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I’m Voting for Structured Data
On this Election Day, I’d like to discuss what I believe to be one of the most critical topics in search today: structured data. As...
The Accidental Link Request Clinic
If you send me a link request, I’m going to go ahead and assume you want my feedback. What? You don’t? You just want the...
The Art of the Landing Page
Out there in the big wide world of search engines and sites, you have ads and you have search results. Your website is getting traffic...
6 Reasons Why Your Site Sucks
Even as an intern I know these things make your site suck. They are things I come across all too frequently and drive me crazy...
Bing looks at phrases for ranking analysis
When it comes to semantic analysis and how search engines deal with text, there has been a lot of theories thrown about the last while....
How Not to Sully Infographics with Drunkenness: Lessons in Link Building
I ignored the opportunity to link build with infographics for far too long. As an engineer turned search engine professional, the idea of creating art...
Google Visualizes Local Search and Places Pages
In an effort to improve local search and its Places pages, Google announced a project six months ago, in which it would supply interested business...
Google Faces Opposition to Purchase of Flight Search Technology, ITA
In mid-September news broke that Google was in talks to purchase ITA Software Inc, which is the leader in flight data information, for $700 million...
“Trick Or Link” – Is It Only Halloween When SEO’s Manipulate Webmasters?
We’re roughly a week away from Halloween and I still can’t decide what I’m gonna be! First I thought about dressing myself up as a...
Getting Smart with AdWords Re-Marketing
You get that feeling that your being stalked by that company but maybe its just remarketing code you activate when you visited their website last...
DoNanza Trends Report: Analyzing Blogging Platforms and Work-From-Home Market
DoNanza, the search engine for work-from-home and freelance jobs, has released today its quarterly State of the Work-From-Home and Freelancing Economy. The whole report can...
Critical Thinking & SEO – Managing Learning and Your Approach to SEO
Tackling the development of a new search and social media course is no mean feat – ask Aleksej Heinze, from Salford University’s Business School! He’s...
From The Email Of Todd Mintz
“And you know, he’s the devil… He’s everything that I ain’t… Hiding intentions of evil, Under the smile of a saint”.… Kris Kristofferson I was...
Local Business Listing Wars
Have you noticed the number of commercials being run by high-profile tier one companies and websites that are in the local listing industry? For example...
Google Will NOT Resume Wi-Fi Location Information Collection Using Street View Cars
In the wake of mistakenly collecting Wi-Fi payload information, Google announced that they would no longer use their Street View cars to collect information on...
Google Tests “Shared by” and “Recent Updates” Features in News Results
Making good on their promises to add social layers to its search platform, Google has added “shared by” and “recent updates” links to the bottom...
Seven Advanced Questions About Quality Score Answered
If you’ve been advertising with Google AdWords for a little while, you probably have a handle on the basics of Quality Score: what it is,...
Understanding the User Mind Model
User mind models matter when it comes to keyword research. They matter when you write the copy for Meta Descriptions, PPC Ads, on-site content, link...
How Google Is Screwing Its Own Advertisers with Comparison Ads
In October of 2009, Google launched their new Comparison Ads product specifically for mortgage advertisers, which allowed them to compare their mortgage products side by...
Umlauts, Accents, and Google
When optimizing sites in languages that contain characters not found in the English language, it is important to know that Google will return different results...
Get Focused for a More Effective Online Marketing Campaign
When you are first starting out in business you may put all of your efforts into whatever marketing you can afford or have time to...
How a Good Salesperson Can Teach You to Be a Better SEO Consultant
I recently had the opportunity to review the work of a fellow SEO company in the form of recommendations they had made for a client’s...
Bing to Power Chinese Retail Search Engine, Etao.com
Looking for a little traction in China, Microsoft has partnered with the country’s largest online retailer, Taobao.com (whose parent company is Alibaba Group, owners of...
Yahoo Elaborates on More of Their New Search Enhancements
In the wake of Yahoo’s announcement that they would be releasing new search enhancement features in the coming weeks, today and yesterday they announced on...
Put Some Skin In The Game & Become a Better Marketer, Guaranteed.
I believe there’s a process that any person can go through that will make them a better marketer, guaranteed. I started my own business in...
UniversalBusinessListing.org Announces New Verification Process to Ensure Search Results’ Credibility
UniversalBusinessListing.org is a site that provides home-based and micro businesses with the service of having their business profiles distributed to major search outlets, social networks,...
Google Talks Their Self-Driving Car
Sebastian Thrun, a software engineer at Google, posted on the company’s official blog over the weekend that they have been developing technologies that will allow...
Google’s Reasonable Surfer Model: A Scalable Solution to Paid Links?
Google recently released a patent based on the browsing tendencies of “reasonable surfers”. Within, it details that previously, Google had followed a “random surfer” model...
Canonical Links Users Experiences
The three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) joined forces in February 2009 and introduced the canonical tag. That was supposed to be a...
New Release of the Ontolo Link Building Toolset
The Ontolo guys Garrett and Ben are at it again with the launch of the V2 of their Link Building Toolset… And from the demo...