Archive for August, 2006

A world without Google - what kind of a place would it be?

Monday, August 21st, 2006

And I don't mean a world where Google ceased to exist. But what about a world where Google ceased being the dominant force they are in the search engine arena? This might really make things change, and possibly even improve the internet. Since the way of Google ...

Google loses search engine market share in July

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Okay, it's not a huge loss. But Google is down 1% according to the most recent comScore numbers. And apparently Yahoo was the benefactor for the Google loss. We're not dealing with big numbers, but they're definitely significant: According to comScore, 43.7% of all search queries conducted in ...

Joe Balestrino - SEO Interview Series - Number One

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Joe Balestrino joins us for the first in our SEO Interview Series. We're asking SEOs 6 questions about their practice. If you'd like to participate, we'd love to have you. Please follow the instructions concerning the SootleDir Six Question SEO Interview Series SEO's Bio Joe owns and operates Mr-seo.Com ...

Doing it all yourself as opposed to delegating responsibility

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

If you plan on embarking on an internet marketing campaign you need to decide if you plan on being "hands on", or if you'd rather delegate authority to others. Deciding to do it yourself is okay, but you need to be realistic about both the learning curve and the ...

Viral marketing - why are big companies doing it?

Friday, August 18th, 2006

If you look at many of the videos at Youtube, you quickly realize that it's not all amateur videos. In fact, you have a great number of talented directors making videos that they hope will "go viral". The movie Snakes and Planes has been able to capitalize ...

10 things you can do to drive traffic to your website right now

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Everyone needs more traffic to their website, so let's talk about ways you can do it. My methods are the type of things you can do without spending a lot of money. I'm the type of person who would prefer to operate on a shoestring budget, rather than ...

The SootleDir SEO Six Question Interview Series

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

This post is to announce the new SEO Interview Series. This is a great way for you to be spotlighted, if you are an SEO. The interviews will be in 6 Questions. I'll try and write the questions as uniquely for each candidate as possible. Ultimately, ...

Comment spammers are getting smarter

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

And it's a good thing to, because judging by their prose, they're some of the dumbest mugs alive. Well now they're wising up a bit. They used to say "Nice Site I'm love it", but they realised that wasn't getting past most humans. Now they're using a ...

Adsense optimization - Jeff Conkey has some tips

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

The onslaught of Adsense tips continues. This time Jeff Conkey has contributed his tips. Jeff decided to be a bit different than the others. He decided to show us some things in Adsense that we may not have noticed. Jeff suggest we look at the basics: search ...

Thanks a lot Yahoo

Monday, August 14th, 2006

I've had so much traffic come to my website for the "Website Worth" tool, that Yahoo Developer Network has shut me down. This makes me pretty angry, because Yahoo doesn't say they'll shut off your whole class C ip address, because they feel like it. But that's exactly ...