steaprok

Avatar Posted By: steaprok 7 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.louisgray.com)
Category: Social Media
Let's take a moment to pause from our normal pontifications about A-Lists, aggregators, egoism, elitism, monetization, commercialization, capitalization, and such and talk about something bigger. This is something that would ultimately benefit the o read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 11 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Google, the superbrand and top global brand is also listed on the Better Business Bureaus (BBB) list of businesses as having an "unsatisfactory record read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 15 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://help.yahoo.com)
Category: Yahoo Paid Search
After a thorough evaluation of the program, we have decided to discontinue the program. The new program terms are below... read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: July 13, 2008 - 9:39 am
Posted By: steaprok 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google
The incredibly popular NewsDay.com was at a PageRank of five recently, and Google specifically confirmed that NewsDay received this PageRank penalty due to "selling links that pass PageRank." But when I look at the Google Toolbar now at www.newsday. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
This is pefect example of why I don’t use Sphinn anymore. And yes, I realize the irony of writing that statement and then posting a screen shot of Sphinn. I was curious to see if a comic we wrote (which has a gravestone with Sphinn on it) had be “sp read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: News Sites
After months of promises (and third party tools), Digg finally announced this week that their recommendation engine is to be released. Today, Digg has delivered the goods to private beta testers. Here are the first screenshots of the new digg recomm read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Jefferson Graham didn’t just write an article of free SEO tips — he also brought his video camera along. The result is a five minute video interview with more easy, free search engine optimization tips. Again, this is targeted at beginner SEO and sm read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wordtracker.com)
Category: Search Marketing
The Web Digest for Marketers has been in existence online for 13 years. At first Larry Chase, founder and editor of the newsletter, had just one topic to cover – online marketing – but as the industry went forth and multiplied, online marketing expa read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.scribefire.com)
Category: Blogging
As a blog grows it can be difficult to give personal attention to every reader that comments on your blog - however if you can create a culture on your blog where readers talk to each other, help each other, ask and answer each other's questions - y read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://developer.mozilla.org)
Category: Other
After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Other
Google Trends announced a cool new feature for determining the relative search volume between keywords

How can you use this data to build your business?

Predict seasonal trends, as mentioned above.

Better understand the relative volume of k read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Social Media
Twitter is working on adding the ability for users to separate their contacts into groups, support for sending and receiving messages by e-mail, and adding new instant-message and Internet channels for the service, said CEO Jack Dorsey in a one-on-o read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Blogging
obviously the goal of your copy is to do a little bit of both, but when it comes right down to it, which ones is more important? We all know you need to consider your rankings because they can be a fantastic source of traffic, but it's also true tha read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEM Industry
I am waiting for the You & A With Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced 2008 in Seattle. I figured I should post the conference coverage thus far and then add in the links to the coverage of this session. Here is today's SMX Advanced coverage: read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
Kevin Johnson, President of Microsoft's Platform & Services Division announced the release of the adCenter Desktop Beta during an SMX Advanced keynote speech today. The software application allows advertisers to create, optimize and manage online ca read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: June 2, 2008 - 12:14 pm
Posted By: steaprok 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
If you are active in social media marketing, you have probably come to understand that it is a whole lot more complicated than you thought it was going to be. Even as involved as I am in social media every day, I still learn new tricks and tactics d read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google
Google Merchant Search has quietly launched as a test program to compare products and services in shopping comparison engine fashion. Google Merchant Search is a test feature, apparently in the UK, and is not available for every search. You may see read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: June 2, 2008 - 11:38 am
Posted By: steaprok 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Social Media
ou’re interested in promoting your website and brand through social media but don’t know where to start. You don’t want to spend money hiring a marketing company and want to do-it-yourself. How do you get started? read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Paid Search
Los Angeles based law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against Citysearch, accusing it of promoting click fraud. read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.friendfeed.com)
Category: Social Media
started when we wanted a better way to share feature ideas and product plans with each other here at FriendFeed, but not the rest of the world -- a mini FriendFeed of our own. We could have set this up on its own machine in the office, but we knew t read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 63 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://tivate.com)
Category: Social Media
Best known for his marketing advice on Pronet Advertising, Neil Patel continues to work on an array of projects, including Crazy Egg, ACS, Kissmetrics. His niche is Internet Marketing. With the amount of knowledge he already has, he shows he still w read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 3:35 am
Posted By: steaprok 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://learningseobasics.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
"I am a regular participant in Sphinn, but lately I have been extremely disappointed in Sphinn’s quality (or lack thereof).
With the exception of Jeff Quipp, I am beginning to lose faith in their concern for administrative control there." read more »
28 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 9:56 pm
Posted By: steaprok 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: News Sites
A great write up on the controversy with Digg and Mr Babyman.
For months, a small but outspoken number of Digg's millions of other users have complained about seeing as many as three or four MrBabyMan submissions on the front page at one time. As w read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://conversationstarter.hbsp.com)
Category: Social Media
But you can succeed. Here are our best tips, taken right from the pages of Groundswell, which could have been called, “How to be a social provocateur and still succeed within a company.” read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: steaprok 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Social Media
It's no secret consumer generated content is hot. Both McDonald's an Apple have bought the rights to content found on YouTube and turned them into commercials in recent months. Consumer generated content has a "real" feeling to it and can often be p read more »
Discuss     

Top 10 Most Sphunn
In What's New

  1. How Net Promoter Score (NPS) Can Di... (21)
  2. On-Site Geo-Targeting and Local Sea... (20)
  3. Misinformation In the Blogosphere (16)
  4. Google's Knol Launches: Like Wikipe... (15)
  5. SEO Consultation Ruining Industry R... (15)
  6. Negative Keyword Research Tools & T... (15)
  7. Propeller 2.0 Launches: Ditching Th... (12)
  8. “Scads:” The Next PPC Battleground?... (11)
  9. Is Search Engine Optimisation Expen... (11)
  10. Hollywood's Behind the Internet Tim... (11)

Latest Comments

Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
• SMX Local & Mobile - San Francisco, CA (July 24-25) See the agenda, and register now!
• SMX Sao Paolo - Brazil - (Aug. 7-8)
• SMX China - September 23 & 24, 2008
• SMX Stockholm - September 23 & 24, 2008
• SMX East - NYC - (Oct. 6-8) Registration is now open.
• SMX London - November 4 & 5, 2008