Miles

Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 10:35 pm
Posted By: wrttnwrd 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
Yes, it's true, Thomas is using rubber chickens to demonstrate competitive SEO research.

Can he stoop much lower?... read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 4:37 pm
Posted By: wrttnwrd 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
First in a series about SEO project planning and startup with a discussion of analytics.

Written by Tom Schmitz of Portent. Dang, my staff are clever... read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: May 9, 2008 - 1:10 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
Today, ShoeMoney and Marketing Pilgrim provided great insights into why they think search engine optimization has no future.

I don't agree. Times infinity. Nyah nyah phbltbltbltblt. So there. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 8, 2008 - 4:04 pm
Posted By: SEOinSeattle 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
Ian vehemently disagrees with Jeremy Shoemaker and Marketing Pilgrim that SEO is singing its swan song. What do you think? Is SEO a burly bully boy or is sand getting kicked in its face? Sound-off on the Conversation Marketing blog.



- read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 29, 2008 - 1:52 pm
Posted By: SEOinSeattle 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: Social Media
Do you want to become a Twitter super user? Learn how to grow and strengthen your Twitter account.


_ read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 20, 2008 - 11:04 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Marketing: Giving authentic, compelling information to the right audience the way they want it, when they want it. That's it. I'm a simple guy. So I have a simple definition. Let's break it down. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 3:04 pm
Posted By: SEOinSeattle 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Search Marketing
--

This takes the cake and IMOH opinionated O is as sleazy as they come. Linkadage is selling .edu subdomains for $50 a month.

"PI.edu is now offering sub-domain blogs that will allow you to educate your potential customers on your field of e read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 11:26 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 150 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Ah, youth. 13 years ago I started my company with a spare room in my house, a credit card (limit: $1500) and a computer (Pentium 75 mhz, Windows 95). If I'd known then what I know now, would I have gone into this business? I don't know. But here's s read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 9, 2008 - 2:19 pm
Posted By: wrttnwrd 151 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: SEO
Tom Schmitz gives a great overview of SEO, breaking down relevance versus authority and the factors that control it.

Plus he has a cool funky disco beat thing going at the beginning. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 31, 2008 - 9:11 am
Posted By: Gab 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Search Marketing
Ian Lurie shares a frustrating case study of a recent/former client who couldn't even implement analytics! The post goes on to share practical tips for anyone working enterprise level seo. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 21, 2008 - 1:58 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Ian Lurie's unfortunate experience with Alaska Airlines leads to an insightful post on 10 ways a business can best apologize if they screw up. read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 20, 2008 - 2:28 pm
Posted By: SEOinSeattle 172 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.portentinteractive.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Why is it that when the B2B sales cycle can be 2 years or longer that most B2B websites do little brand or reputation building and only target leads and prospects in the final stages of the decision making funnel or process?

Is there a better way read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 10:58 am
Posted By: SiteMost 208 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Internet marketing is not SEO. It's not PPC. It's not e-mail or web design, or social media. It's the sum of many parts.

Here's how Ian Lurie see's it all fitting together read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 30, 2008 - 6:45 am
Posted By: LtDraper 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEM Industry
An interesting analysis of some truly bad SEO from Sam's Club, who is jumping into the SEO business. Pick up your SEO along with a package of salmon fillets. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 9, 2008 - 1:13 pm
Posted By: Wiep 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEM
You need an internet marketing strategy, even if it's just "sell lots of stuff". Step one? Tear up your old marketing plan! read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 264 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Social Media
Portent Interactive President Ian Lurie provides an actual HTML template for creating your very own Social Media Press Releases along with step-by-step directions on how to create them. read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2007 - 3:41 am
Posted By: Wiep 279 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
No rocket science here, but nice examples with workable solutions. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 15, 2007 - 10:36 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 297 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: SEO
Online publishers - newspapers, for example - depend on visits and pageviews for their livelihood. The biggest source of visits is still unpaid, 'organic' search results. So, why do so many publishers do such a poor job of optimizing their sites? I read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2007 - 10:52 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 309 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seocritique.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Certainly one for the water cooler, and as the author suggests, this is pure speculation and not based upon a shred of fact. read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Posted By: imnotadoctor 317 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Search engines are hierarchical beasts. They see the internet as a series of structures, and while we can't say exactly what those structures are, there's a well-known method to the madness. read more »
Discuss     
Avatar Posted By: SEOinSeattle 336 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpiranha.com)
Category: Google
Why are people reporting that their Google PageRank is going down but that their rankings are unaffected?

Tom Schmitz at Marketing Piranha thinks he knows and shares all. This is a detailed discussion of how PageRank works, the chaotic nature of read more »
Discuss     

Top 10 Most Sphunn
In What's New

  1. In Social Media- Think About Yourse... (16)
  2. How to Seduce the Cash-Strapped Sho... (15)
  3. Meta descriptions for dummies (15)
  4. With 2.618 % Marketshare Google Chr... (14)
  5. Examples of What Makes Good Content (14)
  6. 7 PPC Budget Saving Tips - Video Po... (14)
  7. What is Cloaking & Is All Cloaking ... (14)
  8. Include Your Website/Blog in Yahoo ... (9)
  9. Germany Warns Users To Stay Away Fr... (8)
  10. The Penultimate Google Chrome Post (8)

Latest Comments

Search Marketing Expo

Save the date for:
• SMX China (Nanjing) - Sept. 23-24
• SMX Stockholm - Sept. 23-24: See who's speaking or register now.
• SMX East (New York City) - Oct. 6-8: See the agenda or register today and save!
• SMX London - Nov. 4-5: Pre-agenda rate now available. Click here.