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  • How to Increase the Odds of Your Content Going Viral - Whiteboard Friday
    Posted by randfishHaving content that goes viral can seem like the luck of the draw, but there are a number of steps you can take to improve your odds. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we will show you a few things you can do to increase your chan…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 8:59pm -
  • Are You Wasting Budget With Online Press Release Distribution?
    Posted by Tim GriceThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.The…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 10:04am -
  • Face-off - 4 Ways to De-personalize Google
    Posted by Dr. PeteJust over a week ago, Google launched a massive change to search personalization, Search Plus Your World. Along with this change came a new toggle switch to shut off personalization. Below the Google search box and above the resul…
    - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 7:34pm -
  • Comparing the Top 4 Retargeting Companies
    Posted by JoannaLordFor the past year retargeting has been getting some serious attention. I've been fortunate enough to speak on it at a variety of shows, brainstorm over coffee with some cool companies and even blog about how to use it and how to…
    - 4 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 9:23pm -
  • Video Sitemap Guide for Vimeo and YouTube
    Posted by jhammackThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.Video…
    - 4 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 10:26am -

Search Engine Watch

  • Google Maps Adds Emergency Alerts
    If a major storm is headed you way, Google wants to be your information guide. The Google Crisis Response team is looking to be your go to information source on when a storm will strike, how bad will it be, and what resources are available to help.…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:00pm -
  • Con Artist Shares Inside Story of Google Pharmacy Ad Sting
    In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, career con man David Whitaker spilled the beans on his experience as undercover operative Jason Corriente, an agent for wealthy clients seeking online ads. The sting led to a $500 million forfeiture for Google.…
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:00pm -
  • Measuring ROI: How to Collect Meaningful PPC Conversion Data
    Learn how you can track and collect significant conversion data and then bring it all together in one dashboard. Use these three levels of conversion data tracking that vary in terms of pros/cons, costs, effectiveness, and sophistication.
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:00pm -
  • SEO Chicks Competition - Win a ticket to SES London!
    SEO Chicks have launched a competition for the next generation of search marketers. Have you been in SEO less than a year or have a desire to join the industry? If so, this is the competition for you. Here is your chance to win a ticket to SES London…
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 12:00pm -
  • 7 Steps to Prepare For the Search Alliance in the UK
    After a year’s delay, Microsoft adCenter will start to power the PPC results on Yahoo UK in Q2 of 2012. Discussion of its potential for success aside, here are some useful links and an action plan for preparing UK paid search campaigns.
    - 1 day ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:00am -

Search Engine Land

  • New!Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time
    Two weeks ago, Google launched Search Plus Your World. Since then, Google has faced strong criticisms that SPYW is making its search relevancy worse and favoring its Google+ social network too much. Not so, says Google search chief Amit Singhal. Mo…
    - 8 hours ago, 28 Jan 12, 5:11am -
  • Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users
    Bing is reportedly now out of betaphase in Deutschland. According to Microsoft, Bing has 10 million users or 20 percent of active internet users in Germany: Mittlerweile benutzen fast 10 Millionen Nutzer in Deutschland regelmäßig Bing, das sind 20…
    - 14 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 10:27pm -
  • SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 27, 2012
    Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search In Pics: David Beckham At Google, Google’s Moscow Office & Bing Bar In this week’s Search In Pictures,…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:58pm -
  • Mobile Search: The Agency Opportunity – SMN Tuesday, Jan. 31
    Search Marketing Now will present “Mobile Search: The Agency Opportunity,” on Tuesday, January 31 at 1 PM EST. The free webcast features Steven Schuler and Patrick Peters, both from Yahoo!’s mobile division. They’ll give an overview of the cu…
    - 15 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 9:57pm -
  • Search In Pics: David Beckham At Google, Google’s Moscow Office & Bing Bar
    In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. David Beckham At Google: Googl…
    - 21 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:14pm -

