Boost Adsense Income With Keyword Research Tips
Adsense experts boost adsense income with effective keyword research. It is not far-fetched to say that keyword research should be an integral part of the overall strategy for anyone hoping to build a...
Apple iTunes UK offers cut-price album sale
39-33, Recap
A lot of times when a series draws a ton of attention and humongous crowds, you hear that there's a 'playoff atmosphere.' I wouldn't go that far - the Reds are terrible and I don't think people at Safeco remember what the playoffs look like - but there was an undeniable buzz at the ballpark this weekend that isn't usually there. As it happens, ... (Read on Source)
Costa Crociere and Singapore Tourism Board form Global Marketing Partnership
Costa Crociere and Singapore Tourism Board form Global Marketing Partnership.
See Jane Run & Watch the Doctor Fight Daleks on SCI FI Friday? ? Tonight!
Intelligent Leisure Solutions Launches New Website Design and Format
... Intelligent Leisure Solutions has updated their services on the web. Intelligent Leisure Solutions new web design and format allow for faster loading and viewing, more efficient navigation throughout their travel ...
Used Cellular Phones - Should You Buy A Used Cellular Phone?
In today's day and age, people go through cellular phones pretty quickly. While sometimes it's the result of a cell phone getting lost or broken, many times it's simply because the person gets tired o...
Rogers Deliberately Disables Notifications Of Roaming Charges
With the news coming out this week that mobile operator Rogers was finally bringing the iPhone to Canada, almost every Canadian comment on it had something to do with just how badly everyone expected Rogers to rip people off with the iPhone. Apparently, Rogers has quite a reputation -- and it appears to be well deserved. Rob Hyndman points us to a story about the ridiculous roaming charges for those who use a Rogers device outside of Canada. Ridiculously high roaming charges are nothing new, of course. They happen to everyone, unfortunately. What's stunning, though, is that the reporter gets a guy at Rogers to admit that the company demands that all of the mobile devices it offers disable any feature that lets you see how much you've racked up in roaming charges. In other words, they know they're ripping you off -- and they want to make sure you don't realize by how much until it's too late.
If ever there were a short-term strategy, this would be it. This decision most likely "gets" some travelers the first time around (as it got the reporter in the article). However, it then pisses off those users such that they'll never use Rogers mobile phones out of the country ever again. In fact, I'd bet that many start looking at other options entirely. It seems like a plan designed to drive away customers, just for a short one-time ridiculously high charge. There are certainly companies out there that believe an informed customer is a bad customer, but those companies will often find that's not a particularly good plan to stay in business over the long term.
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FDA Seizes $71,000 In Dietary Supplements It Says Were Misbranded
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 9 ordered that U.S. marshals seize $71,000 in dietary supplements that the agency said were being improperly promoted as treatments for serious diseases. Full story on lexis.com
ISPs Join to Block Child Porn
Five major ISPs have signed an agreement with the New York attorney general to block access to child pornography.
Keep Thunderbird from Building Too Big a Nest on Your Hard Disk
TechRepublic: "Through its support for the POP3 and IMAP4 protocols, the program is compatible with nearly any messaging system, and its cross-platform nature makes it ideal for mixed-client environments..."
Industrial design has come on leaps and bounds with the products
Talk of industrial design and automatically many of us will think about our history lessons back at school regarding the industrial revolution. It cannot be denied that this was the pinnacle of indust...
For the love of lock picking
The sport of picking regular old locks has many fans at the Last HOPE hacker conference.
Shot of the day!
AMMAN, Jordan - There is something that Barack Obama's campaign doesn't want you to see: The candidate among the Arabs. In his whirlwind tour, the candidate sped through this city where he is held in joyous high regard both for his Muslim roots and the perception, rightly or wrongly, that he might pursue a more "even-handed" Middle East ... (Read on Source)
Select Your USB Watch of Choice
Which USB watch would you pick? Our first contestant is this high-end looking watch with 4GB of removable USB flash memory. Outfitted with: This watch has a plastic case covered by stainless steel mask with brushed silver finish and convex mineral glass with shiny raised index. The USB flash drive fits inside the watch case flush with [...]
