TJ Gamble

Month: June, 2008

Craigslist Ads Last 3 days on Google

In my experiments, a Craigslist Ad takes up to 1 day to show up in the Google SERPs once it has been posted in a major market, and it lasts up to 3 days at the top of the results before it disappears.  For example, a recent post for a product on Thursday afternoon was [...]

The first snag: Craigslist duplicate post blocking

Our first effort to help our brick and mortar friend generate more online sales was to post on Craigslist.  We weren’t too interested in the Craigslist traffic (although that is a nice bonus).  Our thought was to post his popular products fairly regularly so that they shoot to the top of the Google SERPs for [...]

Increasing brick and mortar’s business online

A customer called me on Friday to ask for a favor.  It seems as though his business is declining faster than he can scale back, and at the current rate is about 30 days from closing his doors.  With the economy the way it is, his entire industry is suffering and his competitors are dropping [...]

Don’t SEO your site, UEO them

I was reading the Shoemoney blog today when I saw his post of Sage Lewis’ video debating if SEO is dead. It is funny to me that many people I have seen that seem to be on opposite sides of this argument are really saying the same thing and completely agree with each other but [...]