After having a drop last saturday due to issues with Google FeedFetcher, the reader count in the chicklet by FeedBurner has once again dropped hugely (I’m seeing 25-40% drops). As the FeedBurner backend hasn’t updated yet there’s no way to know what’s causing it, but it’s not a good thing if such a thing happens [...]
Yoast tweaking websites
FeedBurner feed counts drop again… (due to FeedFetcher)
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Next stop: SMX Stockholm
I’m now sitting in the airport lobby at Airport Weeze, a very small airport just about 30 minutes away from my home, waiting for my flight to Stockholm. After the great experience at A4UExpo last week, I’m very curious what this week will bring. One thing is for sure: I’m going to meet some very [...]
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Kevin Ryan & Jeff Ferguson of Napster
Jeff is quite an interesting guy, he worked as an SEO and later worked as online marketing manager for Hilton before becoming the director of online marketing for Napster. He talked a bit about how it was to set up the online marketing strategy for Hilton, including an affiliate program, it turns out he had [...]
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Know your customer!
The next session for today is by Tony Pybuss and a bit of talk by Jason Duke who are talking about knowing your customer’s values, and how you can use that info in search and conversion optimization. Tony is teaching marketing here, and it’s great,
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Conversion Rate Experts!
I’m now in the session of my good friends Karl and Ben from Conversion-Rate-Experts, whom I met beginning of this year at Dave’s SEOdays. They talk about multivariate testing, and I have seen the presentation before, but these guys are still amazing! I was talking to Ben earlier and he said “we have actually never [...]
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Combining SEM and Affiliate Marketing
After a nice session from 11.30 till 12.30 with Kris Jones, who talked about the integration of Search Marketing and Affiliate Marketing (in short: loads of money to be made), I’m now in the “Meet the super affiliates” session. I must say that there are a few people here who really know their stuff, but [...]
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At A4UExpo!
I’m now sitting in the ExCeL in London for the keynote to A4UExpo. Last night I attended a network party thrown by Buy.AT, where I had some great fun with Marcus Tandler (Mediadonis), Kris Jones and Aaron Baker from PepperJam Search, and loads of other people. The keynote is delivered by Guy Phillipson, the CEO [...]
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FeedBurner: MyBrand is not an uncommon use of my feed…
I was logging into my FeedBurner account this morning to check out my stats, and this is what I saw: Now, I would hope, that my 2 main feed URL’s (the first redirects to the second), would NOT be an “uncommon” use of my feeds…. Now Graywolf already found out the hard way that they [...]
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Shoemoney shows who’s boss
Remember the RSS contest between Jown Chow and Shoemoney I was talking about? Well… The scales kinda tipped: Shoe is now obviously in the lead, and he hasn’t even started his RSS Contest yet… He did show an interesting technique in the week though, you got a lightbox (I think) popup if you were new [...]
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Nice and cheap internet marketing products?
DealDotCom is creating quite the hype at the moment… They’re promoting themselves as the Woot! of internet marketing, or for the Europeans among my readers: the iBood of internet marketing. I’m very curious as to what they have to offer, as this looks quite tempting: If you’re involved in Internet Marketing in any way, shape, [...]
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