James Chartrand – a friend of mine who does small business web design- and myself were having a chat today about a mutual acquaintance of ours. We were both “done” with him because his site sucks and he keeps complaining he’s getting no clients. The literal quote he gave is the beginning of a guest…
Doug Richard’s mentoring club
I’m currently at Made in 48 hours lecturing a few hundred people about effective search engine marketing and search engine optimization. The event has been set up by Doug Richard, known to people in the UK as a former Dragon from Dragon’s Den and a serial entrepreneur, VC and teacher of small business and startups. Doug has…
Just because I suck at PPC doesn’t mean you have to!
I’ll openly admit to not liking PPC. I’ll even go as far as saying that, while I do understand its uses, I loathe, yes, hate it. The fact of the matter is that the part of SEO I like and excel at is the technical side of things, and the structure side. The keywords? I…
Happy Birthday BuySellAds!
I’ve posted about them before, and will probably be telling everybody I can about them for a while to come: BuySellAds. It’s their second birthday today, and they made a pretty darn cool video to celebrate: [youtube width="565" height="300"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOkzJXNEMd8[/youtube] A very happy “birthday” to Todd and the crew at BuySellAds, thanks for helping me and…
Facebook & (the lack of) Privacy
Two weeks back, while speaking at SAScon, I said in a panel there that “Facebook is the scariest shit I’ve seen in years”, related to their latest updates. I also said it was a lawsuit waiting to happen, coming from the European Union. I was right. Well, not entirely, it’s not a lawsuit yet. I…
The Yoast.com Reader Survey: help us improve!
We blog about optimizing your website all the time here at Yoast, and we usually give you tips and tricks you can implement straight away on how to do that. Now it’s time that we improve what we do, here at Yoast.com. So it’s time for a short survey, I’d be very grateful if you…
Design for Conversion
A4U RoadShow Amsterdam
Upcoming March 4th there will be an A4U Roadshow event in Amsterdam. A great place to meet and network with the A4U crew, and other people interested in online and especially affiliate marketing! Registration is free, so register now! I’ll be there, so let me know in the comments when you’re coming too and we…
Interview with Todd Garland of BuySellAds
I’ve recently switched from selling my ads directly to having BuySellAds take care of it, and it’s been an absolutely awesome experience. As a result of that experience, I do not agree with Chris Brogan yet that advertising is completely broken, but it does need a good level of reinvention. So, to introduce you to…
Tweetbacks for WordPress
For those who you who’ve been following me on Twitter (if you don’t, it’s about time, I’m @jdevalk!), the fact that I was working on a Tweetbacks plugin for WordPress is no news. We’ve just officially made the announcement on SmashingMagazine, so go read how to implement it there and install Tweetbacks for WordPress on…