Search Engine Roundtable

Search Engine Journal

  • Tips on How to Help Uninteresting Pages Rank Better
    The following video was done by Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz. He has some fantastic tips on how you can help the boring pages of your site rank better. Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournalFollow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal
    - 17 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 7:30pm -
  • Industry Discussion: The True Nature of Social Media ROI
    There is a common misconception about the return on investment (ROI) via social media. For reasons most of us do not understand, Social Media has been classified primarily as a marketing tool by many. Because of this misconception at the foundation o…
    - 19 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 6:04pm -
  • Want More Clicks on Twitter?
    The following infographic is by Dan Zarrella of HubSpot. This IG a lot of great recommendations if you are looking to increase your clicks on Twitter. I especially liked the suggestions on using words correctly and the use of action words. I guess I…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 5:00pm -
  • Top 10 Reasons Your Facebook Campaign Isn’t Working
    To most PPC marketers, the Facebook paid ads program represents an ideal marketing opportunity. Finally, you aren’t limited to targeting your ads based on geographic location and time of day alone (I’m looking at you, Google Adwords!). In fact, i…
    - 23 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 2:00pm -
  • Google Plus Promotes Network and New Security Features to Young Teens and Parents
    On Thursday afternoon, Google+ announced that the rapidly growing social network is now available to teens ages 13 and up. Although minors can sign up for and use Google+, the social network also introduced new privacy and security changes designed t…
    - 24 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:00pm -

Seo Book

  • The Future of SEO Campaigns with Jon Henshaw & Taylor Pratt from Raven
    Here is the audio if you'd prefer to listen :) Play File (mp3 link)Eric: All right, this is Eric over here at SEO Book and today I'm fortunate enough to be joined by Taylor Pratt and Jon Henshaw from Raven SEO Tools, thanks for joining us today gu…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 6:50pm -
  • From AdSense to SpamSense to Spam Cents
    Google announced they rolled out their anti-overly-aggressive-ads algorithm. They didn't give a specific % on how much of the above the fold content can be ads, but suggest using their browser preview tool. Using that tool on Google.com's search resu…
    - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 12:57pm -
  • Is Google Selling Investors Private Search Data?
    This is an interesting play:BBVA, Spain’s second-largest bank by assets, is teaming up with Google to use its search engine results to provide advanced forecasts of hotel and tourism demand in the country, part of a plan to market real-time econom…
    - 10 days ago, 18 Jan 12, 1:29pm -
  • Was Google Caught in a Sting Operation in Kenya?
    Wow...this is pretty...um...transparent.According to this post, Google was caught scraping Mocality, calling the listed businesses, soliciting that they move to Google "Get Your Business Online", disparaged the directory they were scraping in the cl…
    - 15 days ago, 13 Jan 12, 1:04pm -
  • Scalable Link Outreach with Gmail and Boomerang
    Sometimes it's the little things in life....Boomerang for Gmail (and Outlook) is an incredibly useful, lightweight, powerful link outreach app.Link building has a special place in the SEO industry. Beyond being one of the harder skill-sets to maste…
    - 18 days ago, 10 Jan 12, 9:42pm -

Bruce Clay Blog

  • 16 SEM Predictions, Understand Search + Your World, Guide to Google’s Freshness Score
    16 SEM Predictions, Understand Search + Your World, Guide to Google’s Freshness Score was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.Our first newsletter of 2012 is packed with search marketing goodness, a…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 8:34pm -
  • 3 Reasons to Always Have Structured URLs
    3 Reasons to Always Have Structured URLs was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.Since the flat site architecture concept appeared on the SEO horizon and gained some traction around 2010, many SEO con…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 7:39pm -
  • 10 Biggest Facebook Marketing Mistakes of 2011
    10 Biggest Facebook Marketing Mistakes of 2011 was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.Welcome to 2012. It may rock for you, especially if you don’t make the same social media mistakes people did in…
    - 17 days ago, 11 Jan 12, 7:41pm -
  • Google Caught Buying Links: Bruce Clay’s Analysis
    Google Caught Buying Links: Bruce Clay’s Analysis was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.Hate to say I told you so... scratch that. This time it feels good.Last month we let you in on the new dir…
    - 18 days ago, 10 Jan 12, 12:56am -
  • How to Choose Social Media Share Buttons
    How to Choose Social Media Share Buttons was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.Social share buttons are a great way to spread the content you have deeper into networks across the Web – but which s…
    - 22 days ago, 6 Jan 12, 11:32pm -

