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Vital Link Building Tip
You can spend a bunch of time prospecting for links, you can ask for links and you can even beg for links, but the most...
Geo-Marketing As A New Business Marketing Tool
Geo-Marketing (or Geographic Marketing) is a new method of marketing a business and its website through web searches, mobile searches and social media. As you...
Google Gives its Search Results Pages the Bing Look
Google has given its main web product, web search a much needed redesign. And while this is a welcome development since it’s been quite awhile...
4 Easy Steps to SEO-Friendlier Blog Categories (WordPress)
We all know which issues blog templates usually have with SEO – and one of the most wide-spread problems is a duplicate content one: blog...
Playing PPC Catch Up: Microsoft AdCenter
Taking a look at the history of PPC and comparing it with today’s market, you can see the complete 180 that the space has taken....
Registered Trademarks and Other Symbols in the Title Tag
Take a moment and pretend you’re a search engine bot – It’s early in the morning. You are enjoying a fresh cup of coffee while...
Link Building Interview with Ontolo’s Garrett French and Ben Wills
April 27th 2010 marked the launch of Ontolo’s Link Building Toolset, in the works since 2008. The Link Building Toolset uses targeted SEO keywords to...
Google to Roll-Out Book Search and Buy Feature
Starting June or July, the next time you use Google Books search and discover titles that you are interested to buy, you may soon do...
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,...
Look Who’s Ranking Now: How Google Can’t Seem to Stop the Spammers
First, a full disclosure. I run a humor site, ZUG.com, which for several years had one of the coveted top ten organic positions for the keyword...
Enhance Google Adwords Tool with Keyword Tool Supercharger
Keyword Tool Supercharger is a great tool developed by GeekLad. It means to provide more competition and keyword analysis data for a widely-used free keyword...
Five Fatal Flaws in a Link Request
I’m probably not going to entertain many link requests. At all. Simply because doing what I do for a living I understand the value of...
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...
Competitive Intelligence in SEO & Social Media
Understanding thy competition is a golden rule in any kind of business, ranging from online marketing to politics to running the local mom & pop...
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...
Advanced SEO Requires Good Analytics Information
Good quality analytics (such as Google Analytics or another paid analytics software packages) provides good and very useful information. If you pay attention to it...
Link Builders’ Toolkit Now Available (over at StayOnSearch)
I wanted to let all of the Search Engine Journal readers know about a new product that I am offering on my blog called the...
Google Adwords Overhaul!
If any of you were looking at Google Adwords the past few days, you may have noticed a few interesting things. Google has decided to...
A New Feature-Rich SEO FireFox Addon: SEO Doctor
It looks like Vladimir Prelovac has become our SEJ featured developer. I have already shared his plugin for smart blog interlinking and mentioned another WordPress...
We’ve Added a Facebook Like Button to SEJ
This week Facebook rolled out some new tools and cupdates to their Open Graph that lets publishers utilize the new Facebook Like option and other...
2010 NFL Draft Online : Live Video & Twitter
The 2010 NFL Draft will mark the first time the drafting of college players by NFL teams will be held in Prime Time, and not...
Search & Social Awards : Vote Now!
The voting for the 2010 Search & Social Awards is now open! Search & Social is holding this contest to introduce the search marketing &...
Local Business Marketing – The Known Future
The Internet has turned into a great local business marketing tool in the past couple of years. While local businesses have not yet adopted these...
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...
Mobile SEO Future Planning
2010 is the next year that has been talked about year after year as far as mobile online use truly taking off. The iPhone was...
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...