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Google’s Matt Cutts Explains Fetch as Googlebot in “Submit to Index via Google Webmaster Tools”
Matt explains this newer feature and tells you about all the options you have with Fetch as Googlebot.
13 Unconventional Link Building Strategies
Need to build links to your websites in order to increase your traffic and improve your rankings? Well, there’s article marketing, social bookmarking, and –...
Facebook Launches Verified Accounts: Nicknames and Pseudonyms Now Allowed
Facebook, which has been built on the premise of people using their birth names rather than pseudonyms, will soon allow prominent public figures and celebrities...
Why Yellow Pages Will Be Dead in Five Years
Let me start of by saying that I do have a Yellow Pages listing for my SEO company, Brick Marketing. It costs me about $50...
Pinterest: Covert Affiliate Link Scheme Exposed
Although nearly every start-up and fledgling company battles to find new ways to monetize its users, Pinterest appears to have been secretly capitalizing on its...
E-Commerce Spending Reaches Record Breaking Levels in 2011
For the ninth consecutive quarter, the fourth quarter of 2011 achieved strong year-over-year growth in online retail spending. The recent report, which was released by...
Matt Cutts Explains How SafeSearch Works
Google’s Matt Cutts answers a question about how SafeSearch works. The link Matt mentions is below the video. If you’re a website owner and you...
Google Blogger URL Redirects Censor International Users
When Twitter announced they were instituting a new censorship policy, the micro-blogging platform faced an immediate and severe backlash from the majority of the web...
How To Get Hired At A Top SEO Agency Part 4: What Not to Do in An Interview
See Part 1 and Part 2: What most applicants are lacking and Part 3: Rocking The Interview. The last question I asked our panel of...
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Pinterest the Referral Giant: New Site Driving More Traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn Combined [INFOGRAPHIC]
In addition to recently winning the Crunchie for Best New Startup of 2011, a new study by shareaholic is now indicating that Pinterest is driving...
How To Get Hired At A Top SEO Agency Part 3: Rocking The Interview
You did it! You got an interview at the SEO agency of your dreams! Since you’ve started reading this series you now know the main...
Optimizing for Search Engines: By Language or By Country?
When it comes to targeting search engines to reach international markets, we’re going to have to do things a little differently. As we expand our...
Google Exposed: Federal Government Used Con Man in Google Sting Operation
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article that provides additional details of last year’s sting operation against Google AdWords. The federal investigation, which alleged...
Interview with Ryan Jones: Big Brand SEO, Social Media & More
Can You Tell Us About Your Current Job? I’m the Senior Search Strategist at Team Detroit. We’re a full service agency owned by WPP. I...
Opinion – Why Gowalla Shut Shop and How Facebook Profits From its Acquisition
Two years ago two location sharing services targeting the mobile platform, emerged on the scene – Gowalla and Foursquare. Both were touted to become the...
Sesame Seeds and SEO
“Why are our hamburgers square? Because we don’t cut corners.” – Dave Thomas A long time ago I did an article on my personal blog...
The EPIC Complaint Against Google’s New Search Plus
Thursday afternoon, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that requested regulators investigate Google’s “Search plus Your...
Do Stock Images Affect Trust?
We have a running joke in our offices about clip art and stock photo. One in particular image continues to populate sites all across the...
Interview with the Chris Boggs, President of SEMPO
I interviewed the Chris Boggs via telephone and it was a very exciting geek-like conversation. We discussed SEMPO and upcoming conferences where you can see...
Interview with Scott Cowley on SEO, Company Support and More
Scott Cowley is the in-house, SEO ninja at ZAGG. He is very smart, very funny and a real genuine person. I asked on Twitter what...
Interview with Annie Cushing on Google Analytics
Annie Cushing is the Director of Analytics for BlueGlass. She is the analytics ninja to listen to and follow on a Twitter. She also offers...
Google Chrome Penalized for Violating Quality Guidelines
When Google recently hired two top marketing agencies to promote the Chrome web browser using video content, Google assumed that the promotion would be conducted...
What the SEF is Your SEO Doing?
I’ve worked with a number of website designers and developers over the years, many of them good people with a plethora of skills I couldn’t...
Interview #1 with Joanna Lord for PPC Beginners
Joanna Lord is the Director of Customer Acquisition at SEOmoz.org, a leading SEO software company out of Seattle, WA. While she currently heads up SEOmoz’s...
Interview with SEO Book’s Aaron Wall to Discuss Google and Future of SEO
Aaron Wall, an SEO consultant, book author, blogger, and the founder/owner of SEO Book, joins us today to discuss the future of SEO. Search Engine...
How Does Google Use Quality Raters?
There’s been a lot of fearmongering talk lately about Google’s human quality raters and just exactly what they’re used for and how their ratings are...
Challenges of Enterprise Search
I have spent the better part of my career dealing with enterprise level issues (both working in one and being an outside consultant). While some...
3 Ways a Group Interview Can Boost Your Blog
Interviews with experts or industry “celebrities” are a staple on business blogs, but the group interview – asking multiple experts the same question or set...
Learn About Cloaking From Google’s Matt Cutts [Video]
Matt says he wanted to create the definitive cloaking video; I think this is a great educational video. You can learn more about cloaking in...
Adobe Invests in Facebook Ad Buying with Acquisition of Efficient Frontier
Early this morning, Adobe announced that it has entered an agreement to purchase Efficient Frontier, which will become part of Adobe’s Digital Marketing Suite. Efficient...