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Review of Su.pr: Stumbleupon’s URL Shortener

By now, a lot of Internet users are suffering from URL-shortening overload syndrome and I am no exception.  When I found out about Stumbleupon’s Web 2.0-aptly named Su.pr, I can’t deny that I groaned more than just a bit.  When it comes to the Unique Ideas...

Picking the Low Hanging Fruit

Image via Wikipedia When discussing PPC performance, people love to refer to the low hanging fruit.  You know, that’s the stuff that’s easy to accomplish with little effort that yields great results.  This typically refers to getting more conversions for...

A Blog is More than a Leaf in a Lifestream

Image by pellesten via Flickr Last week, Steve Rubel of the Micro Persuasion blog announced that he was ditching his blog and moving over to a lifestream powered by Posterous. An inspired move or an act of lunacy? Opinion is divided on that one. What I would like to...

Should I Advertise on Bing?

Bing can be portrayed as a search marketer’s best friend or biggest annoyance.  Agencies, who typically charge based on percentage of media spend, hated Live/MSN search because it had relatively no search volume, which meant no media to spend, which meant no...

NowSourcing to Appear on Bido.com

I’ll be the guest speaker at Bido.com tomorrow, July 2nd at 1pm EST.  We’ll be talking about social media and domaining, an interesting crossover that you certainly don’t hear about every day. Please join us and you’ll be able to chat with me...

The ABCs of PPC: How Much Should My Clicks Cost?

Image by labnol via Flickr It’s not uncommon for me to meet people who are interested in getting started with paid search, but have no idea how to get started.  That’s usually why they come to me in the first place.   More often than not, there is one...

Import Analytics Goals into Adwords

Image via CrunchBase Big news just came out from the Google Adwords blog.  Now you can import your established goals in Google Analytics over to your Adwords account.  This means that you won’t need to separate Adwords conversion code anymore. The blog post...

Facebook Finally Lets in Some Bling

Following many controversial updates and revamps of Facebook’s user interface design, their team finally seems to get something right. Announcing Facebook Usernames, which basically will act as part of your profile’s slug/url. Ideally, your username will...