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Blogging Gets A Second Wind

May 3, 2008 11:52 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

There were two moments in the online world that looked to change the way we look at Blogs and Blogging. One, was when video started gaining ground. It seemed like both audio and video Podcasting was going to trump text-based...


How To Get On Someone's Blogroll

March 29, 2008 11:52 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

How many requests a day do you get from other Bloggers requesting you to put their Blog on your Blogroll? I get it a lot. And, I'm fascinated by them. First off, what is a Blogroll? (for those currently not...


10 Simple Ways Non-Profits Can Win At Social Media Marketing

March 22, 2008 8:58 AM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Did you see Google's announcement earlier this week about Google For Non-Profits? Here's the Blog posting from the Official Google Blog titled, Google For Non-Profits: "Many of you spend your days making this world a better place, and we want...


Everything You (Think You) Know About Google Is Changing

March 19, 2008 11:26 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Are you becoming more and more of a Search Geek? If not, you should. The Search Engine landscape is shifting beneath our feet and, as Marketers, it might be cool and fun to play with all of this Social Media...


12 Ways To Move The Social Media Conversation Past The Converted

March 17, 2008 9:34 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

If we're all trying to get more people to read Blogs and listen to Podcasts, but our core audience is fellow Bloggers and Podcasters, how do we ever get this content out to the mainstream and bust the echo chamber...


Search Engine Optimization, Affiliate Marketing And Other Deep Dark Secrets

February 27, 2008 12:46 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Fact: if people can figure out a way to make more money, they will. And, it doesn't matter if it's online, offline or otherwise. Bloggers love to engage in flame wars, and why should Bloggers who have a focus on...


Acquisition Versus Retention - New Thoughts On An Old Argument

January 23, 2008 11:57 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

While attending the Shop.org Strategy And Innovation Forum in Orlando today, I had the pleasure of presenting on the topic of Social Shopping with Carrie Johnson from Forrester Research. We each did a twenty-minute presentation with about fifteen minutes of...


Google Does It Again (And More)

January 12, 2008 8:00 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Google continues to grow. For the month of December 2007, Hitwise ranks the percentages of all U.S. searches as follows: 1. Google - 65.98%. 2. Yahoo - 20.88%. 3. MSN - 7.04%. 4. Ask - 4.4%. It seems a little...


Technorati Rank - Blogroll The Charts And The Blogger's Guide To SEO

November 26, 2007 9:38 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

Does anyone understand Technorati Rank? A few weeks back, I dropped from eight thousand and something (out of the one hundred millions plus Blogs that Technorati tracks) to twelve thousand and something (not a good thing). I noticed this morning...