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Web Hosts Hijacking 404 Error Pages on Live Web Sites

Some web hosting companies have now taken it to a new low: they are monetizing (making money) from your web site without your knowledge. Web hosts are now hijacking their customers' 404 error pages and putting up a slew of paid ads: advertisements, when clicked, make the company money. And ...

6 Reasons the Search Engine Optimization Industry Needs a Bailout

Since the United States Government has been giving out money recently and calling it a "bailout", many different industries have been stepping forward and trying to stake their claim. We have already seen a bailout in the financial industry, and we have recently seen the automotive industry go to Capital ...

Worst Demographic Targeting Ever: Hannah Montana Tickets Given Away on Digg

  I usually do not make it a habit of pointing out badly implemented online promotional campaigns. However, in this case, I could not help but point out one of the worst demographic targeting that I have ever seen on the web. Hannah Montana tickets are being given away ...

Time Warner and Road Runner Attempting to Monetize by Hijacking DNS

Here we go again. Third Pipe predicted it and now it's happening. Time Warner, using their Road Runner internet service, is attempting to monetize typo domain names and domain names that are not found when their users are type a domain that doesn't resolve. If you are a Road Runner customer, ...

CNN Fails to get IReport.com Live; Oilman Leaves Range, and Other News

There is a lot going on this week and it is only Monday, January 21st 2007. I thought I would catch you up on some of the interesting, totally unrelated things, not in any order of importance. I considered covering each of these items today, but CNN Markets Domain Name ...

Monday Marketing Foo for July 30, 2007

Every week I try to go through the blogosphere and see what everyone's talking about. This week I thought I'd take a look at the SEO (search engine optimization) blogs. I don't know if you've noticed or not, but I recently turned off nofollow on this site. So, if you comment ...

Monday Marketing Foo for July 23, 2007

Jeremy Liew, a venture capitalist with Lightspeed Partners, has a great post about usage numbers of social networks. Hat tip goes to Robert Scoble for mentioning it. Matt Cutts recently spoke at WordCamp2007. If you're interested, Stephanie Booth took notes. Matt Cutts talked about a few ideas for bloggers, including: - make ...

Monday Marketing Foo

Want a free iPhone? Sign up to be a writer at Mahalo, Jason Calacanis' new search engine. The first 100 part time guides who reach 100 search results get a free iPhone from Mahalo. Go here to sign up. You get paid $10 to $15 for each search result that ...

Topix Appoints Chris Tolles as CEO

Topix, a leading news community on the internet, is transitioning from a news aggregator to a news community and "top 20 news site". As a part of this transition, Topix.net has appointed Chris Tolles as Chief Executive Officer. Chris Tolles is a longtime marketing executive and a mamber of the founding ...

Co-Inventor of Wireless Remote Control Dies

Robert Adler, 1913-2007 -- TV Remote Control Co-Inventor I know this doesn't have much to do with search engine marketing, but it definitely has something to do with television--and the wireless remote control is such an influence on my life (yes, I'm a couch potato sometimes), so I thought I'd ...

How NOT to Build Links to Your Website: Courtesy of American Express

As a courtesy and value-added service, American Express is building links and doing search engine optimization for many of their small business clients. Through a division called "American Express Market 3D", American Express is doing Inbound Link Building, Social Bookmarking, and General Directory Submissions. American Express clients are now reportedly ...
May 3rd 2012
Tags: Domain Names 3 Comments

Apple Reveals iPhone4N Via Domain Name Registration?

Did Apple just reveal the name of the next Apple iPhone, the iPhone 4N via a new domain name registration? Based on whois records, Apple has apparently purchased the domain name iPhone4n.com: What is interesting (and perhaps suspect) is that this domain name, iPhone4n.com, was registered through Godaddy, and not MarkMonitor. ...
April 28th 2012
Tags: Domain Names One Comment

Selling Your Domain Name with LeadRefs

For those who like to do affiliate marketing, buying domains is a familiar subject. You never know what set of keywords will be the next big thing, so you buy several domains with several different combinations of keywords. Many affiliate marketers buy tons, and tons of these types of domains, ...
April 27th 2012
Tags: Search Engine Optimization One Comment

Search Engine Optimization Tip: Links Surrounded by Text

Links are a big part of the success of your Search Engine Optimization efforts and the overall traffic from organic search to your site. However, there are several issues related to links to your site, including anchor text that you need to pay attention to. One of them that you ...
April 26th 2012
Tags: Social Video Marketing One Comment

5 Things to Consider Before Developing Web Videos

Guest Post by Tristan Pelligrino Based on figures released in January of 2012, YouTube now reaches 4 billion hits per day. Needless to say, there are a ton of people watching web videos on a daily basis. Furthermore, people now expect to see video content discussing the types of products and ...

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