"SEO" Posts

Google Toys With Ad Placements Before the Holidays

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Leave it to Google to make big sweeping changes just prior to the major holiday shopping season. Not only did they announce 10 algorithm changes, which includes an update that will affect one-third of their queries by adding real-time…

3 Things Google Tells Your Customers—Whether You Like It or Not

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Some of the most important SEO practices are also some of the most obvious. It’s easy to think of things like backlinks, title tags, and crawl errors. But what about when you do a search on Google, for example, and…

The Impact Of Search

A new report issued by McKinsey & Company takes a comprehensive look at search, offering insight into its global impact and economic value.

McKinsey reports that an average U.S. user in 2010 performed about 1,500 searches. Some…

For Better Or Worse, Hubpages Makes The Move To Subdomains

Recently, I received an email from Hubpages.com letting me know that if I failed to migrate my account to a subdomain, it planned to do so automatically. This move reflects Hubpages’ efforts to rebuild its

The Future for Affiliates: Part 2 Leveraging Your Expertise

In Part One I reviewed the challenges facing affiliates and the reality that adaption is the only way to survive. So if you’re an affiliate wondering about your future options, I recommend that you become  your own network/affiliate/OPM/merchant. It’s actually…

BlogWorld Takes Major Leap, Kicks Off Dual-Coast Engagement In NYC

New York City will be playing host this week to bloggers, social media mavens, online broadcasters, and internet business moguls at the largest industry-spanning conference on new media, BlogWorld & New Media Expo.

For BlogWorld this show…

10 Reasons To Outsource (Some) Marketing (6-10)

Previously, we looked at 5 of 10 reasons why you might consider outsourcing some of your marketing to an agency. In that last installment we explored factors such as specialized expertise, bandwidth, outside perspective, education, and R&D as…

Advanced Search Engine Marketers Head To Seattle

SMX Advanced is billed as the only search marketing conference designed exclusively for experienced internet marketers, and is quickly approaching.  The crown jewel of search engine marketing conferences will take place in Seattle on June 7th and 8th and

10 Reasons to Outsource (Some) Marketing (1-5)

All businesses outsource to some degree. Whether it’s their advertising, SEO, or janitorial services, all businesses have vendors that the rely on to provide services that lie beyond their core product/service offering. But marketing is a part of all business…

How To Get Social With SEO (because you have to)

Between Facebook’s expanded deal with Bing and the recent launch of Google’s +1 button, it’s clear that search is becoming more social. So while Facebook isn’t about to take over search