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What Are Linkable Assets Anyway, and How Do You Build Them?
Cyrus Shepard recently discussed the growing importance of natural links, stressing that the less control you have over the anchor text, the more useful a...
New Calculator Helps You Determine The Effectiveness of Your Mobile Efforts
PPC is a great investment, but it’s been difficult to know how effective we’re being. Mobile devices have changed the game dramatically. People are not...
How To Build Amazing Creative Without A Designer
The SEM Expert’s Guide To Google Display Ad Builder Maybe you’ve taken Google’s Display Ad Builder for a test drive. It’s a handy tool with...
Can A Globalised SEO Strategy Save The British Economy?
How can we grow as a nation if we do not sell much to the rest of the world? This is the question I have...
LinkedIn Search Just Got A Facelift
With growth comes change… usually for the better too. LinkedIn has helped many SEO’s get good paying jobs over the previous years. Today they are helping everyone...
DIY SEO on a Shoestring Budget
In a perfect world, building search engine referral traffic would be easy. You’d pull out your limitless marketing budget checkbook, call up the industry’s most...
Link Building Wins For A New E-Commerce Site
You have a new e-commerce site, where do you begin? Here a few ideas to help get the ball rolling for you when it comes time to...
5 Simple Ways to Stop Building and Start Earning Links
As the search engines change, the amount of effort required to build a resilient and worthwhile link increases. It’s becoming difficult enough that some are...
Solutions for New Email Delivery Challenges Imposed by Email ISPs
As if getting your emails through to subscribers was not already challenging enough, email service providers are making the job of email marketers even harder....
What Really Happened With Raven Tools: Interview with Jon Henshaw
In late 2012, Internet marketing tools platform Raven Tools raised eyebrows in the SEO world when the company’s CEO announced that Raven would remove “all...
Digg Banned From SERPs (Updated)
Updated (see below) I’m always following SEPS’s and big companies out there getting slapped by Penguin and Panda updates. Matt Cutts talked last week about...
Mapping the Search Partnership Scene – A Definitive Look At The Deals That Shape the Landscape of Search
This article provides a definitive look at the deals Google, Bing and Yahoo! have in place with software and hardware companies and service providers listing...
Internet Marketing In China
The Chinese economy stands as the second largest in the world, behind the USA. Much of the world’s manufacturing is Chinese, and there is a...
Link Building for Small and Local Businesses
If you read a blog post about link building recently, the odds are pretty good you’ve read about content marketing, info-graphics, or RCS. These are all great....
Reuters Social Media Editor Indicted On Hacking Charges
The US Department of Justice officially indicted Reuters Editor, Matthew Keys, late last week on 3 counts of conspiracy relating to a 2010 Anonymous hack...
Twitter’s Vine App Will Make Social SEO Campaigns More Awesome
On January 24th 2012, the world’s fastest growing social media platform, Twitter, released a new mobile application that allows for the transference of short, precise...
Essential Elements of a Successful Self Published Book
While the publishing industry is not going to die anytime soon, the ability to self publish books is quickly becoming a disruptive force that is...
How Google Makes Money From Mobile – Grading Google’s Top 20 Mobile Products
Mobile is taking the world by storm, and far be it from Google to be left behind! The search giant is tackling mobile from (almost)...
February 2013: Best of Search Engine Journal
Here’s the SEJ posts that brought in the most traffic last month. We thank our hardworking guest writers for their contributions! #1. 6 Free Google...
Facebook Redesigns Continue With Timeline: Community Managers Be Ready
Yesterday Facebook posted another major announcement to its blog. The long tested redesign of Timeline is beginning to roll out. The new look of Timeline...
Google Shopping Bests Amazon at its Own Game
Let it never be said that Google will not give every ounce of effort to beat out the competition when it comes to the field...
Your Link Building Approach Outweighs Your Link Building Tactic
Penguins and Pandas abound, and SEO has changed forever. Consultants everywhere debate just how many SEO tactics will become outdated in the years ahead, but...
Matt Cutts on What’s Needed for SEO Success in 2013 and Beyond – Live Blogging
SMX West is in its final day and it’s been a great three days of sessions. Today’s panel, What’s Needed for SEO Success in 2013 and...
Microsoft Confirms Mobile and Tablet Targeting Will Continue
We’re here live at SMX West with Microsoft’s David Pann. David is the General Manager for the Search Network at Microsoft Corporation and on stage answering...
Multitasking Will Ruin Your Link Building Campaign
We recently talked about how link building is anything but a cookie cutter process. Response was mostly positive, but a few of you have correctly...
Bloggers Get Flowers… Interflora Gets Slapped!
There is a good chance that you’ve already heard about all of the drama recently with Google slapping all the search rankings away from Interflora,...
Matt Cutts Confirms Panda Update Coming This Friday
Late last night Matt Cutts was on stage at SMX talking about Penguin and Panda updates. When asked about Panda updates and when will be...
#Pinterest Launches Analytics Tool for Business
Starting today, marketers with business accounts on Pinterest now have a tool for tracking basic web traffic between their verified website and Pinterest. Pinterest Web...
Liveblogging: Walk A Mile In Google’s Shoes with Matt Cutts
Today Matt Cutts is on stage at SMX West. We’re live blogging here as Matt Cutts teach us with dealing with tough calls in organic...
How Is Your Search Engine Handling Synonyms?
How Is Your Search Engine Handling Synonyms? I started by Googling ‘funny pets’, and Google came up with a number of highly relevant results. I...