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WHAT HAPPENS When You ‘Build a Web Site in One Hour’ ?

What Happens If You Search for Build a Web Site in One Hour?You can build a web site in an hour, but it’s a very bad idea. On the other hand, if you talk about building a web site in one hour, enough, in the right way, and in the right places, people notice. And Google notices, which is equally—maybe more—important.

Now, let’s dissect, and maybe even undo that last part of what I said.

Google says that when you create content you need to make it attractive to people, and that attractiveness to Google will follow naturally. Sure it will; all you have to do is create content that rivals the volume and quality of mass media outlets spending ten of millions of dollars per month, and you’ll be golden.

Matt Cutts, TheShortCutts, and … There ARE no Short Cuts

Matt Cutts Talks Search and Bad Links   Matt Cutts, Competition, Search Optimization, and Legitimate Business

About a month ago, a UK-based Marketing consultancy called Click Consult did something smart. Click Consult posted and started updating the collective words of wisdom of Google’s Matt Cutts to a web site they registered call The Short Cutts (and Matt’s short cuts are at theshortcutts.com, get it?).

This is brilliant in several ways. And the topic here, strong as ever, is Influency*.

Are You More Like Google, or Amazon?

Google, Amazon, or Apple: What Kind of Long-Tail Marketer Are You?

It’s occurred to me that there are three big driving-the-way-the-Internet-works companies left (for now) to talk about. Maybe four if you count Facebook. Who are these companies? You’ve guessed it; Google, Amazon, and Apple control the world.

And honestly, Apple is slipping; let’s limit the influency-moving-forward conversation to Google and Amazon.

There’s a lot to dislike about the way Google is doing business, lately. While it would be naïve to think Google was going to keep giving away everything they make forever and ‘subsist’ on the revenue they derive as the world’s largest-and-there-is-no-second-place advertising agency, acts like the killing of Google Reader are unsettling—and driving most discussions about the delivered-right-after-Google-Reader-was-axed Google Keep.

Warren Buffett Gets Into Social Media

Warren Buffett Makes for Influential Long Tail Marketing

Yesterday, Warren Buffett started hanging out at Answer Guy Central.

Strange (and unlikely) as that sounds, I’m only partially kidding. As you can see from the graph at the top of this post, a story I wrote almost a year ago about Warren Buffett’s browser preference suddenly started drawing a lot of traffic, yesterday.

130 views hardly qualifies as “a lot of traffic” in many senses, of course, but when something written a year ago that had previously been read all of 230 times suddenly spikes so highly, something‘s happened. And that something is Influency*, through long-tail marketing.

Someone Searched for WHAT ?

Long Tail Marketing Equals Search Engine Optimization

Sometimes, you just shake your head in disbelief.

A few days ago, I noticed that somebody had searched Google for the phrase answerguy.com+social+networking. I’m sure you can guess, but what that means is that it occurred to someone that they needed to ask Google what had been said about social networking over the years at Answer Guy Central.

And we’ve said plenty. We don’t specifically name social networking as one of the tenets of Influency, but it surely is—although in practical terms we usually consider social networking to be part of Optimization.

Gary Vee Climbs a Vine, Watches Porn, and Markets Influency*

Dove, Long Tail Marketing on the Vine, and Influency

I don’t talk about retail very much, because it’s a business where very little changes. Influency* ? Sure; see the commercial, buy the goods. Nothing new there.

This morning I’m thinking about Dove soap.Dove, a brand of homegoods-conglomerate Proctor and Gamble’s main competitor, Unilever, is a client of wine-geek-turned-marketing-consultant Gary Vaynerchuk‘s Vaynermedia. And last week Garyvee, as he’s known to his million Twitter followers, advised his client Dove to start playing with a new toy called Vine. Here are the results:

https://twitter.com/Dove/status/294944595731685376

Influency (And How True It Is That Google Owns Everything)

Google Owns Everything

Cute Tee Shirt, Dude. Google does kind of own your identity.

Or as I told you a few months ago, before it became a matter of Influency*, and before Influency became of dominant and imminent importance, Google Owns Everything.

We’re getting ready to drop the big Influency bomb of 2013, and in the course of our ongoing research I noticed today that somehow we’d become Google fourth-most important web site for the phrase “Google Owns Everything”. Search Engine Optimization? Sure, but the phrase Google Owns Everything isn’t one we’ve exactly “gone after” here. Nevertheless, there you have it. As of this writing, the broad and seemingly obvious statement “Google Owns Everything” is sending traffic to Answer Guy Central—and at a time when rankings are getting harder to come by!

What Happens to Influency When You Google Yourself Too Much?

I Google Myself Too Often

Can You Google Yourself Too Much? When you’re me, even watching 2012 come to a close and thinking about Answer Guy Central’s almost-here Influency* re-branding comes in a distant second to questions like that one. Yeah, I know how weird that makes me.

Nevertheless, when a couple of people landed at Answer Guy Central yesterday by Googling the phrase “yeah I know I google myself too often“, it caught my attention.

