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An Interview with Jordan Kasteler About His New Social Media Marketing Book
Jordan Kasteler has had quite the career. He was the Senior SEO Analyst at Overstock.com, a co-founder of Search and Social, the SVP of Content...
Google’s Matt Cutts Explains Fetch as Googlebot in “Submit to Index via Google Webmaster Tools”
Matt explains this newer feature and tells you about all the options you have with Fetch as Googlebot.
Google Purchases Patents From Former Competitor
When Cuil launched in July of 2008, they claimed to be the world’s largest search engine and to have figured out a more advanced method...
How Much Are You Paying to Send Customers Away?
Engaging in online marketing is all about customer acquisition, ROI and profits. If you see growth in these three areas, you can be reasonably confident...
13 Unconventional Link Building Strategies
Need to build links to your websites in order to increase your traffic and improve your rankings? Well, there’s article marketing, social bookmarking, and –...
Google Under Fire: Tech Giant Bypassed Safari Users’ Privacy Settings
Due to recent changes, Google’s privacy policies have been closely scrutinized by industry experts, government regulators, and consumer advocacy groups over the past several months....
My 17-Point Checklist For Teaching Good Writing and Blogging
Image Credit One important lesson from “The Checklist Manifesto” is the idea of creating checklists to guard against failures in complex situations. Investment manager Mohnish...
SOPA Version 2: JotForm Domain Seized Without Due Process
On Wednesday, the Secret Service seized the JotForm.com domain and left hundreds of thousands of websites with “broken” forms. Although it was the Secret Service...
Public and Social Community Remember Whitney Houston
With the passing of International star Whitney Houston there has been tremendous reaction by her many loyal fans and supporters. As most of the reaction...
Facebook Launches Verified Accounts: Nicknames and Pseudonyms Now Allowed
Facebook, which has been built on the premise of people using their birth names rather than pseudonyms, will soon allow prominent public figures and celebrities...
Facebook Action Ads: Designed for Investors or Advertisers?
When Facebook announced the Open Graph at the f8 conference last September, marketers immediately realized that the additional Facebook actions would eventually lead to new...
Weekly Webinar Round Up for 2/15/2012
Open up some space on your daily planner for some of the webinars this week. If you see webinars offered that would be of interest...
Google Wallet is Easy to Hack and Exploit
Google Wallet, which initially launched in September of 2011, has decided to temporarily suspend its provisioning of prepaid cards as a result of two newly discovered security...
Googleplex Project X: Google’s New Secret Hardware Testing Lab
Reportedly, Google is in the process of completing over $120 million worth of renovations and projects for its Mountain View headquarters. The latest project, which...
Why Yellow Pages Will Be Dead in Five Years
Let me start of by saying that I do have a Yellow Pages listing for my SEO company, Brick Marketing. It costs me about $50...
Most Popular Jan. 2012 Articles on SEJ
We have a lot of very talented people writing for SEJ. As a thank you to them I want to highlight their January articles. The...
Law Enforcement Turns to Social Media to Collar More Criminals
While the goal of criminals is always to stay one step ahead of law enforcement, some of them inevitably end up leading authorities in their...
Google Developing Branded Home Entertainment System
Several days ago, Google filed FCC paperwork to test a prototype of a new Google device. According to filing, the test will take place in...
Numbers Shift but Online News is a Steady Trend
Have you seen the numbers lately? Brands and marketers like to leverage numbers to create a (desired) reception based on reader perception. Obviously, bigger numbers...
Google Drive: Will You Drop Dropbox?
Although rumors have been flying since 2007 about Google offering a hosted storage solution, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is finally set...
Pinterest: Covert Affiliate Link Scheme Exposed
Although nearly every start-up and fledgling company battles to find new ways to monetize its users, Pinterest appears to have been secretly capitalizing on its...
Put Your Business in its Place or Your Marketing Campaign Will
Over the past 15 years starting a new business has become easier than ever before. The daily dread of horrible bosses, annoying red tape and...
The Sponge & The Trailblazer: Making the Most of Your First Job in Search
About two months ago I wrote my first article for Search Engine Journal about getting your first job in SEO. Well now the dust has...
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Smartphone Penetration: Japan Users Lead Way When Adapting To Mobile Technologies [INFOGRAPHIC]
While the smartphones market in Japan has only reached a 6% penetration rate compared to 31% in the United States and 30% in the United...
E-Commerce Spending Reaches Record Breaking Levels in 2011
For the ninth consecutive quarter, the fourth quarter of 2011 achieved strong year-over-year growth in online retail spending. The recent report, which was released by...
Twitter is Impossible to Resist: Study Indicates Social Media Urges Stronger than Sex
A new study just released by the Chicago University’s Booth Business School suggests that people find it more difficult to resist the urge to use...
Matt Cutts Explains How SafeSearch Works
Google’s Matt Cutts answers a question about how SafeSearch works. The link Matt mentions is below the video. If you’re a website owner and you...
Utilizing Existing Partnerships to Score Easy SEO Wins
I am a big believer that the term “link building” should be abolished and forever re-branded as “relationship building.” Successfully creating and managing relationships is...
Do This, Not That: SEO Content Edition!
I’m sure you’ve seen those handy guides in magazines that tell you to eat 13 pretzels instead of 100 M&M’s or taco pizza instead of...
Google Blogger URL Redirects Censor International Users
When Twitter announced they were instituting a new censorship policy, the micro-blogging platform faced an immediate and severe backlash from the majority of the web...