I love Sitemeter.  Not because I use it. But because a lot of my competitors do.
Sitemeter is a fast growing free web analytics tool that many bloggers and community developers have turned to.  They also tend to leave all that information visible to the web, leaving you with tons of traffic data to go scrape.
For example, […]

Now that everyone and their grandmother’s smoking buddies are trying to spam Digg, Reddit, and Netscape into oblivion, I think the opportunity to use that as a reliable factory of linkbuilding has jumped the shark. 
For me, one of the most significant athletic feats of our lives is Tiger Woods’ 2006 British Open victory.  With everyone else […]

Link baiting…err, viral content…has turned even the most Puritanical of copywriters, marketers, and journalists into slutty Digg chasers.  Just this week…
The coffee carts at content brainstorming sessions have been replaced by Michael Vick’s mobile weed stash. 
The guy who did real research is getting treated like Tony Romo at an egg toss. 
Writers who haven’t seen a […]

Stephen Colbert (pronounced “Coal-BURT”, if your name rhymes with Neil Patel) occasionally does a bit called, “The Craziest F*@#%ing Thing I’ve Ever Heard!”  Right now, that’s how I feel about this ignorant Link Ninjas vs. Linkbaiters psuedo-meme floating around SEO circles.
First of all, let’s just agree on this up front…if you are engaged in the […]

Ok, can we all agree that everyone is tired of Top 10 lists already?  It was the K-Fed of Internet Trends.  Its 15 minutes are up and now it needs to go chill wherever old trends wait for VH1 to call them in 10 years.
To do my part to finally bury the List Post, one […]