I was surprised. I don’t feel as though I Google myself very often, and prior to today, the only time the phrase “google myself” had ever been published at Answer Guy Central was here, over three years ago.

Search Engine Optimization? Influency*? Long Tail Marketing?

SEO Influency and Search Engine Optimization

This week, I’ve been working with a new client, explaining a few things about Search Engine Optimization. He happens to be both an engineer type and a business school graduate, and because of that our conversations sometimes turn to the geeky, and the minutiae-laden.

He pointed out that both Search Engine Marketing (paid advertising) and Search Engine Optimization—in fact, on-line services in general—seem to rely on data sets with conflicting information. I was floored by his understanding, despite what I said a moment ago, and acknowledged the accuracy of his observation.

Hubspot, and ‘Building a Moat Around Your Company’ using SEO

Hubspot, Marketing, and Building a Moat Around Your Company

Hubspot’s Brian Halligan is one smart dude.

I’ve written about Hubspot several times, and once before, I wrote about Hubspot’s CEO. As in that piece, today I’ll be pointing you to a video of Brian Halligan, this time talking about a very cool idea: you need a moat around your business.

It’s OK that the point of Halligan’s talk was to promote Hubspot. And by the way: he slipped in the promotion of Hubspot’s services without ever once saying “buy our services”. Instead, Halligan pointed his viewers at a page on the Hubspot web site ranking marketing efficacy of the Inc. 5000 companies, implying that Hubspot is the tool to fix their marketing problems.

Louis CK, Long Tail Marketing, Media and Transparency

Let’s talk Marketing. And Search Engine Optimization. And the business of media. Most especially  let’s talk about the comedian Louis CK.

I started telling you almost a year ago that Louis CK may be the smartest marketing guy around. Certainly, CK is smarter than most marketing executives, and has the million dollar PayPal account to prove it.

Look at these Louis CK – related SEO numbers:

Louis CK PayPal Search Engine Optimization Results at Answer Guy Central

Louis CK PayPal SEO

Louis CK Marketing Search Engine Optimization Results at Answer Guy Central

Louis CK Marketing SEO

Louis CK Media Search Engine Optimization Results at Answer Guy Central

Louis CK Media SEO

Election Day Stats, Search Engine Optimization, Nate Silver

Four more years. Whether you’re happy about that business change or not, four more years of President Barack Obama is now a fact. You’ll adapt, because it’s what makes you a business person.

You also have proof that Search Engine Optimization works. And we have some new traffic to Answer Guy Central. A big thank you to Nate Silver and his Election Day Statistics.

Election Day Statistics and Search Engine Optimization

This is our “current” popular traffic. This information is constantly changing, and what shows up here is a reflection of the most popular articles at Answer Guy Central over the previous 15 days. You’ll see that #9 on the list is the article I wrote yesterday about Statistics, Election Day, Nate Silver, and Journalistic Integrity.

Plastics, Benjamin, Plastics (Or, for Great SEO, Pictures)

Benjamin Braddock learns about plastics in ‘The Graduate’. And you learn about search engine optimization and long tail marketing

If The Graduate was made today, ‘Plastics, Benjamin, Plastics’ wouldn’t matter. Today, the best advice a middle-aged guy can offer a recent graduate is “long tail marketing and search engine optimization, son, long tail marketing and search engine optimization”.

Of course, that wouldn’t make a very good line in a movie.

I have an SEO secret for you today. It will change and supercharge your Search Engine Optimization in a huge way. For real. I discovered it this morning, and it’s absolutely incontrovertible at least until Google changes the game. Here it is:

Proctor, Gamble, Business Change, Customer Service, and SEO

It’s Friday, and I was planning to put the lid on the continuing saga of Bad Customer Service at Virgin America today. But through the innocuous act of checking the long-term weather forecast this morning, those plans have changed. Virgin America, I’ll have to get back to you; Mr. Proctor and Mr. Gamble just came calling.

I first wrote about Proctor and Gamble’s plans to get into direct-to-consumer sales way back in January 2010. Amazingly, that business change has not only taken the better part of three years to start (OK, so not really) happening, but has somehow stayed completely off almost everyone’s radar. So much so, that when I next mentioned Proctor and Gamble in February of this year, these were our search engine optimization results:

Automated Savings Programs and Business Change

Way To Save, Customer Service, and Business Change

Coincidences are what make life interesting, don’t you think?

Not an hour after I posted yesterday’s story on Banking, e-Commerce, and Merchant Accounts, I was in the car, listening to that quaint old thing we call “radio”,  and a commercial came on for a product/service from Wells Fargo Bank. Wells Fargo wants to help us all save more by using Way2Save, and it’s a pretty good idea.

Now don’t get me wrong; there’s nothing terribly revolutionary about Way2Save. Among other things, Way2Save works by moving a dollar from your checking to your savings account each time you use your debit card. Bank of America has offered a similar program called Keep The Change for years.





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