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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...
Google Buzz Layer Now on Google Maps for Desktop
As if having the Google Buzz layer on Google Maps for Mobile is not enough, Google has just made it also available on your computer....
Google Increases Government Lobbying by 57%, with $1.4 M in Q1
In Q1 2010, Google spent $1.4 million in lobbying money with the federal government bodies, which was an increase of 57% over $880,000 from Q1...
Google Acquires Startup Agnilux
Hot on the heels of the buzz created by Gizmodo’s “discovery” of the iPhone 4G prototype is the report that Google just acquired the startup...
80% of Google Buzz Powered by Bots & Feeds
Google Buzz may be a centralized microblogging system, but for the most part, its not run by humans .. instead; robots. What better way for...
Yahoo Buys Me.me Domain for its Twitter Style Yahoo Meme
Yahoo has purchased the domain Me.me, for its Yahoo Meme microblogging service – the Yahoo version of Twitter. With its earnings up in Q1 2010...
Twitter Valuation Infographic
I love infographics, for obvious reasons. One, they are easy to scan, read and understand. Two, from a marketing and publishing perspective, infographics are easy...
Google Renames its Local Business Center to Google Places
To connect its Local Business Center with the millions of people who use Google every day to find places, Google is renaming the Local Business...
SEO Is A Team Sport – Part 1
Over the years I’ve had the curse blessing to participate on several ginormous substantial nightmare web projects that have involved several control freaks participants. Inevitably...
Who Doesn’t Need SEO
Aaron Wall of SEOBook was recently interviewed on Small Business Trends Radio about SEO. During the interview, Aaron was asked which companies should and shouldn’t...
Once You Start, Can You Stop?
Warning: Link building is addictive. It’s like working out. Once you get going and you see results, you want to keep on. You want to...
Google Officially Enables iPad AdWords Targetting
As announced a few weeks ago, Google has now included the iPad as one of the devices that you can target specifically with your AdWords...
NSFW: Facebook, YouTube Are the Most Visited Sites at Work
If you visit Facebook or YouTube during official hours while in the your offices, well – welcome to the club. I do that too. And...
Google Suggest Becomes More Local and Better with Spelling
Google has just rolled out two nifty features of its Google Suggest service – a more localized search suggest that boils down to metro areas...
Why You Need to Stop Ignoring Image Alt Attributes
This is a guest post by AJ Wilcox of OrangeSoda, an internet marketing and search marketing company that specializes in local search and SEO for...
Google Off to a Great Year, Gains $6.7 Billion in Q1
Google has again proven its might as it reports its Q1 2010 revenue growth at 23% compared to the same period in 2009. Total reported...
So Now You Care About Your Website Load Times
Google announced recently that site loading time now plays a part in their search ranking algorithm. It has also been openly said that over 200...
Local Business Listing Marketing vs. Data Services
As local business marketing as become a hot topic in the Internet marketing industry, business owners are finding themselves confused about the various types of...
New AdWords Features Explained
Here is a look at some of my new favorite features in Google AdWords. I’ll review IP Exclusion, Traffic Estimator Beta, and Search Funnels. IP...
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...
Google Brings Google Mobile App to Your iPad
It pains me to cover anything iPad-related news right now as I’m having a rough experience with our local FedEx Broke which has been “detaining”...
Google Releases Official Buzz Share Buttons
Google’s next order of battle for Google Buzz – Share Buttons. If you’ve felt envious of sites such as TechCrunch and Mashable which were quick...
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How Texting and Driving Could Destroy Your Business [With Legal Analysis]
Did the title of my post get your attention? Believe me, I wish texting and driving couldn’t destroy your business, but it unfortunately has the...
Suddenly Twitter Has a Business Model, Tweet Ads
Twitter is about to unveil something that it hopes will finally answer the grandstanding question of whether Twitter can actually make money, and if yes...
Google Rolls Out New Docs Features
Google is gradually rolling out some enhancements of its online collaboration tool – Google Docs – specifically docs, spreadsheets and a new stand-alone drawings tool....
Ouch! Google CEO Eric Schmidt Insults Bloggers
Speaking at a newspaper conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt might have spilled something which he should have kept to himself. Or should we give him...