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Beyond Google PPC Ads in 2010
The New Year brings some new services from Google Adwords, which will take you beyond your basic PPC ads. Google has be working hard to...
Im-Portent SEO: My Interview With Ian Lurie
I first met Ian when he spoke at our SearchFest 2008 event. Though we’ve communicated frequently via social media, we, more often than not, missed...
How to Use Various REL Attributes – Learning Microformats
Last week with my post on hCard format I started a good tradition: overviewing microformats in an easy-to-understand way and learning to use them with...
Build Links with Better Answers
Have you ever typed a question into Google and the ranking results were from a mass produced “how to” site? Even if you don’t know...
How to Predict Traffic from Google
Google gives you plenty of really good tools at the moment to predict the traffic to your website from Google rankings. In this post I...
Covario Acquires NetConcepts
The San Diego based search marketing services and software firm, Covario, has acquired NetConcepts, the SEO agency which was founded by Stephen Spencer. Many in...
AdMob Metrics Show Surge on Android Ad Impressions
Admob just released a new metrics showing a significant spike on ad impressions for Google Android. AdMob’s report was based on the ad requests received...
How to Aggregate Google Analytics Stats with Raven Tools
The best thing about the Raven tools is that you can have all aspects of your website promotion campaign and performance tracking under one combined...
Google’s 2009 Acquisitions : Focus on Mobile & Collaboration
I was reading up on Google acquisitions yesterday and although Google’s acquisition this year is not as many as previous years, particularly 2006 and 2007,...
Great Search Marketing Reading I HAD To Share
Those of you who follow my writing know that I’m a bookworm. And just as I’m frequently lending books to friends (or thrusting them at...
Bing Beats Google in November Search Volume Growth
Latest comScore data for November search volume is showing a slightly unexpected result. For the second time Bing managed to beat Google in terms of...
Google Ranks and Color Codes Businesses on Place Pages
Google has quietly rolled out a new feature for ranking and showing different aspects about businesses on Place Pages for Google Maps. The new feature...
Facebook Top Search Term 2009, Google Top Visited Site
Experian Hitwise has just released two significant data of 2009 – top-search term and top-visited site with Facebook and Google earning the top spot respectively....
Why Conversions Can Be a Messy SEO Metric
Seems I am still running into SEOs that believe, however misguided, that conversions are somehow their domain. This seems speak to the fact that many...
The Local Search Engine Optimization Cheat List
Like James Morris once said, “There is no secret sauce in SEO“. Really, if you can allow the time for some studying, you are most...
The Psychology Behind Link Giving
The citation method of ranking indexed content is flawed. It is based on human aid, and any technology based on the work of humans is...
Local Shopping Search Engine Milo.com Goes Mainstream
Although local shopping search engine Milo.com has been around for two years already, it is only now that the site is going full blast as...
Using iFrame: SEO and Accessibility Points
IFrame (inline frame) is an HTML element that makes it possible to embed another HTML document inside the main one. It has become one of...
Google Sends Out Decals with QR Codes
In a rather unusual move to promote its services, Google has started sending out stickers of business entities on its Places Pages to various locations....
Yahoo Launches Ad Interest Manager
Yahoo has just rolled out its Ad Interest Manager which according to Yahoo is a new consumer tool which aims to make online advertising, particularly...
Google Buys Appjet & Etherpad
Well, it’s been quite awhile since we heard of any Google acquisition. I can’t even remember what was the last company it bought. But anyway,...
How to Be Logged into Different Accounts on the Same Site
This is an additional post in my series on managing several online identities. This post looks at the 3 ways to be logged in different...
The Perfect SEO Pitch
Agency side, it’s not unusual to find yourself going up against a fellow SEO agency for new business. What factors will ensure you capture this...
Google Chrome OS News Round-Up, What’s Your Take?
As soon as Google goes official with the Chrome OS, every tech people I know jumped into it. Each with his own comments, impressions and...
Google Displays Site Hierarchies in Search Results
If you’re paying attention to the green URLs which Google appends at the bottom of each results, you may have noticed something different recently. Google...
Google in Real Life: Google Imitations & Installations
For some time now it has seemed to me that Google IS the Internet, and once the Internet is my life, Google IS my life....
How Inaccurate Google’s SITE: Operator Is and How to Fix It
SITE: operator is one of my favorite advanced Google search commands. It has always been a good way to tell how many URLs (approximately) are...
New Digg Feature: Trending Topics
Digg.com has always been known as “Reddit.com’s news from yesterday”. It appears now they’re trying to combat this issue… at least on a micro level....
Google Unveils E-Commerce Search Solution
What an opportune time for Google to launch another business enteprise solution geared for big e-commerce site than right now? Just in time for the...
Google Makes it Easier to Add Custom Section to Google News
Google has just made it easier to monitor news items from the Google News stream. Now, you can create your own topical news streams based...