Search Engine Roundtable
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 30, 2010
This week we covered how those pink ads are really "pale purple" and are here to stay by replacing the yellow background color on AdWords. Google revamped their dictionary results. Google's Matt Cutts talked about his first spam experience. Google... … - Daily Search Forum Recap: July 30, 2010
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.... … - Google: The "Last Thing We Want" Is The "Best SEO To Win"
Jeremy Sussman, a Google Local Product Manager has been pretty frank and clear with people in the Google Places forum. In one Google Places Help thread, he said, and I quote: I can assure you that the last thing we... … - Google Site Speed: Two Factors, GoogleBot & Users
Tedster started an outstanding thread at WebmasterWorld, something I personally never thought about but is all so valid. All this stuff around having fast sites, cause Google is now looking at site performance and speed is important. It is not... … - Google News Sitemaps: One Language Per Sitemap File
This week we covered the Google one language per page rule and today I spotted a thread specific to how this works with Google News. A Google News Help thread has Googler Inbal saying you should submit a News Sitemap... … - Google Ordered To Remove Search Results On Sex Charges But Document Still Shows
Google will remove search results when a court orders them to do so or when the search result can infect a computer with viruses and malware. We know that. I spotted an interesting and unique thread at Google Webmaster Help... … - Google: The Robots Meta Tag Is Cumulative (First Come First Serve)
Here is a little SEO bit that some of the even more experienced SEOs may not have heard of. The order of the meta robots tag is incredibly important. Did you know that the effects are cumulative when it comes... … - Microsoft's Street Slide, A Preview
The online mapping products get cooler almost every day. The latest buzz is around Microsoft Street Slide, which is not live yet, but is currently being developed. Here is a video that explains it better than I can in words:... … - Daily Search Forum Recap: July 29, 2010
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.... … - Deja Vu: First Time Matt Cutts of Google Saw Web Spam
Aaron Wall posted an example of a large brand manipulating Google through an old spam technique. In short, they were buying expired domains to piggy back off of the link popularity and anchor text of those old domains. Aaron wall... …
Search Engine Watch
- Will the Bing & Yahoo Search Alliance Succeed?
What does a "win" look like for Yahoo and Bing? What risks do both search engines face? And what are the implications for search advertising and mobile? We break it all down. ... … - Impact of Legal U.S. Online Gambling on Search and the Web
The search industry may profit from increased PPC advertising cash. However, forum and blog comment spam will no doubt increase and endless new content will hit the web, taxing search engine crawlers. ... … - Don't Let Your Web Site Design Become a Nightmare
Avoid losing money, time, customers, and conversions. Why hiring a graphic designer or marketing firm to design your site is a rotten idea. ... … - Hiring an In-House Link Marketer? 2 Essential Skills for the Job
When hiring a link marketer, ask these important questions during the hiring process to make sure they have the right stuff to help your company. ... … - 7 Golden Rules for Paid Search Copy
Using these seven tips will help get your PPC ads some real attention and get the right kind of clicks. ... … - Defining Search Engine Optimization in 2010
Taking the time to identify your market and focusing on how to build relationships with those relevant sites will put you above SEOs who are still focusing on outdated tactics. ... … - Localizing Websites: Why it Pays to Target Countries and Not Languages
For your foreign language sites to be effective, they absolutely have to be localized for individual countries. Here's why. ... … - Playing Brand DE-FENSE With Search Reputation Management
Search reputation management isn't easy work. Here's how B2B brands and organizations can protect their first impressions in the SERPs. ... … - 12 Ways Your SEO Mileage May Vary
If you've spent time analyzing search results for a variety of queries, you've likely seen results you can't easily explain. Here's why this happens. ... … - 6 Key Metrics for a Social Media Measurement Dashboard
Creating your own social media dashboard gives you the ability to show the impact of your social media efforts, and it will put you in great position to bide time until a truly robust social media measurement tool is available. ... …
Search Engine Land
- Twitter Helps You Find New People To Follow
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SEOmoz
- Whiteboard Friday - Outsourcing Content Creation
