http://www.blackwaterops.com Mercenary SEO, SEM, and Search Engine Strategies Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:07:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en BlackWaterOps provides high quality stereoscopic dimensionalizations ( 3D Upconversions ) from SD, HD, 2K and 4k. Whether your content is destined for DVD, Broadcast, Blu-Ray, or Digital Cinema we can make your content shine. Commercials, Trailers, Television, and Movies: We bring your content to the next dimension. We can also ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/site-announcements/blackwaterops-announces-3dupconversions-com-and-xdef-tv/2010/06/ If you can't rank for your own name, send a nasty letter, and call me to tell me you'll take me to court, because that is a great way to improve your online reputation.  That's what Budget Van Lines did.   If you arrived here unexpectedly because you were ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/seo/budget-van-lines-threatens-to-sue-me-over-trademark-infringement/2010/05/ BlackWaterOps is proud to announce the Qanta Content Monetization Solution for Commission Junction / CJ.com Users. The Qanta is not an AdNetwork, it is middle ware for your existing relationships with CJ.com.  While you may have relationships with a lot of affiliates from CJ, often you can't spend the ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/site-announcements/qanta-content-monetization-solutions-for-cj-com-users/2009/11/ Customer Relationship Management has long been the task of sales, and technical support.  Pre-sales would sometimes fall in to that category, but we didn't track the 100's of thousands of prospects that saw our ad campaigns, or read about us in blogs or newspapers. In the days of CRM ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/social-media/audience-relationship-management-is-the-new-crm/2009/11/ ZillionTV sent me what wouldn't qualify as a cease and desist, but more like a "please leave my client alone they have enough self esteem issues with out you disparaging them" letter. I should disclose that for a brief period of time I worked at ZillionTV.  I was lured there by ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/seo/zilliontv-takes-the-legal-approach-to-reputation-management-using-shawvalenza/2009/10/ Sometimes called "SEO via Legal" or C&D SEO, this to me is the scum-baggiest way to do SEO.  And if you send a letter like this to one of my clients, I'll make sure that everyone knows what a scumbag you (Snap-On) are. C&D SEO works by eliminating pages ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/seo/snap-on-tools-demonstrates-scumbag-cease-and-desist-seo-stupidity/2009/10/ Many CEO’s and CFO’s look at outsourcing anything that is ongoing as a bad thing. If someone is going to pay a guy to work 40 hours a week on a task it might as well be your company, rather than a company that is going to mark that guy ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/ad-budgets/your-online-marketing-outsourcing-vs-insourcing/2009/09/ Follows is a sample section on Social Media Metrics from my book which will be available October 1st. Social Media consultants are often very friendly, eager to please, people. You have to be to be popular with everyone. This type of individual tends to not be enthusiastic about hard ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/social-media/social-media-metrics/2009/09/ Several fake stories attempting to capitalize on the bad economy with an almost plausible story about Google offering thousands of work from home jobs to anyone who fills out a form and gets their $2 adpack. While many of the details are false, the program wasn’t set up by ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/ad-budgets/google-adwork-work-from-home-scam-is-effecting-your-adsense/2009/09/ My soon to be released book “Online Marketing Strategies Volume 1:Analytics, Strategies, and Terminology for Site Managers” is now available for pre-order at 50% off the cover price, or even better it is temporarily free to members of the BlackWaterOps “Professional Marketers” listserve. This book is targeted towards anyone ... http://www.blackwaterops.com/drakaal/site-announcements/pre-order-my-book-online-marketing-strategies-volume-1/2009/09/