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Google MayDay Update – A Closer Look At Impact
By now, most of us know about the big change Google performed this past month to the algorithm known as the “Mayday” update. We know...
Revisiting Your Links Page
There has been an evolution in the practice of link building in the past couple of years. We used to put in hours of agonizing,...
Visuwords: Research Word Meanings and Their Relationships
Visuwords™ in a web-based tool that helps you research the meanings of the word, the connection between those meanings and associations with other words and...
X-Ray Creates an HTML Map of Any Web Page (FireFox)
As an SEO you may be taking the full advantage of FireFox’s built-in “View source” option. I for one use it multiple times a day...
AOL Eyes New Search Deal with Google, Others
With its current search deal with Google set to expire, AOL is now looking for possible renewal of its deal with Google or possibly a...
Google Buys Invite Media to Strengthen Display Ad Service
Google’s shopping spree continues with its latest acquisition being that of Invite Media, an ad tech startup which specializes in “real time bidding” technology that...
BlueGlass LA : Premier Online Marketing Conference from S&S and 10e20
I’m very excited to announce today that Search & Social & 10e20 have joined forces to bring together a conference like no other, BlueGlass LA....
Google AdWords Testing Twitter Display Ads
Interesting news on the integration of Twitter feeds into Google AdWords ads, as ClickZ’s Douglas Quenqua has the scoop on a new secret project where...
Why Becoming an Expert in Your Niche is So Important
This is a Guest Post by Dee Barizo, a loyal SEJ reader who sent this in and is very relevant to something I preach in...
Access Your Feedburner Stats From WordPress Dashboard
Most of us track our blog feed numbers as eagerly as daily traffic. Today’s short tutorial will show you how to bring Feedburner stats to...
How Raven Tools Manage Your Competitor Research
Think of any SEO task you need to do – Raven Tools will take care of it. Today’s feature overview tackles competitor research as an...
Aid Your SEO Efforts by Carefully Selecting the Hosting Provider
Below is the guest post by Raja. While the post won’t probably discover anything fundamentally new for you, I think it sums up nicely what...
Build Links Backwards
What would you do for a link you really wanted? Would you beg? Plead? Pay? Stand on your head? Kill a man? Ok, if you’d...
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...