Posted by Danny Dover This week on Whiteboard Friday, Rand Fishkin describes the methods he recommends for outsourcing content creation. Content is extremely important for SEO and users alike so these best practices are important for those of us without the luxury of an in-house staff of copywriters. See my stats for this video Embed Video: <object width="640" height="360" id="wistia_159073" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553… - 7 Cutting Edge Web Design Trends (that Can Actually Improve SEO)
Posted by randfishAs the worlds of web design and SEO merge ever closer, we've been seeing design-specific elements produce a positive impact on SEO for the sites that employ them. It's terrific news for SEOs who love design and are capable of and passionate about making it part of their repertoire. It's also great for designers who find that as they evolved from Flash designs to machine-readable CSS and separated markup from content, they've earned more links and more organic search love. In t… - How to Benchmark in Analytics
Posted by JoannaLordWe have a lot of changes going on at SEOmoz (feel free to get excited, we sure are!) and with all of these changes to the site comes the need to focus on tracking. Internally we have spent the last few months redirecting our attention to not only the best practices regarding analytics and data mining, but really pushing ourselves to revisit our analytical processes. You know what we realized? There sure is a lot of data. While I have always appreciated the reporting features … - SEO Chrome Toolbar is Here! Download the Mozbar for Chrome Today
Posted by Danny Dover Well folks, this may be the biggest tool introduction since Ryan Seacrest started hosting American Idol. ;-) Today we are launching our SEO toolbar for Google's Chrome browser. This sexy beast is full to the brim with SEO insight and time-saving SEO goodness. This free add-on is ripe for picking and available for download right this second. Ask and Ye Shall Receive Whether it's from Twitter, Facebook, email or comments here on the blog, almost every day we get … - The 12-Step Landing Page Rehab Program [Infographic]
Posted by Oli GardnerThis post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc.As with that other program, the first and most critical step is admitting you actually have a problem. So go ahead. Shout it out loud so your coworkers can hear: “My name is Earl. My conversion rate sucks, and I can't stop sending expensive P… - Create a Link Building Team Within Your Organization
Posted by RobOusbeyAt a small or medium sized company, you might be part of a very small team with responsibility for SEO, or you may the only person - and it might not even be your full time job. In these cases, people often tell me that the greatest struggle is finding time and resources to do link building for their site. Rather than pitching your boss to hire a new team member to assist with SEO and link building, you may have more success (and get more value out of) asking for a little time… - It's Gonna Be Good: August PRO Training Seminar Finalized
Posted by randfishToday, instead of playing in the uber-rare Seattle sunshine, I spent the day polishing off the PRO Training seminar schedule and it looks amazing. I'm excited to see these sessions myself (and I rarely sit through presentations). Check it out for yourself below; if you're inclined and available, we'd love to see you.Oh, and don't worry, I'm not cruelly sharing when we've already sold out. We still do have some seats left. Dates are Monday & Tuesday August 30t… - Whiteboard Friday - How to Get an SEO Job
Posted by Danny Dover Guess who's back. Back again. Danny's back. Tell a friend. (My co-workers hate me ;-p) This week's Whiteboard Friday is about how to get an SEO job. In it, I divulge the secret of how I suckered my way into how I earned this job. I also do the worst impression of my life and finish with a shocking twist that I guarantee you won't see coming! See my stats for this video Embed Video: <object width="640" height="360" id… - Working with Navigation in SEO [SEO Fundamentals]
Posted by richardbaxterseoBuilding a solid foundation in your site architecture using search engine friendly navigation is a founding principle in good search engine optimization, but what does that actually mean, and what recommendations can you make to enhance your clients (or your own) SEO? In this article, we’ll look at a few examples of well coded, search friendly navigation and look at ways to enhance your site architecture for SEO. Technically speaking What make…
Matt Cutts
- How to find start-up ideas
Chris Dixon had an interesting post a while ago about how to find start-up ideas. The advice boiled down to keeping a spreadsheet of ideas and talking to lots of smart people (entrepreneurs, potential customers, VCs, people at big companies). It’s good advice. Paul Graham also wrote in 2008 about startup ideas he’d like to [...]… - Webspam projects in 2010?
About a year and a half ago, I asked for suggestions for webspam projects for 2009. The feedback that we got was extremely helpful. It’s almost exactly the middle of 2010, so it seemed like a good time to ask again: what projects do you think webspam should work on in 2010 and beyond? Here’s the [...]… - [POLL] Help me pick my next 30-day challenge!
