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A King’s Race to Be Unique
How do you catch a unique rabbit? You place a carrot on the ground then shoot it with a tranquillizer dart when it gets close....
MajesticSEO Launches Backlink Upload Tool
Majestic SEO has added more tools to the SEO’s bag of tricks. Paid account users now have the option to upload their backlink list in...
Step-by-Step SEO: How to Setup Google+ Authorship
Google initially announced its authorship markup efforts at the 2011 SMX Advanced conference, and yet, many website owners and entrepreneurs have still failed to take...
Three Yoda Quotes Guaranteed to Make You a Digital Marketing Jedi
“If no mistake you have made, yet losing you are…a different game you should play.” – Yoda Difficult digital marketing is, continue to work hard at...
Blacklist Database to End Demand for Stolen Cell Phones
The first phase of the FCC PROTECT initiative went into effect this week. PROTECT was started in April to combat the theft of mobile devices like phones...
What Steve Jobs Taught Me about SEO
Not only did Steve Jobs build the world’s largest company, he succeeded in changing the world. In fact, in many ways his products and ideas...
Dislike Timeline? Facebook Testing New Layout
The wizards of smart at Facebook are testing an new layout for Timeline. This version features a single column for posts, instead of the two...
Not Liking the New Facebook “Browse Friendships” Function
I am not sure when Facebook started this, I just saw it today. I understand Facebook wanting to come up with new options and ideas...
HootSuite Adds New #SocialApps
HootSuite, has added several tools to the line up of SocialApps available on their Web-based dashboard. Reddit, StumbleUpon, Scoop.it, Nexalogy, and CMP.LY have been added to the company’s ever-expanding App Directory. HootSuite is...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 10/31/2012
Happy Halloween to all you Internet ghosts and ghouls out there! I have a spooky joke for you: “What did the birdie say on Halloween?”...
Shakeup at Apple: Scott Forstall Leaving, Jony Ive Taking Larger Role
Late yesterday afternoon, Apple announced a major overhaul of the upper level management structure in Cupertino. According to the Apple press release, Scott Forstall will...
Mobile Search Marketing for BRIC Countries
Mobile search is big news everywhere. According to Google, mobile searches quadrupled in the United States last year. “Roughly one in seven searches, even in...
SEO Tech Leader #Conductor Secures $20 Million in Financing
Conductor, a leader in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technology, today announced that it has secured $20 million in financing led by Investor Growth Capital, marking the...
How You Can Help Those Affected by Hurricane Sandy Now
It is obvious that millions of people are going to need as much help as we can give them by the time this hurricane is...
Mobile Has Changed Us: The Couch Potato is Extinct
Back in August of this year, Real officially launched their RealPlayer app for Android . As part of the development process for the video application,...
LivingSocial Contributes to Amazon Q3 Losses
Yesterday, Amazon posted it’s third quarter earnings statement. The $13.81 billion in revenues fell short of covering the company’s expenses for the quarter, costing shareholders $0.60 per...
Facebook Leaves the Privacy Barn Door Open to App Developers
Updated Post Yesterday afternoon, Miranda Miller of Search Engine Watch broke the news about how some Facebook app developers are exploiting the private information of...
#Pinterest Makes Top 50 Website List
Pinterest has finally made it into the top 50 most visited websites in the United States, according to comScore, with just over 25.3 million visitors...
#Facebook Posts Better Than Expected Q3 Earnings, Stock Up
Wall Street investors seem to happy with yesterday’s 3rd quarter earnings statement from Facebook. According to Don Reisinger writing for CNet, “The social network’s shares have...
Anchor Text Analysis: Post “Penguin” and EMD
We all know by now that over-optimized anchor text was a huge factor for sites that were dinged by the Google Penguin update. We’ve seen...
Apple News: iPad, MacBook, iMac
As reported to you last week, Apple kicked off a what will be a full week of tech announcements and product launches—and the tech giant...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 10/24/2012
Well, if you’ve been following any of the twitter streams from the last two conferences, #Pubcon and #Convcon, you’ll see that there has been a...
10 Post-Panda/Penguin Era Link Acquisition Strategies
In February of 2011, the introduction of the Panda update shook up the search results, altering more than one out of every 10 searches. Content...
Pubcon Presentation: Proactive Link Building Tactics
In the session at Pubcon Las Vegas 2012, I spoke about link building, essentially revealing what works and what does not in a post-penguin world....
Future of Yahoo: Mayer Expected to Announce Plans
Yahoo will be releasing its third quarter earnings statement later this afternoon. CEO Marissa Mayer is also expected to announce her plans to turn the...
Tweet the Vote: Is Social Media Impacting Political Engagement?
There is no doubt that social media is certainly enabling the campaigns to measure the volume of political discourse in a way it hasn’t been...
September 2012: Best of Search Engine Journal
Well, we have 10 fantastic and educational SEJ articles that brought in the most traffic in the month of September. There is a lot to...
Apple and Google and Windows, Oh My!
After all kinds of announcements and press invitations this week, the tech world is set to be abuzz with news over the course of next...
Blekko Releases New Premium SEO Tools
Blekko, the user curated search, launched a new suite of SEO tools to give developers and websites unparalleled data for improving site traffic. The new...
Want to Start Your Own Consultancy? Read This First
The term “consultant” can describe just about anyone these days, but perhaps, a more appropriate term for consultant would be artist—that person with niche expertise,...