Posted by randfish

Just the links, folks:

• The folks over at DowJones Marketwatch are so clueless about social media, it hurts. Just read their take on Scott's blog entry from last week (scroll to the 3rd article).
• More on leveraging linkbait from the YPN blog, courtesy of yours truly
• Sadly, email spam isn't going away, it's getting more sophisticated and more prevalent
• Royal Pingdom has a genius heat map overlay of dangerous weather areas to help identify the best places for a datacenter.
• Eric Enge interviewed Google Analytics' Brett Crosby; definitely worth a read, but be aware that it's long and very in-depth (nice work, Eric).
• Werty explains why Netflix's online marketing will help them edge out Blockbuster.
• 2006 marked the end of Washington state's mini-recession after the dot-com bust.
• Michael Gray points out the value of data gathering from blog widgets and why the MyBlogLog acquisition from Yahoo! was so wise.
• One piece of advice we didn't take from Andy - Why Marketing Agencies Shouldn't Publish their Fees.
• New acronym - MFD (Made for Digg). Cameron talks about it, Ethan Kaplan coined it.
• Donna notes that Google seems to have changed the way they handle subdomains in site commands (and posits that more changes may result from this).
• Brian Clark has a few link building strategies that have worked well for him.
• Guy Kawasaki (I refuse to mention the name of his inappropriately titled blog) has then top ten marketing podcasts (sadly, no Danny, no Shoemoney, no SEO Rockstars)
• Vanessa posted a terrific year-in-review of Webmaster Central. Congratulations, WMC team - I admire nearly everything you do and love the way you do it (now, just blog more and my enamor will be complete).
• Mr. Boykin is itching for a fight with his Linkbait won't do it, you need link ninjas. Actually, I think you need both and it can depend on your site and your targets as to which is the better choice.
• Jon Mendez is touching on a question I get asked by client quite a bit - Should you purchase your branded keywords?
• The MindValley guys have a terrific post about one Adwords headline outperforming another... by 195%. Those guys have a great blog.
• Andrew's right - 30% year-over-year growth in searches is phenomenal.
• Dr. Garcia says - SEO is not and will never be a science. I agree with the statement, but his reasons aren't the ones I would have chosen.

What did I miss this week?

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