6 Guest Blogging Emails That Suck

March 26, 2012

The top navigational bar of this blog makes it very clear that guest blog posts are accepted. I want you to write for me. But reviewing the email submissions from wannabe writers, it is pathetic how frequently people think I will publish anything and it is disappointing they view my blog as a trophy to [...]

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To the Future of My Blog

December 1, 2011

I wrote 7 blog articles last month. That must be a record for an all-time low. I can’t explain it other than I’m tired of writing the same stuff every other blogger writes. Yeah, yeah, you may not read those other blogs — but, I do; and I don’t want my blog to be part [...]

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Why Susan Murphy Cares What You Eat

October 6, 2011

Photo by earl53. Food, tea, pets, wine, and TV shows are among subjects invoking the best internet relationships. Susan Murphy elaborates: Some of the best friends I’ve made, I’ve not made because I’m sitting around all day long doing “business” on Twitter. We’re friends because we’ve shared things about our lives with each other. Some [...]

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Who You Are Online – in Data

May 30, 2011

Your name is stored on the internet whenever it is mentioned. When seen together as in the above screenshot, your name can show a great deal of information — data — about who you are, what you like, and how others perceive you. Don’t be scared. The future is already here. This video explains how [...]

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Why the Right May be Right

April 11, 2011

Two days after reversing the placement of the sidebar from the right to the left in the wake of agreeing with conventional wisdom that people, regardless of native language, read from left to right, the sidebar returns to the right. In a comment, the Elephant’s Eye writes: My gut feeling is, we, English speakers, read [...]

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Why the Right is Wrong

April 9, 2011

Your eyes are twice as likely to look at the left side of a web page than the right side, posits Jakob Nielsen in an inspiring article about eyeball movements on the web. While Nielsen wrote in 1999 that content should begin at the left, his latest research is a decade newer and is extracted [...]

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How to Identify Blog Comments as Spam

March 29, 2011

Click the above image to zoom. Do you see how the three above comments are attributed to the same email address yet have different IP addresses? Do you notice how the “name” is neither a first name nor a KeywordLuv-promoted name but a series of corporate keywords? Do you notice all of the comments are [...]

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Feature Friday: Why Social Media Quality Beats Quantity Any Day of the Week

March 25, 2011

Tree photographed by Mike Fay. The following guest article is written by Marcus Sheridan. When I first started studying the principles of inbound marketing and social media, I was struck with the number of media I ‘just had to implement’ based on everything I was hearing from the experts. From Facebook, to blogging, to Twitter, [...]

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