80,000 links in 3 months. Ranking for competitive terms in 6 months with a brand new domain. Sounds pretty sweet, huh? Those are the numbers that Matt Inman reported to Joe Whyte in a Search Marketing Standard interview… Those are the numbers that made the quiz bug bite. Four months later I’m working with the [...]
First off, I’ve only written one quiz and I’ve currently generated 0 links using personality quizzes. I write this to share the research I’ve done thus far for folks who’d like to think WAY TOO MUCH about quiz writing in the future. A SMStandard article first got me interested in personality quiz writing. The article [...]
Ever since the quiz marketing bug bit me (when I read this interview with Matt Inman by Joe Whyte) I’ve paid a lot more attention to personality quizzes and folks who use them for marketing. I’d already seen them on MySpace and I hear they’re quite popular on FaceBook. Then I started to notice how [...]
On April 30th 2004 I defined the term “Algoholic” in Urban Dictionary. To the best of my knowledge I coined the term. Here’s what I wrote then: 1. algoholic Someone who watches search engine algorithms closely for the purpose of making appropriate changes to websites with the intent of getting higher results. Usage: If you [...]