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Migrating to a New Domain and URL Structure – My Learnings
Recently the company I worked for made a big decision to rebrand and with it came the dreaded domain name change. We are also having...
Microsoft to Run a Massive Bing TV Campaign in the UK
The Guardian UK is reporting that Microsoft Bing is preparing to launch a massive TV ad campaign aimed at challenging Google’s dominance in the UK...
Omniture Now Offers Enhanced Facebook Marketing Analytics
With the ever emerging and evolving world of web 2.0. marketers no more can afford to neglect social media, and with Facebook becoming the second...
Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators
Last year I did a short post on building links via local blogs. Looking back at that post I think it is quite limited. Those...
SEO Wins & Sins: 5 Questions with Industry Leader Joe Laratro
Effective search engine optimization is equal parts art, science, and EXPERIENCE, so I sat down with industry veteran Joe Laratro to get the dish on...
Google Launches Gesture Search for Android 2.0 Phones
Google announced a pretty cool feature that most of us Android phone users would surely find useful and innovative – gesture search. Basically, what this...
Google Search Results Get the Star Treatment
Google’s long-standing effort on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature – marking search results...
Penalties, Bans, and Paid Search
There are numerous posts on PPC vs SEO, who gets more money, and all that mumbo jumbo. To me, it’s right up there with “SEO...
SEO without the SEO
Competition is stiff these days. It’s getting harder and harder to achieve optimal search engine rankings, at least without professional help. So how to compete...
How to Work with & Shop for a SEO Services Firm
If you are a small business owner or an in house marketer looking to hire an outside SEO firm to outsource all your search engine...
Google Chrome Rolls Out Translate Feature
Google has just released a new beta feature for Chrome browser – a translation prompt that automatically appears whenever you are visiting a site which...
Google Buys Online Image Editor Picnik
Google has just acquired another company as announced by the company’s official blog. It’s Picnik, a fun, online image editor that was founded in 2005...
Free SEJ News iPhone Application Available
Attention all Search Engine Journal lovers and avid readers out there: we have good news! The new SEJ News iPhone application is now available in...
Creative Writing Tips for LinkBait Production
Have you ever sold a client linkbaiting content and when it came time to produce the bait, you’ve thought “oh dear, there’s not much to...
Track Tsunami Warnings Online with NOAA, Twitter & Search
Earlier in the morning a major 8.8 earthquake hit Concepcion, Chile (a major university city) which has set off a Tsunami warning in the Pacific...
SEO Priorities – Task ROI
I was going to sit down and write a post with my usual brand of geekiness. You know, some more eye-watering patent or IR paper...
5 Steps to Launching a Mobile Search Campaign
Mobile search continues to explode. According to eMarketer, mobile search spending will grow 81% over the next two years. So there’s no better time to...
Google Starts Indexing Facebook Pages Updates
Although both Facebook and Google has not yet announced this officially, some folks are reporting that status updates from Facebook pages will start showing up...
How to Use Google Analytics on Your Facebook Fan Page
Looking to integrate your analytical data and tracking across your site, blog and now even your Facebook Fanpages? It appears that the UK’s WebDigi Dev...
Why Buzz Beats Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed
UPDATE 10/06/2010: In retrospect, I was completely wrong. It had to happen sooner or later. Read the rest at your own risk. —————– Buzz is...
How to Leverage Traffic Besides Using Organic Search
Too many SEO’s and marketers worry about getting that #1 ranking in Google for their primary keyword/phrase. Of course, if that query is being highly...
Google Launches DoubleClick for Publishers
Google has just announced its new ad serving technology which is geared for both large and small scale online publishers – DoubleClick for Publishers. This...
7 Ways To Beat The Challenges Of SEO For Ecommerce
If “Content is King” and “Links are Queen” when it comes to SEO, ecommerce sites must be like America – no king and no queen...
Google Releases Shopper App for Android
Google has just released a new mobile app for Android phones – called Google Shopper. It’s a pretty cool and robust app that lets you...
DOJ, EU Approve the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal
So finally, Yahoo and Microsoft got the clearance to implement terms and conditions of their search ad deal. Both the European Commission and U.S. Dept....
An Extremely Nifty Guide to Reviews and Local Search
There is one area within the “Local Search Sphere” that brings a wide amount of debate when it comes to ranking impacts, importance, and ethical...
Mobile Laws Coming Through the Mobile World Congress
The Mobile World Congress has convened in Barcelona Spain and it looks like some of the news coming out could signal some upcoming laws for...
Facebook is now the Second Most Popular Website in the U.S.
Well, we knew this was going to happen. With a high user engagement and a massive userbase build up, Facebook has just slipped pass through...
3 SEO-Friendly WP Plugins to Display Featured Posts
Giving your selected content more exposure via featuring it is a good idea because this way: (1) You attract more attention to your best articles...
Canadian Privacy Office Questions Google Buzz
As expected from a controversial web service that inflicts privacy invasion, Google Buzz just received a new “friend” in the Canadian Office of the Privacy...