User Driven Change

After making a hit-or-miss joke about salary compensation I want to follow up with a more informative post on the Forum One survey. Also, Jeff and I invite anyone working in web marketing, design or social media to take a short survey (18 questions) that will help answer the salary question in a more robust fashion. A follow up on data from Forum One Networks. 52% of respondents are female. 54% of the respondents spend 50% ...

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Last week I saw an influx of Advanced SEO posts. I think that they are all off the mark in one sense or another. To me they all seem like this guy: What Shimon Sandler thinks is Advance SEO: An Excerpt: “A silo is a vertical page linking ...

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photo credit: Noah Sussman Today there is a lot of coverage of SEO Standards. If you want a list of some recent articles visit this post at SEOmoz and Slightly Shady. I think that most of the people ...

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I have recently been using StumbleUpon more frequently, and for a wide number of topics, and I have found some interesting sites. I also notice that I see certain people that I know from search marketing communities are very active. I might say extremely active. I have to wonder how many of the sites that they put up are legitimately things they like and how many are things that they are connected to professionally. Is ...

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Congratulations to Paul Robb, who won the competition, beating my entry by 0.14%. It is exciting that the two entries were so close that SEOmoz had to extend the competition by 3 weeks to reach confidence on which had a higher conversion rate. Both of the entries made significant improvements over the original -- increasing the conversion rate from 0.5% to 2.41% (mine) and 2.55% (Paul's). Both pages increased conversions by about five ...

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