The Podcasting & New Media Expo and SMX Social Media just past and the next conference for bloggers and podcasters is just on the horizon, the BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, NV. Podcasting – once reserved for technical types or those with the financial backing to hire a podcasting specialist – has …
Sam Harrelson broke the story over at ReveNews that Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, has been confirmed as the keynote for this winter’s Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas, NV (February 24 to 26, 2008 at the Rio Hotel and Casino). He must have received notice of that via email or twitter, because the official …
The equally titled panel discussion at Search Engine Strategies San Jose in August moderated by Jeffrey K. Rohrs, with Shari Thurow, Kristopher Jones, Kathleen Fealy, Jennifer Laycock and Jonathan Hochman as speakers, was very emotional. I would say that it was even more filled with emotions than the “hot” panel discussion “Are Paid Links Evil?” …
You can just sit there and wait and you can be sure that every now and then somebody will come along who has the urge to bash the whole SEO industry. First Mr. Pasternack who started a series of attacks against the industry last November to continue this year to go into round two and …
The two part article “Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy” is already long enough. I had more content, which I decided not to include, some (IMO) funny stuff. Here is some of it. It’s off beat and you can skip it, without missing out on something. I tried to make comparisons to …
This is part two of the article: ”Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy“. Now here is a misconception that I would like to correct. People that buy links do this to gain ranking for a term that is relevant for that page. Even links on sites about Linux that say “buy Viagra”, …
One of the most interesting SES SJ panels last week was definitely the panel “Are Paid Links Evil” with Matt Cutts (Google), Michael Gray (Graywolf), Todd Malicott (Stuntduble), Todd Friesen (Oilman), Greg Boser (Web Guirilla) and Andy Baio (Upcoming.com). The panel started with a funny, but off-topic video by Matt Cutt’s and made it clear …
Stumbleupon.com launched a new beta interface tonight. I just noticed the change when I stumbled a few pages. I was playing around with the new interface and I have to say that I like it. It is IMO much more intuitive to use. It also looks much more organized and overall better and more visually appealing. …
While I was in Miami at Affiliate Summit this July did I had some discussion via email with Andreas Reiffen from Marketing2null.de, about a post he did at his blog (in German) that looks into the pro and cons of changing Google’s paid search model from pay-per-click to CPA, also known as cost-per-action. It caught …
There are only a few days left until the SES Conference and Expo will be held again at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. The event starts on Monday August 20, 2007 and ends on Thursday August 23, 2007. This years keynote speakers are Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com (Tuesday keynote) and …