Google Inside

  • Attribution module coming for Google Analytics Premium
    Google has created a new attribution modeling module for its Google Premium Analytics package. The module is in alpha now and will be coming to customers who pay the $150,000 annual pricetage for the Premium Analytics service soon. Attribution modeli…
    - , 15 Oct 11, 6:42pm -
  • Gumby on the Google homepage
    Todays Google Doodle honors the late late clay-animation artist Art Clokey with an interactive Google Doodle of Gumby & Friends. Art Clokey was a early pioneer in stop motion clay animation. This Doodle is similar to the tribute that Google paid to J…
    - , 13 Oct 11, 1:03am -
  • Google TV vs. Apple TV
    Apple TV is reportedly preparing itself for battle with Google TV by chasing the subscription model. This will be one of the biggest tests that Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook will face in upcoming months as Google isn’t going to wait for Apple to grip…
    - , 27 Aug 11, 11:36am -
  • A Closer Look at the Google-Motorola Deal
    As with any tech industry merger, Google’s recent acquisition of smartphone-producer Motorola Mobility came to fruition for a number of reasons benefiting the participants.  The deal also should not be considered too much of a surprise, since Moto…
    - , 26 Aug 11, 6:16am -
  • ‘Space Life’ by Doodle 4 Google Contest Winner Matteo Lopez
    Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists. Whether it is the beginning of Spring, Albert Einstein’s birthday, or the 50th annive…
    - , 21 May 11, 10:26am -

Matt Cutts Blog

  • It’s time to stop PROTECT IP
    A couple months ago, I wrote this about SOPA: SOPA galvanized the tech community, from start-ups to venture capitalists to the largest web companies. SOPA was an unexpected shock and a wake-up call. Well, guess what? Now the internet is awake. And I…
    - 10 days ago, 18 Jan 12, 12:47pm -
  • Sharing a search story
    I’ve been reading a lot of the coverage of the Search plus Your World launch and I wanted to share my story and then clarify something. I love to stay up until early in the morning playing Werewolf. In early December I went to a journalism conferen…
    - 17 days ago, 11 Jan 12, 8:20am -
  • Larry Lessig on the corrupting influence of money
    Larry Lessig has a new book called Republic, Lost which discusses the corrupting influence of money on politics. I would highly recommend the book, because it gets to the heart of why things so many things in Washington, D.C. seem broken today and ho…
    - 46 days ago, 13 Dec 11, 9:37pm -
  • Beware of fake Matts leaving comments
    A lot of the time, I dispel misconceptions by leaving comments on blogs. That works great, except for the rare occasion when someone pretends to be me and leaves a rude, fake, or otherwise untrue blog comment. Over the previous decade, I’ve only se…
    - 47 days ago, 12 Dec 11, 1:20am -
  • Progress against SOPA
    When I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week, things looked quite grim. The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few days. If you’re not familiar with SOPA (and the PROTECT IP A…
    - 68 days ago, 21 Nov 11, 4:01pm -

SEO BlackHat

Search Engine Guide

  • The Shady Practice Of Spinning Articles To Avoid Duplicate Content Penalties
    by Miriam Ellis If you've been walking on the sunny side of a clean street on your Search Marketing journey, hopefully you've skipped right past that dark and narrow alleyway in which lurks the spin monster. The practice of 'spinning' articles f…
    - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 10:33pm -
  • Don't Waste Time Looking at Web Data Until You Do This
    by Mike Fleming ...life is about taking action, and if your work is not driving action, you need to stop and reboot...hits and pageviews don't mean anything except that someone came to your site and consumed some content...metrics are a dime…
    - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 8:21pm -
  • The Difference between Good SEO and Great SEO
    by Stoney deGeyter Designing a great looking website is good. Putting it on a strong information architecture is better.Rolling out a newly optimized website is good. Checking it first is better.Investing in SEO is good. Investing in ROI is…
    - 10 days ago, 18 Jan 12, 3:56pm -
  • Where You Should Invest Your Web Marketing Budget
    by Mike Fleming ...the bottom line for magnificent success is the people...invest multiple times more in her or him, or more of them, if you truly want to take action on your data. Otherwise, you are simply data rich and information poor...a…
    - 12 days ago, 17 Jan 12, 12:46am -
  • Editing: Is social media realtime or permanent?
    by Mike Moran As social media has (somewhat) matured, an interesting culture has grown up around the idea of editing social media content. And for reasons that I don't understand, it isn't one culture--it seems as though every kind of social med…
    - 15 days ago, 13 Jan 12, 8:42pm -

