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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...

Link Shortener Hacked, Leads to Porn Sites

POPrl, a popular url shortening service, has been hacked. This has rendered all links run through it to porn and other unintended sites.  Early morning yesterday, Twitterfeed, a popular RSS to Twitter service, tweeted that they were temporarily suspending Poprl from...

Travel Blogging Inspiration

Image of Peter Shankman (note: this post was written at 30,000 feet on the way in to Austin, Texas) While most of my inspirational posts are original, it is worth noting when other hit gold.  Peter Shankman, of HARO fame, recently posted an excellent list of tips when...

Thanks to Burger King, My Keyword Buckets are Juicy

Like so many, my wife and I have been trying to watch what we eat.  During a very busy day recently, I went to a Burger King because it was one of the closest options and was relatively cheap.  However, thanks to a relatively new law in the state of Washington,...

My 2 Minute Blog Post Beat Up Your Tweet

Image via CrunchBase Twitter, while excellent, short circuits the full potential of the thoughts that we seed into it. I’m putting a clock to the amount of time that it takes to write this blog post from start to finish, and will have it take no longer than 2...