This month I made my 30 day challenge be “Don’t respond to email after 10 p.m.” I’ve done very well overall on this challenge, and I like the results a lot. I’ll probably try to keep up this behavior. Now I need to pick my next challenge. I read through the 350+ suggestions and comments that [...]… - Give Buzz another look
Have you given Buzz a try recently? Robert Scoble just asked if it was time to reconsider Buzz. Coincidentally I said almost the same thing in a question and answer session with Danny Sullivan last week at the SMX Advanced search conference. I’ll repeat what I said last week. Do you remember when you first started [...]… - SEO site review session from Google I/O 2010
A couple weeks or so ago, we did an SEO site review session at Google I/O 2010. The video from that session is now live: The video is about an hour long, but I hope it’s a pretty good use of your time if you’re interested in search engine optimization. Enjoy!… - SEO Advice: Make a web page for each store location
If your company has a bunch of store locations, please don’t hide that information behind a search form or a POST. If you want your store pages to be found, it’s best to have a unique, easily crawlable url for each store. Ideally, you would also create an HTML sitemap that points to the web [...]… - Help me pick my new 30 day challenge
Okay, I’ve finished roughly a year of 30 day challenges, and now I’d like your help picking new ideas. So far, I’ve done: - 30 days with no TV (May) - 30 days of 10,000 steps each day (June) - 30 days biking into work (July) - reading 15 books in 30 days (I only made it to 12) [...]… - A few thoughts on SSL Search
I’m incredibly happy that Google has added the option to search over SSL by going to https://www.google.com/ — note the “s” in “https.” I’m writing this blog post in a hotel right now because I’m in Europe for a week doing a series of tech talks, but I could just as easily be working down [...]… - Live-buzzing Day 2 of the Google I/O keynote
Okay, today I’m going to try something different again. I’m going to try live-buzzing the keynote of Day 2 of Google I/O. You can follow the live-buzz right here. I’m going to update the buzz as news comes out; if you’re following on the web instead of on Buzz, you might need to hit reload to [...]… - Live-blogging (okay live-waving) Day 1 of Google I/O Keynote
Okay, I’m going to try live-blogging the keynote of Google I/O, but I’m doing it with a twist. I’m going to try live-blogging in Google Wave with some other folks. Watch the live-stream video at http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers by the way. Lots of folks will be live-blogging or waving. Here is a different live wave with Gina Trapani, [...]…
Aaron Wall – SEO Book.com
- Demand Media's eHow.com Using Interesting Expired Domain Redirect SEO Strategy
Perhaps part of the "interesting data" Richard Rosenblatt was talking about was link anchor text on expired domains & cybersquatting efforts that he could redirect in bulk at high earning eHow pages. Not to fear, Demand Media is a trusted Google partner, so the algorithm and engineers are prohibited to take action against the same activity which would get your website removed from the search results. I am not sure how long Yahoo!'s link function will work for, but below are screenshots sho… - Portrait of an SEO
The following is a guest post by Kpaul. :) A long time ago, on an Internet far, far away (when I wrote for fun - and for free), I did a piece called Portrait of a Blogger. The year was 2002 and blogging was just beginning to really hit the mainstream hard. If you’re not familiar with the audience at Kuro5hin.org, they’re a snooty version of slashdot readers if you can imagine such a thing. (Mentioning both of these websites is outing my age, I think. I better not mention Compuserve.) The st… - Yahoo! Tests Microsoft Search Results
Straight from the horse's mouth: We’ve started testing organic (also referred to as algorithmic) and paid search listings from Microsoft for up to 25 percent of Yahoo! Search traffic in the U.S. The primary change for these tests is that the listings are coming from Microsoft. However, the overall page should look the same as the Yahoo! Search you’re used to – with rich content and unique tools and features from Yahoo!. If you happen to fall into our tests, you might also notice some diff… - Blekko Cozy Up to Webmasters, Offers Killer SEO Data Free
Both Yahoo! and Microsoft have confirmed that they will start testing the Bing algorithm live on some Yahoo! traffic this month. One of the big questions from the SEO perspective is what happens to Yahoo! Site Explorer? If it goes away then webmasters will need to get link data from web indexes built by SEO companies, perhaps either Open Site Explorer and/or Majestic SEO. Yahoo! also offers a link: search in their BOSS program. While they have stated that the BOSS program will live on, there is… - What Creates Digital Ghettos?