Local SEO Guide

  • The Power of SEO for Startups
    I’ve been spending a lot of time talking about Google+ and sometimes it’s nice to remind myself that good old-fashioned meat-and-potatoes SEO still works, and can be critical to start-ups trying to break into a market.  To wit, here’s the orga…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:58pm -
  • How To Get +1s For Your Local Business
    And while I’m on the subject, Stever has a great post up on some tips for Encouraging Google +1 Votes for Local Business Websites. Key point for unsuspecting SMBs to take note of: “Forget the new schemes popping up to buy hundreds of plus 1 votes…
    - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 7:15pm -
  • Google+ Needs Tight Local Networks To Succeed
    SearchEngineLand just published Google Plus Connections Are The New Link, some thoughts of mine on how local search co’s and SMBs may try to leverage Google Search Plus Your World to improve local SEO. After rereading it, it seems clear that as mor…
    - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 4:53pm -
  • Google Results Suck? Try Google Plus?
      I don’t recall seeing these little prompts in the search results before.
    - 8 days ago, 20 Jan 12, 10:41pm -
  • Google Plus SEO Jujitsu
      A few years ago on these august pages I did a post on Reputation Management Jujitsu as a way of obtaining links by saying nice things about companies with poor online reputations. The idea being that these companies are eager to link to blogs sayi…
    - 10 days ago, 18 Jan 12, 5:28pm -

SEO Diva

  • Is Your Site Liable for Copyright Infringement?
    There is a new bill in Congress called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that would rock the Internet – and not in a good way.The initial intent of the bill sounds okay…stop illegal sharing of music, movies and games. Unfortunately it could als…
    - 60 days ago, 29 Nov 11, 7:35pm -
  • 8 SEO Tips in a Panda World
    In this Panda world I’ve been taking courses and doing some serious research and study on how to get/keep top Google rankings.SEO has changed a lot, although some things never change – good onsite optimization means you don’t have to worry ab…
    - 69 days ago, 20 Nov 11, 5:13pm -
  • Get Backlinks That Are Automated, Relevant and Panda Friendly
    We all work hard to get backlinks to our sites, in fact, it’s probably the most time consuming job we all have to perform to help our websites succeed.Here’s a heads-up on a link building WordPress plugin that I’ve been using and have seen gre…
    - , 14 Sep 11, 8:36pm -
  • Is Your Site Pretty to Search Engines?
    Pretty is as pretty does. Some websites are quite beautiful to look at, but because of bloated coding, confused navigation, lack of applied SEO principles, corporate-speak in the content, and so on, they’re not at all pretty to search engines.Word…
    - , 12 Jul 11, 5:12pm -
  • Google Analytics–Free Video Today Only
    Get a $99 series of videos for FREE today, July 11, 2011.You’ll get help understanding Google Analytics and which metrics you need to pay attention to. Taught by a leading analytics specialist, the concepts and steps are explained in easy to und…
    - , 11 Jul 11, 6:06pm -

SEO Igloo

  • How To Spin An Article And Why You Shouldn’t
    A few months ago, I was repeatedly solicited by a relatively visible Internet Marketing firm that was trying to hook me up with some type of program. I declined the offer, but an acquaintance ending up hiring this firm to undertake an SEO campaign fo…
    - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 11:56pm -
  • My Second Article About Best Buy In 3 Years
    Do you remember these guys? The guys who ran your town’s computer store in 1980? The above graphic is pulled from my original post on this topic: Best Buy Brings On Crashing Wave Of Nostalgia. In that piece, I compared my fondly-remembered formativ…
    - 22 days ago, 6 Jan 12, 6:55am -
  • What Solas Web Design Can Do For You In 2012
    Will 2012 be the year you take your business online or make important efforts to increase the visibility of your company on the web? Partner with Solas Web Design to get the job done right! 2011 has had more than its share of reporting on economic il…
    - 28 days ago, 31 Dec 11, 10:23pm -
  • Adding multiple business locations to HotFrog.com
    A quick tip for Local SEOs and local business owners today! If your business has more than one physical location, you’ll be adding each location separately to most local business directories. Some, like Google Places, allow you to create a main acc…
    - 43 days ago, 17 Dec 11, 12:35am -
  • Getting A Negative Review Removed From Google Places – Your Chances
    Back in October, I wrote a piece at Search Engine Guide covering the issue of the Google Place Page of Max’s Deli in Birmingham, AL being spammed with several pages full of negative reviews. These reviews clearly violated Google’s Review Quality…
    - 46 days ago, 14 Dec 11, 12:00am -

