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The 4 Biggest Keyword Research Mistakes
Keyword research is no rocket science, but many webmasters still struggle with it. If you analyze the pattern, however, you’ll see that most keyword research...
Tangential Relevance and Link Building
Tangential relevance is the idea of something being related to a topic in an indirect manner. I feel like Tony Robbins using that term, but...
Yahoo! Search Suggestions Now Localized
Yahoo! recently announced that they are making search more intuitive by taking a users location into consideration when suggesting search queries. Yahoo! Search Assist helps...
Google Places Removes Yelp Reviews From Search Results
As of right now, Google has removed all Yelp reviews from its Places feature. Even though the local reviews website’s snippets will no longer be...
Yahoo’s Results Now Officially Come From Bing
Just last week Yahoo announced that it had started transitioning it’s back-end technology in the U.S. and Canada (English) for Yahoo! Search over to the...
The Psychology of SEO
How far can you take a web site using SEO? On the surface, that depends solely on your ability to implement strategies and tactics to...
Tumblr Takes a Fall in Google Search Rankings
Blogs. Almost everyone has one (or in my case, three or four), follows one, or wants to create one. With the exception of a select...
10 Steps to Website Globalization
There are now approximately 1.8 billion users throughout the world. They are located in many countries and speak multiple languages. Many of them could be...
Adding Infographic to Your Link Profile
Link builders have been telling you to add all sorts of links to your link profile, from straightforward text links in content to image links,...
Internet Marketing Interviews Galore
Some of the best tips, tricks, strategies, and tactics on the Web come from experts giving away great information in interviews. It is far more...
Don’t Put the Cart Before the SEO Horse
A lot of people like to dive into things without having a plan and strategy in place. SEO and Internet Marketing is no different. There...
What Makes a Good SEO Proposal?
I work as an in-house SEO for a company that has a good-sized website, just over 150,000 pages and growing. I’m one of few people...
Google Rolls Out New Search History Feature
Google has just rolled the new search history feature for US Google users. Nothing big here, just a small enhancement but could be pretty useful...
The Three Step Process to Effective Multilingual Keywords
While it is often regarded as the lingua franca of the internet, English is not quite the dominant online force many imagine it to be....
Google dynamic linking
One strange and creepy patent Imagine if you had a program that would automatically go through the posts on your site/blog and automatically find concepts...
The Thinning Line Between SEO and Social Media
I’ve been doing SEO for as long as I can remember. I rarely stop to look at the distance I’ve made since I started; more...
Google Places Police
Google has plans to dominate the search world but you are only welcome if you start paying for your local search traffic!
Primal: Semantically Driven Keyword Research and Brainstorming Assistant
Primal is a new interesting semantic search assistant that has drawn my attention due to keyword-research potential. It is being promoted as the tool that...
How to Avoid Being Google Slapped
Photo src If you’re an AdWords advertiser, chances are you’ve heard the expression “Google slap.” Maybe you’ve even known someone who has been Google slapped...
The Foundation Of A Successful SEO Campaign: Keyword Research
Yep, it’s true – keywords are the foundation of your campaign and they will make or break your success. If your phrases are all way...
Google Refreshes Image Search with More Images
Google is set to revamp the overall interface of its Image Search vertical. According a post on the Official Google blog, the new Google Image...
How to Get 10,000% More Backlinks in Google, Without Doing Anything
That’s not a typo. You can actually get 10,000% more backlinks in Google, simply by doing nothing. That’s the jittery reality of Google Caffeine, the new...
Foursquare – A Marketing Channel Not A Campaign
It was interesting to see this question (below) asked as a comment to a recent article on Foursquare that I was reading. “I need to...
How to Compare Google Webmaster Tools Data with Google Analytics Data (Excel)
We have that handy “Search Queries” link in Google Webmaster Tools that is supposed to show for which keywords our website does well on Google....
Evaluating the Lifetime Value of a Link
Unfortunately, links fall off the link graph. Google loves freshness, and as such, it is in their best interest to eventually stop indexing pages and...
Top 7 Ways to Increase Link Popularity with Content on Your Site
Building links is still a big topic with SEOs and site owners alike and we’re all a bit fed up with trying to get reciprocal...
SEO Auteur: My Interview With Dustin Woodard
I first became aware of Dustin when he dropped my name in a post (which is still a very effective way to get someone’s attention). ...
The Marketer’s Guide to Utilizing Google Docs
Despite all the new and more or less established collaboration and sharing tools, the one I use most of all is Google Docs. Yes, it...
5 Dirty Words in Link Building
There are a lot of bad words people use when talking about link building and link builders. Many of them involve expletives, and only the...
Google News Becomes More Personal and Social
Google is rolling out several updates to its News homepage to make it easier to navigate through relevant news, highlight interesting stories that would otherwise...