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Comprehensive Keyword Analysis: It Is Not All About Keyword Research Tools
Keyword research is not (or shouldn’t be) just about creating a list of keyword phrases a surfer uses when performing a search. Using just a...
SEO & Analytics: 4 Useful Ways To Assess Your Organic Traffic
When you set out to build your site content, keyword research and educated guesses about keyword relevance are often necessary initial steps. But nothing trumps...
Google CEO Says Google Unlikely to Buy Twitter (Right Now)
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on PBS’s Charlie Rose on Saturday night and was asked specifically about whether or not Google will buy Twitter (amongst...
IM Spring Break : Florida Search & Social Marketing Conference
Are you going to IM Spring Break? WHY NOT!?! http://www.imspringbreak.com IM Spring Break, the search marketing & social media conference at Deerefield Beach, FL has...
Twitter Rolling Out Search on Homepage & Sponsored Results
Twitter is taking its search functionality from behind the curtain and is testing a search box on the Twitter homepage along with updated Twitter trends....
What The Cloud Is Missing – The Right Desktop Partner
Over the last several weeks I have beta tested any number of startups which represent what we might call “refined walled garden” approaches to social...
Huge Navigation Menus: Ordering by Popularity Versus Alphabetical Ordering
A while ago I took a quick look at Amazon.com navigation menus evolution and a few really interesting questions popped up after I published the...
Google Adsense Rolls Out Expandable Ads
Desperate times need desperate measures. Even a big time program such as Google Adsense suffers from the economic crunch that everyone is feeling right now....
Yahoo Teams Up with JS-Kit to Enhance Yahoo! Updates
With Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect struggling it out in the data portability niche, we certainly have one room for another player – and...
Language in International PPC : Rose By Any Other Spelling May Smell Sweeter
Everyone knows – though many fail to use – misspelled keywords in their PPC or organic search optimization efforts can be very effective. Interestingly I...
3 Common Uses of Robots.txt File
Despite of the existence of pretty self-explanatory Robots.txt standards, all-in-one tutorials and advanced tips, Robots.txt topic is still often misunderstood and misused. Therefore I decided...
Twitter Should Take Schmidt’s Critique Positively
After posting their first Tweet a couple of days ago, it is surprising that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt would have to hit Twitter’s lack of...
Microsoft Gives an Official Screenshot of the New Live Search
Finally, the Microsoft Live Search Team has officially issued a statement regarding the press coverage that their new Live Search interface is getting. While everyone...
Real Impact of Google Quality Score In AdWords PPC
We ran into an AdWords error- yes they admitted that for whatever reason, their system messed up- that gave all our keywords in a new...
Matt Cutts vs Ted Murphy on Paid Blogging & Sponsored Conversations
In a followup to the Forrester report on paid blog advertising via sponsoring the conversation in blogposts, Google’s Matt Cutts has weighed in a bit...
Linkedin Teams Up with Twitter Through Company Buzz
Linkedin Leverages Twitter for Brand Tracking What happens when you take a high quality social network of business professionals and merge functionality with the ‘it’...
IM Spring Break Tickets Now $379 : Incredible Value
Ticket prices for IM Spring Break, the 3 day search marketing conference held at the Deerfield Beach Hilton (10 minutes from Ft. Lauderdale) in Florida,...
Don’t Forget the Brand in SEO, PPC and Social Media
You may think I am crazy, but I have found that many marketers forget one of the most valuable tools when marketing online with SEO,...
CheckUserNames.com : Check Your Brand Names On Social Networks
CheckUserNames.com : A new tool to Check User Names across multiple social media sites. Registering and securing your company’s name across various social networks is...
Canada Revenue Agency Wastes Tax Dollars On Broken Ad Campaign
We see this happen with more amateurish ad campaigns, but seriously, the ad agency and web developers running this campaign for Canada Revenue Agency should...
Facebook Pages to Redesign : Good for the Advertiser?
Facebook Pages are a free way for companies, organizations and fan groups to set up a page within Facebook to share information and connect with...
TripAdvisor Adds Travel Search Engine
TripAdvisor, the long time user generated media travel community with true to life hotel and destination reviews, photos and information, has added a new flight...
Google India SearchMasters Conference
Tomorrow in Bangladore, India, Google is holding its Google SearchMasters Conference 2009 which is an opportunity for hte Indian webmaster community to interact with Google...
Can You Make Money with AdSense for Domains?
Google AdSense for Domains lets domain name owners set up AdSense links on a parked domain which if it receives traffic, will serve relevant ads...
Google AdSense Outage Confirmed by Google
Only a couple days after the great Google GMail Outage of 2009 (and hopefully the last), Google has confirmed that AdSense, their contextual ad network,...
The Yahoo Management Shake Up Starts
Here you go, the much anticipated management re-structure which Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz was rumored to implement. Posting on Yodel Anecdotal, Ms. Bartz has...
Google AdWords Now On Google News
If you’re from the U.S. and you use Google News stream to get your daily news fix. More particularly if you’re using Google News’ search...
Google Enters the Twitter Game : Google + Twitter = Twoogling?
Google is now on Twitter. As insane as it may seem, it has taken Google years to start using their Google account, which is located...
Is Google Getting Too Pushy with Search Suggestions and Modifications?
A great WebmasterWorld thread discusses the Google search suggestion evolution. The fact is, Google considers itself to know much better what the surfer wants. Even...
Get Natural ‘DoFollow’ Links from Delicious
Jon Henshaw of Raven SEO Tools has put together some tips on getting the most out of your Delicious.com (formerly known as Del.icio.us) bookmarked links,...