SEO Theory

  • How the Anti-SOPA Message Tricked So Many People So Quickly
    The principles we use for establishing Brand Value or stimulating the Perception of Brand Value are best described in terms of Propaganda Theory, which holds that a message is conveyed to an audience for the purpose of shaping the audience’s respon…
    - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 4:00pm -
  • Coping With Link Viscosity Inflow and Outflow
    Link viscosity is the resistance of a linking Web page to change which results in the removal of an outbound link from the page. What does that mean? — Link Viscosity is an expression I use to describe the tendency of a page to change its content o…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 4:00pm -
  • How To Stop Scraper Sites Dead in Their Tracks
    So you’re tired of complaining to Google about scraper sites and want to see some action taken against them? Say good-bye to the only means you would have had to compel Google to actually stop PAYING SCRAPERS TO STEAL YOUR CONTENT AND USE IT FOR TH…
    - 9 days ago, 19 Jan 12, 2:34am -
  • How To Kick-start an SEO Campaign
    There are certain things many people (and companies) are reluctant (or unable) to do with their Websites. Stopping in mid-campaign and starting over from scratch is one of those impossible tasks that people typically reject out of hand. I cannot begi…
    - 10 days ago, 18 Jan 12, 4:00pm -
  • Consumer Intent Modeling
    A great way to build and expand on a keyword strategy is to use Consumer Intent Modeling. The concept of consumer intent modeling is not really new but it is unique to many small to midsized companies. Essentially understanding consumer intent means…
    - 16 days ago, 12 Jan 12, 4:00pm -

Frank Thinking

  • No Score and Two Months Ago …….
    A little over two months ago is when I last posted here at Frank Thinking. It’s not that I don’t care about the blog any more. It is however a matter of time. Time that I have precious little of (that and a rather unpleasant encounter with unsavo…
    - , 5 Jul 11, 2:59pm -
  • A Frank Thinking Update
    Hello it’s me. It’s been a while hasn’t it? Why? Well, I’ll be honest. I got a little tired of the whole Frank Thinking thing. I have spent several years posting here with VERY moderate success and it has been wearing on me for a little bit s…
    - , 28 Apr 11, 11:37am -
  • Bridging the Gap Between SMB and Geek
    I think we are at an impasse of sorts these days. There is a tremendous push and desire to get the SMB (small and medium business) market more involved in the online space. Of course, it would be fun to think that it is because there is great concern…
    - , 21 Mar 11, 7:15pm -
  • Spam Guarantee
    I know we all get these messages somewhere but I just figured I’d share one that pretty much says it all. Phil Garcia philgarcia.231@gmail.com Message: At no cost to you, we’ll get you to the top of Google within 48 hours. My company specializes…
    - , 17 Mar 11, 6:10pm -
  • Twitter History Ken Burns Style (WARNING: NSFW or KIDS)
    The video is very funny. There is one section with F-bombs though. It makes the point but at the same time it wasn’t necessary but, hey, it’s the Internet so enjoy. Twitter Celebrates its 5th Anniversary – watch more funny videos
    - , 17 Mar 11, 1:03pm -

Zyas

  • Linking to a Specific Part of a Video
    A few days back Matt Cutts explained how to link to a specific part of a video. I found this little innovation pretty useful as it allows you to actually deeplink to a certain minute and second of a video or point someone else just to a specific sequ…
    - , 10 Mar 09, 8:06am -
  • Are Google Maps Spam Attractors?
    There is no disputing the fact that Google maps can be very useful, especially if you are new to an area and are trying to find your way around. Google’s latest update on their longtitude and latitude is good, but it is so encompassing that it pull…
    - , 23 Feb 09, 1:56am -
  • $20 Million in Funding – What Recession?
    Over the last twelve months or so we’ve seen banks being bailed out by Governments, and workers losing their jobs and their pay packets. In the present financial crisis although it makes a change to hear that someone is profiting and doing well, yo…
    - , 18 Feb 09, 3:27am -
  • The Popularity of YouTube
    YouTube is becoming increasingly popular with bloggers, and for good reason, YouTube is the fourth largest web property and the second largest search engine. What this means for bloggers and webmasters alike is that they have to get their videos rank…
    - , 16 Feb 09, 12:02am -
  • Google’s Friend Connect
    Google has come up with a new social bar that allows users to keep all their friend connection gadgets in one place. The friend connect social bar is a new tool bar that goes across the top of your website. The bar has a comments section, a list of s…
    - , 14 Feb 09, 12:19am -

