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Does Google allow some Google Bombs based on corporate PR agenda and diffuse the rest? How can Google possibly avoid the intertwined politics of some bombs? What exactly is the fine line between kosher link building, paid linking, good SEO and blac read more »
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PubCon or SES? Who cares, this incredible banker lady explained exactly what makes an SEM company valuable and how to CASH OUT for the most loot imaginably possible. read more »
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Most of my Sphinn friends are in Vegas, with good reason. There's been tons of speculation. Here's the REAL deal, absent rhetoric, of what SES Chicago actually looks like to me, boots on the ground. read more »
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TopRank has been blogging about SEO and press releases for years and is an experienced resource on the subject. Here Lee reviews the leading services: PRWeb, PR NewsWire, Business Wire, & Marketwire. read more »
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First Google apologizes, "The initial response was probably a little heavy handed...like swatting flies with a sledgehammer." In AdTracker’s phat fantasy buying AdWords increases pagerank. “PAIDRank” is introduced. Fun post from upcoming blogger. read more »
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OK this is Lee Odden promoting a book sales freebie. Still the free teleseminar “New Research: Practical Tips on How to Lift Conversion Response on landing page best practices" looks valuable. From Marketing Sherpa & (TopRank client) Marketo. read more »
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FTA: "You twittered your pregnancy and engagement (and divorce) long before your friends and family found out".

How deeply are you addicted to the social media environment? read more »
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Email marketing is alive and well—better than every before, in fact, thanks to an increase in HTML-friendly email clients and customers. However, if HTML email is still kicking, then egregious HTML email errors are running, stomping, crashing and ch read more »
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On North-American Thanksgiving day, the searches for a traditional dish for the festivity peak. There’s still Xmas ahead with a second, milder peak for turkey queries... afterwards, searches for a diet are building up, peaking right after on New Yea read more »
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YouTube announced a PC desktop client allowing multiple SIMULTANEOUS 10 minute/1 Gig video uploads. YAY! read more »
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I know a lot of people are going to read this and shout "That's not the best way to go about designing web sites!!" All I can say is: this is the essence of the process that works best for me. I offer it in the hope that maybe bits of it will work f read more »
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WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON-Yahoo stock TUMBLED as 2 Chinese dissidents' families hoped congressional hearings into Yahoo's role in the men's imprisonment spurs their release. read more »
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From Li: "Really now - Facebook is redefining the advertising medium? That's really a stretch. Didn't search do that first?" read more »
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It's called "What The Customer Actually Wanted" and is both hysterical and dead-on accurate in so many ways. :-) read more »
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A hilarious first hand account of the first time being Poked (on Facebook of course). read more »
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Do you have a long list of ways you’re planning to distribute your company messages via social media? Stop. You’re doing it wrong. Instead, consider all the ways you can use social media as *input* mechanisms to increase your surface area and cre read more »
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The "News Site" becomes "News" itself. Read the comments baby! Read the THREAD! :) It REALLY Starts to Rock around the 16th Comment! read more »
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Try Disabling your Facebook account and just WATCH how hard Facebook works to try and keep you. A case study from Pronet Advertising. read more »
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From ppcThink: Every Google AdWords account change can have DRAMATIC effects on spending, traffic, conversion rates, and profitability. Raising budget has it's perils. read more »
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Or, I guess more to the point would be, who forgot to follow up the report by manually checking before applying the penalty? read more »
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A nice post complimenting Robert Clough on how he handled my supposed criticism of his advertising model. I totally agree that Robert handled it nicely, and I would like to think I would have done exactly the same! read more »
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Shana makes hearts go pitter-patter with a heart warming allegorical look at the friendships, emotions, dreams, obsessive nature, and depth of our tight-knit SEM community centered around Sphinn. I'm going to have a hard time sleeping tonight... read more »
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Our good friend Andy Beard suggests that Andy Greenberg of Forbes "got it totally wrong when he wrote GOOGLE Scares The SEARCH Crowd." In many ways GOOGLE should be "worried about the BLOGOSHPERE reaction" to the PR debacle. read more »
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ARGGH-even if you OWN a Best Western Hotel you can't use "Best Western" as keyword or in ad EVEN if Best Western corporate REFUSES to buy PPC in your market. read more »
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Barry and a few other Spinners get a link from Forbes

I think the guy got the wrong angle, I don't know of anyone who is actually scared about this. read more »
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