Posted by Aleyda SolisWe live in a multi-device world, and if you're still focused on improving your visibility, traffic, and conversions solely for desktop users, you're losing a great opportunity. This gap, coupled with the fact that you're proba…
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Posted by Dr. PeteData is everywhere, and companies are virtually climbing over each other to give it away. If you’re a data-driven content marketer, data is opportunity, but accessing that data can take some technical know-how. This is a guide…
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Posted by randfishMany owners of established, older pages are facing a similar issue: they've been ranking decently for a keyword for some time, but they want to move into the coveted number one spot. However, older pages don't drive a ton of new p…
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Posted by Zach CorleissenGreetings, Mozfolk! My name is Zach, and I'm a technical writer here at SEOmoz.We've consistently heard from you that Mozscape needs better documentation. I'm pleased to tell you: your requests have been granted! The Moz…
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Posted by JonQThis 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.You could…
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At Google I/O, Google Analytics introduced a new feature that's quite a big deal to Premium Analytics users. Google is now giving Analytics Premium users the ability to use Google BigQuery to crunch their analytics data and other offline data sets.…
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Pinterest has detailed several types of pins that have added information on them, including product pins, recipe pins, and movie pins. But this move is really seen as Pinterest working better with brands who get their products pinned frequently.…
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Google's search market share dropped slightly once again (from March’s 67.1 percent to 66.5 percent), with Bing and Yahoo slightly edging up. Microsoft's Bing saw the biggest increase with a total search market share of 17.3 percent.
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Want to build market share at the expense of your SEO enemy? Use this template to compare and contrast your content strategy and SEO performance with that of your dreaded SEO foe and come up with a way to vanquish them once and for all!
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A new analysis suggests establishing Google authorship has moved past the early adopter stage and those marketers who have not yet established authorship and who are not regularly sharing content on Google+ would be wise to do so.
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Where Have All The Linkers Gone? A unique combination of factors is having a profound effect on the “link graph…
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A unique combination of factors is having a profound effect on the “link graph” being created today, with many implications for those of us in the content publicity/link building field. First and foremost among these factors is the “device effe…
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Microsoft announced the launch of The Bing Ads Traffic Quality Resource Center today, a website designed to give advertisers and publishers visibility into the traffic quality protection systems of the Yahoo! Bing Network. The site includes sections…
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This Gartner report provides: Nine measurement areas your CMO needs to understand Metrics your web analyst can use to inform the CMO Ways to align measurement technology with business needs Download now »Please visit Search Engine Land for the ful…
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The recently released TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away from Keyboard, a documentary that sympathizes with the founders of the infamous file sharing website The Pirate Bay, has become the target of fraudulent link takedown requests from major Hollywoo…
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Google announced a new keyword tool named the Keyword Planner.The tool can be found under the Tools & Analysis tab when you are logged into your Google AdWords account. The tool combines the benefits of the Keyword Tool and the Traffic Estimator…
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The Google Data Highlighter tool, which initially launched in December with support for just marking up pages that had event data...
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Google Now is now more baked into Google Search. For example, if you do a search for [when is fathers day 2013 or other factual dated queries...
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I'm sure you heard the news by now, Yahoo has acquired Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion in cash.Seriously...
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Dear SEJ Contributors & Readers, Thank you for everything you have contributed to SEJ and your participation in our community, comments & social media. We’ve noticed a major trend in our writer bios. About 90% of our bios include exact match links,…
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  Google AdWords can be an incredibly powerful advertising platform. However, trying to manage your account whether big or small can be like going down the rabbit hole. Before long you don’t remember where you came from, you want to optimize for t…
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It just takes one post or tweet to tarnish your business reputation.  One mistake by an otherwise savvy employee and a company can be labeled a social media fail, a dishonor so damaging that it’s not only fodder for the front page and late-night t…
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PENGUIN – AN INTRODUCTION Most of you must be familiar of Google Penguin – believed to be the search engine giant’s latest weapon to counter websites that deliberately violates Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. Since the latest Google update Pen…
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Social media is has become an integral part of Internet marketing. However, most businesses are not using social media to its full potential. Apart from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, which other social media sites are you concentrating on? You shou…
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In spite of Yahoo! accepting revenue guarantees for another year from Microsoft, recently there has been speculation that Yahoo! might want to get out of their search ad deal with Microsoft. I am uncertain if the back channeled story is used as lever…
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Link paranoia is off the scale. As the “unnatural link notifications” fly, the normally jittery SEO industry has moved deep into new territory, of late. I have started to wonder if some of these links (there are hundreds since the site is lar…
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Measuring PPC and SEO is relatively straightforward. But how do we go about credibly measuring social media campaigns, and wider public relations and audience awareness campaigns? As the hype level of social media starts to fall, then more questions…
- 20 days ago, 2 May 13, 12:08pm -

