I just read Phil Ringnalda’s blog post accusing publishing house O’Reilly of being a search engine spammer, along with all the ensuing comments (many of them critical of Phil’s position). Wow, does Phil need to get off his high horse: How horribly low have we sunk, that I’m not willing to link to O’Reilly sites […]

A pet peeve among panelists in a recent SEO Thought Leaders Summit was the engines’ opposition to the tactic of link buying. Christine Churchill had some wise words to share about link buying: Search engines like to take the hard line and categorize things as either black or white. In some cases, they are actually […]

Imagine launching a website that your readers can actually edit. That in a nutshell is a “wiki.” Sound scary? Sometimes it goes horribly wrong. For instance, the LA Times launched a wiki for their editorials, then promptly removed it after it started getting defaced. But then there are some amazing successes. The most oft-quoted wiki […]

MarketingProfs has kindly made available for 30 days the audio recording and the transcript from the Thought Leaders Summit on “Blogging for Marketing”, a teleconference I led back in March. After that, only Premium Plus subscribers will have access to these materials. Panelists included some of the top-most expert marketers and business bloggers: Seth Godin, […]

Google has come out with yet another innovation. Now you can have your very own personalized Google.com home page.

I’m in sunny Orlando at the Annual Catalog Conference… In yesterday’s Q&A With the Search Engines session, Matt Lydon, Senior Sales Director of Search at MSN, stated quite categorically that they will not offer paid inclusion, the practice where advertisers can buy their way into the natural (organic) search results (but without any control over […]

Hat tip to Steve Rubel for pointing out the new MSN Shopping engine, now in beta. I can’t say I’m overly impressed with it. It does feel kinda like Froogle, with the price range selector on the left side, but it is way over the top with all the graphic logos on the right side. […]

DM News covered a controversial new JupiterResearch report on RSS. The blogosphere was quick to respond. Some of the marketer-bloggers that I hold in high regard — Seth Godin, Bill Flitter, Rok Hrastnik, and Rick Turoczy — weighed in with their thoughts. Some even trashed DM News, like in this thread at Threadwatch.org — unfairly […]

In the past I have put together a list of my favorite WordPress plugins that will help extend your blog’s functionality, search engine optimize it and so forth. In addition, there are a number of tools that are not plugins that you could add to the blog or incorporate into your blog. Here is my […]

A new study on users’ search engine preferences from Keynote found that MSN and Yahoo! have gained favor with users since Spring 2004: Indeed, the latest survey determined that 81% of Yahoo! users and 61% of MSN users say they would go back to those sites in the future. In May, 72% of Yahoo! users […]