Brian Chappell

Seeing a tweet from @jonathanmendez got me thinking a bit this morning. “Don’t be evolutionary. Be revolutionary.” There has never been a time where that is more true. With the Internet it is very easy to get in a routine or a siloed structure of creating things. Marketers are constantly copying others techniques and rehashing […]

Good friend and fellow code magician SEOcracy has come out with what appears to be a pretty helpful and usable search analysis tool. The site joins a crowded space of search analysis tools such as google analytics, google ad planner, yahoo site explorer, semrush, alexa and compete. Although getst.at doesn’t crawl and analyze sites itself […]

Google has just dropped a bomb shell here in my opinion and is giving users the ability to monitor any page on the web, with RSS like updates on page changes. There are 23,423 different ways this can be used, such as Andys idea to use this for unblockable scraping. However, one simple method is […]

I recently got hacked on not one but two different WordPress installs I have. The intentions were made obvious to me after I actually saw a very sharp rise in long tail traffic from Yahoo. This might seem odd, but it made clear sense to me that something was embedded on the site causing it […]

I came across a post yesterday that lists over 200 different infographic posts. It can be a handy resource when you are looking for inspiration. With that said I will note that in the last 6 months there have been an onslaught of people pushing inforgraphics. If you are going to use this hook make […]

Quality Of information online doesn’t necessarily become sacrificed because of the lack of length and thoroughness – Twitter has proven this. I set this blog up 3 years ago in an attempt to catalog my thoughts and experiences surrounding Internet Marketing. Over the last year, work has taken precedence, no longer am I allotted the time to create content […]

Some people in this world have for one reason or another encountered really bad press for there actions. Google can be a bloody nightmare to disrupt negative press from. In fact its long been rumored that the algorithm tends to favor negative pages (OK not really, I am sure its just a correlation to links) […]

Creating captivating blog posts that get seen by thousands of people really isn’t as complicated as its made out to be. Granted, the execution of successful content distribution is an art in and of itself, however, the factors that cause content to spread many times can be boiled down to a few things. Many times, […]

If you didn’t like Scary SEO then you definitely will not like IM Springbreak. IM Springbreak is going to be held at the same place in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on April 2-4. This is not going to be an exciting event and here are 7 reasons why you don’t want to attend. 1. You will […]

Dapper.net is one of my favorite services for turning content into a form or stream that I can better utilize. It gives you the ability to turn content into the following sources: xml rss html google gadget netvibes module image loop google maps icalendar json csv email xsl yaml Below you will see a demo […]