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FTC Concedes to Google on Antitrust Ruling
Last week was a banner business moment for search giant, Google. The Federal Trade Commission ruled to drop any further action against Google after a...
5 Inbound Lead Generation Lessons in Building Trust with Your Website
I recently started working with a client who has a consulting business and discovered something really intriguing about their SEO and inbound lead generation. To...
How to Use MajesticSEO to Identify a Possible Negative SEO Campaign
MajesticSEO has been one of my favorite tools for some time. Its value for site audits, competitive research, and a lot of other tasks is...
The Lowdown on Website Load Speed
The loading time of your website is an important factor that determines its overall success. As people generally prefer sites which load fast, they tend...
You Can Be a Hero on New Year’s!
Today is a big day, it is New Year’s Eve and many celebrate by drinking and/or using substances that impair their ability to drive safely....
Get Over Yourself – Matt Cutts Did Not Just Kill Another SEO Kitten
Fed up with Google’s continual changing of the rules? Worn out by all mixed messages they send? Sick and tired of being sick and tired...
Dear Santa… All I Want Next Year from SEJ
Ho, ho, ho! Santa has agreed to accept a few last minute wish lists from the readers and contributors of Search Engine Journal. The little...
I’m Back… Let’s Make SEJ a Better Place
I am back temporarily. I will be helping out at SEJ until a new editor can be found and the SEJ Advisory Board is set...
SEJ Talks with Marketing Dynamo Bryan Eisenberg
Recently, I had the distinct pleasure of talking with one of the web’s most influential marketing experts, Bryan Eisenberg. The interview you see below is the...
Is P.C.P the New SEO?
For years, optimizing a website was quite a simple affair. Through the course of search engines indexing sites, there were various algorithm updates too, but till Panda...
Sprint’s Acquisition of Clearwire in the Balance
Sprint’s attempt to takeover Clearwire and save its unlimited monthly data plans is in the balance following reports that some of the wireless service provider’s...
Google Hires Ray Kurzweil as Director of Engineering
Beginning December 17, 2012, Google’s new Director of Engineering is Ray Kurzweil, a renowned futurist whose affinity for Google has been known for years –...
Evaluating the Knowledge Graph vs. Social Graph
What’s more valuable, the vast inter-relationships of all known factual knowledge or the interconnected set of personal relationships of one billion people? In many ways,...
Nasdaq 100’s Latest Star: Facebook
Facebook has just begun trading for the first time as the latest member of the exclusive Nasdaq 100 Index, stirring hopes among investors that the...
Overcoming the Google Panda, EMD and Disavow Updates
Or! Why ‘Being Natural’ Is the First and Foremost Golden Rule of SEO When it comes to updating the search algorithm, Google takes some sharp...
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World Telecom Conference [WCIT] Full of More Than Meets the Eye Fodder
In the latest from the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT 2012) in Dubai, the US, Canada, and the UK have refused signing a proposed treaty...
YP.Com Insights Report Highlights Growing Tide of Local Search
Local business search engine YP.com has announced its end of year report, revealing its latest trends about what consumers are searching for as the holiday...
Google Announces Changes to Solve Mobile Ads “Fat Finger” Problem
Google has made a significant change to the way its mobile ads work, in order to remedy the so-called “Fat Finger” problem of users accidently...
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Is There A Deception In the Google Ad System?
As I was writing my previous article for SEJ, I conducted several experiments during which I stumbled across few troubling issues with Google’s methods. One...
10 SEO & Social Lessons from the Election
Presidential campaigns are massive marketing phenomena. An inevitable bit of fallout from every national election is the publication of hundreds or thousands of blog posts entitled...
Facebook’s Year In Review, Especially For You
First we had Twitter, followed shortly after by Google, and now today Facebook has joined the party with its own retrospective end of year review...
Google Maps Finally Navigates a Path Back to the iPhone
Great news for iPhone users: as of today, they will no longer have to put up with a world of missing towns and villages, melting...
Google “Censors” Porn in Image Search
The mighty promoter of the free Internet for all, freedom of expression and the like, has made a significant change to the way it displays...
How to Ensure You Have a Very Merry AdWords Xmas Season
For many online advertisers, the Christmas period can be a very confusing time. What was previously a relatively steady & consistently performing campaign throughout the...
12/12/12 Google Zeitgeist Shows Top Google Searches in 2012
Google has just compiled its 12th annual Zeitgeist — its list of top global trending searches for the year — and guess what? Somehow, the...
Links to Avoid in the Post-Google Penguin Era (With Alternatives)
In my previous posts, I shared post-panda/penguin era link acquisition strategies, un-common and powerful link building techniques, and advanced link building strategies. But, sometimes the...
After Twitter Photos, Now Flickr Takes on Instagram
Instagram may find it challenging to keep relevant and popular now that another photo service tries to grab its market share. The war with Twitter...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 12/12/12
Whose planning on doing a little dance at 12/12/12 12:00 today? I know I will be. I also know I’ll be checking out some of...
Resurrection After a Google Manual Review
Every webmaster’s and SEO professional’s nightmare is seeing a sudden plummet of those hard-earned Google rankings. The chaos that ensues in trying to pinpoint just...
Bing Adds Social Sidebar Mod – Backyard Fence for Friendly Advice
Yesterday Microsoft’s Bing released an all new design for their social sidebar, a version less cluttered and better linked to friends and trends. Designed to...