Monthly Archives: February 2011

I Disagree with Fred; Marketing is for Companies that Have Great Products

Posted by randfishOne of the people I admire and respect most in the technology, startup world is Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson. A little more than a year ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fred in his New York offices, just as S… Continue reading

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CNN: Growing Backlash to (MFA) Content Farm Update

CNN: “Google made one of the biggest changes ever to its search results this week, which immediately had a noticeable effect on many Web properties that rely on the world’s biggest search engine to drive traffic to their sites. Comments from site opera… Continue reading

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CNN: Growing Backlash to AdSense Farm Update

CNN: “Google made one of the biggest changes ever to its search results this week, which immediately had a noticeable effect on many Web properties that rely on the world’s biggest search engine to drive traffic to their sites. Comments from site opera… Continue reading

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Google Encourages “Nuanced” Approach to No-Follows

Matt Cutts is often the insider who lets us – John Q Public – know what’s going on inside the giant Google machine. He’s the one who told us that the search algorithm makes more than a change per day on average, that Google is focusing on preventing cloaking as part of its first quarter […]

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Google AdWords Adds “Conversion Optimization” Option

There’s little doubt that the AdWords interface from Google is both powerful and appealing; after all, that’s how Google has managed to achieve an estimated $27.4 billion per year in online advertising sales, eclipsing all competitors combined. But Google never sleeps, and AdWords itself is certainly not short on innovation. The most recent addition to the […]

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Google AdWords Adds “Conversion Optimization” Option

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Chrome Introduces High-Powered Background Pages

Chrome is certainly an industry leader in innovation, even if it hasn’t quite swept the market yet. The Google-powered browser has still managed to show such high degrees of security that hacking competitions turn it down at such high levels of speed that Microsoft has to cheat to make their latest browser look more powerful. […]

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Chrome Introduces High-Powered Background Pages

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Google to Chrome Users: Calm Down – The Omnibox Is Safe

Google has long been a fan of minimalistic designs that get right to the point. The Google search engine was nearly revolutionary for this tendency, competing with a world of engines that functioned like spam pages, filled to brimming with links and ads. Google followed the same tendency with the Chrome browser, drawing in a […]

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Google to Chrome Users: Calm Down – The Omnibox Is Safe

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Bring Your Tumblr Content to WordPress With Ease

Commercial WordPress theme shop WooThemes launched Thursday a new exporter that makes it easy for Tumblr users to transfer their blog content an… Continue reading

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The Fastest Ways to Share Anything on Twitter (FireFox and Google Chrome)

Let’s face it, we tweet a lot. Most of us have a great habit of sharing any interesting article we come across. And I am sure you are already aware of quite a few browser tricks to quickly grab the page URL, add a comment and share on Twitter. Let me share a few more […]

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The Fastest Ways to Share Anything on Twitter (FireFox and Google Chrome)

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Searchfest Recap: My Favorite Takeaways

On Wednesday, the 5th annual search marketing conference, Searchfest took place in my humble town of Portland Oregon. This is always a great conference with amazing speakers and really smart people asking really smart questions. I attended the advanced track sessions and thought I’d share my favorite takeaways from the day. Conrad Saam’s rankings rant […]

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Searchfest Recap: My Favorite Takeaways

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