Bill Hartzer

Corey Rudl Family Settles Lawsuit

If you might recall, in 2005 I wrote about the accident that tragically killed Corey Rudl, one of the true internet marketing pioneers. Corey's wife and parents have settled a lawsuit against Porsche and the racetrack where Corey Rudl was killed. Corey Rudl was riding as a passenger of Ben Keaton ...

One Simple Way to Protect Your WordPress Plugins

      I'm amazed that so many popular bloggers use WordPress and don't protect their WordPress plugins. Here's one simple way to protect people from seeing exactly which WordPress Plugins you're using. First, here's a little background about it: If you don't have a default web page (usually index.html ...

Blog Philadelphia Unconference Taking Place in July

The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) and Philly blog uwishunu.com is "Calling All Bloggers, Podcasters, Vloggers and Social Media Gurus to Blog Philadelphia". The The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) and Philly blog uwishunu.com are having a social media "unconference" in July. This inaugural BlogPhiladelphia, an "unconference" for those ...

The New Rules of Marketing and Public Relations

According to David Meerman Scott, corporate blogs are the "ideal tool to bypass the media filter". Corporate blogs are emerging as one of the most effective means by which businesses of all types can bypass the traditional "media gatekeepers" to tell their stories directly to their market. David Meerman ...

More Visibility for Your Blog with an Accurate Ping List

As you may or may not know, I've been "blogging" for several years now. And I'm one of the first that will tell you that not only do you need to have great content on your blog that people will want to read on a regular basis, you need an ...

Pay Per Post Rejects Me

Yes, you are reading the headline correctly. I just got an email from Pay Per Post that they flat out rejected a blog I submitted to their system. The blog that I submitted about a week ago has been rejected due to the fact that there is no way for ...

Answers.com Releases Free AnswerTips Tool for Websites and Blogs

Answers.com has just started offering AnswerTips to websites and blogs. AnswerTips allow sites to provide visitors with instant access to Answers.com's comprehensive information on four million topics, without having them leave the site or blog. If you want to take a look at how it works, I've just implemented it on ...

Duane Forrester aka SportsGuy Signs a Book Deal

I'd like to be one of the first to congratulate Duane Forrester, aka Sportsguy, on getting an official book deal from McGraw Hill/Osborne. Commenting on the book, Duane told me, "The focus is on building a blog and how to effectively monetizing it...the book includes basic information for anyone who is ...

Search Engine Marketing Traffic Jam

I was doing some blogging over the weekend and came across a blog that was sending one of my blogs (yes, I have quite a few of them) a considerable amount of traffic. Not only was it sending traffic, it is listed as the number one search result for a ...

National Pork Board Tries to Stomp on Innocent Blogger

A blogger friend of mine just received a letter from Jennifer Daniel Collins, an attorney at Faegre & Benson that represents The National Pork Board. It stated, for the most part, that use of the phrase "the other white milk" violates their trademark on the phrase "the other white meat." Jennifer ...

March 15th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Optimization 4 Comments

How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 4 Comments

Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What's interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, ...
March 9th 2010
Tags: Search Engines No Comments

CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine

CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience. CheapTweet's 2.0 rollout adds upgrades to its core search engine, voting mechanism, and a new look and feature called ...

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Somehow we had become connected through Facebook or another social networking website and he thought that since we were tagged as being friends online he believed that that gave him permission to call ...

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