Would You Trust Your Dog With Mutt Cutts?

I was flying this week and enjoying Dumb and Dumber and couldn't help but to think back on Matt McGee's 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO when I did a triple take on Harry Dunne's van promoting "Mutt Cutts".  Somebody help! :)

Graywolf now offering SMO / link baiting services

There aren't too many really, really good link builders out there -- and of those who are, most are overbooked with clients, or spend most of their time on their own sites.

The best way to retain the likes of Caveman, Aaron or Todd is to get in early, before they've been overwhelmed with thousands of service enquiries.

Which is why you should run, not walk, over to Graywolf's consulting page. (Maybe this has been around a while, but I only found it just now.) Besides SEO phone consulting and site reviews, he's offering a link baiting service which covers several areas of SMO, and is geared towards a strategy encompassing multiple baiting efforts over a period of time.

If you're having a hard time beating the 'box, or if you're losing the SERPs battle to uber-trusted authority sites, I suggest you whip out the checkbook and send Graywolf a retainer, before a dozen other people do :-)

You Requested, We Listened. New TLA Features Now Live!

Readers, we are constantly improving the TLA system and we are excited to announce MANY new features to make it easier and more efficient to use TLA.  Please let me know what you think of the new features and of any new ideas you would like to see implemented.  Thanks! Patrick



RSS/Email Inventory Alert System. You now have the ability to sign up to receive alerts of new inventory added to TLA directly into your rss reader or your email inbox.  You can set up to receive inventory alerts based on your top keywords or top categories of interest.  The "Inventory Watchlist" can be accessed by logging in to this page.










Advanced Sorting.  On all category pages you can also sort by: Highest Link Popularity, Highest
Price, Lowest Price, Lowest # of Pages, Highest # of pages, and Zero Ads Sold. This is a great way to find the inventory you are looking for by many new criteria.










Previously Purchased Inventory Marking.  When you log in to your account and browse the marketplace, all inventory that you have already purchased is marked in red so you know not to purchase duplicates that are already live in your account.

ReviewMe Is Hotter Than Laguna Beach!

Check out the top searches and tags right now on Technorati, ReviewMe is red hot, thanks everyone!

Meet ReviewMe Roy in Las Vegas

In the last post, I forgot to add one other frequently asked question (here are some variations we've been asked):

Who is ReviewMe Roy?
Is ReviewMe Roy a joke, or is he a real person?
Is ReviewMe Roy single?
Can I have ReviewMe Roy's email address?
Can I meet/interview/hug ReviewMe Roy?

The answers, respectively:

He's our CEO.
I'm not going to dignify that with an answer, of course he's real.
Yes.
roy@reviewme.com.
You can do all three in Las Vegas next week, at the WMW Pubcon conference. Stop by the ReviewMe booth!

WBP Schools With Tools

I'm not really much of a "tool guy" -- I still use Notepad and FireFox for "just about everything" -- but WeBuildPages continues to bring the good stuff.

Check out the Top 10 Analysis Tool. Great for quick hit competitive analysis.

Jim, do you even have time to do SEO anymore, in between making all these wicked tools?

Elite Retreat Has a Few Spots Open...

I talked to ShoeMoney yesterday, apparently there are a few spots still open in the Elite Retreat but they are going fast. If there is one piece of advice I always give to new SEOs--especially if they work in competitive areas--it's that networking, and getting connected to the right people, can make or break you, your site, and your rankings. The ~$5k price is cheap to get quality time with the likes of Aaron Wall, Shoe, Lee Dodd, etc. Wish I could go! I still have a lot to learn.

Reserve your spot at the Elite Retreat

Text Link Ads Joins MediaWhiz

MediaWhiz has acquired Cincinnati-based Text Link Ads (TLA) to expand MediaWhiz’s online marketing services platform to include text link advertisements. Lake Capital, a private equity firm that invests in growing services companies, first invested in MediaWhiz in August 2005 and provided additional capital to fund this transaction.

Founded in 2003 by Patrick Gavin, president, and Bill Fish, chief financial officer, TLA is the leader in the text link advertisement and related services space, providing an automated, comprehensive marketplace for advertisers and publishers. TLA is recognized for having the broadest and fastest growing network of advertisers and publishers, a user-friendly platform, and a high degree of flexibility in ad type and placement. TLA will continue to operate under the Text Link Ads name, with continued leadership from its existing management team.

“We are thrilled to be working with Patrick and his team to bring this new service offering to our thousands of publisher and advertiser relationships, while also being able to cross-sell MediaWhiz’s existing services to TLA’s growing client base,” said Jason Cohen, co-president of MediaWhiz.

“Adding TLA’s recognized expertise in text link advertising is a perfect fit with our strategy of creating one of the broadest platforms of online marketing solutions to meet the diverse needs of our advertisers,” noted MediaWhiz co-president Yannick Tessier.

“This is an exciting time for our team and our clients. We have found a great partner that will be able to help our publishers and advertisers profitably drive more traffic to their web sites. We are looking forward to delivering more great products and even better service in the months ahead as a result of this partnership,” said Patrick Gavin, president of Text Link Ads.

RBC Capital Markets served as the exclusive financial advisor to Text Link Ads on the transaction. No transaction terms have been disclosed.

WhiteDelivery List Management Launches

MediaWhiz announced the launch of WhiteDelivery List Management (whitedelivery.com), which will offer transactional message delivery as an added service to its current and new e-mail list management clients.

Transactional messages include information that many companies rely on for day-to-day communications with clients. Message types include auto responders, newsletters, order confirmations, account updates, shipping confirmations, and privacy policy changes.

WhiteDelivery List Management, formerly known as GRS List Management, has been rebranded as part of the expansion of the division’s services. Interactive marketing firm Global Resource Systems (GRS) merged with MediaWhiz in April 2006 to form one of the largest providers of online performance marketing services; as part of the merger, GRS List Management was renamed WhiteDelivery.

“We are excited to offer transactional message delivery as a new service to our list management clients, in conjunction with the industry leading services for which we at WhiteDelivery are known,” states Yannick Tessier, Co-President of MediaWhiz and Founder of GRS.

“The business solutions offered by WhiteDelivery List Management are a key part of the integrated suite of programs MediaWhiz makes available to its customers, which also includes affiliate marketing, lead generation and search marketing,” states Jason Cohen, Founder and Co-President of MediaWhiz.

ReviewMe.com to give away $25,000!

Andy just announced Reviewme.com will be launching next week, November 9th, and the launch will kick off with a $25,000 giveaway!  For those of you attending the Vegas PubCon, Reviewme Roy will be making his first public appearance there :)  Details at the Reviewme Blog.


 

TLA Link Baiting Service Now Available!

We couldn't help but to throw our hat into the new linkbaiting service industry.  We have had our share of linkbait successes here at TLA including:

The Link CalculatorBlog Juice CalculatorAndy's Guide To Beating The Sandbox

Linkbaiting can be a very effective way to supplement your comprehensive link building campaign.  This is a high end service designed to get results.  Check it out and let us know what you think!

Always Get New Links

Link baiting, social media, article syndication... with all the hype on the many types of linking strategies, sometimes we miss linking opportunities "from real life". Always get new links is a reminder that you can get links from people with whom you already have real world relationships: suppliers, partners, distributors, other marketing channels... check it out.