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SEO: Do Link Builders Need To Know It?
When I started my career in SEO, I had to do it all, from fixing code issues to running PPC campaigns, all while building links,...
Why The AdWords Starter Edition Is Bad For Business
To be honest, I never ever used the Starter Edition. I’m not sure it even existed when I started doing AdWords. Yeah so I think...
Where Can the Canonical Tag Be Actually Used?
Since canonical tag was introduced and announced, a lot has been said about it. Rand did a great ob summarizing its features and differences with...
Google Expands Local Search
Google has just rolled out its local search results to worldwide coverage. What this means is that when you search for things such as restaurants...
Five Tips For Getting More From Your Backlinks
When done right, building targeted backlinks to your website is perfectly “legal” and you shouldn’t feel like you’re breaking any “rules” by doing so. In...
Google Expands One Line SiteLinks : Little Blue Links in SERPS
Over the weekend I noticed more and more Google search results with little blue links between the page descriptions and the target URL in Google...
SEMRush : Research Competitors’ PPC Tactics
SEOquake, one of my favorite FireFox SEO extensions, has been recently heavily integrated with SEMrush, an awesome keyword research tool I’ve reviewed earlier. The new...
Residents Block Google StreetView Cars from Filming UK Community
Google’s StreetView project is no stranger to controversy and privacy concerns, and the company has many times crossed on the edge of trespassing and entering...
Google Acquiring Twitter for More Than $250 Million Valuation?
Either Google is acquiring Twitter this week or Michael Arrington is desperate for traffic and stirring up rumors. I think that given the buzz around...
How to Effectively Promote a Tool
You should have noticed that I can safely be called a tool junkie. I am no expert and I don’t like criticizing even rather a...
TubeMogul Secures $3 Million in Funding for Online Video Distribution
Video distribution providers TubeMogul, who we have covered on Search Engine Journal at TubeMogul : Distribute Your Video to Multiple Sites, has secured a round...
How to Promote Your Slide Show Online
Along with videos, a slide show is another great way to build and bait for links. Besides, taking additional advantage of your Power Point presentation...
How to Get the Most out of Your Podcast
Being in SEO, not only do we need to be proficient in optimizing our blogs and articles, but also we need to be active in...
Keyword and Topic Research with Wikipedia Visualization Tools
Like I said previously, Wikipedia provides a mine of data worth digging into when researching a topic. It is user-generated, well-moderated and heavily interlinked –...
SEO & Social Media : Are You Willing to be Consistent?
So this question has been on my mind for a while now, “Are you willing to be Consistent?” I mean really ask yourself this question....
Google UK Serving Favicons in Online Bingo AdWords
Dave Naylor made a quick post on his blog yesterday showing how Google Adwords UK is serving favicons in some of their “Online Bingo” results...
How To Leverage Rich Media SEO for Small Businesses
I deal with a LOT of local business – Lawyers, Bankruptcy Trustees, Plumbers, Movers… You name it, I’ve probably dealt with someone in that industry...
Internet Marketing Light Bulb Jokes
Why did I write this? I don’t know why. Because I write jokes… and I’m in internet marketing. I thought it would be fun to...
Are Link Requests Dead?
In the era of web 2.0 email is not the only medium to get in contact with a person. People join social media networks, become...
Organization Is the #1 Tip for PPC
When people ask what the best tips are for PPC, they assume the answer is some tool for bid management, trick in writing ads, or...
Google to Axe AdSense for Video Units by End of April
Just over a year since it implemented AdSense for Video, Google announced that it will soon be stopping the said AdSense program by the end...
Google Says Goodbye to 200 Googlers
Despite being an almighty company, Google was not spared by the on-going economic crisis. And no matter how much Google tries to explain that the...
QuarkBase Provides One-Page SEO Analysis
You may want to argue that one-page all-in-one SEO analysis tools giving a quick one-page analysis are useful at all (and I may agree to...
How to Improve Non-US Search Rankings
Looking through my analytics in Google, I begin realizing that I am receiving traffic from other countries around the globe. This led me to think...
3 Document Search Engines to Search for SEO Documentation
A while ago I listed a few ways to find PDF tutorials, and later also shared my collection of SEO cheat sheets which showed that...
Stop Behaving Badly on Social Media!
I’m a noise musician. For those of you not familiar with the genre, that means my band, Grasshopper , caters to a very small audience...
An Interview with David Harry, Sensei of the SEO Dojo
Many know David Harry as the whiz behind Reliable SEO, The SEO Handbook, and the Trail of the Fire Horse at Huomah.com. Knowing I was...
3 Development Trends That Will Impact SEO
As SEOs we are constantly tracking and documenting the latest search trends. However, how often do we pay attention to development trends? In my opinion,...
Want New Ideas and Inspiration? Start a New Project
A few weeks ago Loren announced that we had started a new project – Daily SEO tip, a blog featuring one SEO tip per day....
Live Search Rolls Out Instant and Active Answers
Live Search is rolling out to new features, or should I say two new way of giving users answers to the information that they are...