There’s an article on searchengineland today about domaining and how Google and Yahoo “make money off a twitter typo domain”. I’m not sure I’m as excited about exposing this travesty of justice as SEL is, but I was curious how much traffic typo domains get:

In my brief research I found facebok.com was by far the biggest winner with twiter.com running a distant second. But their traffic dropped off to a trickle middle of this year. I wonder if facebook themselves …

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In my recent podcast we chatted about Linkbait. Linkbait is simply the act of writing a headline for a blog entry or page that will generate a very high click rate and then publicizing that page. If you’re not sure how to write great headlines, start with this page of 10 Sure-Fire headline formulas that work.
If you’re writing great headlines for your blog entries and are looking for places to publicize them, check out socialposter.com. It’s a bookmarklet you drag …

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TW sent me this piece of web marketing gold…
The ULTIMATE guide to linkbaiting. Building blog content to get traffic from Digg, Reddit, delicious, etc.

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In an earlier post I suggested that too much competitive analysis too early might be a bad idea. But it got me thinking about the tools that are available for gathering competitive intelligence about a business and what someone else might be using to gather data about my business.
Archive.org
One of my favorites! Use archive.org to see how your competitors website evolved from the early days until now. If they have a robots.txt blocking iarchive (archive.org’s web crawler) then you’re …

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I recently guest blogged an entry titled the long tail approach to SEO on a friends new blog. It’s based on some of my own experience and was inspired by a post on webmasterworld from someone who is about to exceed 1 million uniques from SEO with around 100k pages of content, which isn’t much at all.

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