SEO Unique

  • Google Places Update
    Looks like Google has been busy updating Google Places and their integration into organic search results. So what’s changed in the search results? (click on the image to expand) You can see there are new pins being displayed in the organic search r…
    - 86 days ago, 3 Nov 11, 6:09pm -
  • Video Thumbnails in Google
    Thumbnails in Google SERPS for images and videos is something that has been used by SEO’s for a number of years to help improve click through rates. The gradual evolution of the Google landscape is constantly changing and this morning I noticed v…
    - 86 days ago, 3 Nov 11, 1:25pm -
  • Google Changing Brand Results in SERPS (again)?
    There’s been a lot of talk over the last month or so on mega sitelinks however I noticed something different in the SERPs today. When I typed in my blog name “seounique” in Google I saw underneath the 6 extended sitelinks an extra site result.…
    - , 29 Sep 11, 9:58am -
  • High Bounce Rates? – Now Google Offers to Block Your Site
    I noticed something new in Google (or at least I’ve never seen it before) – next to the “Cached” link on a domain there’s seems to be a link displaying “Block all content www.domain.com results“. See the screen grab below with the links…
    - , 14 Sep 11, 8:19am -
  • Why Doesn’t Google Penalise Paid Links in the UK?
    Ok, so the title of this blog post may be a bit controversial as “in theory” Google should be out there using it’s extremely complex algorithm to crack down on those websites buying links and page rank to achieve better organic rankings in Goog…
    - , 6 Sep 11, 9:22am -

SEO.com Blog

  • Beyond Keyword Research: Why You Should Be Looking At Consumer Behavior
    Although it is important to consider ROI when developing a search marketing strategy, there are many other factors you should consider for long term success of a business. Typically in an SEO campaign, your first and most critical step is keyword res…
    - 20 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 4:30pm -
  • How To Successfully Pitch A Blogger For A Guest Post
    One of the most important ways to enhance your link portfolio is through guest blog posts. Finding a relevant blog with an engaged audience can be a daunting task, but the return on investment is potentially significant. There are hundreds of thousan…
    - 2 days ago, 26 Jan 12, 4:30pm -
  • Explode Your Keyword List Right – Part 3
    For today’s keyword expansion process we will again be using Google Webmaster Tools. The idea will be the marrying of two keyword reports provided within the tool: top queries and top relevant phrases. When going through this process, it is essenti…
    - 3 days ago, 25 Jan 12, 5:18pm -
  • Small Businesses: Does Your Communication Style Match Your Customers?
    Over the last several months, I’ve had the need to reach out to local businesses that perform a variety of home services.  Some of the interactions were very pleasant while some were horrendous, making me question how this person’s company was s…
    - 4 days ago, 24 Jan 12, 4:45pm -
  • 14 Tips to Get the Most Out of Blogging
    Blogging is a great way to increase traffic to a website and help you rank better in the search engines.  When I suggest implementing a blog to clients, there is frequently some degree of skepticism and push-back on the importance and effectiveness…
    - 5 days ago, 23 Jan 12, 4:05pm -

SEO Aware

  • Sharing What Has Changed My Life in a Massive Way
    My life has changed a lot in the last two years. Work is great, but on a personal level I have encountered something that has changed my life in a massive way. A lot of people know me in this industry. I can be fun and goofy and I love people. What p…
    - 31 days ago, 28 Dec 11, 8:44pm -
  • If I buy AdWords, will that cause my algorithmic search rankings to rise?
    Google’s Matt Cutts discusses a very common myth I hear often, which is that if you pay for AdWords your site will do better in the rankings.
    - 32 days ago, 27 Dec 11, 7:10pm -
  • ZAGG Giving Away an iPad 2 Every Hour on Black Friday
    ZAGG  offers a variety of iPad / iPhone / iPod accessories, cases and skins. About the contest,  ”On Black Friday, November 25, 2011, starting at midnight (MST), we’ll be giving away an iPad 2 every hour. 24 iPad 2s over 24 hours. Each hour is…
    - 70 days ago, 19 Nov 11, 2:43pm -
  • 6 Ways to Give Back to Your Clients this Holiday Season
    Good clients are a blessing and they do pay us a great deal of money. I think it is a good idea to let clients know you are thinking about them during the holidays, but as we all know choosing a gift can be hard. Here are some inexpensive ideas that…
    - 74 days ago, 15 Nov 11, 11:12pm -
  • Looking for a Job? Have you tried #Job
    We all hear about the massive amount of unemployment in the United States and other countries everyday. I have had many people tell me they have searched job sites on the net and had no luck. Tonight I used the hashtag #jobs and have watched the stre…
    - 92 days ago, 28 Oct 11, 3:37am -

SEO Chat

  • Feed Your Blog`s Readers Well
    What do a great cook and a great blogger have in common? A lot more than you might think. So grab a quick snack and keep reading for an explanation you can really sink your teeth into.
    - 24 hours ago, 27 Jan 12, 1:00pm -
  • Google Simplifies Its Privacy Policies
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