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Great Headlines, Poor Rankings – Why Clever Headlines Don’t Beat Optimized Title Tags for SEO
Headlines can be powerful. I think most marketers would agree that a strong headline can be both intriguing and enticing, and can help drive a...
Microsoft, Yahoo Search Deal is Official
As expected, the Yahoo-Microsoft search and online advertising deal is now official. In simple terms, the deal is all about Microsoft powering Yahoo search while Yahoo...
SEO Q&A: How to Prevent Google from Crawling AND Indexing a Page?
One of our valued readers sent in a question asking why one of the site pages he blocked with Disallow Robots.txt directive is still returned...
Tools to Easier Access Google Translate
I’ve been previously reviewing some useful tools to help with international browsing – obviously, the best and the most powerful tool for that is Google...
Top 3 Google Gadgets to SEO Your iGoogle Home Page
There are surprisingly too few worthy gadgets that can be added to iGoogle home page, this post looks at 3 of them you may find...
Are You on an SEO Honeymoon?
I don’t know whether you ever get this thought when touring the web, but there are some sites that I think ‘I wish I could...
Yahoo to Launch Search Pad Feature
Yahoo is about to launch a new search-related product called Search Pad. This search feature which may be mistaken for Google’s now defunct Notebook service...
Interview with Microsoft Bing’s Rajesh Srivastava, Principle Group Manager, Bing
Bing was launched by Microsoft as a consolidated search engine brand and technology which the company hopes to compete side by side with Google. Bing’s...
Landing Pages On A SMB Budget
Creating new landing pages for testing is getting cheaper. And scalable. So there are fewer and fewer reasons for SMBs not to be testing their...
Yahoo Link Sends Record-Breaking Traffic to New York Times Site
And you thought the “Digg Effect” was bad. Behold the Yahoo link effect. A link featured at the top of Yahoo’s front page sent more...
Link Building Worksheets – Organize Your Campaign
I have said numerous times how much I love using Excel to get better organized. And using it for managing your link building campaigns is...
9 Strategies for Finding Incredible Content
Finding great content online from a social media and search marketer’s standpoint is a very vital aspect to building out social accounts, writing blog posts,...
Did Bing Just Beat Google in Search Trends?
Did Bing just beat Google in Search Trends? Apparently, that was what Eric said on a post over at TechCrunch. Eric compared the trend on...
70+ Most Useful Mashable Posts for Search Marketers and Developers – II
We published an article on 70+ Most Useful Mashable Posts for Search Marketers and Developers a while back which readers really enjoyed and we received...
Google Joins Twitter in Iran Election Buzz : Adds Persian Farsi Translation
Given the global buzz and controversy over the Iranian protests after the questionable results of the Presidential election on Twitter, Facebook and other social media...
Kenshoo Makes PPC Complexities Easier to Manage
Bless you! Oh I thought you sneezed. If you HAD sneezed, we could have seen whether that sneeze came from your first click, last click, or somewhere...
How to Change Your Domain While Keeping Your Search Engine Ranking
You’ve had your domain for a long time and it has served you well. Today, though, you’re looking to expand your online business and the...
Google Chrome SEO Toolbar with Page Rank– An Easy Way
A while ago, Google launched smart, stylish and faster web browser, Google Chrome, and after its launch, many more users downloaded it, and considered switching...
How Much Weight Do Keywords in the Domain Name Still Have (Poll)?
There is no denying the fact that keywords in the domain used to be a very powerful way to be the first in Google SERPs...
The Page Title in All Caps? Fail or Win?
It has always been a tricky path to make your page listing in SERPs stand out based on something else except for unique and catchy...
How to Compete with Yourself in the Search Engines and Win
The Internet is a war zone. You build a site, do all the work you can on it and start promoting it. And as long...
Want a More Organized Search Results? Google Square It
I’m not going to assume that Google’s sudden announcement of Google Square has anything to do with Microsoft Bing. Nevermind if Google intentionally or unintentionally...
8 Key Points to Multiple Niche Sites And Controlling Back Links
Ask ten SEO professionals whether it’s better to have all your content on one site or split it up, and you’ll get eleven answers (yeah,...
What’s The Real Value of Brand PPC?
Many of our PPC clients (and from what I hear from other pros and agencies, many of their clients) at some point start to believe they...
3+ Keyword and Topic Visualization Tools
Very often you can’t grasp the topic until you sit down and map it on the sheet of paper. Sometimes, you also need someone else’s...
SEO Q&A : What’s the Recommended Page Size?
SEJ readers keep asking me what the recommended size of a web page is. Really, it is hard to find any definitive answer online except...
How Google May (Theoretically) Discover Web Pages
Very often you find Google knows much more about your site than it is supposed to: you find it crawl pages with 0 backlinks (you...
Google Opening Up Trademarked Keyword Bidding on June 4th
Google plans to open up trademarked keywords to AdWords advertisers in June according to Michael Orey of Business Week. Beginning June 4th, companies will be...
Do You Use Your Brand Name in the Site Title Tags?
I normally recommend adding your brand name at the end of the title tag throughout the site (especially if the brand name is short, catchy...
Can SEO Agencies Effectively Outsource Elements of SEO?
What an odd question. Outsourcing is a tricky area for businesses though, and as SEO is a contractual business for many, agencies and freelancers often...