Google has launched a Hotel Comparison engine over the top of paid ads. Is anybody else seeing this? "Up yours, Advertisers"! It's been hard enough for national brands to maintain local rankings, and now Google's stealing another inch.
Category: internet marketing
Annoying WordPress Spam
Is it too much to ask that the WordPress spammers be a little inventive? I'd almost rather go back to "Great post"! Not having ever been an annoying WordPress spammer, I wonder, does the | help somehow? Does it make it look less spammy to Akismet? Interestingly it's pointing to a Facebook page. See for …
Google Places Guideline Enforcement Plan – from @mblumenthal
Mike Blumenthal of commissioned this funny cartoon about the Google Places Guidelines Enforcement. It doesn't look good for the B&B owner. "Google Places Enforcement Plan"by Margaret Shulock is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at blumenthals.com.
Search Influence Brief
Search Influence is a national, full-service, online marketing company based in New Orleans. The only New Orleans company on the 2012 Inc. 500 list, Search Influence is the largest online marketing company on the gulf coast with 35 full-time employees and 40 contract writers supporting our hundreds of direct and white label customers. For direct …
EdgeRank: Explained in 4 Bullets
Facebook search is driven by EdgeRank, FB's internal algorithm: Affinity - demonstrated "like" Edge Weight - depth of connection Recency - Self-explanatory Media Types - Images, Videos, Polls, etc. get more weight So, more fans are better and if they interact, better still. That said, you can't necessarily affect the degrees of separation which can affect Edge …
Scarf Wearing Vespa Riders Likely Own A Mac
It must be true, I read it on Statistical Fiction. Apparently those who ride Vespas and wear scarves are more likely to own a mac! Vennsday Diagram – Mac Owners, Courtesy of Statistical Fiction
Google Reviews Tip
Mike Blumenthal shared an incredible tip at SEMpdx SearchFest 2011 regarding creating a shortcut to Google Reviews input box. Shortcut to your Google places page: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=17890642534106265499 You can truncate the very long, awful main URL. Better still, link directly to the input box for reviews: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=17890642534106265499&dtab=2&action=openratings&ct=write-review Note the addition of &dtab=2&action=openratings&ct=write-review Awesome!
Comment Spam Is Out of Control
I just went through and cleared a dozen comments all of them spam. This one was most offensive to me for whatever reason. There was a question last night on #blogchat from @Yogitastic regarding moderating comments. My gosh, if we didn't moderate comments we'd have nothing but spam and that's even with Akismet minding the …
Testing Directory Submission Tools
I was doing some investigation of directory submission providers on an SEO / Internet marketing forum and came across this post offering automated directory submission from a web site called Directory Submission Tools. I've been looking for ways to economize the directory submission process and thought I would give it a try with this site. …
Will Scott 