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Top SEJ Posts For The Month of June 2013
Every month I like to take a moment to recognize the top authors and posts for the previous month. June went by so fast. Hopefully...
Embracing Change in SEO: Goodbye TLA. Hello MediaWhiz SEO!
The online marketing world is a wonderfully vibrant and innovative space. Ideas and innovations bubble up constantly and are accepted or rejected as companies’ online...
How to Protect your Site and Recover from a Google Penguin Penalty
A month after Penguin 2.0 was released, the dust is settling and most people are eager to know: What exactly is Penguin 2.0 filtering? How...
Google Reader Is Officially Dead Today :(
We have known about this day for quite some time. On this day, July 1st, Google officially shut down the Google Reader service. Some haven’t...
10 Easy to Follow Essential E-Commerce Site Search Engine Optimisation Tips
Somebody said “what is permanent is change”, and yes, “change” indeed is permanent and it is equally true for the SEO techniques. If you’re still...
Happy Canada Day for Canada!
July 1st is a special day for our Canada readers. For those who aren’t from Canada, I wanted to not only wish them a Happy Canada...
How To Improve Local SEO with Kris Jones of ReferLocal
What is happening with local SEO? Local SEO—or LSEO as I like to call it—is evolving quickly. For instance, Google recently began the process of...
Google Grants – AdWords For Non-Profit: How To Get It Started and Start Maximizing Traffic
Are you a non-profit organization that complies with Google’s grant minimum requirement for your country? Then this post could be of great interest for you....
Has Google Analytics Gone Social?
It seems that everyone and everything has gone social these days, even Google analytics. In a recent announcement Google let us analytic enthusiasts know that we will...
Company Photos Are Now Being Shown In The SERPs?
image credit: Shutterstock Rel=author has been a success, hasn’t it? Not only is it easy to set up, but users have also seen a higher...
Top Alternatives to Google Reader Plus Other Discontinued Google Products
On July 1, Google Reader will join a long list of discontinued Google products and services, a list that includes social media services like...
3 Types of Business Research To Develop A Better Content Marketing Plan
“Stop writing about everything. So many brands create content and try to cover everything, instead of focusing on the core niche that they can position...
A 3 Step Shortcut to Earn Mindshare in Record Time
We all know that clients want to see swift, measurable results, and that they’re likely to drop you if they don’t see something within half...
Google Just Released Remarketing Lists For Search Ads (RLSA)
image credit: Shutterstock Google has been a lot of fun lately! Earlier this week they launched dynamic remarketing and now they’ve added remarketing lists for...
Who Needs SEO When You Have No Competition?
It’s no secret that SEO is not easy (and it’s not cheap). It takes a ton of effort to earn that top spot on a...
5 Things Your SEO Consultant Won’t Tell You
Natural Google traffic makes up half of the traffic on the web. The runner up, direct traffic, doesn’t even come close, taking up only a...
Retargeting is Key to Search Advertising
image credit: ShutterStock You need to market your business online, and search engine advertising is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to do...
Google Launches Dynamic Remarketing Today!
Re-targeting campaigns is very trendy among PPC marketers right now. Maybe you’ve been one of Google’s competitors: Mediaforge, Adroll, or Retargeter . Today Google decided that...
4 Awful Marketing Lessons We Learned from SEO
We love SEO. We love the fact that it brings cumulative results instead of temporary ones. We love that it makes consumers feel like they...
5 Google Analytics features for Business Owners
It is wiser for small and midsize businesses to have a website and use digital marketing as a mean of gaining visibility in the eye...
This Week in Search: How Will Facebook Graph Search Impact SEO?
Last week I spoke about Blogging and SEO at Forumcon and had the opportunity to meet, a Facebook and SEO expert. This week in search...
AdStage Launches New Cross-Network Ad Platform Tools
I’m in the San Francisco Bay area and love seeing hot startups launch cool products. One of those cool products that I saw launch this...
NOOWIT is Google Reader + Flipboard + Paper.li
Google Reader is a deadman walking, and there are all kinds of buzzards circling around in the quest to replace Google Reader and take over...
Link Acquisition Using Humor: What We Can Learn From the Lebron James Faux Email Hack
Link building is a critical part of any search engine optimization effort, but sometimes the manual methodologies get old. The good news is, you can...
6 Ways To Optimally Use Keyword Match Types for AdWords Success
There are a lot of different theories on how keyword match types are best implemented to give you the biggest bang for your buck. For...
Facebook Just Hit 1 Million Plus Advertisers!
When I heard the news, I wasn’t one bit surprised. Facebook advertising is not only a strategy that I love, but it’s a cakewalk when...
Tips and Tricks for Optimizing Time Sensitive Pages
When it comes to content, you always have to worry about something being time sensitive. Writing evergreen content, or content that will remain significant throughout...
“Good Morning Dallas”– Watch Search Engine Journal’s Editor John Rampton, Live
D! The Broadcast, a live Dallas morning show along with Advice Interactive Group, a Dallas-based Internet Marketing agency, asked SEJ’s editor John Rampton to walk...
Why Pay For Performance SEO Is Really Too Good To Be True (Provided You’re Cautious Enough)
image credit: ShutterStock The other day I dropped by a small tea stall near my house and one of my friends jokingly said to the...
Things You Need to Know About Bing Ads Quality Score
As a Bing Ads product manager specializing in campaign optimization, I often get asked the differences between Quality Score on Bing Ads and AdWords. In order...