I just discovered something that I should have known about before today. I had nearly 100 spammy links on this website. No, I wasn't the spammer. There were a combination of Comments and Trackbacks from others that were using articles I had published as link bait to...
I've been meaning to write this article for awhile. It was inspired by a presentation that Robby Slaughter shared at Blog Indiana in August 2011. I had lunch with Robby last month and a few days later found the link to his presentation, Remaining Productive While...
This is a special Thursday Thoughts. I publish (post) new stuff on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, but every once in awhile, I will add an extra article if it is timely and I don't want to wait. I schedule the updates to this site in advance and have some waiting...
A few days ago I was having a discussion with a friend about claiming your name on various social media platforms. He thought I should delete my Pinterest account since I don't use it. I disagree. I wrote last month about the importance of owning your domain name...
Yesterday my friend Brian Gallagher posted a comment on Facebook and tagged me in a comment along with another friend, Andy Welfle. Before I had a chance to see what Brian was up to, Andy hopped on Twitter and sent a few tweets about the article that also mentioned...
The C version of Clout has been around a lot longer than K version of Klout. Klout was launched in 2009 as a tool to measure your social media influence. Wikipedia says: Klout scrapes social network data and creates profiles on individuals and assigns them a "Klout...
There is an issue that these two social media platforms are having difficulty with. Money. Facebook is being looked at as their stock prices fall, as a potential bust. Now, more than ever before, the Social Media Giant that Zuck created to get a date, is under...
Simple advice today. Buy your domain. Buy your kids domain. Even if you don't know what you are going to do with it yet. This is a lesson I wish I knew back before August 1998, but that was never on my mind back then. That's when the dot com version of ScottHoward was...
There is a huge problem with the way most businesses use social media to drum up customers. The typical business or brand creates a Facebook page and pushes people to Like them. Then they wonder why they aren't being bombarded by new customers spending lots of money...