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Before Writing Code or Launching Your Website, Do This

Posted on April 5, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

I found a series of articles that I wrote more than 10 years ago. But, amazingly enough, all of this information is still valid and true. It’s a great primer on what you should, and should not do before launching any website, especially an e-commerce website. [Read more…]

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Web Hosts Hijacking 404 Error Pages on Live Web Sites

Posted on September 17, 2009 Written by Bill Hartzer

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 most web site owners don’t even know that this is happening to them. It could be happening to you, on your web site, and you don’t even know it. It looks like this: [Read more…]

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

Posted on February 22, 2008 Written by Bill Hartzer

Digg   Hannah Montana
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 on Digg. [Read more…]

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Time Warner and Road Runner Attempting to Monetize by Hijacking DNS

Posted on February 18, 2008 Written by Bill Hartzer

Road Runner

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. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Domain Names, Marketing Foo

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

Posted on January 21, 2008 Written by Bill Hartzer

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 I thought I’d mention all of these. [Read more…]

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Monday Marketing Foo for July 30, 2007

Posted on July 30, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

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. [Read more…]

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Monday Marketing Foo for July 23, 2007

Posted on July 23, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

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. [Read more…]

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Monday Marketing Foo

Posted on July 16, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

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. You get paid $10 to $15 for each search result that you write. [Read more…]

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Topix Appoints Chris Tolles as CEO

Posted on June 26, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

topixChris TollesTopix, 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. [Read more…]

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Co-Inventor of Wireless Remote Control Dies

Posted on February 16, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

Robert Adler
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 pass on the news the the co-inventor of the wireless remote control has died, Robert Adler. He died of heart failure on Feb. 15 in Boise, Idaho. He was 93. [Read more…]

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