Are traffic spikes causing online stores becoming a victim of their own successes? That seems to be the conclusion of a survey that Gomez, a web performance company, is touting.

Now before we add two and two together and get four,…

Although the Google Caffeine algorithm still isn’t live, it was scheduled to be released sometime after the holidays; with the holidays long behind us, a lot of search marketers are wondering what they can do to prepare for the new…

Purveyors of malware and BlackHat SEO’s have been pulling in a great deal of headlines lately. It seems anytime something makes the news, there is a report of illegitimate web sites targeting keywords associated with the story to draw visitors…

It’s interesting what the words SEO is dead can do. Such a simple statement causes armies to rise up on both sides ready to do verbal battle on their blogs and forums. But is SEO really dead? A simple search for…

In a recent post I commented on how I believe that Kapersky Labs is wrong when they claim that the amount of fake anti-virus software will decline in the upcoming year. Malicious hackers show no signs of leaving behind the BlackHat…

I have been working in, and writing about, web site security for some time now and I never really made the connection between good security and search engine optimizations until just recently. On accident, I had left the term “Security”…

The nofollow tag was created to help fight spam, but then SEOs found a way to exploit it to their advantage. Until about a year ago, it was actually being used to sculpt Page Rank (PR). Even though you can’t use it…

As a former business newspaper reporter, my work used to consist of bashing out news articles on a regularly scheduled basis. If an article did not pass the “content filter”, AKA news editor, it ended up in the trash. Outcome:…

Link building. To some, these two words represent a confusing, time-consuming, never-ending process yet to produce any tangible results. And understandably so; after all, link building can be all of these things–especially if you’re making some common mistakes.  Take a…

As a freelance copywriter, the majority of the work I do is SEO content writing. In doing so, I deal with a lot of clients who have specific demands for their copy. One request that keeps popping up is to…