Douglas Karr

"Thanks for that clarification, Robby! I'll stand by last comments. I trust my IT resources to be my advisors so I don't do something stupid. However, I won't give them the final decision on platforms and strategies that are in the best interest of moving the business forward. We each have our own strengths and they need to be leveraged appropriately." - Douglas Karr

"Unique visitors - big type in the upper left :)" - Douglas Karr

"Hi Matt! Do some digging on Slingshot SEO and call them and find out who their customers are and how they rank before you take a shot. They have a very long string of #1 positions for highly competitive keywords. They would be happy to talk to you over the phone. Their web presence is quite subtle - but that's on purpose. In their business, you don't want to put a spotlight on the methodologies and practices. RE: Best SEO practices - I can't agree nor disagree as I'm not sure what their goal is. Many people go through a checklist of SEO best practices... from SEOmoz or Hubspot or elsewhere... and no two sites recommend the same things. If you really want to test them out, check out their clients, their keywords, and their rank: http://www.slingshotseo.com/client-... Doug" - Douglas Karr

"Hi Robby! I'm not sure whether or not you're agreeing or disagreeing with me. You and I know that the Dow Jones, The New York Times, People Magazine, Fox News and CNN are not running WordPress 'as is'. They are running it with no additional infrastructure costs, theme development costs, search engine optimization costs, etc.? You don't think they're spending money educating their staff on use of those platforms? Or development to pass content to those platforms? Of course they are! Each of those businesses has invested quite a bit of money to make a 'free' platform work for them. A blog is just a blog, but a blogging platform is NOT just a blogging platform. The keyword strength meter, automation of tagging, categorization and content placement in Compendium are huge differentiators. It requires that the user spend less time worrying about 'how' to blog, 'how' to optimize their content, and more time worrying about 'what' to blog. Business bloggers should be concentrating on their..." - Douglas Karr

"Hi Krishna - agreed! I'm looking forward to it as well." - Douglas Karr

"Not sure I agree, peakay. The usability in Bing has already forced Google to change their layout and make things more intuitive. The video and image search capabilities are great - with autozoom and autoplay. As well, I believe they're relying more on the relevance of the content rather than backlinks." - Douglas Karr

"Hi Mayank, I'm skeptical as well - but I love the underdog. Google has owned the crown for a long time and not really done anything to make searching easier. Instead, they've pushed online marketers to learn how to optimize to their platform rather than working their platform to find relevant content and rank it appropriately. They've also taught us as readers 'how to search' per their requirements rather than how we would like to search. There's tons of opportunity! Thanks for commenting!" - Douglas Karr

"Actually, that's not the case at all. I am running Safari 4 and Glims without any issues on Leopard.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry From: IntenseDebate Notifications" - Douglas Karr

User contribution is now what makes or breaks a site. Allowing users to react, participate and contribute while still keeping your site under control can be a huge challenge. Mollom is a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop spam on your blog, social network or community website. - Douglas Karr

Google has added the creative commons filter to the advanced image search page. In June, Google added the filter through advanced URL parameters, but now it is officially added to the advanced search page. - Douglas Karr

Forrester is predicting that search marketing will continue to lead in spending through the next five years followed by display advertising. Also, they are quick to point out that “owned social media assets (like internal blogs, community sites) are really the only emerging media getting traction” in today’s economic climate. - Douglas Karr

Get a report with popular keywords your site may be optimized for with the estimated volume of visitors you may get if you will be at #1 position for these keywords. See which pages will give you most traffic if you would optimize them for appropriate keywords. - Douglas Karr