by Brian Chappell on December 31, 2008
Happy new year everyone! I wanted to bring in the new year with a silly post of sorts: 6 outrageous occurrences in life that if happened – would go viral. Video is one of the most prominent ways to get your message out nowadays, and I can say without a doubt if the following scenarios played out, were recorded, and seeded on a site like youtube they would get thousands of views.
Lets get this started off with a situation where a man stumbles in front of a car and the car pummles over his leg, but the man manages to walk away!
Your buddies are out horsing around on the ice and accidently fall in.
An endzone dance is a typical occurence in the NFL. Could you imagine a guy doing a move only to faceplant into the ground.
Lets imagine your neighboor is up on he roof blowing leaves off, trips and take a head first dive towards the ground from two stories up. Miraculously he lands on the hood of his care, bracing the impact, and gets up and walks away.
The day has come, you have prepared your whole life for this. You get the local NBA team to place a message up on the scoreboard asking your loved one to marry you – only to be rejected on national TV.
Cats are amazing creatures. In fact so amazing one managed to rescue himself from the balzing house fire that tore through the neighboorhood.
by Brian Chappell on September 12, 2008
It appears Google is testing ad placements near the bottom of the page. I am seeing them at the bottom solely (when no placement is at the top), as well as when there is an accompanying placement at the top. It will be very interesting how this one weighs out, and if they institute this across the board.
It appears the last time they tested this was back in 05′
Here is a screencast:
by Brian Chappell on August 28, 2008
So Ubiquity just came out, and I must say this thing is sweet. It is a tech geeks dream. They have only unleashed a handful of operations so far. The sky is the limit with this thing, there will be many command add-ons rolling out in the future, I am sure.
If you have no idea what I am talking about check out the video below:
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Blog Writers Ubiquity:
One idea I have so far is an auto inner linking command to alleviate that nasty chore of finding the right page to link to on your site. Imagine if you are typing a blog post in your wysiwyg editor and you need to interlink a phrase. You simply highlight it, and open up Ubiquity via ctrl-space. You type in inner-link and boom. That phrase is linked to the most relevant page on your site. How might this work? Honestly, not sure how the api’s work right now, but if you could get Ubiquity to query site:www.domain.com “highlighted phrase” in Google and return the #1 result as the page to link to then this might just be a time saver.
Link Builders Ubiquity:
This one is a no brainier, but being able to type in link-count, and it takes you to the yahoo site explorer page, defining the number of links for that page. Also, being able to quickly see the total number of links for the domain would be nice.
Social Bookmarkers Ubiquity:
It would be extremely handy if there was a command line prompt for say, bookmark, and it opened up 3 new tabs. They could be something like Digg, Stumble-Upon and Reddit. Each site would have the URL of the page you came from already preloaded, as well as embedded description content if you highlighted text on the old page.
Competitive Analysis Ubiquity:
Lets say you want to do some quick competitive analysis on a specific domain. The newly launched Quarkbase.com is a great place to ping. Open up Ubiquity and query site-stats and off you go to -> http://www.quarkbase.com/show/”site-name”
Jerk-Off Commenter Ubiquity:
Perhaps you find some jack face leaving an abusive low blow comment, and want to find out potentially if they have commented other places across the web. Open up Ubiquity and type in comment-finder “name” and it queries http://www.backtype.com/people?q=lex.
Rob, Aaron, Shady let me know when this is done.
Thanks,
Brian
by Brian Chappell on July 26, 2008
Google Knol recently launched. If you have not started writing articles for it, well then, hurry the heck up before you get passed by all the other folks who understand the need to get an early start. My latest post was on Increasing Conversions, I started off with 68+ tips and tricks to do so and I fully welcome others to add there thoughts to the article.Now you might have noticed, after writing an article, you could not find it or others. It appeared the “search feature” was not working. The only way to see your article through searching was by being logged in.In fact, a gentlemen for the LA times thought nobody was even writing articles, which obviously was not the case. Turns out it takes “time” for Knols to be searchable, according to a Google representative.Now that we know Google knows how to search, 
the remaining question is how well are the articles going to rank? I have a strong feeling these pages are going to rank well. In fact they have already starting do just that.
Now I know these are somewhat “long tail terms” but this is a brand new subdomain. It has not been live but for about a week. Give Knol some time to build up backlinks and age and you can start to understand the ramifications of all of this.
Read More on this topic:
Google Knol Review
by Brian Chappell on June 16, 2008
Things have been recklessly busy as of late. I have been moving into my new house and as I was unpacking stuff I came across the first web marketing/web design book I ever bought. I have attached a scanned image of the page on “Announcing your site”. It made me laugh. This was only 8 years ago.
It is worth noting Google wasn’t even included on the list, funny stuff. Here is the excerpt if you cannot read the image:
“Publicizing your page in the major search services helps Web surfers find your site. You should try and get your page listed in as many search services as possible.
The following table describes how to add your site to several of the popular Web Search services. To list your Web Site in the search service, go to the URL and click the link indicated in the last column of the table.”
Altavista Excite InfoSeek Lycos MSN Web Search Yahoo! WhoWhere?
“You can save yourself some time by submitting your Web site to a submission service called Submit It at www.submit-it.com (which is owned by Microsoft now for something completely unrelated). This service can submit your Web site to more than 400 search engines for a modest fee of 59$.”
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My name is Brian Chappell and I am a Search and Social Media Marketer. I use this blog to discuss occurrences in the SEO / SEM / SMM fields.
