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New Law Requires Sex Offenders to Post Criminal Status on Social Networks
On August 1st, a new Louisiana law that requires sex offenders and child predators to declare their criminal status on social networking sites will go...
Too Bad We Didn’t Write Optimize First
Kudos to Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing for beating me and SEO Stoney deGeyter to the punch. If the two of us had collaborated...
Human Development Center, The Non-Profit Marty Weintraub Supports
I talked to Marty Weintraub, AKA @aimClear, about the Human Development Center. I asked him to tell us about this fantastic organization and the help...
Google’s Endangered Languages Project Fights to Save 3,054 Languages
With languages disappearing at an unprecedented rate, linguistic experts are predicting that over 3,000 of the world’s approximately 7,000 languages will become extinct in the...
Facebook Explains the “Report” Feature
When one of Facebook’s 900 million plus users clicks the “Report” button, the world’s largest social network has multiple security teams ready to take immediate...
12 Questions to Ask a Prospective Link Building or Contact Marketing Client
If you’re an SEO/SEM/inbound marketing/content marketing agency that offers link building or content marketing services independent of other services (such as keyword research, a technical...
10 Easy-Peasy Conversion Optimization Tips That Make Visitors Happy
If all our clients considered conversions to be as important as top search engine rankings, I think I would pass out. Or pass the beers!...
Announcing SEJ’s First Featured SEO Writer, Glenn Gabe
Search Engine Journal is excited to announce that Glenn Gabe, a regular contributor to SEJ, will be a “Featured SEO Columnist.” Glenn has been writing for SEJ...
Google Reports U.S. Government’s Censorship Request Volume “Alarming”
Google recently announced that the United States and several other Western governments drastically increased the number of censorship requests during the second half of 2011....
You Don’t Want a Google Disavow Links Option
Do you really want a disavow links option? I don’t. With the recent Penguin update, the SEO community has been talking a lot lately about...
Facebook Settles Sponsored Stories Lawsuit for $10 Million
Over the weekend, news broke that Facebook has agreed to pay $10 million in order to settle a lawsuit related to Sponsored Stories. The five...
YouTube Considering Paid Subscriptions
YouTube, the leading video website in the world, streams over 4 billion videos daily. Although the site is currently monetized through advertisements and site sponsorships,...
SEO for Facebook – New Video Revealed
Facebook is probably not the first place you would think to go for SEO advice. However, the social media giant is looking to change that. With...
Microsoft Bing Local Search Results Now Powered by Yelp
This morning, Yelp announced a new business partnership with Bing and unveiled its plan to provide Bing’s local search pages with trusted user reviews and...
The Non-Profits Pubcon’s Brett Tabke Supports
I contacted Brett Tabke, founder of Pubcon and WebMasterWorld, to find out if there was a specific non-profit he volunteers his time with. He doesn’t...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 6/13/2012
Check out the list of industry conferences coming up. There are plenty to attend this summer. If you have insight or feedback on some...
Facebook Launches New Plugin for WordPress & Simplifies Social Publishing
With WordPress powering more than 16% of all websites, people have been asking Facebook to release an official WordPress plugin for years. Yesterday, Facebook finally...
6 Months with Panda: A Story of Complacency, Hard Decisions, and Recovery
In the fall of 2011, I was contacted by the Director of Marketing for a B2B company. The company’s website had been hammered by Panda,...
Facebook Acquires Entire Pieceable Team to Bolster Mobile Efforts
Facebook, which was one of the most hyped initial public offerings of all-time, is hoping to reverse the stock’s bad fortune with yet another staff...
Content Marketing Beginners Suggestions for Businesses: Where to Start
Did you know there is a lot of work that has to happen before one begins creating a content marketing strategy? There is and I...
Google and Nextag’s Jeff Katz Exchange Blows
Jeffery Katz, a vocal Google critic and the CEO of Nextag, recently published an article in The Wall Street Journal claiming that Google is misusing...
The So-What Factor: 4 Questions to Ask for Stickier Content
You’re a marketer, not an artist, but you still have good reason to create content that is not just helpful and well-written, but meaningful and...
Twitter Monetizes Mobile Users as Facebook Stock Flounders
Due to the company’s inability to monetize mobile users, the Facebook stock, which opened at $38 and is currently trading in the $26 range, has...
How Does the Penguin Update Translate Into Brand Forgery?
As the world’s preeminent search brand, Google is largely viewed by the Internet community as a pioneer. Not only did the company re-define the way...
See Your Impact, The Non-Profit Rand Fishkin Supports is Amazing
We contacted Rand Fishkin (@Randfish) CEO of SEOmoz, about the non-profit he supports and I personally found the organization very inspiring. Please read on and...
The Construction of a Search Engine Friendly Web Page
A while back I wrote about the need to have a search engine friendly website before worrying so much about having a search engine optimized...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 6/6/2012
Short week this week for webinars, so if you see any upcoming be sure and send them my way. Learn something new this week and...
Shift in SEO Knowledge & Experience: Priorities in a Post-Penguin and Post-Panda World
The SEO False Mentality Probably most of us are aware that Google is the predominant search engine in the industry based on market share and...
Facebook Hopes to Monetize Mobile Users as Stock Plummets
In Facebook’s IPO paperwork filed February 1, the social network indicated that mobile advertising was a potential revenue stream and that lack of ad revenue...
How Unique Can an SEO Firm Really Be?
I was talking with an SEO prospect a few weeks ago and they asked me “What differentiates your SEO firm from everyone else?” In essence,...