Draft Buying adult traffic can sometimes be profitable, but it’s always tricky. Different ways to look at traffic. By how you pay: CPC, CPM, flat rate, CPC, affiliate, Types: Hardcore, softcore, general, Sources: Search Engines, TGPs, MGPs, Tube Sites, p2p, blogs, CPC, linkdumps, forums, email Ad Type: popunder, popup, layover, pagepeel, banner, text ad, XXX [...]
During an online conversation I recently came up with the word Brandverb. A brand becomes a brandverb when it becomes commonly used in place of a verb. It used to be that brand managers were always concerned about having their brand fall into the public domain. The travails of Xerox and Kleenex were legendary as [...]
Program yourself. Make sure that you have the volume turned up.
FreeEnigma – free PGP based encryption for your webmail sounds like just what the doctor ordered in this ‘suppoena everything’ day and age. It seems like it will finally be easy for you to keep your communications somewhat private. It doesn’t hide who you send to or get mail from, but it encrypts the body [...]
These Animated Search Engine Bot Crawl Visualizations are the result of a one year experiment on the behaviour of Yahoo, MSN & Google search engine bots. You can click on the pictures to watch the animated visualizations from drunkmenworkhere. MSN Bot Visual Animation Yahoo Slurp Visual Animation Google Bot Visual Animation Definitely worth further study. [...]
This fantastic video is an deft piece using the long standing adult industry marketing tradition of parody in reverse. In this case it self referentially honors and adds new media production values to adult marketing archetypes. The site itself is a great example of what mainstream can learn from the adult industry. The site uses [...]
Linkology is the “50 most linked to blogs relate” according to data derived from Technorati. What makes this interesting, is the implied assumption that these are 50 of the most important blogs. When looked at from an SEO perspective, then the value is relatively obvious. However when looked at from a PR and/or effective reach [...]
Previously I referenced the value of trust. Idea – The more a network facilitates trust, the easier it is for network users to form groups. From David Reed re: The Power of Community Building Group Forming Networks maximize per user value and the dominant value in a typical network tends to shift from one category [...]
Meta-Theory of Optimization Optimization is the discipline (art/science) which is concerned with finding the maxima and minima of functions, subject to constraints. In Meta-Terms, Optimization does not necessarily mean finding the optimum solution to a problem. Often this is not possible (constraints), and this is where the balance (heuristics) is used to make principally accurate [...]
Making your brand Secure, Memorable, and Global sounds like what an IP firm, and or marketing agency should do for you. As domain names = brands more and more it’s also the properties that you would like to have your indentifier (brand and/or URL) have on the internet. Up until now Zooko‘s Triangle has argued [...]