A Sampling of the Latest Marketing News

I have been hard at work writing a white paper that we will be releasing today on do it yourself social media marketing. As a result, my blogs have been rather infrequent – my apologies. Here, however, is a quick list of some of the articles that have piqued my...

Google’s Vanessa Fox Discusses Duplicate Content

Google Product Manager Vanessa Fox posted her notes from the Duplicate Content Summit at SMX Advanced. She discusses some of the recommendations from the audience members and some of the questions and answers from the audience. It is worth a read if even just want to...

Who Will Beat Google? “I Cringely” Answers

I just finished enjoying a great article cleverly prophesizing Google’s future fall from grace: “The Final Days of Google: It is Going to be an Inside Job”. It was written by PBS Pulpit writer Robert X. Cringely. Check it out.

Google and the “www” Issue

It would appear as if both www and non-www versions of websites are no longer being treated by Google as separate pages, at least where Page Rank is concerned. We know that the visible PR in the tool bars is only a loose indication of a site’s actual PR, but it can...

Alexa Bullies Statsaholic and Copies Advances

Amazon’s bullying tactics make my blood pressure rise. Alexa (owned by Amazon) has chosen to file a lawsuit against Statsaholic.com for “stealing Alexa’s proprietary data by disregarding the rules for Alexa’s Web Services–through which Alexa...