I have seen a large number of people overly obsessed with Google Pagerank.  Sure, having a decent pagerank is nice, but obsessing over it is lame.  When you ask these people why they are so infatuated with the pagerank of their site, many can not give a good reason.  In fact, many of these people appear to not have a clue about pagerank and what it really is.  So let’s back up the truck and take a brief look at Google Pagerank.

What is Pagerank

Google pagerank is essentially a measuring stick by Google in relation to the amount of links your site or page has from other web properties.  Incoming links to your site are weighted differently by Google on several factors.  Google may consider some incoming links more valuable and therefore assign more of a weight to these links.  More valuable link weighting can be results of an incoming link originating from a high pagerank page, or maybe an incoming link originating from an authority site.  The pagerank scale ranges from 0-10, with 10 being the highest. Read the rest of this entry »

Most of us remember when Myspace was the next big marketing tool, and now Twitter is practically in the same boat.  Take a look back and see how spam has essentially ruined Myspace.  You can’t view a Myspace profile without seeing all the different comments posted by spammers.

By now, we can probably all agree that Twitter is a very powerful social media tool for creating, expanding, and maintaining both personal and business relationships.  However, with great marketing opportunities, we will often find lame attempts to milk the marketing opportunity.

Basically what I am referring to are the spammers that are so rampantly DM’ing me with their fool proof ways to make money or get a gagillion friends on twitter.  I mean come on, could it not be so obvious whatever crap you are trying to market does not work? Read the rest of this entry »

As many of you are well aware by now, some of the peeps you are following on twitter can flat out get on your nerves.  You know what I am talking about!  These are more than likely newbies to the twitter scene or social media in general and have no clue on what they are doing.  Typically, they are easy to spot.  While many of these types can get on your nerves, so can actually be entertaining to a certain extent.

I am going to talk about the 4 most annoying types of users on twitter I have come across.  Let me know your thoughts on each, or if you feel that there is a type that should be part of the top 4.

Shameless Pluggers

First and foremost are the “shameless pluggers”.  You know exactly who I am referring to.  This is the twitter user that does nothing but spam your twitter feed with blatant, spammy attempts to get you to check out their lame product.  While some users may very well have a good product to Read the rest of this entry »