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Blogs

Attention is Expensive – Part I

by JC Hewitt August 11, 2010

Blogging for your business is foundational to any online marketing effort.

But it’s not enough to drive the kind of broad-based, continual attention that’s necessary to drive business in a predictable fashion.

The web enables all businesses to run their own media channels. It’s possible for a single blog post to spread farther than a New York [...]

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SEO: Why Do-Follow Blog Comments?

by Mark Brimm July 19, 2010
Do-follow comment backlinks for SEO

Many overlook the power of comment love from blogs ( like this one! ) who provide do-follow rel tags on all of our post links and comment links. While comment spam is understood by most blog owners to be bad, many are starting blogs without any conception of why they should provide do-follow rel tags on comments (and posts!). As someone who’s been knee-deep into SEO since well BEFORE Google, I’ll enumerate them briefly…

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Analytics: Pushing Readers’ Buttons

by Mark Brimm July 5, 2010

Last week I posted a saucy post with a photo of an attractivish bare-legged woman giving a presentation to a group of also-pantless colleagues. I included a title that used the word “sexy” and the popular tag “NSFW.” Friends dropped their jaws. Strangers lined up to get in…and guess what? People started stumbling the site [...]

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Analytics PT 2: Sexy Graphs (NSFW!)

by Mark Brimm June 28, 2010
A marketing meeting collides with No Pants Friday at the office.

Assuming you read (and religiously followed) my first post in this Analytics series, and that the tools are already set up and you were just waiting for more on the how-to, now here it is. Apart from all the great graphs that seem to indicate progress of various kinds, all these numbers can leave a [...]

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