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Hackers – White Hat Cowboys?

December 27th, 2011

Strategic Forecasting Inc., Stratfor, which is a US based security think tank that counts branches of the US military among its client list was hacked, and unlike many companies that have been in their position before, Stratfor admits that they got jacked up really bad. The hacktivist group, Anonymous, claimed responsibility for the attack. By [...]

 
 

AOL’s Patch.Com Offers Scant Hope to SEO Writers

December 20th, 2011

A number of SEOs were hardly fazed by the news that AOL’s Patch Network of intensively local content platforms designed to pick up where the big vendors left off is a financial failure. That is the popular scuttlebutt floating around the web these days anyway. If the rumors are true, and AOL vehemently denies Any [...]

 
 

SEO Fail of the Week – Has Yahoo Given Up on Decent Content?

December 14th, 2011

The SEO fail of the week goes to The Atlantic Wire, specifically Dino Grandoni, for this collection of words that was passed off as an article concerning Google Chrome overtaking Firefox in the latest edition of the browser wars. Writing online takes a different toolbox and set of tolls than writing offline where you have [...]

 
 

Understanding the New Media

December 6th, 2011

SEOs and SMMs alike will tell you the difference between old media and new media is that old media doesn’t get it. They don’t trust technology, they don’t want to learn it and they simply don’t use it. It’s no coincidence that those old media firms that simply don’t seem to move on out of [...]

 
 

Yahoo’s New Moves

December 5th, 2011

SEOs are paying close attention to the news that Yahoo Projector and Yahoo’s The Set are being placed on an ice floe and left to die. Tim and Will did a good enough job working with what they had, but ultimately Yahoo finally realized the projects were financial sinkholes. While content related to TV and [...]