Roundup Thursday for the Week of 7/20/08
Posted by rebecca
Three star links:
- Great news for Internet marketers and e-commerce: more shoppers are purchasing goods via the Internet because of the high gas costs.
- The New Atlantis exposes the "myth of multitasking." Well, there goes my built-in excuse to Rand whenever he asks me why I'm browsing Etsy instead of doing site reviews. Crap.
- Interesting opinions here: Paul Graham discusses pooled-risk company management, and 37signals disagrees with him, saying you don't need to sell your company in order to have financial freedom.
- Say goodbye to the Googlebomb 1.0 and make room for v2: reputation mismanagement. :)
- Coming soon to a Facebook profile near you: Microsoft Live Search!
- Danny Sullivan examines how well Knol pages rank in Google's search results and finds that about 33% of the pages listed on the Knol pages are ranking tops.
- Speaking of Google Knol, the ever-chipper Michael Gray tells us all how to turn Google Knols into an MFA scraper.
- AudetteMedia came out with a free SEO diagnostics tool, the log file parsing script. It quickly parses out key criteria from log files using simple commands.
- SEMvironment also debuted something new: the link builder for Wordpress. The Link Builder tracks the websites and pages you link to and sends an email to the website's owner/administrator, notifying them of your link.
- Kirix.com has a video illustrating Benford's Law against Digg post submissions. They also use the law to show how a woman in Arizona was making fake payments to a fictional company to defraud the state. :O
- A former astronaut claims that aliens do indeed exist. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
Four star links:
- Y Combinator came out with a list of startup ideas they'd like to fund. I think it's pretty clever and classy of them to list some good ideas and express an interest in being involved with them in some way.
- Season 2 of Mad Men starts this Sunday on AMC. If you haven't watched or heard of Mad Men, it's a show about an advertising agency in NYC in the early 1960s. It's a very well written and visually stunning show, and as a marketer I find it especially compelling to see a glimpse of what advertising and marketing was like 40 years ago (especially on more traditional media like radio and print).
- Here's a fascinating study: bloggers' interactions with their readers decrease the more prominent they get. I'd encourage you to discuss this in the comments below, but I'm too important to read them so never mind. ;)
- In case you were all wondering what our former CTO, Matt Inman, was up to, he's still building dating sites. For zombies.
- AgencyTool is "the definitive resource list for anyone designing, developing, marketing, or maintaining websites." The list of resources is pretty impressive. Check it out for some hidden gems!
- Best extra credit idea ever. My favorite is the illustration of the guy using Netscape Navigator. :D
Five star links:
- Loren Baker provides some great advice on how to combat complaint sites that are ranking for your brand.
- Now THIS is some extremely clever and awesome link bait. Can you guess the accent? (I scored a 39, by the way...need to brush up on my Lithuanian, apparently.)
- Congratulations to Sean Maguire for winning our SEO Haiku contest (see Rand's announcement here)!
YOUmoz entries:
- Hey Microsoft, Here's How to Kill Google. Carfeu proposes that Microsoft use Windows to incorporate search into the OS core and effectively get rid of the browser, thus eliminating Google.
- Simple Fix: The Easiest Page Views You'll Ever Get. PennysylvaniaFarmer shares some tips on how to optimize your 404 pages and provide some gateways for searchers so that they don't reach a dead end and leave your site.
- BLVD Status - Track Micro Conversions and Non-Traditional Goals. Cbin shares with us a new analytics program he and his brother created called BLVD Status.
- Link Building Using Unique Original Content and Other Techniques. MattRoberts shares his current link building tactics and encourages the readers to pipe in with tips of their own.
- Dumbing It Down For Your Sales Force. Tim Staines crafts up a letter to one of his clients and shares it with us. It details the benefit of links and the purpose of building them, and also outlines ways to ask for links.
- "Follow" Your Brand with Twitter. Fabio Ricotta talks about Twitter's acquisition of Summize and discusses how to watch your brand/various keywords/events/competitors on Twitter.
- Stop Wasting Money on SEM: How to Drive Cheaper, Better Traffic. RichPage shares some great tips on how to maximize the value of your PPC campaigns.
