Aug 22, 2007
Starting a new site is a really difficult thing to do. Over the years, my sites have accumulated a large amount of inbound links and traffic -- so now when I want to start a new site, it's no problem. I put up a few links and posts about the site and it instantly gets a big traffic boost. But for this site, I wanted to ...
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Aug 21, 2007
I just ran across an extraordinary site by R.I.M. (manufacturers of BlackBerry) and Sprint. The site illustrates of the key factors is doing viral right: don't sell to your intended audience. Obviously, they're not looking to actually sell to anyone terribly rich -- but that's exactly what the piece outlines.
Most of the time the most successful viral pieces are the ones that either ignore, or make ...
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Aug 20, 2007
I've just about had enough. Yes, I'm talking about the HD-DVD & Blu-Ray format wars: a war that's spanned over two years now. It's just childish. Today I read an article on engadget that said Paramount/Dreamworks are actively dropping support for Blu-Ray in order to become HD-DVD only.
How stupid is that? They're actively pissing off customers in order to take sides in a war that ...
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Aug 19, 2007
Any webmaster knows that one of the hardest metrics to pin down for a website are the number of visitors to your site. You might run Webalizer on your access logs and it'll tell you that you have 100,000 unique visitors a month -- and then you try out something like Google Analytics and it'll tell you that you only have 5,000 visitors a month. It's ...
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Aug 19, 2007
Each week, I like to chronicle some of the great content around the net and post it up here for my readers and for posterity's sake.
KISS applies to your landing pages too -- Copyblogger covers some great advice for landing pages. Increase your conversions and keep it simple!
RapForums.com for sale -- Tyler Cruz posts about RapForums.com being for sale. Okay, okay, it's not that interesting, but the ...
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