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Wake Up Suzy – Wake Up! – Managing SEO Client Expectations
I’ve touched on the topic of client expectations before, yet I can’t emphasize enough how important this subject is. So I’m devoting an entire article...
Is Your Site Under Google Penalty?
One of the most important aspects of taking care of a site’s search ‘appropriateness’ is knowing what can get you penalized by Google (or any...
Some Tactical Tips for Tracking the Long Tail
Most of us in the search industry are pretty much aware by now that simply tracking individual keyword rankings to determine performance is all but...
8 Search Engine Related iPad Apps
Aside from Twitter and Social Networking apps, another interesting set of apps available right now on the iPad App Store are search-related. I scoured through...
Cold Calling For Links: Advice from Door to Door Sales
About 8 years ago, I was offered a job in door to door sales. I thought it would probably be the scariest, hardest job I...
Google to Ask Buzz Users to Reconfirm Privacy Settings
Anytime now, when you click on the Buzz tab on your Gmail account Google will ask you to confirm or change your privacy settings. The...
2010 Google Toolbar PageRank Update : PageRank Bunny
Did the Google PageRank Bunny visit your site over this past weekend to drop off a basket of juicy Google [Toolbar] PageRank goodness? Or did...
Digg Releases Mobile App for Android
When Digg announced its Digg for iPhone app a couple of weeks ago, for awhile I thought nobody would noticed it as I’m beginning to...
Yahoo Brings its Entertainment Portal to the iPad
Aside from Google Yahoo is also making its presence felt in the iPad party. For Yahoo’s part it’s by way of making its entertainment portal...
Google is also iPad-Ready
A few more hours before the iPad starts arriving on those who pre-ordered it for the last two weeks or so, and with the excitement...
Google Acquires Online Video Platform – Episodic
Google just acquired a new startup, this time specializing on online video platform for broadcasting both live and on-demand content to the web or any...
Top 5 iPhone Apps for Search & Internet Marketers
Search and Internet marketing can, at times, be a 24 hour job. It doesn’t necessarily HAVE to be, but if you want good results and...
Microsoft Bing Local Listing Center Backlog? What Is It About The Claiming Process?
On Saturday, March 6, 2010 Microsoft Bing’s Local Listing Center stopped accepting new local business listing claiming and updating until their backlog and issues have...
Google Changes Name to Topeka : April Fools
Woke up this morning to the rather strange announcement from Google that the company has now changed its name to Topeka. In honor of Topeka,...
Make Sense of Huge Keyword Lists with Keyword Niche Tools
A few weeks ago I discovered a very cool tool that helped a lot with my keyword research (especially for finding really easy and cool...
2010 Search & Social Awards : Nominate Your Blog!
We’re very happy to announce the 2010 Search & Social Awards, the extention of the old SEJ Search Blog Awards, will be held this April...
Google Gives AdWords a Mobile Interface
Google has just rolled out its AdWords for Mobile applications that should run on the iPhone, Android and Palm Pre devices. AdWords for Mobile provides...
4 Simple Ways to Speed Up Your Site
As a user nothing can be more frustrating than waiting for a site to load. So when I saw a video near the end of...
Boost Your SEO Efforts with Effective Traffic-Getting Strategies!
In many ways, being an in-house SEO is like working on your own site. You will develop a personal relationship with the website/s you are...
iPhone and Android Phones’ Traffic Rise
Mobile Metrics firm Admob’s February report is showing some interesting trend in the mobile market today. Specifically, Admob’s report indicates that smartphone’s worldwide traffic is...
Facebook to Change “Become a Fan” Button to “Like” on Fan Pages
Facebook will soon be changing the “Become a Fan” button that you see on Fan Pages to the more universal “Like” button. According to the...
Pitching Link Requests – One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Imagine that you are a salesperson for a shoe store. There are three potential customers in the store – an athletic male, a professionally dressed...
Link Bait Auto-Generated
Warning: this post is intended to be sarcastic. It shows how some fun link-baiting article (you may see on the front page of many popular...
Google Receives Overwhelming Response to Call for Fiber Network Host
With the deadline for Google’s call for request for information on various communities to host their fiber network project already closed, Google has reportedly receive...
WARNING : Fake Google AdWords Phishing Campaign
If you get an email entitled You’r adds have stopped working! from lperez_bt@adwords.com, do not open it because it is not an email from Google...
Google Launches AdWords Remarketing
Say you followed an online ad from a paid Google search listing. But while on the landing page of that site, you can’t decide whether...
Watch NCAA March Madness Live Streaming Video Online
It’s March Madness! Sweet Sixteen Baby! Maryland and Georgetown are out, but the Tourney is still on! Office workers around the US are looking at...
Qualifying SEO clients; keeping Pareto at bay
For the longest time now I have wanted to write about this topic as it’s one that has legs when I am talking to my...
10 Deadly Online Marketing Mistakes
I love authoritative titles… These are the most horrendous 10 online mistakes you can make. Ever. And they’ll probably ruin your entire business. I created...
Local Search Recipe: How to Track Local Analytics With WordPress…And Make Pies
I am a big fan of food. I think about it everyday, and if things go well I even get to have some on a...