEO Mary Bowling, who I had the pleasure of meeting at PubCon last month:
I’ve attended 3 unique internet marketing conferences this year, each hosted by a different big-name producer. Each had their own strong and weak points and none of them were ideal. So, I started thinking about all the [...]

Posted 02 January 2008 † Guest Poster § Online Marketing § Other § Search Engine Strategies § WebMasterWorld ‡ Comments (8) °

Google Tips from Blogger Conference (via CNET)

Nothing too earth shattering here.  But, Stephan Spencer has posted some tidbits from Matt Cutts’ talk at WordCamp 2007.  Most aren’t specific to just bloggers and offer more insight [...]

Posted 08 August 2007 † Aaron § Google § Online Marketing § Optimization Tips § SEO § Search Engines ‡ Comments (0) °

301 Redirect in Action

On Friday I upgraded this blog to the latest version of WordPress (2.0.4); hopefully I didn’t screw anything up too bad.  In the process I found that Yahoo still had a bunch of pages from my old blog indexed in its search engine.  I had imported all of those posts to this blog, so they [...]

Posted 02 October 2006 † Aaron § Other § SEO § Search Engines § Yahoo ‡ Comments (0) °

Free Search Marketing Guides and Info

I’m often asked, “how do you keep up with search engine marketing?” “Isn’t it always changing, how do you know what to do?”
There’s so much free search engine marketing info, both natural and paid, on the web via newsletters, blogs, etc. that I usually don’t find it necessary to pay for informational products [...]

Posted 30 June 2006 † Aaron § Google § MSN § Online Marketing § Optimization Tips § SEM § SEO § SEO Tools § Search Engines § WebMasterWorld § Yahoo ‡ Comments (0) °

Is Jeremy Zawodny Giving Out Your Email?

Well – that may be a bit of a stretch. But, while playing with the new Google Blog Search tool today, I did discover something interesting about Jeremy’s blog platform and Google’s new Blog Search tool. Jeremy is a long time blogger and Yahoo employee who I’ve seen several times at conferences on [...]

Posted 24 May 2006 † Aaron § Google § Search Engines ‡ Comments (0) °

Web Analytics Interview

Lee Odden has posted an interview with Eric T. Peterson, Vice President with the Visual Sciences division of WebSideStory.  WebSideStory is a web analytics firm based in San Diego and is the company behind the HitBox stats product as well as HBX Analytics, search and bid management tools, consulting services and more.  Peterson is also [...]

Posted 17 May 2006 † Aaron § Analytics § Online Marketing ‡ Comments (0) °

WebMaster World Pubcon Boston

I attended the Webmaster World conference last week in Boston. By far it was the best search conference I’ve been to. Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink, the New Yorker) gave the keynote and was great. I really enjoyed the focus on the social aspects of search, communication and the web; which [...]

Posted 26 April 2006 † Aaron § Search Engines § WebMasterWorld ‡ Comments (0) °