Internet Marketing Blog

Sometimes you need to move a site from one domain to another, or you might have one or more domains that you want to all forward to another, such as variations on your primary domain. For example, your main site might be “www.example.com” and you want anyone who types in or follows a link to […]

Yesterday we helped a client recover their domain after it expired, apparently without any prior notification emails from the registrar warning them of the impending need to extend their contract. Recovery was greatly complicated by the fact that they had used an email address from that domain in their administrative contact information. In other words, […]

Firefox allows you to specify default styles so that you can alter the appearance of all web pages that use a particular element or combination of elements. For example, I like to know see when links have nofollow applied to them instead of having to check them manually. The CSS file for doing this is […]

AdWords just announced that they will soon factor in landing page load times into the quality score that helps determine your ad’s position. The reasons for this are, in effect, to reward site owners who provide responsive sites and punish those that make users wait.
We have no idea yet how much of an impact this […]

Sorry, but it’s just terrible. With all the press and hoopla — almost all of it free — we’d expect better than the following example search results (which may change / be manipulated by the time you try them):

#1 result for “Seattle” is a site that is supposed to list events, bars, restaurants, etc. but […]

Google recently released their 2007 edition of Zeitgeist, an assessment of popular search terms and trends for the year. While this has little actual utility for most organizations, it is entertaining.
Among our observations of their observations:

Searches spiked for several notable events, including Anne Nicole Smith’s death, the Virginia Tech shooting, nude photos of Vaness Hudgens […]

It’s Blog Action Day, a time for many of us to contribute to a far-reaching environmental discussion. For our part, we’d like to share two techniques for reducing our impact and “cultivating” a greener workplace.
We have the benefit of being a small, distributed company that works (in large part) virtually. Our team’s commutes are almost […]

According to recent research conducted by Nielsen, people’s trust of online advertising is significantly below that of more “traditional” media.
“And even though new media technologies are playing a role in ‘globalizing’ society, many purchasing decisions are still based on firmly held national and cultural attitudes.”
Search engine ads rank just below ads before movies and quite […]

Yahoo! is rolling out dynamic URL rewriting configuration to webmasters. What this means is that you can tell the search engine what dynamic URL parameters to ignore, such as sessions variables or tracking parameters that are useful for you but might appear to search engines as though there are many copies of a page at […]

We introduced BlogRush in a previous post, and now they have disclosed the source of some intermittent availability problems. In addition to hardware failures at their ISP, they have run into problems of abuse.  I suspect (hope?) they had some ideas about how their system could be manipulated early on; even if they didn’t they […]