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Building a Global Brand on the Cheap
If asked to name a few of the world’s top brands, you might include names such as Coca Cola, Disney, Microsoft, Intel, or perhaps Mercedes...
Mind Control and Local Search?
Okay, first things first, this post isn’t really about hypnotism or mind control, but if you’re interested to learn something with a similar effect so...
Google News Becomes More Personal and Social
Google is rolling out several updates to its News homepage to make it easier to navigate through relevant news, highlight interesting stories that would otherwise...
PPC Tips for the Small Business Owner
It can be difficult for the little guy to compete with corporations¾moderate SMB programs are no match for endless marketing budgets and the resulting inflated...
YouTube Ads Are Cheapest Source of Traffic
YouTube Channel and the initial findings are contained in this blog post. First step to setup a campaign is easy as much of your YouTube...
Why Duplicate Content Is Good For You
There are only two things that matter in SEO: writing great content for your users, and building links into that content. Everything else is a distraction. This...
How to WIN the PR Game
I sometimes find myself amazed at just how some people approach public relations. Public relations or PR is all about one thing: enhancing a company’s...
How to Easily Analyze and Translate Any Robots.txt File
I have already shared my opinion on the variety of various Robots.txt checkers and verifiers: be aware of them but use those with caution. They...
What is My SEO Charging Me For?
Many webmasters don’t fully understand exactly what search engine optimization, or SEO services, are, or what their SEO specialist does, how he does it or how...
Adapting SEO for Personalized Search
If there’s one thing that’s made me borderline OCD (happy now Michael?) would be the world of personalized search. Probably more so, behavioural data, is...
How External Deep Linking and More Content Can Boost Your Rankings
Everyone wants a better ranking. Heck, we all know that that nice boost from position 8 to 5, or 2 to 1 for your targeted...
Do New Advertisers Pay 4x More Than Established Advertisers?
An experienced search marketer is aware that what you pay per click within Google is directly tied to your Quality Score and the Ad Rank...
Microsoft Updates Bing for iPhone App
Just in time for the roll out of iPhone iOS4, Microsoft has updated its Bing iPhone app to include two new useful features – enhanced...
Google Maps for Android Becomes More Like FourSquare
Google has just released Maps 4.3 for Android phone and based on the new features given out by the Google Mobile Blog, it seems like...
Create a Technology Report of Any Website with W3Techs
I have once shared a web-based tool that allows to view “technologies” behind any website (like server information, widgets, etc). This week I am sharing...
Google Announces Commerce Search 2.0
Just in time for summer when most students are probably going to shop for hot summer items and to help retail sites prepare their stores...
Google Maps in UK Gets “Properties”
Google has just added a new option to Google Maps UK which could be useful if you’re property hunting in the UK. This new option called...
Catching-up with Evolution: Shaping the Next Generation of Digital Marketing
The evolution of search and social, and more broadly the interaction of the public at large with the internet and the available media online, is...
Google I/O & SMX Advanced Lessons – Android & Don’t Beat Matt Cutts at Pool
Over the past month there have been 3 major conferences in the new search world: Google I/O, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, & SMX Advanced. I...
Geo-Marketing Security Expectations For Businesses
We have discussed the security risks of local business listing hijackings in the past. One of the comments made about these security discussions is why...
13 Online PPC Marketing Courses
If you are relatively new to PPC marketing, it’s a good idea to consider taking an online course. There are quite a few of these...
Good Copy, Bad Copy: The Magic Is In The Headlines
You Blog and tweet and optimize your site and pay for ads and Facebook and syndicate articles….all to drive traffic to your site. So what...
Quickly Diagnose Your Page with Instant SEO Review
Last week we featured interview with Scott Hendison of SEO Automatic and it prompted me to go ahead and try their free SEO tools. The...
How Raven Tools Handle all Your Keyword Research Process
Raven Toolset is designed the way that you would never need any other SEO tool. This post shows you how it guides you through the...
Don’t Burn Out Doing Your Own SEO
If you are like many people out there you probably had to cut back on many personal and business expenses over the last two years...
FIFA World Cup 2010: Did South Africa Miss an Opportunity to Make a Lasting Impression?
Amidst much fanfare, the 2010 FIFA World Cup is underway in South Africa. The tournament is the most watched sporting event in the world with...
SMX Advanced 2010 London: Participant’s Report – Day 1
Note from Ann: SMX Advanced 2010 London was quite some time ago but I found this article an awesome report – especially useful for those...
Link Campaigns for Foreign Sites
At my office of 20 people, two speak German and one speaks Spanish. Some of us know a bit of Italian, and we’ve had a...
Track Any Page Changes with Diphur
I have reviewed some ways to track any page for changes (listing some web-based tools, FireFox addons as well as Google Chrome extension). This can...
Google Rolls Out Local Business Tags Nationwide, Soon on Mobile Too
Recently, Google started rolling out its new advertising feature for local businesses – Tags. This feature is geared for local businesses throughout the U.S. who...