The stock market had a flash crash today after someone hacked the AP account & made a fake announcement about bombs going off at the White House. Recently Twitter's search functionality has grown so inundated with spam that I don't even look at the b…
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Do users find big headlines more relevant? Does using long text lead to more, or less, visitor engagement? Is that latest change to the shopping cart going to make things worse? Are your links just the right shade of blue? If you want to put an end…
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Tips for Blog and Social Media Maintenance While on Vacation? Get Out of Town! was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.Blog and social media maintenance can't fall through the cracks when you go on va…
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How to Build a Google Analytics Tracking Code was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.Google Analytics tracking codes — also know as custom campaigns or UTM codes — are custom tracking parameter…
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How to Make a Graphic-Text Mash-up to Promote Blog Content on Facebook was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.As a community manager and a blogger, I have 2 main needs for images:1. Including them…
- 7 days ago, 15 May 13, 4:55pm -

Studies Reveal SEO Analysts are in High Demand was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.Studies show a 112 percent year-over-year increase in demand for SEO professionals with salaries as high as $94,0…
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How to Create a Thank You Page Call To Action was originally published on BruceClay.com, home of expert search engine optimization tips.If you read the first installment in my two-part "How to Create a Thank You Page That Engages and Converts" series…
- 12 days ago, 9 May 13, 6:33pm -

Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared before a Senate panel Tuesday (May 21) to advocate for a “dramatic simplification of the federal tax code” and to defend against accusations the iPhone maker has been dodging taxes for years. Although the hearing began…
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Microsoft Claims Google Refused to Work Together on YouTube App Microsoft says Google has refused to work with the software giant on developing a YouTube app. The statement came a day ahead of the deadline Google gave Microsoft to halt its distributi…
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You will find more statistics at Statista Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & ResourcesiOS Stagnates as Android Steams AheadPost from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & ResourcesiOS Stagnates as Android Steams Ahead
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Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & ResourcesBlueprint for the Perfect Facebook PostPost from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & ResourcesBlueprint for the Perfect Facebook Post
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If you’re a small business owner, or if you own Web space for any reason, one of the new threats that have no doubt begun to appear on your horizon is the potential of being attacked online. Fortunately for the hackers, not a lot of people understa…
- 2 hours ago, 22 May 13, 4:00am -

We just recently taped a new round of webmaster videos, and I thought this video deserved a full-fledged blog post. This is my rough estimate (as of early May 2013) of what search engine optimizers (SEOs) and webmasters should expect in the next few…
- 9 days ago, 13 May 13, 4:17pm -

This is a “hairball” post you can ignore. However, this post does trace my thinking about how to scale webmaster communication. Part of me wants to start answering questions I get via email by stripping out the identifying information and then re…
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A quick “hairball” post about how sometimes it’s better to just go with the flow. I like how xkcd made this point with a chart of whether it’s worth the time to fix something that’s bugging you. I have a friend who is mechanical engineer. A…
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This is a harmless “hairball” post I had as a draft. Me: Hey, they added me to popurls.com! My wife: Never heard of it. (pause) Had you heard of it before? Me: Yeah. Wife: Really? Me: Yeah! Wife: (with an extra helping of sarcasm) Really? Me: Yes…
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This is the last half-finished “hairball” blog post about USB devices on Linux. I actually did manage to get a working program that controlled a USB foam missile launcher. Unfortunately, I didn’t document all the steps, so this blog post just s…
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We Cannot Manually Change Results . . . But we did.
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Since the majority of people can’t seem to figure out how clickstream data could be used as a Search Engine Ranking Factor, without ever scraping the actual page, I’ll give you a hint.
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Google is scared. They call Bing’s Results “a Cheap imitation”, but the fact is that Bing is now consistently delivering better results.
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How's that old saying go? No publicity is bad publicity.
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Pretty amazing the did that all at once like that: leaving epassporte high and dry.
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by Brian Dean If you're like most start ups, link building is at the bottom of your overflowing to-do list.Fortunately, you don't need a full-time hire or a pricey SEO firm to bring your site the search engine traffic it needs to thrive. In…
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by Chris Warden Local Search Ranking FactorsReview SitesThis is an area that is often overlooked by small businessowners, but its importance can't be understated. One of the main rankingfactors for local lis…
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by Jayson DeMers Volkswagen has embarked on a new bid to capture an evenlarger piece of the pie in the American auto marketplace, and Internetmarketing techniques are playing a big role in that campaign.Let's face it, if your company was fou…
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by Chris Warden Local Search Ranking FactorsGoogle Places ListingOne of the main ranking factors in local search is anoptimized listing using some of Google's own properties, most notably GooglePlaces.Fill out the standard…
- 6 days ago, 15 May 13, 9:13pm -

by Stoney deGeyter I'm convinced that all bloggers are narcissists. Not in the when-I'm-president-I-will-fix-the-world kind of way. Much more subtle than that. But nonetheless, bloggers write expecting people to care about what they write. Remem…
- 6 days ago, 15 May 13, 8:39pm -

