Business Consulting

Continue to read more…

Technorati launched a blog authority widget last month but now that Authority score is showing up next to blog search results and on a new and improved blog profile page. I’ve been paying a lot more attention to Technorati since Online Marketing Blog the top 100 Favorites list and made an appearance on the […]

Continue to read more…

BusinessWeek recently featured an article entitled “Bloggers Bring in the Big Bucks” (along with an accompanying slideshow presentation) which provides some insights into how much revenue the top blogs can generate: “Advertisers come to me because I get a lot of traffic. I get a lot of traffic because I work hard,” says Mario Lavandeira, […]

To promote the fact I’ll be speaking at the next Maine Innkeeper’s Conference, the group asked me to write an article on blogging for their newsletter. (PDF, 1.3MB) There’s also an article in there on podcasting as well. Technorati Tags: Innkeeper, LodgingInnkeeper, Lodging
To promote the fact I’ll be speaking at the next Maine Innkeeper’s Conference, […]

This morning I wrote a post on my blog called “Bush No Longer a Miserable Failure, Claims Google.” It was in reaction to Google’s new algorithm that defuses “Google Bombs.” At the bottom I linked to the post on Google’s blog that goes into more detail about what they did and why. (Whoops! I did […]

So much information, so little time. Between IM, RSS, Facebook, Twitter, Sphinn, blogging and work, it’s amazing there’s any time left for “old school” activities like email. The beauty of RSS is that you can subscribe to a pretty good list of search marketing blogs and stay up to date on industry news as well […]

Every business needs to know how its customers are feeling. It’s always easy to assume that if customers aren’t contacting you to complain, then they aren’t complaining or unhappy. Periodic surveys are an easy way to uncover customer service problems before they get out of hand and cost you dearly. Clever company […]

We’ve all heard that search engines love blogs. With frequent updates and relevant keywords, a blog - any type of blog - can be optimized for most search engines. How? Writes Search Engine Optimization expert Lee Odden: * Consider keywords when writing your blog post titles. Some blog software allows plugins that can suggest […]

When I saw the following “motivational” poster for Blogging, I would have sworn it was yet another brilliant creation of the folks at Despair.com. But no, it wasn’t. It’s part of a home-made series by Ishkur. Classic! Hat tip to Ilker. No TagsNo Tags
When I saw the following “motivational” poster for Blogging, I would […]