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SEO is a Brick not a House
This post is in reference to SEO services as a business model, however many of the ideas can be juxtaposed to businesses and their utilization...
How to Predict Traffic from Google
Google gives you plenty of really good tools at the moment to predict the traffic to your website from Google rankings. In this post I...
Covario Acquires NetConcepts
The San Diego based search marketing services and software firm, Covario, has acquired NetConcepts, the SEO agency which was founded by Stephen Spencer. Many in...
Link Building Strategies: Time to ACT
Everything in life that is worth anything takes a lot of effort and action. When I was in High School my Dad bought me an...
Local PPC: Google AdWords GeoAttribution Is Inaccurate
We discovered in 2009 that AdWords inaccurately attributes the geolocation of your AdWords visitors. I previously wrote a blog post about AdWords geotargeting’s inadequacies in...
How to Measure Branding PPC Campaigns
Rule #1 in every paid search campaign (PPC) is Identify and Track a Measurable Conversion. For 95% of campaigns this is a must, but there...
Advice for the Newbie In-House SEO
Congratulations! You’re hired… It’s a huge step in your SEO career to be hired for an in-house SEO department. Now it’s time to plan your...
You Can’t Optimize Cardboard
There has been quite a bit of buzz surrounding the concept of trust these days. More specifically, how TrustRank is likely to have a strong...
AdMob Metrics Show Surge on Android Ad Impressions
Admob just released a new metrics showing a significant spike on ad impressions for Google Android. AdMob’s report was based on the ad requests received...
How to Aggregate Google Analytics Stats with Raven Tools
The best thing about the Raven tools is that you can have all aspects of your website promotion campaign and performance tracking under one combined...
How to Hire a University Student for Link Building
As we all know, unless you are fortunate enough to have content on a client site go viral due to its sheer brilliance, link building...
Apple Tablet: Apple Bites Back at Google
Is Apple trying to disrupt the anticipation, hype and excitement over Google’s announcement of the Nexus One by announcing their own announcement of the Apple...
Google Chrome is Now the No. 3 Browser
Don’t look now guys, but only 16 months after it was officially released, Google Chrome is now the world’s no. 3 browser, based on Net...
Find New Year’s Resolutions Online
It’s the New Year which means it’s time to start thinking about your New Year’s Resolutions ! We know your New Year’s celebration may not...
Facebook Beats Google : Most Visited Site on Christmas
In what could be a preview of an impending battle between Facebook and Google in the coming days, Facebook has beaten Google as the most...
Google Nexus One : What We Know About the Google Phone
What could be a better way of starting the new year but with a new Google Phone?Well, Google surely knows how to create the hype...
SEO Christmas Wishlist : Perfect Presents for an SEO
Every year as the holiday shopping season ramps up, people ask me the same question over and over again “What do you want for Christmas...
Chris Henry Rashomon’d By Google Real Time Search
“I mean, what are they gonna say about him, when he’s gone, huh? What are they gonna say? Are they gonna say “he was a...
2010 : A New Age For Search Marketers
We are in the midst of the largest algorithmic changes to Google’s relevancy since the Florida Update of 2003, and perhaps even the largest change...
Should You Be Marketing Yourself Online?
I can’t tell you how many jobs I’ve landed just by coming up in searches for my own name in Google. Since I am an...
YouTube Joins the Rage on URL Shortener
It’s like saying, if Twitter, Facebook, Google and all the other sites can implement their own URL shorterner for sharing links why can’t YouTube have...
Google’s 2009 Acquisitions : Focus on Mobile & Collaboration
I was reading up on Google acquisitions yesterday and although Google’s acquisition this year is not as many as previous years, particularly 2006 and 2007,...
Great Search Marketing Reading I HAD To Share
Those of you who follow my writing know that I’m a bookworm. And just as I’m frequently lending books to friends (or thrusting them at...
YouTube, Google, Facebook, Sex Top Kids’ Searches
Forget about the recent reports on most-searched terms and Twitter trending topics. As Symantec just released a more controversial top searches report for 2009. And...
And the Fastest Rising YouTube Search is, “inauguration”
YouTube just released their Year End Top Video Report for 2009 and not surprisingly Susan Boyle’s audition video in Britain’s Got Talent show emerged as...
Bing Beats Google in November Search Volume Growth
Latest comScore data for November search volume is showing a slightly unexpected result. For the second time Bing managed to beat Google in terms of...
5 Ways to End 2009 with a Bang
Life is a funny thing! As humans we all want to be successful and happy. Each year goes by (faster than we would like) full...
Google Ranks and Color Codes Businesses on Place Pages
Google has quietly rolled out a new feature for ranking and showing different aspects about businesses on Place Pages for Google Maps. The new feature...
Facebook Top Search Term 2009, Google Top Visited Site
Experian Hitwise has just released two significant data of 2009 – top-search term and top-visited site with Facebook and Google earning the top spot respectively....
Why Conversions Can Be a Messy SEO Metric
Seems I am still running into SEOs that believe, however misguided, that conversions are somehow their domain. This seems speak to the fact that many...