You may or may not have heard, but there is a new social media site called Pinterest. Unlike other social media sites where the main focus is to build a profile, with Pinterest, the emphasis is on “pinning” pictures that interest you to your various pin boards (hence the name ...

Today, I performed a really simple test to see if Likes from social media type websites could contribute to a top search engine ranking in the search engines. Granted, there are a lot of various factors here to take into account--but after analyzing the results, it appears that social media ...

BrightTalk is hosting a Social Media Marketing Summit asked me to present. At 2:15pm Pacific Time on October 7th, 2008 I talked about Social Media and Search and how your search engine marketing efforts can benefit from social media marketing. I've embedded my presentation right here so you can watch it. ...

Eric Lander has a great blog post about Sphinn. If you have not heard of Sphinn.com, Sphinn is a "News, Discussion Forums & Networking for Search & Internet Marketing Professionals" site. It's Danny Sullivan's social networking site for internet marketing professionals. Since Eric has written a great post and has ...

For many years now, I have always been a fan of creating custom, unique 404 error pages. I have also, at the same time, been rather annoyed that a site as large as Digg can consistently serve up an error page like the one below. Not only have I been rather ...

  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 ...

Cornerworld Corporation has signed a letter of intent to purchase Sway, Inc., a social media marketing company that sells digital media tools to advertisers. The terms of the Letter of intent states that Cornerworld would acquire 100 percent of Sway for $30 million through a combination of cash and Cornerworld ...

Since we are winding down 2007, I thought it would be appropriate to put together what I thought are the top 10 blog posts about Mixx.com that have been written in 2007. Certainly there have been a lot of interesting blog posts about Mixx, but these are certainly the best ...

Since we are winding down the year of 2007, I thought it would be appropriate to put together what I thought are the top 10 blog posts about Sphinn that have been written in 2007. Certainly there have been a lot of interesting blog posts about Sphinn. So, without further delay, ...

Coremetrics has revealed the results of their second annual Face of the New Marketer survey. The results show that social media marketing is quickly gaining popularity as a way to gain a competitive edge. However, companies appear to be very reluctant to allocate funds towards the effort. Coremetrics surveyed 116 ...