Best of YOUmoz:
- Advanced White Hat SEO, or How I Learned to Stop Chasing Rankings and Love My Users. LGTim authors up a very well-written and entertaining post identifying the difference between white and black hat SEOs, basic and advanced SEO, and quality vs. quantity. Very eloquently put--read it if you haven't already.
New events added to the Events Calendar:
No new events added this week.
Upcoming events:
- SMX Local & Mobile July 24-25 in San Francisco, CA
- Forex Affiliate Convention July 25-26 at the Flamingo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV
New additions to the SEOmoz Marketplace:
Featured job postings:
- Internet marketing consultant and sales consultant for Rise Interactive in Chicago, IL
- Contracted JavaScript/PHP web developer for Patrick Sexton, aka feedthebot
- SEO/PPC coordinator for SEER Interactive in Philadelphia, PA
Featured companies:
United States/North America:
- Utah Web Services in Utah
- 3K Interactive in San Diego, CA
- ListGalaxy in La Mirada, CA
- Nothing But SEO in Lynnwood, WA
- First Web Search in Las Vegas, NV
UK/Europe:
- Naxtech in Reading, UK
- Ph.Creative in Liverpool, UK
- Collective ID in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Your Media Factory in Groningen, Netherlands
- Construkt Development in Marbella, Malag, Spain
Featured resumes:
Currently looking:
- Lisa Wilberding (who I think lives in Michigan) is a communications and marketing expert who specializes in writing and public relations. She has experience managing traditional and social media relations accounts for various online marketing agencies.
- Michael Kennedy (who I think lives in California) is a versatile Internet marketing executive who has a strong e-marketing orientation. He has over 7 years of experience with SEO, web 2.0 product development and management, customer relations, email marketing, and online subscriptions.
Happily employed:
- Carlos Obregon in Vancouver, BC, Canada is an SEM specialist for HealthPricer Interactive. He manges PPC campaigns with a budget of $50k/month, and he also develops keyword-rich content, title tags, builds links, and performs a number of other tasks.
Q&A: Georgia-Russia Cyber War Blogger Explains All
... it? Basically the RBN started as a very crude hacking group, hiring out expensive Web hosting to hide different users, particularly for the use of malware, cybercriminal usage, even child ...
Top Ten Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won't corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy, and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker. Yet conspiracies do exist. In the corporate world, major companies we buy products from everyday have ... (Read on Source)
Then & now
From Bob Costas to the Maris family to Bud Selig, key figures from a historic night try to put it in perspective D8-9 (Read on Source)
Revealing The Regulating Mechanism Behind Signal Transduction In The Brain
Our brain consists of billions of cells that continually transmit signals to each other. This dynamic process works only when the brain cells make contact correctly, or, in other words, when there is a good "synapse." An essential element in this process is a controlled protein production along with the synapse. VIB researchers are now discovering how the Fragile X protein (FMRP) ensures that protein production is controlled at synapse and regulated by brain activity.
John McCain, "low-ranking monkey"
News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture...and a bit of poetry. (Read on Source)
Tom Cruise death report is "erroneous garbage" (Reuters)
Reuters - Tom Cruise is alive and well, his agent said on Thursday, denying Internet reports that the actor had fallen to his death in New Zealand.
From Old Vials, New Hints on Origin of Life
Researchers who have taken a second look at a classic 1953 experiment say it points to volcanoes as perhaps a more likely environment for where life originated. (Read on Source)
Archive | More stable, simpler Microsoft Windows 7 may be easier to love
... Professional Developers Conference here and told software developers how the company is avoiding its Windows Vista missteps. " The task bar will allow people to organize applications in any order ...
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Gene Associated With Epilepsy Discovered
Scientists have found a new gene associated with the brain disorder epilepsy. While the PRICKLE1 gene mutation was specific to a rare form of epilepsy, the study results could help lead to new ideas for overall epilepsy treatment.
Log4j Viewer and Analysis for Faults detection
XpoLog released a new Application Logs analysis technology with features that helps to report on unique errors, terms and events. The new technology auto detect new messages and tag them to level of risk based on the event content. From <a href="http://www.xpolog.com" target="_blank">http://www.xpolog.com</a>
Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells
Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection ...
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