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Welcome New Advertiser – ABCSearch

posted on January 2, 2007

As we kick off the New Year, we add a new sponsor to Marketing Pilgrim. Welcome ABCSearch.

ABC Search is a pay-per-click search network that connects thousands of advertisers with millions of consumers and offers a number of benefits including…

  • Geo-Targeting
  • Bulk Upload System
  • No Sign-Up Fee
  • Bids begin at $.05
  • Max Bidding Feature
  • Detailed Keyword Trends
  • Strict Click Fraud Protection
  • 2.5 Billion Monthly Searches
  • Listing Approval within 24 hours

ABCSearch is also offering Marketing Pilgrim readers up to $100 in free traffic!

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LifeHack’s 6 Tips to Improve Your Blog

posted on January 2, 2007

Lifehack’s Chris Brogan shares six very useful tips for first-time bloggers – and a refresher for the rest of us – looking to improve their blog.

I won’t repeat all six here, but the first tip is usually the one I see most new bloggers guilty of failing to implement…

Display Contact Info Prominently- Put the author’s name right up there easy to read, and add a photo, an email written out to avoid spiders ( chris at lifehack dot org instead of actually clickable), and even a phone number, if you want people to reach you. Add your IM username, and other contact info. If it’s a multi-author blog, display an “About the Authors” link prominently.

Here’s a couple I would add to the list.

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Tracking Net Neutrality

posted on January 2, 2007

I just discovered CNET’s nice timeline of the battles won and lost in the name of net neutrality. They also do a great job of summarizing what the heck “net neutrality” means.

Network operators [such as Verizon] want to charge Internet content providers for enhanced IP services, while Net neutrality proponents [Google, eBay etc] say regulations are needed to prevent abuse by the Net’s gatekeepers.

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Michael Arrington’s Tech Companies to Watch in 2007

posted on January 2, 2007

TechCrunch’s infamous Michael Arrington has listed the “Web 2.0″ companies he couldn’t live without in 2007, but we may as well call it “the top tech companies to watch in 2007″.

It’s a list most marketers should consider reviewing. While it has some tech companies that don’t quite cross into marketing, Arrington’s list is full of social media and search companies, including Ask City, BlueDot, Digg, Flickr, YouTube and more.

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Google, Yahoo & Apple Boosting Silicon Valley Real Estate

posted on January 2, 2007

If you’re looking to locate your business in California’s Silicon Valley and are feeling the pain of real estate prices, we know who you should blame.

Apple, Google and Yahoo are collectively buying-up large parcels of land in the Valley and driving up commercial real estate values in the process. Collectively, the three big tech companies spent more than half a billion dollars on land and buildings in 2006.

Google’s expansion in Mountain View, in particular, has reduced vacancy rates, in turn driving up costs.

Mountain View’s Shoreline park was one of them, according to Ellis Berns, Mountain View’s economic development manager. “After the dot-com bust, there was 28 to 30 percent vacancy,” he said. “We’re now running in the neighborhood of 8.5 percent.

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Search Marketers Share Flickr Photos

posted on January 2, 2007

I often get emailed by new bloggers, asking me to add their blog to my blogroll or link to a specific article. I typically avoid linking, just because I am asked, instead I tell the blogger that I’ll keep an eye on their blog and link to anything I find interesting.

Ok, with that preamble out of the way, here’s where I am going. If you want to get your blog on the radar of other bloggers, create something unique and interesting. I’ve never heard from Andrew Girdwood, but he was smart enough to put together a list of search marketers sharing their photos via Flickr. Not only is this interesting, and going in my bookmarks, but by including the names of popular bloggers, he’ll likely get a lot of links from it.