by Jeff Yablon | Jan 6, 2014 | Content, Influency
In Optimization and Influency, in case I haven’t been clear enough on the subject, cheating is a bad idea. Cheating is a bad idea in journalism and blogging. Cheating will catch up to you on social networks. Cheating is bad. Bad, bad, bad. And if you believe...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 3, 2014 | Influency
This morning, two interesting things happened to me. They turn out to be linked, and that’s a story about Influency, and, it turns out, Optimization. The second one was when I received a note from one of our readers pointing out a problem he’d noticed in...
by Jeff Yablon | Dec 24, 2013 | Influency
I’m not a fan of platitudes and awards. Mostly there as a matter of self-congratulation, to me many “best of” lists mean nothing—proven by how quickly they’re forgotten. But for 2013 we’re bestowing a Worst Person of the Year award....
by Jeff Yablon | Dec 19, 2013 | Influency, Marketing, Media
In yesterday’s piece on the pervasiveness of duplicate content I promised you a discussion of the perfect storm in Influency Marketing. Here it is, and it’s all shiny and pretty! Just as ‘there are too many blogs’, there are an awful lot of...
by Jeff Yablon | Dec 18, 2013 | Content, Influency, Search Engine Optimization SEO
For a few years, Google’s position on duplicate content has been that ‘they won’t penalize you’ for having it on your web site. Good thing, because this week Matt Cutts revealed a statistic that might—or perhaps it won’t—sound shocking:...
