I had the pleasure of speaking at the same private client event as Dennis Haugan, the Senior Director of Web Marketing Strategy at T-Mobile USA, the American wireless arm of…
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How do you know what is search spam?
Most people try to play by the rules, but I got a question last week as to exactly what the rules are. I think that’s the wrong question. The rules…
Read MoreWin in Social Media by Treating Employees Right
I was flipping through a copy of Fast Company when I saw another one of those quotes. You know the kind I mean, where the CEO talks about how treating…
Read MoreWhat are you optimizing your pages for?
SEO, as you know, stands for Search Engine Optimization, and you might rightly expect that SEO is about optimizing pages to appeal to search engines. And you’d be right. Increasingly,…
Read MoreIs your SEO strategy to barely avoid spamming?
When you drive your car, do you set out to go as fast as possible without getting a speeding ticket? So, you might judge that you can go 10 miles…
Read MoreCalling attention to yourself
I always wonder whether I am doing the best job of marketing myself. Yeah, I know I do a better job of marketing myself than anyone else does, but you…
Read MoreIs marketing more than a trick?
I’m a bit hesitant about writing this post, and I took great care in crafting the headline, because I have had a bad experience writing about this subject in the…
Read MoreIBM buys Coremetrics as the analytics battle heats up
IBM doesn’t make too many mistakes, but I thought it made a big one four years ago when it sold off its SurfAid Web analytics business to Coremetrics. Today, IBM…
Read MoreWhy optimizing your pages for search doesn’t work
SEO stands for “search engine optimization,” so you can be excused for thinking that optimization is the most important thing for you to do. And it can be, but the…
Read MoreSelf-promotion, Internet style
I had dinner last night with Frank Reed, whose writing graces this page each Friday. Somehow the conversation got around to self-promotion, a dirty little hyphenated word that no one…
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