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How NOT to Reach Out to Bloggers

Marios Alexandrou — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:19:06 +0000

Earlier this week I poked fun at SEO vendor that posted rankings that weren't particularly impressive and were, in my opinion, downright funny. I'm must be in a sour mood because now I'm going to poke fun at a company that seems to be trying to generate buzz and presumably [...]

Alternative to Your Own Blog

Marios Alexandrou — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:15:20 +0000

The inclination for most people upon hearing about the earnings potential of a successful blog is to start one of their own. This makes sense since owning your own website provides you with the most flexibility when it comes to controlling the design and content. Creating sites is what I've [...]

Domainers and the Business of Domaining

Marios Alexandrou — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:33:15 +0000

I came across an interesting article on CNN Money yesterday. I found it interesting for two reasons: 1) There's the potential to make a lot of money on the Internet and 2) SEO, SEM, and affiliate marketing aren't the be all and end all of monetizing the web. The proof [...]

Blogging Myth - Post Frequency Consistency

Marios Alexandrou — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:46:42 +0000

In my last post I provided an example of a very successful website that uses tactics counter to what most bloggers would suggest because of their fear of annoying their users. I hope with that post that I provided some support to dispel what I consider to be a blogging [...]

Rob Enderle's Blog

Marios Alexandrou — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:41:04 +0000

If you're an information technology professional, wouldn't you be tempted to check out a blog with a press release that started with this: "The most quoted technology analyst on the Internet has a new Web home, and he invites all IT professionals to stop by for a chat." Well I [...]

Two Secrets to Being a Better Blogger

Marios Alexandrou — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:10:47 +0000

Yes, that's right. I've got two secrets that can make an aspiring blogger a better one. And I better apologize up front because you're probably hoping for a quick road to success. Sorry, no such thing is forthcoming. Just a couple of observations that I figured made for a good [...]

Corporate Blogs and Wikis

Marios Alexandrou — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:54:49 +0000

It seems that at least once a month, the answer to a question posed by a co-worker or manager is "we need a blog" or "we need a wiki". The problem as I see it is that these answers are sometimes being given because both of these technologies are popular, [...]

What a Web Developer Can (and Should) Do For You

Marios Alexandrou — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:04:32 +0000

As you might expect, a web developer is one who builds websites. However, a good website builder has much more to offer than just the technical skills needed to put a website together. Ideally, a web developer has the ability to understand your business. With an understanding of your business, [...]

Fixed Width vs. Fluid Designs

Marios Alexandrou — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:27:10 +0000

In today's LED-Digest, there's a discussion about the merits of fixed-width designs vs. fluid layouts. For the most part, people on the list seem to prefer fixed-width. Here are two comments from members explaining why. With A/B and multivariate testing, placement of important elements on a page, such as the [...]

FeedBurner and WordPress

Marios Alexandrou — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:55:33 +0000

In previous posts I've extolled the virtues of WordPress for running blogs and FeedBurner for managing RSS feeds. The problem, as I recently discovered, is that getting FeedBurner to work with WordPress when your web server is Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) isn't as straightforward as one would like. Fortunately, [...]

A New Form of Comment Spam

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:23:17 +0000

This blog has been receiving a lot of comment spam recently. The comment is always the same i.e. "You have an interesting site." The name and e-mail address change though. At first I couldn't figure out why someone would bother with such spam. From my experience, most comment spam includes [...]

Types of Websites: Choose Carefully

Marios Alexandrou — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:10:10 +0000

Some co-workers of mine went to a website usability session conducted by a director from the Mequoda Group and came back with some materials that I've been perusing. This material has some good descriptions of the types of websites that exist today that I've combined with my own observations in [...]

Mashups: You've Probably Already Used Them Without Knowing

Marios Alexandrou — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:43:27 +0000

Mashups played a big role in what people were calling Web 2.0. The term was introduced to me by a co-worker and so I put the term on my list of things to check out. When I finally got around to looking in to what the buzz is about I [...]

Free Blogging Software

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:03:55 +0000

The engine that powers this blog is custom built. I wrote the code a couple of years ago because I couldn't find any thing out on the web that was flexible enough for my needs. And then along came WordPress, a PHP-based blogging tool that is flexible, customizable, and free [...]

Next Up... Blogging CIOs

Marios Alexandrou — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 05:16:40 +0000

Blogging has finally reach the top of the IT food chain. I say this because CIO magazine dedicated several pages to the topic of blogging and even included commentary from blogging CIOs who make no attempt to hide their identities. This is great news assuming CIOs, like other newcomers to [...]

Batch Download Pinterest Photos from Multiple Boards

Marios Alexandrou — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:03:54 +0000

People put a lot of work into their Pinterest boards. I know of no other site where images are so well curated with the resulting albums (boards) so full of high quality photography, drawings, and infographics. If you're like me, you're interested in archiving these great finds on your computer [...]

Digital Asset Impressions: A New SEO Reporting Metric

Marios Alexandrou — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:07:38 +0000

The other day I was talking to one of my teammates, Tim Spektor, about the complications inherent in SEO reporting now that SEO includes optimization of assets beyond a single owned website (commonly referred to as Digital Asset Optimization or DAO). All of these assets are basically opportunities to impress [...]

Internet Plagiarism

Marios Alexandrou — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:01:22 +0000

Every now and again I search for web pages that contain content from my site. In many cases I find snippets that have been used from my web pages as part of larger pieces of work which is fine by me. Other times I find entire pages that are clearly [...]

Portable WordPress

Marios Alexandrou — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:31:24 +0000

In a recent post I wrote about the benefits of switching to portable applications that don't require installation in order to run -- a feature particularly useful when traveling or using a locked down computer. But the readily available suite of such applications wasn't enough for me. I also wanted [...]

Google AdSense Arbitrage

Marios Alexandrou — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:58:10 +0000

In a previous post, I discussed the technique of using Google AdWords to send traffic to a site for a relatively small cost per click. At the end of that article, I briefly mentioned the concept of AdSense arbitrage. Which brings us to today's topic. A while back, ShoeMoney circulated [...]