Shawn Cohen

Time zone should also be a factor for karma: it's not fair that Jason Acidre is closing up shop for the day and Aleyda Solis is eating lunch when a lot of blogs auto post at 3am while most of us are asleep in North America.

J/k.

I'm just annoyed when the writer uses a provocative headline and then modifies it in the first sentence of the article.

It would also be cool to get notifications when someone replies to your comments.

A while ago, you said you can't take an SEO job applicant seriously who doesn't even know what a log file is.

Would you dig into that a bit more w/ some more examples of technical knowledge it would be good to get familiar w/?

I'm not extremely introverted but definitely to recharge my batteries alone after a day at a conference. I liked your structure idea--I start conferences w/ a bunch of pre-planned questions like "How did you end up here?" or "How did you get roped into XYZ?" The responses are fascinating and definitely help break the ice.

Sometimes it's hard to know how to extricate myself from a conversation so at a conference I usually ask for a business card and said it would be great to stay in touch. At SEO conferences, that's an easy out b/c usually everybody you meet is cool but at some events, that's not always the case:)

Thanks for the reply, Peep.

We'd be more than happy to provide them w/ CRO recommendations but they contract their web dev and are very cost conscious. W/ that in mind, I think I'm looking for some CRO tools that don't require a coder but will integrate w/ a custom e-comm platform. 

Thanks for any suggestions you have!

What are a few ways my clients can get their feet wet in CRO without spending very much money?

Per Rand, the downvote is the Flag button. I think I'm going to flag your comment so you can see how it feels and tell us all in the Inbound support group I'm starting next week.

Conductor also has a this little known tool for rankings or something like that:)

At the end of the article I was like, so what happened?? Here's the link to the entire study. 

Also glad you took a semester off to network and stuff. I highly doubt you'll regret it!

I've found this study from conversion rate experts interesting too: http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/scrolling-tips/

They suggest testing long pages, using the Amazon Kindle page as an example--it's 19 feet long!

You're welcome, bro. You deserve the shout out.

Not that I understand much of this but here's the related blog post for what it's worth: http://www.nowherenearithaca.com/2013/04/explorating-googles-pagerank.html

Reviews are so important! I recently had a client's page drop from #1 b/c, from what we could tell, the other page had more fresh reviews even though our page looked better in just about every metric.

My faves are the BMW v. Audi pix and Stella v. Newcastle. Ingenious.

RE talking to the frontlines, you can talk to your target market via a service called http://gutcheckit.com/. You set the parameters of your target demographic and they pair you w/ a person that you chat w/. 

You can send them to your site and get their feedback. I've used it before and it was incredibly helpful to get raw, unfiltered feedback about how clear our USP was on the site, etc.

Some of this advice is kind of scary--don't read printed books might be an okay idea but he could have coupled that w/ "read all the ebooks that you can find since many of them are continually being updated."

I find there are very few synonyms for natural when it comes to internet marketing. Annoys the crap out of me sometimes.

Haha, yeah--unless your into throwing hate, I guess:)