links for 2009-02-13

  • Here's a pretty cool idea, how about sending your clients cookies with your logo on them? It's unique, inexpensive and tasty.
  • This is the first example that I’m aware of where a standard company has taken advantage of social networks to impact their research and development.
  • Yahoo! has announced that they will begin charging developers for their use of BOSS. It won't take effect until sometime in the second quarter at the earliers. They also won't be charging for the first 10,000 API calls per day (depending on the call).
  • Sometimes, if you are listed in DMOZ (ODP), the search engines will display snippets of text about your site taken from them instead of your description meta tag. You can force the search engine to ignore the ODP information.
    (tags: seo robots meta)
  • This SEO Analysis Tool is to help you analyze and measure the ranking potential of your web pages.
  • The people behind three of the most mysterious Twitter accounts, those themed after the AMC television show "Mad Men," have kept their identities a secret—until now.
    (tags: twitter tv madmen)
  • Today we did an in-depth webinar with our clients to provide some detail on how to develop a CTA that will get visitors to click through.
  • This past December we reported on how Facebook was coming up on Blogger to steal its top spot among social media sites when measured by total unique visitors worldwide.
  • I've always hated CAPTCHA. From a usability standpoint, it's a cure for the minority and inconvenience for the majority. Every time I have to enter a CAPTCHA more than once, I want to blow up the site I'm on.