Google’s new Data Highlighter for Local Businesses is definitely worth checking out for anyone trying to goose their local rankings.  I have found it to be a bit buggy and it’s a new tool, so proceed with caution.  Here are some basics on how t…
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And in other breaking CitySearch news, Darren Waddell of RadiusIntel just sent me this awesome Google Alert he received this morning: It links to this article from 2007. For all of you marketers recommending that your clients use Google Alerts to mon…
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Today Greg Sterling asked What’s Going On At CityGrid?: “Here’s my paraphrase of some of the things I was told: CityGrid and Citysearch are struggling (to retain and deliver value to advertisers) Citysearch was characterized to me as having los…
- 12 days ago, 9 May 13, 9:52pm -

Today Yext announced Sync, a service that lets you sync a business’ location data to Facebook along with “enhanced” data such as menus, offers, photos and status updates.  While there are plenty of social media management tools that allow you…
- 20 days ago, 2 May 13, 3:36pm -

Danny Sullivan just tweeted that Google is screwing up royally when it comes to searches for “dana point jet ski”: Good job, Google. You ignore HTML title tag, make up your own title instead. Result: misname a harbor as business twitter.com/danny…
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Months ago all the posts on SEOdiva disappeared…at least to me (it seemed to still have some readership). It freaked me out at first, since I’ve had this blog since 2008.However, since my consulting business is keeping me super busy, I decided t…
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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…
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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 h…
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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 hav…
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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…
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If you’ve owned a local business or have been providing Local SEO services to clients for half a decade or more, I’m sure you can recall a time, not long ago, when Merchant Circle had a dominant presence in Google’s first page results for local…
- 56 days ago, 27 Mar 13, 2:36am -

If you own a local business and are investigating ways to utilize the web to promote your company, chances are, you’ve come across discussions of strategies involving city landing pages. First, let’s clarify…   What Are City Landing Pages?  …
- 99 days ago, 12 Feb 13, 2:03am -

The above is a screenshot from our new client’s website, TheOaksDementia.com, a skilled nursing facility caring for Dementia and Alzheimer’s patients in Petaluma, California. So far, we’ve revamped the website and migrated it to WordPress, prov…
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Out with the old year, on with the new, and local business owners like you are asking themselves how they can earn the most visible possible presence in the Google-dominated local search engine results in 2013. Waltzing our way out of a 2012 that was…
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I am just so excited today about the news of the acquisition by SEOmoz of David Mihm’s GetListed.org. I see big things in 2013 for Local SEO as a results of this brilliant acquisition. On a personal level, I am delighted by this news, because I hav…
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As the Web marketing world braces for the onslaught of new Google anti-spam measures newly published research into economics has provided some interesting insights into why the arms race between search engines and Web marketers will never end. We wil…
- 7 days ago, 15 May 13, 12:00pm -

You are offered a position with a great company that pays well, has a fantastic health plan, incredible bonuses and personal time options, and it’s conveniently located close to home so you don’t have to suffer through long commutes in crowded tr…
- 16 days ago, 6 May 13, 12:00pm -

Someone once told me that venture capitalists don’t want to invest in traditional SEO agencies because “SEO doesn’t scale”. If The Wall Street Journal is to be believed, 3 out of 4 start ups (companies seeking venture capital at some point) f…
- 19 days ago, 3 May 13, 12:00pm -

Did you know that the original meaning of oxymoron was “pointedly foolish”? The word’s roots are Greek: oxys “sharp” and moros “stupid”. In search engine marketing, Competitive intelligence is an oxymoron. Competitive intelligence is a…
- 20 days ago, 2 May 13, 12:00pm -

SEO tools are the much beloved First Children of the search engine optimization industry. It’s hard to find someone who doesn’t have a favorite tool, a list of favorite tools, or who doesn’t have some anecdote about some SEO tool. Sooner or lat…
- 23 days ago, 29 Apr 13, 12:00pm -

