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Google Gets 72% of Searches in December 2009 (Hitwise)
Following up Nielsen search market share data, Hitwise has also released their search metrics for December 2009. And just like Nielsen’s stats, Google is also...
Haiti Earthquake : Online Resources & Donations
The earthquake in Haiti, which rocked the capital city of Port Au Prince over the week, has been devastating to the already impovershed country, its...
Know Your Client Before You Sign the Contract
Businesses that are looking for a vendor often spend a lot of time and energy researching and meeting with various different companies to make sure...
Your Business & Yelp In 2010
I want to get you thinking the way I am on this one, so bear with me for a moment. I want you to imagine...
Google Now Corrupting Lingual Identity
UPDATE: 1/16/2010: Over on Nichola Stott’s blog it’s been mentioned that Google seem to have pulled back from the edge of the abyss on this,...
Yahoo Gears Up for 2010’s Search Battle
It seems that one of the first order of battle for Yahoo is to spike up its search product. As early as now, Yahoo is...
Will Your CMS Cause Paid Search Problems?
For many marketers involved in SEO, the three letter acronym CMS can sometimes be more like a four letter word. Depending on the CMS and...
Google Tracks Flu Trends in 121 US Cities
We all know by now how bad the strain of influenza that hit the world last year was. And if the CDC warning is to...
VMware Acquires Zimbra from Yahoo
So, VMware has officially annonunced that it is buying email and collaboration software vendor Zimbra which was acquired by Yahoo in 2007. Although financial terms...
Google Will Stop Censoring Search Results in China
Google has issued an official statement regarding its business operations in China, specifically its Chinese search portal – Google.cn. Google told Chinese authorities that it...
Google Makes Google Docs a Cloud Storage Service
It has been quite awhile since Google’s GDrive project has been talked about. In fact it seems that Google may have shelved the project already....
Cleaning up the SEO Cesspool
Boy, don’t you just love to hate my article titles? I know this topic has been discussed numerous times. Seriously though – for all the...
Build Links with Better Answers
Have you ever typed a question into Google and the ranking results were from a mass produced “how to” site? Even if you don’t know...
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...