Archive for the 'Marketing' Category

PDF Spam going to replace Image Spam?

Monday, July 16th, 2007

 

As many may know PDF spam seems to be taking the place of image spam in the last few weeks.  Increased amounts of email containing an attached PDF are tricking end-users into opening the message and attachment.

I was recently asked by Cara Garretson of Network World to comment on the changed landscape and she wrote a nice article titled “Image spam declining, PDF spam set to take its place” 

“Simply attaching a PDF to an e-mail and randomizing the size and name of the title, to me, does not seem all that impressive, but it seems to be working,” says Kyle Ohme, director of technology with W3i.com, an interactive marketing services provider.

“I’m interested to see how far this will go, as some may start to use some of the more advanced functions of Adobe to place beacons and other tracking mechanisms that have become limited in the past years,” Ohme says.

The link to her article can be found here: InfoWorld

Instantly find the domain name your after!

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

domainsearch.jpgHow many times have you been staring at the search within your favorite registrar looking for that perfect domain name … you enter the name .. hit submit and wait .. .nothing, taken.  How many times have you searched for that perfect name only to give up as you don’t have all night to do it.

Try this site, Instant Domain Search - this will search for the name and display what’s available as you type.  No more having to hit submit over-and-over-and-over-and-over…..

Instant Domain Search

Use TouchGraph.com for SEO and research website affiliation

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

http://www.touchgraph.com/ Touchgraph is a cool little tool that anyone can use to create a visual diagram of website and topic affiliation.

Once you open the site you will be asked if you would like to search with Google or Amazon - once selected, a java app will load and you have the ability to search keywords or URL’s. Go ahead and give it a try - its interesting to see the site relation to keywords and other sites.

The TouchGraph Google Browser reveals the network of connectivity between websites, as reported by Google’s database of related sites. [tags] google, amazon, touchgraph.com, seo, marketing [/tags]

Web Developer Controller for testing Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Mediawiki and phpBB2

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

I think that I may have created a monster when I got my buddy Mark playing with Enom and working on setting up his first site. I pointed him the direction of wordpress and dotnetnukeand a few weeks later he moved past that to Drupal and others. He stumbled on this product which seems to be a great find!

If you have not seen this application yet, go and take a look at it. Its a great concept allowing you to install Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Mediawiki and phpBB2 with little user interaction. Additionally it installs and configures Apache, OpenSSL, Perl, mod_perl, mod_security, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin.
Site: http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper

I have stacked this on top of a VM image and it works great for testing out new wordpress plug-ins and working on the template that I may once get around to finishing.

[tags] Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Mediawiki, phpBB2 [/tags]

Look into Google and Yahoo and how they view your site.

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Google and Yahoo both provide useful pages to help website owners.
Googles is possibly the most useful between the two with pagerank information, crawler details etc.

Visit Yahoos at: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
Visit Googles at:http://www.google.com/webmasters

Im not aware of any others, but I will add them if I find any.

So many cool tools - and so little time. .. .

[tags] google seo, yahoo seo, search engine, wordpress, sitemap, pagerank [/tags]