Sadly, this is my first post in about three weeks. I have exactly 10 drafts just sitting here that will (someday) be awesome posts IMHO, but I just haven’t had ANY time lately for writing. Well, no time to write here that is.
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Along the same lines as my earlier post titled “How NOT To Find An Internet Marketing Company“, the following email is a very common one full of common mistakes, but definitely worth pointing out here for those that aren’t yet sure how to construct an effective email link request.
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A few months ago I had the opportunity to hang out with Aaron Wall, and I can tell you first-hand that he’s everything that those that know him describe him as: knowledgeable, friendly, helpful, and an all-around good guy. His post yesterday about search engine optimization finally being legitimized really got me thinking about the incredibly bad wrap that those in our industry often get, whether we deserve it or not.
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Haven’t had much time for blogging lately, LOTS of projects being finished up right now. More about those in future entries.

I rarely post about off-topic stuff here, but I really should. It’s my personal blog, damn it, and as Sugarrae correctly put it, talking about SEO/SEM related topics all day definitely bores the living hell out of me after a while.
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Comment spam: it sucks. Anyone that owns a blog knows how annoying it is going through comment spam everyday. It’s more time consuming than email spam, since it takes a little longer to sift through (for me anyway, using WordPress).
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It’s such a great title for this rant, I couldn’t resist (at least I’m amusing myself, right?). For the majority of you that don’t get it, “The Mystery of Chess Boxing” is an old school kung fu movie as well as an old Wu Tang Clan song off of 36 chambers.
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File this one under “Why didn’t I think of that?”

Just finished up an article about a truly unique and innovative environmental conservation effort at Freecycle.org. The concept is actually an obvious one, yet somehow hasn’t been done before: 1) people who no longer want an item post a message on their local freecycle website 2) Anyone that wants the item responds 3) The owner of the item decides who gets it, and the new owner comes to collect it.
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Have you ever thought about the individual words used often in PPC ads and their impact on your conversions?

I recently performed a statistical analysis on several hundred Google AdWords ads while paying attention to individual words and their impact on clickthrough/conversion rates.
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