OliverTaco

Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 66 days ago
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Category: Social Media
Digg hung our blog and buried it in a pauper's field without a trial and with no review. That's not the "wisdom of the crowd" or "social peer pressure" - it is French Revolution style mob rule.

What makes it worse? The guy who got his friends to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 83 days ago
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Category: Search Marketing
At least. Which is a pretty good piece of pocket money. I suspect even Warren Buffet would slow down to pick that up.

I attribute this to SEO because even thought it was a change in business process coupled with good SEO that made it happen it co read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 87 days ago
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Recently I have been bending over backwards to be a good digg friend and to really nuture my network. Not only because I am a nice guy (when I don't have low blood sugar!) but because I have been thinking and reading a lot about the dynamics of fri read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 92 days ago
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Does you new friend on Digg drink Guinness or Valvoline?

I don't think you can apply a pure Turing test (human or robot?) to Diggers, because Digg is a highly complex system and you can't know as much as you need to.

But there are some things read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 94 days ago
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As you might have heard, the Entrecard guys picked up $100K+ in funding. So I sat down to have a ponder on what that tells us. 1,200 words later I had a post about analyzing someone's VC funding. Enjoy! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 101 days ago
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We added pagerank, inbound link count, page load time, etc to our huge list of social networking and social bookmarking sites - so we call it a "heartbeat" because it will tell you the health and increasing/decreasing power of a site over time.

W read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 101 days ago
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Category: Online Marketing
The strategy centers around faking your own death. For added buzz, you should also consider spinning the story so that you died while blogging in order to gain maximum A-List penetration (reminding them of their own mortality might be the last way a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 104 days ago
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It's 800 words long, has 20+ links, contains both Latin and the word "huzzle," and wants me to free Tibet.

Priceless. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 105 days ago
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In my last article about Google possibly punishing Digg I contrasted Digg versus a niche pligg site, VOIPigg. And I noted that you might too casually dismiss VOIPigg.

Here's why you shouldn't.... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 107 days ago
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Here's where you are: balancing on a razor's edge. You are juggling competing needs:

* Capitol for product development
* Cash flow to pay for sale effort
* Attention required to staff two different models:
* Traditional consult read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 107 days ago
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Have you ever found a utility that you know you'll only need every month or so but that you never knew you needed until you found it?

Here you go: Down For Everyone Or Just Me? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 111 days ago
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So you're rocking along, doing some pretty good dollar consulting, and you build a small product, internal use only, to help you get your fixed price projects done more quickly. And now you're really pulling in some bucks. Then a junior consultant read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 112 days ago
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I was watching one of my favorite shows, Torchwood, and at a very important point in this weeks space opera episode they have to try to find out the nature of an inter-dimensional creature given just a few words it mutters in their presence.

So t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 121 days ago
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Category: Online Marketing
Heh, very funny. My favorite is still number 6: Wear comfortable shoes. What? Which of those words did you not understand? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 128 days ago
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You asked for it. And now it's here! The Digg Friend Finder bookmarklet is now available.

Just drag the link to your toolbar. Whenever you're on a page that has some interesting text and you'd like to see which Digg users have submitted similar c read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 128 days ago
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Do you write content to get people to use/buy your tools or do you build tools to get people to buy your premium content or services? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 129 days ago
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Category: Search Marketing
I just bought my father in law a Garmin Nuvi 660 for his birthday and, as I am interested in all things Google, I tried shopping for it in there. It was a fascinating descent into a totally wild west environment. And I think that there is a very int read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 129 days ago
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Category: Searching
When we released Digg Friend Finder and Backlink Pinger we thought that the people who were visiting every day would find them useful and maybe make a few more visits. Perhaps even put the blog on their RSS Feed.

Wow, we did not really anticipate read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 132 days ago
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Category: Social Media
I finally had a chance to have a good think about OpenID and how it will actually work in the world of Social Bookmarking and networking.

It's gonna be really really really bad. Really.

Let's just say that the phishers will *love* the results read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 132 days ago
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What do you learn when you release a SEO tool into the digg community? Ten thing, of course.... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 134 days ago
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Category: Social Media
Let’s face it. Making Digg friends isn’t always easy. But to conduct a successful social bookmarking strategy, you need to find ways to make friends and leverage their linking power.

Why is it important to make friends? Well, without friends, cha read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 134 days ago
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Keyword research sounds very intellectual and theoretical, but it is very actionable information. If you have the phrase "driving technique" as a key phrase and the suggestion comes back that "snow driving" has 1K searches a day, well, you can do so read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 138 days ago
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If you want your content to do well (link juice, readers, fame and fortune- whatever) you either have exactly three options:

* World Class Link Bait
* Pounding Out A Thousand Singles
* Don’t Be A Friend To Mankind

Baiting a Dull read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 140 days ago
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I was on the plane coming home and the cat next to me in first got to talking. It seems his son (11th grade) had put up a website extolling the virtues of his plumbing business and they'd actually gotten a customer from a google search the day befor read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 142 days ago
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What does it mean when people put "free" SEO tools out and they break? Promise rankings. Sell spammy link pages. Engage customers without contracts or SLA's?

I'm not saying that SEO is different from, say, CRM or ERP implementations. Anyone who h read more »
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