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There has been a lot of talk recently about linkbait, the new SEO buzzword for doing something that makes generates a lot of links to your website. Jim Westergren has a great list of things that make for great linkbait to your site:

* Build a useful tool
* […]

You don’t have to use keyword phrases as a single phrase on your pages in order to rank well in the search engines. If you have ever looked at your server logs you’ll find that people often use strange word combinations when searching. For example a keyword that generates traffic for one client of ours […]

The Candidates
Synergy: Allie, Andrea, Brent, Pepi, Roxanne, Sean, Stacy, Tammy
Gold Rush: Bryce, Charmaine, Dan, Lee, Lenny, Leslie, Michael, Summer, Tarek, Theresa
Prelude:
Lee buries the hatchet with Charmaine and let’s bygones be bygones. A smart move for someone who will be the next team project manager and needs his team’s full support in order to pull off […]

spam (spm)
n. Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.
We all hate spam, don’t we? Nothing slows up your morning like having to sort through hundreds of junk emails, just to find the handful that are of a genuine business nature. Thank God for commercially […]

I lost a couple more students this week but actually had the chance to talk with them first. While I always thought I was in danger of the information being too basic, some have expressed that the information was actually more advanced than what they are ready for. I’m exploring ideas for a better course […]

So now you’re starting to realize that one-way links are the latest and hippest thing for your website since the Chia Pet and Pet Rock. There’s just one problem, how do you attain them? Start writing good quality articles (with your link in it) that are relevant to your industry, and send […]

Comscore has released thier Search Engine Marketshare stats for March 2006.
Google: 42.7%
Yahoo!: 28.0%
MSN: 13.2%
AOL: 7.6%
Ask: 5.9%
Compared to February ‘06, here is the change for each:
Google: +0.4%
Yahoo!: +0.4%
MSN: -0.3%
AOL: -0.4%
Ask: -0.1%

Book Review: The Savvy Way to Successful Website Promotion
Secrets of successful Websites , attracting on-line traffic, the most up to date guide to top positioning on search engines.
Paperback: 193 pages, $36.40
Published: 1999, Updated July, 2000
Last year when I began the process of writing my EMP Book I jumped on Amazon and bought just about every […]

You’ve heard of people that are so good at sales that they could sell ice to an Eskimo, water to a fish and prescription glasses the blind. Every company wants to employ such a salesman for their products or services. Big sales producers such as this are invaluable to the companies that have them.
For many […]

Since Google has agreed to censor their search results in order to enter the Chinese market, much hoopla has been made about American corporations and their responsibility to human rights. Is it right for American companies to acquiesce to foreign governments who have a history of human rights abuses, just to enter their markets and […]

The Candidates
Synergy: Allie, Andrea, Brent, Pepi, Roxanne, Sean, Stacy, Tammy
Gold Rush: Bryce, Charmaine, Dan, Lee, Lenny, Leslie, Michael, Summer, Tarek, Theresa
Prelude:
Lee comes back from the boardroom worried that he doesn’t have anyone that will have his back. After proving to his team that he puts friendship over good business sense, he realizes that without that […]

Last Thursday I was back at the community college teaching a handful of business professionals from my EMP Book. We were about three students shy this week from last and then seemed to lose another half way through. That’s pretty typical, especially for a class like this where you hope the information being taught is […]