Careerbuilder just posted this very interesting story where they list SEO as 1 of 4 jobs that are in high demand. It’s nice to see our industry getting some recognition. I’m hoping these sorts of posts encourage new people to take up the profession. Its getting harder and harder to fill empty positions.
“Failure is not an attribute of weakness, its an attribute of success; if you learn from it!”
- Jarrod Hunt
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Hit Tail is an interesting new app that helps marketers generate keywords that would be good to write about on their website. It helps generate long-tail keywords that will be easy to rank for in the search engines. It Generates a list of good keywords by analyzing your search engine traffic. It then creates to-do lists for you on what topics you should write about.
Hittail looks like it could be a very powerful tool in my arsenal. I signed up for it today. I’ll provide some updates as things progress.
I rarely rant about things, but one thing I do love to get fired-up about is Domain Squatting. I’m not talking about your typical squatter who sits on a couple dozen names. I’m talking about the a-holes who register millions of domains. The ones that are impossible to get ahold of, even if you have a legitimate offer to make on a domain.
Eweek posted a story today about domain hijacking. In this particular article they talk about a company that gets ahold of whois tool data to buy a domain out from under someones nose.
The way it works is you go to some sort of domain lookup site. There are a million of them. After you spend time typing a few variations in you might leave for a bit, only to come back a couple hours later to find it has been registered by someone else.
That may not sound like a huge deal. After all you didnt buy it when you had a chance right? wrong…. There is a certain amount of trust you give a website when you are using it as a research tool. You expect that if you are researching domains that your information isnt going to end up in the hands of some squatter. Who is going to sit on the domain and never do anything with it.
So basically, what is happening is that the companies that provide domain lookup services are using the data of your searches to give a domain squatter an unfair advantage.
The moral of the story is; if you search for a domain name, and you find one you like, you better register it on the spot. Because if you don’t your more then likely going to find out that it gets hijacked by someone else.
Here is the eweek post
Jim Boykin, one of my favorite Internet Marketers, recently started a post listing some of the good CEO/Management books that he has come accross.
Among the list are:
The Enthusiastic Employee
Good to Great *
First, Break all the rules
True leaders
The top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make
Some others suggested:
Churchill on Leadership
Internet Business Manifesto
Selling the Invisible
Patrick Lenconi - 5 temptations of a CEO
JimCollins.com in general (good site)
Built to Last
Rockefeller Habbits
Love is a Killer App*
The E-Myth Revisited
Scalix Small Business Edition is a low-cost version of Scalix’s award-winning Enterprise Edition
designed to meet the needs of small businesses. It offers many of the
same features found in the flagship Enterprise Edition but at a price
point that is more attractive for small organizations.
Over 100 startups applied to present their companies at the TechCrunch-sponsored Connected Innovators
program at the Supernova conference last week. Twelve were selected and
had a chance to launch their new products to an audience of hundreds.
Do or Do Not, There Is No “Try” - Yoda
A great list of Free literature. Some very good classics here.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (1247)
Kamasutra by Vatsyayana (985)
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser (982)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (649)
How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin (601)
The Art of War by 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi (468)
The Best American Humorous Short Stories (307)
Forbidden books of the original New Testament by William Wake (301)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (289)
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (279)
A Young Girl’s Diary by Anonymous (260)
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (259)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (254)
Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (250)
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose (217)
Aesop’s Fables by Aesop (210)
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete by Dante Alighieri (207)
Ulysses by James Joyce (204)
The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete (191)
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (180)
Vanilla is an open-source, standards compliant, multi-lingual, AJAXified and fully extensible discussion forum. Version 1 was just released. I havent looked at the code yet, but the interface look pretty nifty.
