I love this description of the World Wide Web of today, from Kevin Kelly in his recent Wired article We Are the Web: The scope of the Web today is hard to fathom. The total number of Web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request and document files available through links, exceeds 600 […]

Ever feel like you blinked and you missed some hugely important new trend online? I admit it; sometimes I feel that way. I take a break from my RSS aggregator for a day and I feel totally out of the loop. But I usually catch up pretty quickly. For those of you who don’t live […]

It was an exhausting couple of days this week, as I manned my company’s Natural Search Optimization Site Solution Clinic. I was critiquing sites for attendees starting at 8am and going through to 5pm both days. This was a new initiative for the folks at WBR (who own the Etail conference). It wasn’t at all […]

I was recently interviewed by a journalist on business blogging and its benefits. He wanted to know specifically what it’s done for me to have a blog. Here’s what I told him: I’ve gotten inquiries from prospects who found Netconcepts through my blog. My blog helps me get speaking gigs and PR. In fact, I […]

It’s no secret that even the most laid-back of individual, when online, transforms into a demanding and impatient web surfer. Nothing aggravates them more than a slow or unresponsive web site. For example, a 30 second Flash intro can elicit the electronic equivalent to road rage. Unsurprisingly, the longer you make your visitor wait, the […]

My executive summary of the MarketingProfs thought leaders summit on “blogs for marketing” has been published on MarketingProfs.com as a two-part article series (part 1 came out last week, part 2 came out this week): A Business Case for Blogging: Thought Leaders on Marketing Blogs (Part 1 of 2) A Business Case for Blogging: Thought […]

The excellent MarketingSherpa website and enewsletter is having its 2nd Annual Reader’s Choice Blog Awards. Vote here. Voting ends Wednesday June 8th. This little ol’ blog of mine is a nominee, so if you choose to vote for me, I’ll be forever grateful!

The Washington Post and others covered Google’s recent acquisition of web analytics software company Urchin, but I really haven’t seen much from the media (or from the bloggers, for that matter — with the exception of Traffick, which makes some excellent points, particularly point #4) on what this means for marketers (and certainly for Urchin […]