Earlier this month, the BBC technology television show, Click, reported that their developer was legitimately able to use a 3rd party Facebook application to retrieve private information from Facebook users who have specifically asked to keep this type of data private. Now, 3rd party applications on Facebook are beginning to steal user identities for the [...]

A few months back when Google began penalizing sites for selling direct text links, I talked about a specific case where computer.org went from a PR9 to PR5 literally overnight. A few months later, I noticed it is also possible to go from a PR5 to PR9.

Attending internet marketing conferences like AdTech San Francisco 2008 will help you stay up to date with new developments in the marketing and advertising realms. In addition, these events are also where you find new business contacts and strengthen current relationships. I just returned from AdTech and once again, the out-of-conference relationship building was just [...]

Do you see the “Are You in My TopSpots?” widget on the right hand menu of this blog? This is where you can receive a link back to your website or blog. All you have to do is tip me $1 and the widget will show your link. Since the TopSpot widget is loaded site [...]

Recently, Google began cracking down on websites that were selling text link ads. Reports are popping up all over the Internet indicating that many websites and blogs saw a significant drop in Google Page Rank. Now there is a cool tool to help you see where your Google Page Rank is heading.

Are you looking to earn a little more revenue from your blog? A cool and innovative way for you to do just that is here. A friend of mine, Jim Kukral, just launched Scratchback where bloggers can add a TopSpot widget on their website.

A few months ago, I enabled the DoFollow plugin on this blog. I was hoping DoFollow would help garner more and better conversation. Since joining the DoFollow, I Follow, No Nofollow movement, this blog has seen an increase in not only comments but in spam as well - in particular, trackback spam. The Do Follow [...]

As discussed in Pageviews Distorted by AJAX Technology, with the adoption of pageless web technology, pageview may no longer show all the activity that users have on a website. Although Google Analytics is currently capable of tracking events that do not trigger a pageview, Google has formally announcing a beta that will help internet marketers [...]

If you have not updated to the latest version of Wordpress 2.3, you might consider upgrading sooner rather than later. Although there were no major security fixes, one of my most favorite updates in the latest release is the plugin update notification. What a great way to be notified of the latest security updates for [...]

In the old days (before this week), if you wanted to serve video ads, you had to produce them yourself. It was as simple as that. Google just turned the advertising world upside down with their new Google Adsense Video Ads. In short, it looks like an advertiser can now serve their ad alongside videos [...]

There have been quick a few issues for users trying to upload photos in Facebook using Windows Vista and Firefox. Page load simply comes to a halt and Firefox crashes when adding photos and creating new albums. Until Firefox and/or Vista and/or Facebook has a true solution, here is a quick fix that works just [...]

Last month, I noticed a 300% increase in average Time Spent on Site as reported by Google Analytics. Apparently, Google changed how they reported Time Spent on Site. After some digging and helpful comments from users on this blog, it looks like Google no longer included visitors who bounced in their length-of-stay measurement. Google [...]