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Filter Google Alerts with Alerts Grader
I’ve been using Google Alerts for tracking my brand name(s) and important keyword mentions for ages. It has never been perfect and I am using...
Google Officially Acquires AdMob
Following the clearance given by the FCC, Google has finally sealed its acquisition deal of mobile advertising company – AdMob. The Official Google Blog just...
The 7 Deadly Sins of Google Local Listings
It really doesn’t matter if you consider yourself a sinner or a saint for you to benefit from some lessons I have had to learn...
Brand Security Issues With Geo-Listings
Local business listing hijacking is a real situation that can and will have an impact upon a business brand name. If the business is reliant...
Take A Few Blogging Hints From Keynote Speakers
What if your writing could have the captivating influence of a keynote speaker? Writing is little more than presenting with words, after all. It could...
Creative Uses For RSS Referrer Tracking By Bloggers?
On Search Engine Land, Dixon Jones’ blog and other sites, there’s a bit of fancy code that instantly refreshes the URL you’re seeing to add...
No Robots Allowed
There will come a time when robots will be in your target market, but that day is (at least) a few years away. In the...
3 WordPress Plugins to Tweak Your WordPress Blog Pagination
Last week I came across a great post outlining the impact of pagination on SEO, so today I am sharing some WordPress plugins to help...
Eliminating the Profit Motive in Unethical SEO
Over the past couple months a lot of buzz has been generated regarding unethical business practices in the search marketing industry. We all know the...
Google Finally Discloses How Much it Earns from AdSense
If you are running Google AdSense in all its flavors (for content, for search, for feeds) since ages ago, have you ever wondered how much...
Yahoo! Buys Location-Based Mobile Community Site – Kropol
If Yahoo can’t afford to buy Foursquare, might as well buy something that offers something similar to the location-based mobile community site. And that’s what...
Link Building with Great Web Design
Does your website (or your client’s) have a beautiful design? You can take advantage of a unique, creatively designed websites in your link building efforts...
10 Ways to Show Value from Your SEO Efforts
It can be hard to show clients value from your SEO campaigns because like in any service-based industry, it is not a tangible product. So...
2 Cross-SERPs Analysis Tools to Check Out
We come across plenty of SERP- (search engine result page) -based tools daily. Most of them work the following way: they grab search results for...
Google Testing the Waters for a Safer Encrypted Web Search
Possibly due to the growing security and privacy concerns being faced by Facebook lately, Google was quick to implement measures to avoid similar issues. Google...
Google Combines its Most Important Products into Google TV
So after all this year’s of building up a very efficient search technology, a fast and lighweight web browser and a mobile computing platform, Google...
PopScreen & Jinni : Taking Video Search to the Next Level of Innovation
Search engines catering to targeted niches are gaining in popularity. Most of them add a social interaction element, like sharing, embedding, and voting to keep...
Optimising TV for SEO: Thinkbox Research Highlighting TV’s Impact on Search
After attending a Thinkbox conference in Manchester a few months ago, it spurred on some thoughts around the expansive applications of SEO to other media...
Geo-Listing Hijackings A Real Concern
One of the more prominent Geo-Listing (a.k.a. local business listing) hijackings occurred in New Zealand. A florist was found guilty for hijacking competitor local business...
The 5 Fools You Meet In Social Media
I’ve been very busy, up to my knees in Social Media lately. In addition to regular client work and developing my Social Media teaching materials,...
How MicroFormatting Will Improve Mobile Search
Last month I went over the basics of how to future plan & setup a mobile version of your site correctly both for the user...
Google Wave Now Available for Everyone, Are You Still Interested?
Google has taken off the exclusivity of Google Wave and has just made it available to everyone. So, starting today, you can just go to...
Is Your Website A Cash Generating Sales Machine? Probably Not!
While there are countless sites on the web that are making good money, more often than not sites are not performing as well as they...
An Alternative “Related Posts” WordPress Plugin – Where Did They Go From Here
I have once looked at the three ways to display related posts in WordPress. I have also described that will help your site performance by...
Why Being an SEO Is So Awesome!
I recently read an article by Sarah Carling entitled “The Best Job In The World.” and found it so compelling that I wanted to add...
Google Offers to Buy VOIP Provider Global IP Solutions
Google is on to its usual company shopping again. This time, it is eyeing Global IP Solutions, a company that provides technology used for delivering...
Why Traditional PR Should be Part of Your SEO Strategy
You can get links by producing great content which people social bookmark or mention on their sites. But you only get those links from your...
How to Turn Black Hat SEO into a White Hat Approach
The SEO industry has seen its share of horrendous grey and black hat approaches for many years. It is truly amazing to me that I...
Wordpot: Another Keyword Suggestion Tool to Add to Your Arsenal
My rule of thumb as to keyword research tools is: the more the better. Various tools have different algorithms and metrics to compare and when...
Google to Stop Selling Nexus One Online
Five months after it started selling Nexus One via its online store, either Google finally realized that this is probably not the best way to...