I was just reading Weird Asia News and noticed that they are having a design contest. If you are a designer and are looking to win a PS3 I highly recommend checking it out. The contest seems like a fun thing to do and it would be interesting to see what type of designs people come up with do to the theme of the website.
For more details on the contest, check out their contest page.
Aaron Wall wrote an interesting article the other day about the value of a Google ranking. As we already know being number 1 on Google can drastically affect your business, but the question is, what is it worth? According to the data that AOL released a while back the number 10 listing gets 14x less clicks than the number 1 listing. And to go one step further, 89% of the clicks that users make when searching, happen to be on page 1.
Overall there are a lot of factors that can affect the value of a Google ranking and Aaron d (more…)
I am not sure how many of you are into forums, but Webmaster-Talk.com and Earners Forum have just merged to create a better community. Now users have access to an enhanced marketplace, informative articles, blogs, interviews, and valuable tools.
I personally love the merger. When I first started out in the SEO world I used to surf forums like Webmaster-Talk.com and find everything I needed on a budget. I was able to find people to help me out for free, cheap web designers, and a community that was willing to help promote my site.
There has been a lot of new stuff been going around the SEO industry lately, so I thought I would do a quick blog post talking about the two things that were interesting for me:
The first is that Best of the Web just brought on a team of editors, which will help take their directory to the next level. DMOZ is a popular directory that was filled with talented editors, but through bad management over the past few years it has been dying down, which leaves a lot of talented editors without a home. BOTW has now swooped up 6 of (more…)
Just out of curiosity, how many of you have attended a marketing conference in the past? Or to take it one step further has anyone attended a conference that purely revolves around social media?
Last year was the first time that SMX held a social media conference and due to its success this year they are holding another social media conference. From April 22nd to the 23rd, SMX Social Media is taking place in Long Beach, California. I know many of you think it is a conference just about Digg, but it actually is a conference (more…)