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Despite the News, SEO is Not Dead
For years now, search engine marketers have been predicting the death of SEO. I’m not sure why we’re all so quick to denounce our livelihoods,...
Local Search Recipe: Making KML Files and GEO Sitemaps Are a Piece of Cake.
Last month I shared one of my favorite recipes on tracking local search data with Google Analytics for wordpress. This month I figured that one...
Crawling and the real time web
It’s all about happiness metrics A while back I wrote here about how search engines go about discovery, the act of finding your pages. I...
3 Creative Ideas to Use Google for Link Building Search
Most of us will agree that Google search is insanely useful. However most people don’t know how to use it to its full potential. This...
Google Starts Displaying Pages Similar to Search Results
Google has just launched a new search feature that aims to help you easily find new websites that are similar to the ones you are...
Do Negative Headlines Work?
If you’ve dipped a toe or two into copywriting, one of the first things you’ll learn about is the power of negativity. Words like “Don’t”...
How To Motivate Employees to Contribute Content
Sometimes it can be like pulling teeth to try and get others in your organization to contribute to your content development strategy. Of course the...
Top Local Business Listing Questions Answered – Interview with Will Scott
I have had many opportunities to chat all things local with my good friend Will Scott, and just the other day we were at it...
Heading for an SEO Interview? A few Ideas to Help You Along…
Over at Mediaedge:cia (recently rebranded as MEC), we’ve been in the great situation of recruiting a number of SEO’s over the last few months to join the MEC SEO team. This has meant that...
WordPress Plugins to Interlink Your Blog Content Efficiently
A couple of weeks ago I shared a handy WordPress plugin that helps to smartly interlink your blog content (best to naturally link to your...
Beginner’s Guide to Link Metrics
In the beginning, search engines were crap. I don’t mean to knock the pioneers, but they simply relied too heavily on what webmasters said their...
3 Ways to Use Multiple Search Engines Simultaneously
How much do you search? As you read this blog, you are likely to search quite a lot. This post is aimed to enhance your...
Add Images to Your Google Sitemaps Extension
We all know how important site images our when trying to optimize our websites for search engine indexing, right? When highlighting important website content on...
A Holistic Approach to PPC
Paid search is hot. Well, it’s been hot for a while — at least the past 5 years. And it continues to grow: according to...
Wake Up Suzy – Wake Up! – Managing SEO Client Expectations
I’ve touched on the topic of client expectations before, yet I can’t emphasize enough how important this subject is. So I’m devoting an entire article...
Is Your Site Under Google Penalty?
One of the most important aspects of taking care of a site’s search ‘appropriateness’ is knowing what can get you penalized by Google (or any...
8 Search Engine Related iPad Apps
Aside from Twitter and Social Networking apps, another interesting set of apps available right now on the iPad App Store are search-related. I scoured through...
Google Acquires Online Video Platform – Episodic
Google just acquired a new startup, this time specializing on online video platform for broadcasting both live and on-demand content to the web or any...
Google Changes Name to Topeka : April Fools
Woke up this morning to the rather strange announcement from Google that the company has now changed its name to Topeka. In honor of Topeka,...
Make Sense of Huge Keyword Lists with Keyword Niche Tools
A few weeks ago I discovered a very cool tool that helped a lot with my keyword research (especially for finding really easy and cool...
Link Bait Auto-Generated
Warning: this post is intended to be sarcastic. It shows how some fun link-baiting article (you may see on the front page of many popular...
How Much Traffic Does Bing Refer to Your Site?
I was going through our Analytics last night on SEJ and looking into our referrals from Bing, and thought I would share with our readers....
GoDaddy Joins Google China Boycott : Stops Selling .CN Domains
Never one to back down from a chance to gain publicity, GoDaddy.com has announced that like Google, it too will be halting operations in China....
How to Smartly Interlink Your Blog Content with SEO Smart Links
Interlinking your sub pages is a great way to both improve your rankings by using keyword-targeted anchor texts and also increase the crawl rate and...
Google Tests Hotel Price Listings on Google Maps
Google Maps is a pretty useful tool for conducting local search on business establishments, directions and yes route maps. It’s been getting wide usage and...
Google Redirects Chinese Search to HongKong
Finally, Google made the drastic move top stop censoring its search services on Google.cn. Starting today, users visiting the site will be redirected to Google.com.hk...
SEO for AJAX
AJAX and SEO is a tricky topic – after all, an AJAX-based website is more or less the same as a FLASH website: it may...
5 Ways to Make Back Links More Powerful
Sometimes in link building, you’re only as good as your next link. We’re always on the hunt for new links, more links, better links. But...
How to Use “Linearize Page” Option of Web Developer Addon
I know plenty of people who use Web Developer FireFox Addon and yet don’t have the clue about the real value of some of its...
How I Tested My Website Usability with UserTesting (+ SEJ Readers’ Contest!)
You may already know that about 3 months ago I launched my newest project uniting blog owners with guest contributors – MyBlogGuest. The site is...