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Cheeseburger in a can - Fast food online marketing vs reality

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Wednesday, February 27th 2008   
Topics: Fun Stuff, Online Marketing, Product Marketing    
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This is a nice example an online marketed product that reveals an ‘ugly face’ in reality :)
Check this out: !
This is what the online product picture looks like:

You can view the product live here.
Actually, a very popular DIG story was launched 28 days ago on this burger got a lot of commotion! But the [...]

Introducing ‘Google Subscribe Link’ for custom search results

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Wednesday, February 27th 2008   
Topics: Getting Traffic, Google, SEM    
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This feature is probably unknown by most of you but could become very useful for increasing your users/client Google search experience and relevancy. It is called a Subscribed Link, and it allows you to “create a custom search results that your users, clients or members can add to their Google search pages. Wow!
What is Google [...]

Leap day hackathon for Google Gadgets, Maps, and more

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Wednesday, February 27th 2008   
Topics: Google, Programming, hacking    
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On 29th of Feb (leap day) Google will be holding a hachathon for anyone interested in participating. It will be help at their  Mountain view facility in the ‘The Googleplex building’. If you are in the area and an expert JAVA programmer then it may be a fun day for you to attend. Google says [...]

Popular Social Networking sites across the world

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Monday, February 25th 2008   
Topics: Getting Traffic, Social Networking, Web Statistics    
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This is a nice image created by LeMonde.fr, which nicely illustrates the popularity of the different social networking sites across the world in different countries. This is great data for geotargeting your social media content.

(Click image for larger view)
Here are some of my observations based on the above data for you. Make sure you [...]

Check your Google Search Engine Rankings with Google Webmaster Central!

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Saturday, February 23rd 2008   
Topics: Google, Nice tools, SEO, Web Statistics    
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WELL Well well … What I am about to discuss will make a lot of webmasters very happy and at the same time many ‘Search Engine Ranking Report’ companies are about to go out of business!
It seems that Google never ceases to amaze us and the Google Webmaster team have recently launched a services within [...]

List of Social Networking Sites for Link Baiting - Advanced Link Building

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Saturday, February 23rd 2008   
Topics: Getting Traffic, Link Baiting, Link Building, SEO, Social Networking    
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Link Baiting is in essence an advanced form of link building. Link Baiting is pretty much like baiting a hook: A fisherman would bait up a hook so that a fish would be more inclined to take a bite. It is the same with link baiting. You throw out a link somewhere, like on one [...]

Internet Website Statistics from Netcraft

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, February 22nd 2008   
Topics: Domaining, Web Statistics    
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Here are some interesting statistics open to discussion. A recent Netcraft report published a survey study showing the total number of websites and blogs is around 156 million.

Technorati claims that the total number of blogs alone is currently in excess of 100 million so there this data is open to speculation and interpretation. Putting all [...]

Google Hijacked by Major Canadian ISP Rogers-Yahoo!

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, February 22nd 2008   
Topics: Getting Traffic, Google    
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This news came out in December 2007 but I think it is still worthy of a mention and it brings up some very interesting issues. A major Canadian ISP modified the Google.ca homepage to bring member relavent information to their internet users.
In doing this, they in essense are destroying Google’s “Clean” look and feel [...]

Matt Cutts talks on ALT attributes for describing images

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, February 22nd 2008   
Topics: Google, SEO, SEO Image tips    
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This is an area I have been very involved in the past years - Getting images ranked in Google. And I can tell you that this area of SEO can return enormous fruits if done well. It is especially relevant if your site has useful images to offer to it users. Why not SEO those [...]

Flickr Follows Wikipedia and Del.icio.us - nofollow tag on External Links

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, February 22nd 2008   
Topics: Link Baiting, Link Building, SEO, Social Networking    
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Wikipedia did it 12 months ago and del.icio.us 6 months ago and now Flickr is also following suit. Nofollow tags have been placed on all external links (links pointing to other websites). This is in response to people (spammers included) using these sources as a form of link building playground to point links from these [...]

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