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The Value of Site Search Data
I challenge you to think of creative ways to start to use your data to make better SEO decisions. Data for search can come from...
SOPA Saga Continues: Tech Giants Consider Internet Blackout and Support OPEN Act
When Congress reconvenes later this month, they will consider passing the highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Currently, the Senate is scheduled to debate...
Interview with Scott Cowley on SEO, Company Support and More
Scott Cowley is the in-house, SEO ninja at ZAGG. He is very smart, very funny and a real genuine person. I asked on Twitter what...
Not All Spam Deserves The Death Penalty
By now you’ve most assuredly read about the Google Chrome fiasco. You know that Google threw Essence, their video ad agency, under the proverbial bus....
Interview with Annie Cushing on Google Analytics
Annie Cushing is the Director of Analytics for BlueGlass. She is the analytics ninja to listen to and follow on a Twitter. She also offers...
Google Chrome Penalized for Violating Quality Guidelines
When Google recently hired two top marketing agencies to promote the Chrome web browser using video content, Google assumed that the promotion would be conducted...
Online Giant Expected to Give One Bank Financial Facelift in 2012
As if the brand needed more exposure (aside from its 800-million-plus users), this coming season, we’ll hear a lot of on and offline chirping regarding...
What the SEF is Your SEO Doing?
I’ve worked with a number of website designers and developers over the years, many of them good people with a plethora of skills I couldn’t...
Google Hypocrisy: This Post NOT Sponsored by Google
Over the holidays, Google Chrome “sponsored” a campaign that paid hundreds of bloggers to write glowing reviews about how Chrome can help small businesses. The...
Interview #1 with Joanna Lord for PPC Beginners
Joanna Lord is the Director of Customer Acquisition at SEOmoz.org, a leading SEO software company out of Seattle, WA. While she currently heads up SEOmoz’s...
Google Politics: Google Launches New Election Center
With the Iowa Caucuses only one day away, Google is promoting a new website that is exclusively dedicated to elections. The election site, which allows...
Is HTML5 a New Battleground for Browsers?
While HTML5 on mobile phones is becoming more and more important, the reality of the day is that HTML5 features can be most useful on...
Will Google Plus Put Facebook Out of Business?
With over 153 million unique users per month, Nielsen research has named Google the top Internet destination. Facebook, which is the most visited social networking...
Apps for New Year’s Eve 2012
Here is a collection of New Year’s apps you may need. We are going to start with apps to help you get a cab and...
Yahoo Update: Alibaba Group Hires Powerful Lobbying Firm
Although last week Yahoo was rumored to be considering selling its Alibaba Group holdings for a sum of $17 billion, the latest rumor indicates Alibaba...
Facebook Timeline Poll Results and Some Helpful Links
Last week we asked if you have the Facebook Timeline enabled and how you felt about it. These poll results are really interesting. Have it...
Tablet War: Can Google’s Android Tablets Overtake Apple’s iPad?
With Apple planning to launch the highly anticipated iPad 3 as early as February of 2012, Google appears to be planning on launching a competing...
Go Daddy Flip-Flops SOPA Stance Before Boycotters Move Your Domain Day
Go Daddy, the leading domain registrar, changed its position regarding SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) late Friday in an apparent attempt at saving face against...
Facebook Adding Sponsored Stories to News Feeds
With Facebook’s highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) expected early next year, the company is attempting to further monetize the social media site and its...
Search Geeks, Win all-expense-paid trip to SMX West 2012, San Jose, CA and an Apple iPad
The SMX Biggest Search Geek contest sponsored by Marin Software is open to anyone willing to test their SEM chops with 20 tough questions about...
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Google Extends Lifeline to Mozilla’s Firefox [Infographic]
Due to the competition that currently exists between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, many analysts were predicting that Google would not renew its agreement with...
AdWords – Using the ‘Dimensions’ Tab to Increase Conversion Rates
Since the launch of Google’s PPC (‘Pay-Per-Click’) advertising network, ‘AdWords’, countless reporting features have been added to the platform to give advertisers as much insight...
10 Reasons why you should go to Affiliate Summit West 2012
I’m writing this to those of you who have never went or have never heard of the Affiliate Summit conferences. The conference name does imply...
Weekly Webinars 12/22
According to most calendars this is the Holiday season. I’m hoping most of us take some much needed time off to relax with family and...
WordPress Q&A With Andrew Norcross
I am starting off a series of interviews with Andrew Norcross. I met him in 2010 at the Search and Social Conference in Tampa. He...
Facebook Bitten by Hand that Feeds It: Social Network Sued Over Sponsored Stories Ads
On Friday, a California judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Facebook brought by users who believe that displayed ads featuring advertisers their friends “like”...
Google Announces Panda Updates Will Resume “Next Year”
Google announced via Twitter that Panda Updates have ceased for 2011 and will resume after the New Year. Perhaps this is an early Holiday gift...
KLM Announces “Social Seating” with Facebook Data: Brilliant Idea or Nightmare?
Unfortunately, the fun and celebrations of the Christmas season are often dampened by the stressful experience of holiday air travel. Whether you despise the TSA...
Facebook Financials Leaked: They Need a Strong Fourth Quarter
Although it is common knowledge that Facebook has over 800 million users and is the most popular social network in the world, the company is...
Google’s Autocomplete On-Deck and What It Means for Online Reputation Management (ORM)
With the rise of Google and the power of Search, online reputation management (ORM) has become an extremely hot topic. Let’s face it, after hearing...