Denim keyword trends

May 25, 2010 by Tim Gill  
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There really is tremendous volatility in the popularity of keywords over time.  Fashion is in an endless loop of creative destruction where one new trend springs up from the ashes of a fading trend.  Here is what is trending right now. Whether it is Acid wash, fit, proportions, volume, distressed and destroyed, or vintage they [...]

Going to SMX Advanced 2010?

May 11, 2010 by Tim Gill  
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I’m very excited to attend SMX again this year. I’m looking forward to getting together with all the wonderful like minded search geeks out there. Let’s meet up!

Glass for a new iPhone 3GS = $200

September 16, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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Wow, I learned yesterday that if you sit down in just the right way with your 50 day old iphone 3Gs in your back pocket you can actually crack the glass screen and Apple won’t cover it because they don’t see it as a hard ware defect and should not be covered by their 90 [...]

Twitter is down this morning and analytics is confusing

August 6, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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How will people get their information? Well, I guess I will have to resort to long form writing and updates. I recently did a survey with Jennine over at independent fashion bloggers as part of a panel on What companies look for in a blog. Lindsay Kordik and Jennifer Plantz from Parish [...]

Amazon buys Zappos

July 22, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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Amazon announced just now that it buying Zappos. This is incredible news!  Zappos is a very dynamic company and had a great presence at the last SMX Advanced.  They have come along way in search in the last 2 years.

New Shopbop site

July 17, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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A new Shopbop.com site is live with lots of new features to enhance the user experience.  Shopbop now makes it easy to see all the Shopbop fashion designers on one page. The new site also allows users to sort by price and quickly find their favorite designers in the best size for the customer. [...]

Ray Ban ecommerce site launch

July 16, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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On July 15th Ray ban recently launched their ecommerce site over at www.ray-ban.com. What I fail to understand is why any modern day ecommerce site would launch a new site exclusively in Flash without an html version. That said their brand is making a comeback among fashionistas. In particalar the ray ban [...]

Google OS: just don’t call it Chrome.

July 8, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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A new Google operating system based on Chrome for netbooks sounds fantastic. They should be able to monetize it easily through search. This means that a Google netbook should be about $15 cheaper than a XP netbook. A thin computing device is the perfect complement to Google’s software offerings. But I [...]

Profiles, which is your favorite?

April 27, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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It’s interesting that Google doesn’t allow you to make a custom URL for your profile the way that Linkedin does.  Instead it forces you to be more unique by automatically inserting your middle initial.  while this dramatically reduces the quantity of duplicates, I wonder how Google will deal with additional TimJGill’s will the rest feature [...]

True Religion and site architecture

As I am becoming a burgeoning fashionista and learning about fashion and search I was shocked to see that TrueReligionjeans.com is one of the hotter trends in denim fashion completely fails at so many basic elements of SEO.  While they are a public company (TRLG) and should have the resources to improve their website they [...]

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