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Yahoo Opens Up New Flickr Photo Page to Everyone
If you’re a Flickr user, you’d be glad to know that Yahoo has finally open up the new Flickr photo page to the public. The...
Gmail Now Lets You Download Attachments via Drag-and-Drop
Google has finally rolled a nifty Gmail feature, something which I assume all of us Gmail users have been waiting for so long – the...
What Makes a Good SEO Proposal?
I work as an in-house SEO for a company that has a good-sized website, just over 150,000 pages and growing. I’m one of few people...
Google Rolls Out New Search History Feature
Google has just rolled the new search history feature for US Google users. Nothing big here, just a small enhancement but could be pretty useful...
How to Win With Your SEM Agency
Hire an agency? Take it in-house? What’s the best way to ensure a successful approach to improve the online presence of your company? These decisions...
The Three Step Process to Effective Multilingual Keywords
While it is often regarded as the lingua franca of the internet, English is not quite the dominant online force many imagine it to be....
The Top 11 SEO Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them) …AKA STOP THE MADNESS!
I know, I know, it’s all been said and done, but I went the extra mile and am giving you not just 10 mistakes but...
What to Look For in a Link Builder
What kinds of people make the best link builders? Well, that’s as hard to define as what kinds of people make the best leaders or...
Google dynamic linking
One strange and creepy patent Imagine if you had a program that would automatically go through the posts on your site/blog and automatically find concepts...
How to Re-Purpose Your Content to Optimize it for Traveling Season
I feel lucky enough to work from home for about 3 years now and to be able to travel wherever I want with my family....
5 Things You Need to Know to Succeed With Bing
With the impending implosion of Yahoo’s disappointing Panama project and seeming overnight surrender of search to the big boys of Google and Microsoft it’s time...
Yahoo Japan Switching to Google as Search Provider
In a surprising development, Yahoo Japan just announced that it would be switching to Google as its search technology and paid search provider. Now, before...
Breaking It Down – Why Site Navigation Matters
In my latest Search Engine Journal article, Information Architecture – Rocket Science Simplified, I break down the concepts of site navigation as it relates to...
The Thinning Line Between SEO and Social Media
I’ve been doing SEO for as long as I can remember. I rarely stop to look at the distance I’ve made since I started; more...
Google Places Police
Google has plans to dominate the search world but you are only welcome if you start paying for your local search traffic!
Primal: Semantically Driven Keyword Research and Brainstorming Assistant
Primal is a new interesting semantic search assistant that has drawn my attention due to keyword-research potential. It is being promoted as the tool that...
Why Guest Blogging Works Better Than Article Marketing
A week ago, while I was perusing some marketing forums, I found a thread about the effectiveness of article marketing today. Halfway through the thread,...
Why Internet Marketers Should Support Android
Mobile is becoming more & more a part of an Internet Marketers life as Android is at the heart of that acceleration. Symbian dominates mobile devices...
Homage to the Business of Link-Building
For a moon or two now, there has been this debate about whether link-builders are, in actual fact, SEO’s or whether they should sit in...
Links Ahoy! Turn Copied Content to Instant Links
“Content is King” would probably be one of the greatest online myths of all time (well for me at the very least). Yes, we all...
Microsoft Rebuilds Bing Webmaster Tools from the Ground Up
Microsoft has just launched a newly updated Bing Webmaster Tools which according to the Bing Community Blog is a huge improvement to the old Microsoft...
How to Avoid Being Google Slapped
Photo src If you’re an AdWords advertiser, chances are you’ve heard the expression “Google slap.” Maybe you’ve even known someone who has been Google slapped...
The Foundation Of A Successful SEO Campaign: Keyword Research
Yep, it’s true – keywords are the foundation of your campaign and they will make or break your success. If your phrases are all way...
Help: Hyperlinks (URLs) Are not Being Properly Displayed in Word 2007!
I came across another annoyance of Word 2007 caused after I opened a document that contained some errors. It is a really annoying thing to...
Google Refreshes Image Search with More Images
Google is set to revamp the overall interface of its Image Search vertical. According a post on the Official Google blog, the new Google Image...
Yahoo Begins Testing Search Ads from Microsoft
This has long been overdue, but Yahoo is nonetheless starting to integrate both organic and paid search listings from Microsoft for up to 25 percent...
How to Get 10,000% More Backlinks in Google, Without Doing Anything
That’s not a typo. You can actually get 10,000% more backlinks in Google, simply by doing nothing. That’s the jittery reality of Google Caffeine, the new...
Foursquare – A Marketing Channel Not A Campaign
It was interesting to see this question (below) asked as a comment to a recent article on Foursquare that I was reading. “I need to...
How to Compare Google Webmaster Tools Data with Google Analytics Data (Excel)
We have that handy “Search Queries” link in Google Webmaster Tools that is supposed to show for which keywords our website does well on Google....
Top Tips for Multilingual Marketing and SEO
If you want your web marketing efforts to be as successful as possible in overseas markets, you need to think about properly localising your websites...