Guerilla Internet Marketing

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Just a quick post about a neat little list I stumbled upon. Courtney Tuttle has a big list on her site (currently over 200) of blogs that are part of the DoFollow movement and actually give link credit for comments posted on their blogs. If you’re not clear on what DoFollow is, check out a previous post I did letting people know that I installed it.

Please do not use this list to do blog spamming with. If you are going to comment on these blogs, it shouldn’t purely be for the purpose of increasing your PageRank and incoming links. You should only make worthwhile comments to these blogs!

Go check out The D List and be a part of the link love!

A lawsuit against Target has now achieved class action status, in a claim that the retailer’s web site is inaccessible to the blind, therefore violating federal and state discrimination laws. This story is making headlines and is bouncing around the web as if this is something new. In reality, back in 1996 the U.S. Justice Department ruled that Web sites are public accommodations and must therefore offer access to the disabled to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). What does this mean? It means that designing with the needs of the disabled is the law, and companies that don’t take their needs into account can and will be penalized.

This may scare some site owners because they are worried about being sued. In reality, designing a site to be accessible isn’t terribly complicated, and besides the fact that you will not be alienating the disabled, you could benefit by inviting a whole new channel of shoppers into your web site. I have read several reports that claim disabled web shoppers are some of the most loyal customers the web has to offer. Once they find a comfortable and convenient place to shop, they keep coming back.

Anyway, here are a few resources to help with accessible design guidelines:

W3C Accessibility Guidelines

Designing Accessible Web Site

National Federation of the Blind

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This is in response to an article written by Terry Brock entitled “Are Internet marketers today’s ‘used car salesmen?’“

I came across this article today in a Google search for Internet Marketing. It was a news result blended in the middle of the normal search results, but that’s another story. Anyway, you know that I recently wrote an article about SEO ethics entitled “What happened to ethics? SEOs that hide their methods and mislead clients” so obviously I do feel that there are some clear issues in the Internet Marketing industry. However, my article differed from Mr. Brock’s in that it clearly outlined specific examples of where these issues are to help educate businesses on what to look out for. I didn’t say that the entire industry was corrupt or make equivalent blanket statements. As with any industry, there are good people and bad people out there…
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I just read a great article over at J. Timothy King’s Blog
entitled 7 Entrepreneurial Secrets of Survivorman. In it he describes the similarities between being a survivalist and an entrepreneur.

I happen to be a huge fan of Survivorman, and if you haven’t seen it yet I suggest you check it out one night. Les Stroud a.ka. Survivorman is dropped off in the middle of nowhere in various places around the globe left to not only survive with little to no equipment, he also films the ordeal himself, carrying around and setting up camera gear to document the experience. It’s a great show that is not only entertaining and inspiring, it can also teach you some basic survival methods and as Tim King points out, these lessons sometimes parallel some helpful methods for entrepreneurs.

What are some of these key lessons? You’ll have to go to the original source for the in depth analysis, but some of these center around preparation, diversifying your efforts, conservation of resources, and having the ability to break away from relying on traditional methods to achieve results. The article is a great read for any entrepreneur, but an even better read for an entrepreneur that happens to be a fan of the show!

This is a very interesting usability study. It looks like this site has been around for a while but I stumbled upon it last night. It’s entertaining at the very least, but I think it’s thought provoking as well. Are people so set it their ways that user behavior can’t be modified or adjusted to change the way people think about navigation, and the web in general? The web is dynamic and constantly changing, but how drastic have these changes been? Is technology limited by the ability of users to adapt to it?
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I have been meaning to do it for a while, but I finally got around to installing the DoFollow Plugin for Wordpress. I am sure I will start getting more SPAM filled comments, but I can definitely handle moderating them and weeding the bad ones out for the time being.

Blogs are supposed to be about user interaction, and link building is a huge portion of SEO, so why not spread the link love?

Some SEOs, consultants, and agencies hide their methods and ultimately mislead their clients. How do they do this? By not disclosing or blatantly lying about their methods used to obtain rankings and/or traffic. Why do they do this? Short-sighted thinking…

Here are some examples of where this happens:
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