Monthly Archives: May 2008

Turtle or Hare, Which One Are You?

Are you a turtle or are you a hare? Let’s find out, huh?
With the upcoming 5 year anniversary of KeyWebData.com I decided to reprint the very first articles I wrote. You know like before PageRank, before FireFox, before Wordpress and definitely before Google, circa 1999. Here it is with a little update at the end. [...]

Social Marketing and Pitching Other Blogs

Social marketing by pitching other bloggers
A number of people have contacted me lately about how to get noticed by other bloggers and even how to find major bloggers of influence. Social marketing basics seem pretty easy to me with than 70 million blogs and 120,000 more added every day. That’s allot of freakin blogs. That’s [...]

What is Social Marketing Really About?

What is Social Marketing, I would have said social marketing was about making money and blog traffic two months ago.
What is social marketing? Better yet what is social marketing to me? Since I sell an eBook about social marketing tactics let’s start at the beginning here. Social marketing to me is about three things:

Creating backlinks [...]

Top 50 Most Searched Terms

Top 50 most searched terms according to KeywordTracker, in the last 100 Days
1 187482 youporn
2 172609 myspace
3 [...]

Google PageRank and Your Google Juice

Google PageRank, PageRank vs Google juice and what nofollow really means to your blog.
One of my favorite bloggers, PotPieGirl just added My Name is Pot Pie Girl and I Follow after adding the Wordpress DoFollow plugin.
UPDATE: If is important to note that shortly after this PotPieGirl put up a completely new site that I now [...]

Facebook Bans Friend Connect

No more Facebook, no more Friend Connect
Michael Arrington on TechCrunch posted more details on Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API earlier today. He spoke with Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly and Google’s Director of Engineering David Glazer about the banning to get a fuller picture of the conflict.
I would say [...]

How Social Marketing Affects Blogs

My neighbor John McGowan, did a little parody of Paris Hilton.
He is number four in Google blogs after only an hour.
Under “paris hilton” no less. Searched 1,692,424 in my search traffic app, which means it is really searched over 7 Million time a month, this is a REAL search term, not a little niche [...]

Friend Connect Won’t Even Connect to Google

Friend Connect Arrives a Day Late no Functionality
Friend Connect, while much anticipated by myself and everybody else arrives today, a day late, you get an error when you sign up and all they have to show for this is a YouTube video. This is at 6:14 Arizona, USA time. Don’t hate on me if it [...]

Friend Connect Connects What? Google to Connect Friends

Friend Connect sounds good Google, but with Friend Connect, do you see how you could trully change the Internet as we know it now? But only if you read this post….
In this Friend Connect article I pose the question: Will Google use Friend Connect to add another way they rank our blogs? Will they ranks [...]

Social Marketing, Digg, Sphinn, Spam, Oh My

Social marketing offers so many advantages, however Scott Goodyear points out not to get carried away and become a spammer, however unintentionally
Scott Goodyear offers a great take on social marketing, Digg and Sphinn and what may look like spam to others.
Scott says in opening “While it is important to get the word out about your [...]