It has been almost one year since I posted anything here at Frank Thinking. I kind of hated to let it rot on the vine but getting hit by that pharma virus which turned my search results into the seediest of online drug outlets was a bit much for me t…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Firstly I just want to start by saying this is NOT another blog post preaching that simply good content is the answer to guest blog posting, it’s really much more than just that. What I want to talk about is how I’ve seen…
- 9 days ago, 13 May 13, 1:06pm -

Just a small observation this morning in the United Kingdom – if you conduct a search with a “name” + “company name / website” you will get a new similar searches layout in the search results: As you can see…
- 61 days ago, 22 Mar 13, 10:51am -

Hey guys, I’ll be updating some of the highlights from #linklove 2013 during the day: Will Reynolds  There is no finish line when it comes to link building Use your out of office to let people know what you do,…
- 68 days ago, 15 Mar 13, 9:51am -

As the majority of the SEO community now knows and too the now presumably unemployed agency/in-house team of Interflora – advertorials and link networks will cause you great problems in organic search. If you want to read the two best…
- 85 days ago, 26 Feb 13, 10:01am -

So it seems that Google is currently in the process of updating how Google+ brand/business pages are being displayed in the SERPS. Besides the new thumbnails showing the old brand logos has reduced in size and the business description now…
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SEO & PPC: Working Together To Maximize Returns is a post by SEO expert Shay Wright. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.SEO & PPC. Friends or foes? And which one really is more effective i…
- 6 days ago, 16 May 13, 12:01pm -

Why Your Business Should Be On Foursquare Now! is a post by SEO expert Darin Berntson. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.This is not your parents Foursquare. Nor is this another rendition…
- 16 days ago, 6 May 13, 12:03pm -

How Your Small Business Can Find Time For Social Media is a post by SEO expert Matt Nickle. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.The title of this article could also be “How WILL Your Smal…
- 20 days ago, 2 May 13, 12:20pm -

Image Optimization Tips For Online Stores is a post by SEO expert Andrew Johnson. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.Image optimization is an important part of running a successful eComme…
- 22 days ago, 30 Apr 13, 12:30pm -

Prove The Value of SEO With These Free Google Analytics Dashboards is a post by SEO expert Andrew Johnson. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.Every once in a while, you come across a piece…
- 27 days ago, 25 Apr 13, 12:23pm -

I gave a presentation today in South Beach at Interactivity Digital. The presentation below is How to Unleash Your Inner Tiger: How to Succeed in Content Marketing. I also had an article I wrote to support some of the concepts I discussed in the pres…
- 5 days ago, 16 May 13, 6:03pm -

I was inspired to write this article after a great phone conversation with Alan Bleiweiss. Sometimes people forget to say what they appreciate, but they don’t forget to complain. I don’t ever want to be the person that forgets to appreciate. SEOm…
- 71 days ago, 11 Mar 13, 6:26pm -

When a website owner first gets started with SEO they are excited at the prospect of getting their site ranked highly in the search engines.  A common question that SEO client prospects often ask is, “So when can I get to number 1 in Google?” …
- 72 days ago, 11 Mar 13, 1:15pm -

When website owners get into the SEO game they tend to have one goal in mind- to get to the top in a Google search.  While there is obviously value in ranking in the top spot in Google, rank isn’t the only way to measure the success of your effort…
- 100 days ago, 11 Feb 13, 4:33pm -

When looking for information about just about anything, the first place that many people turn to is a search engine, and that search engine is most likely Google.  While it’s important to get your website listed in a prominent place on the SERP (s…
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Over the various updates Facebook has moved from a simple communication tool to something much larger, allowing users to have more control over their accounts. This includes their friends feed, which only shows a certain number of posts from friends…
- 7 days ago, 15 May 13, 2:40pm -

I make a lot of jokes about Bing, I have to admit it. The gist is that it is a wannabe search engine that will never make it as the number one choice. Unfair? Probably, but I would argue that 1) I don’t care, and 2) It is still the truth. Besides,…
- 15 days ago, 7 May 13, 3:15pm -

Social media sites have taken over our lives. It’s hard to even imagine that 10 years ago there was no Facebook or Twitter! 15 years ago people were actually waiting to hear from each other because even email wasn’t that common. How did social me…
- 21 days ago, 1 May 13, 12:50pm -

The two terms sound incredibly similar, which gives the mistaken impression that they must be the same. I see many people getting confused when you are talking about name anchors… “Is this what we need to build links for?”… Ugh, no. The two a…
- 29 days ago, 23 Apr 13, 12:16pm -

Oh, Google…it has grown up so fast. It seems like only yesterday it was a tiny project launched by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It went from a single search engine to the largest internet conglomerate in the world, dominating the web entirely. They…
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