Open source software is awesome, and I am much richer for it existing. But the concepts that work in widely downloaded free software may not apply as well elsewhere. One of the best books on this topic is Jason Lanier's You are Not a Gadget, which in large part inspired this post. Openness is one of the most widely espoused important ideals upon which to build an online business. The reasons it is preached so heavily are anything that is free doesn't have to get over the penny gap, so it is eas… - Multi-Level Marketing BS
Excellent Penn & Teller program on multi-level marketing. BTW, NSFW. Those who are easily offended, shouldn't watch it. Any of it. Not one minute..... As Penn & Teller rightly point out.... Easy Money Is BS These multi-level marketing schemes aren't limited to home parties for sex toys, BBQ accessories, and household cleaners, of course. They are rife on the internet. If you've spent any time in internet marketing circles, you'll have seen hundreds, no doubt. Worst business ever. What I… - Google's Brand Debacle Backfires
As Google reached the limits of returns in direct marketing they started pushing the value of branding (because, hey, if you can chalk it up to latent branding value there is no cap on your max bid). Surprisingly, they even got many big brands to buy their own brands AND buy sitelinks on the AdWords ads. Some went so far as providing case studies for how much of their own brand traffic they were now willing to pay for, which they previously got free. :D Sure that can make sense for seasonal prom… - Content Farming - SEOs Get It, Journalists Don't
Recently, there have been a series of negative articles about content farms. Content farms, such as Demand Media's eHow and similar low-cost content publication sites, are now deemed an industry "concern". "Industry" being the traditional publishing idustry, and concern presumably being "competitive threat". A trade group called the Internet Content Syndication Council (ICSC) has been circulating a document entitled "Council To Counter Web Content Generators Growing Clout". They talk about "j… - Google As Publisher...
Widgets Video content Video games Product comparison Travel eBooks They might prefer to use different labels (so as to minimize fear in the marketplace & slow down regulators), and they might claim that aggregate statistics control the investments & thus they are not really publishers, but they plan on skimming a big piece off of the top of many big markets. AdWords was just the start! Videos, maps & product search...look how Google self-deals in each while managing to call it a … - I Like it, I Love it, I Want Some More of It
In information retrieval some words are powerful / potent. They are really descriptive and get right to the point of what someone is looking for. Other words have little to no value. The reason the concept of stop words came about is that you really couldn't tell much about a document by it including words like a, an, the, and, are, etc. The flip side of stop words are words which have a high discrimination value. Recently I was searching to see if there was a FedEx office in the town where my m…
SEO Chat
- Google Analytics: Benchmarking Analysis and Visitor Profiling Methods
Google Analytics is not only useful for tracking the unique visitors to a website you can also use it for setting goals and even tracking your most popular content. In fact one of the least common but more important uses of Google Analytics is visitor profiling and benchmarking analysis. This article will explain how and why to do this.... Virtualization Solutions Optimize, Simplify, & Save Today. Learn About Microsoft Solutions.… - AOL Search Deal May Include Multiple Partners
AOL s current deal with Google to provide search throughout its sites expires on December 19. Will the company continue to use Google That s not a foregone conclusion. In fact it s not even certain that AOL will use only one search provider going forward.... Recompile one file & boost performance Quickly find & fix hotspots with Intel® Parallel Studio. Get the eval guide.… - Fight Negative Reviews with Positive Action
Social media comes in many shapes and sizes. Few worry small businesses more than sites like Yelp and Google Places where clients and customers can leave reviews and not all of them are glowing. Sooner or later you may find your own business receiving a review from a disgruntled customer who s not afraid to tell the world. Now what ... Windows 7 Deployment in Your Future? Free Guide: IT Tips & Best Practices for a Simplified Migration to Windows 7.… - Website Security Tips for SEO
A hacked website can seriously affect your search engine optimization efforts. This article will explain the three ways it can hurt you the major forms of attack what makes a site vulnerable to them and what you can do to protect your site from hackers.... Managed Servers at The Planet Enterprise-Class Hosting Infrastructure PLUS Complete Server Management… - Yahoo SEO Analysis in Comparison to Google Search Ranking Results
Yahoo s search engine market share as of 2 1 is second only to Google s it is 6.24 percent globally. Therefore if you want to increase your site s organic search engine traffic you might as well consider optimizing for Yahoo. This article will examine the Yahoo search engine s ranking behavior by comparing it to Google s using actual websites rankings keywords and common search engine ranking factors onsite and links .... With Less, Do More Windows 7 Professional and the Windows Server 2…
Search Engine Journal
- #1 Guest Blogging Incentive: Backlinks (Guidelines and Ethics)
Accepting guest posts is an effective way to freshen up your blog, share various perspectives and build a stronger community (especially if you manage such a multi-author, multi-topic resource as SEJ). Naturally, if you want to get the maximum benefit from guest blogging, you will need to give back. This post is about the most [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.#1 Guest Blogging Incentive: Backlinks (Guidelines and Ethics)… - Is Google AdWords Advertising Itself Honestly?
