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Using Up Your Leftovers: Link Building Edition
Are you tired of turkey yet? By now we should all be just about done with turkey sandwiches and leftover sweet potatoes. But using up...
21 Power User Tips for Web Marketers
Note: This article is intended to bring those who are not from a technical background fully up to speed with some time saving techniques and...
Google wants to know all about YOU
Convenience or Conspiracy? You Decide. What once started as a convenience for users has, over time, started to sound more like some Orwellian nightmare stalking...
A Cornucopia Full of Local Search O-Pack Advice
Yes. Not only did I tie in the word cornucopia into a local search post, but I managed to spell it correctly as well. Now...
Just for SEOs – How to Find and Keep a Great Copywriter
One of the things I enjoy most about SEO is that I get to work with a lot of creative, talented specialists, especially copywriters. For...
SEO SpyGlass Adds Blekko as Additional Backlink Research
Today SEO SpyGlass, the link and and competitor research software we gave a very favorable review earlier, is adding a new exciting feature and data...
Internet Marketing Cornucopia
I have many reasons to be grateful this year on many fronts for many reasons. One area happens to be the fact that I’m blessed...
Google Adwords Cost
One of the theories I wanted to test was about using Google AdWords inbuilt bidding engine focusing on clicks versus focusing on conversions instead of...
10 Things from 2010 that May Shape Your 2011
A compendium of random stats I’ve found interesting from 2010 It’s that time of year again, where people are in full swing of 2011 planning...
The Key To Increasing Inquiries, Leads, Sales…
If you want to increase __________________ <inquiries, opt-ins, leads, sales etc> by ______% <5, 10, 30, 50, even 100%> then you need to pay close...
Increasing SEO Competition and Change: Survival Not Mandatory
Image by Rebekah May It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. – W. Edwards Deming It’s safe to say the way search...
Can’t Get Those Rankings? Maybe Your Social Circle Can Help!
I started noticing some new natural search terms in my Google Analytics keyword report. Highly competitive terms like SEO, SEO Blog, and SEO Blogger were...
How Many “Dark Patterns” Can You Name?
I have always been amazed by and supportive of simple but genius ideas I keep coming across daily. This time it’s “Dark Patterns” community initiative...
Zero In On Your Problem Areas
Building links is tedious work, whether you enjoy it or not. I’ve done almost every form of SEO at one time or another, and I...
Educating The Client About SEO Is The Best Way To Recover The Reputation Of The SEO Industry
Just the other day I came across a discussion regarding the The SEO Industry’s Reputation Problem on Sphinn.com. After going through the discussion, I strongly...
Lions and Tigers and Emails – Oh My!
What do you think are the most visited sites on the Internet today? If you said Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and YouTube, you would be...
Google Place Search…what about PPC?
What a big couple of months for the Google SERPs. First they add the “instant” feature (which I’m still getting used to) and most recently,...
Don’t be Another Link in the Chain: Quality Content and PR is Key to International SEO
SEO is categorized into two broad categories: off-page and on-page optimization. On-page is more straight-forward, in that full control lies with the optimizer. In the...
Using Reference Sites for Acronyms, Colloquialisms and Internet Slang for Inspiration
With the rise of modern instant forms of mass communication, the languages we use in our daily lives are evolving at a pace never before...
The Lazy Man’s Internet: Why Online Videos Reign Supreme
The internet; never happy with what it’s got and always on the lookout for something bigger, better and more complex. Whether you are new to...
Timing is EVERYTHING in Online Marketing
There are three main factors dealing with time and online marketing and each one is critical to successful online marketing campaigns: Time Management When I...
Bazza’s 28 Link Building Suggestions
New to link building? Don’t know where to start? Maybe you’re already experienced or class yourself as an expert in this industry. Either way, this...
How I Got a Do-Follow Backlink from a PR 10 Domain
So you are probably reading this post title thinking that this is too good to be true. Well it’s not! And I will prove it…...
The Google Analytics Metrics That Help You To Monitor The SEO Progress And Also Calculate The ROI
Google Analytics cannot be ignored by any SEO or for that matter any web marketing professional. Google introduces this application which is offered for free...
Business to Business SEO: The Key is in the Copy
How do I make this interesting? As an SEO practitioner in the area of B2B online marketing, I ask myself this question regularly. Generally speaking,...
Should Your Blog Allow Every Comment with a Link?
A few months ago I decided to turn my blog into a do-follow blog to see if it helps increase activity, but honestly I can’t...
Who Can Get You a .cn Domain?
It is no secret that China is now the biggest “net citizen” in the world. Even as far back as 2008 there were over 250...
The Bing-Facebook Partnership’s Features Roll Out Today
A few weeks ago I posted about the Bing-Facebook partnership; their plan was to make search more social. This morning on Bing’s Search Blog Group...
Google’s “Related Searches” Now Include Brands, Types, and Stores in Results
Over the past few months Google has been testing out 3 new categories in “related searches”: brands, stores, and types. Search Engine Roundtable tried out...
Slashtag Search Engine, Blekko, is Now Live
Yesterday, alternative search engine, Blekko finally went live after 3 years of development and just over 3 months of beta testing. Back in July, Search...