I’ve been working on PPC for my dad’s dental seminars business, and I have to admit that while I like a challenge, the system is really overwhelming. It makes me wonder whether Google AdWords – the PPC traffic/platform we’re buying/using – is honest in how it promotes itself. Consider these two claims that AdWords makes: [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Is Google AdWords Advertising Itself Honestly?… - Making the Process Clear: Improve Your Search Engine Rankings in 6 Steps
Ranking higher in search engines is something that every business is trying to do (or at least they should be). If you search the web, there will be no end of advice on how this or that will get you to rank better. This sea of information can lead to decision paralysis when it comes [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Making the Process Clear: Improve Your Search Engine Rankings in 6 Steps… - 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 and dynamically add links to related documents from the web. Now let’s go further and have that program track the people reading your page and by looking at their history and [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Google dynamic linking… - How to Automate and Scale Your Guest Blogging
One of the things we do to help our SEO efforts is to write professional articles about our niche. We believe this is a great way to get links, and anyone can do this in their own niche. Let’s say for the sake of example that we sell wedding shoes. Our staff knows a lot [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.How to Automate and Scale Your Guest Blogging… - Algorithms: The Cure for Copywriter’s Block
Writer’s block, or perhaps more accurate these days, blogger’s block, is a common occurrence. Great bloggers try to pump out insightful and engaging content daily, but eventually the question becomes, what more can you write about? It’s at times like these when I suggest you delve into a little keyword research. Rather than struggle internally [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Algorithms: The Cure for Copywriter’s Block… - How to Re-Purpose Your Content to Optimize it for Traveling Season
I feel lucky enough to work from home for about 3 years now and to be able to travel wherever I want with my family. This is what I have actually been doing for the past month – traveling (and struggling with somewhat screwed schedule). However another side of this story is that being an [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.How to Re-Purpose Your Content to Optimize it for Traveling Season… - 5 Things You Need to Know to Succeed With Bing
With the impending implosion of Yahoo’s disappointing Panama project and seeming overnight surrender of search to the big boys of Google and Microsoft it’s time we all started paying a little more attention to Bing and particularly Microsoft adCenter. Just the other day I was talking with some bright minds in the search space and [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.5 Things You Need to Know to Succeed With Bing… - Yahoo Japan Switching to Google as Search Provider
In a surprising development, Yahoo Japan just announced that it would be switching to Google as its search technology and paid search provider. Now, before we all think and ask how could this be possible especially since Yahoo and Microsoft have been starting to work on their search ad integration deal recently. The answer lies [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Yahoo Japan Switching to Google as Search Provider… - Weekly Search & Social News: 07/27/2010
Hello ladies and gentleman, geeks and phreaks alike, it’s time for another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social‘ ? It was a damned busy week out in the trenches last week and it was again tough to decide what to include and what not too. But hey, that’s always a good thing as [...]Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Weekly Search & Social News: 07/27/2010…
SEO: Black Hat
- It’s Like Google Reads My Mind!
Scary how they just know what you're gonna search for.… - Dark Patterns: dirty tricks designers use to make people do stuff
Dark Patterns: dirty tricks designers use to make people do stuff.… - SEOktoberfest 2010
Take a look!… - Facebook: Please update your email address.
What the fuck is wrong with facebook and their?: Our systems have detected that [email address] is no longer a valid email. Facebook requires all users to maintain an active contact email. Please enter and confirm a new contact email below: I fucking validated it 5 times now including 2 days ago and I’m still getting this [...]… - The Hypocrisy is Truly Amazing
Yes. The hypocrisy is truly amazing. But it's no longer even remotely surprising.… - Tab Phishing
Be careful: This is one clever attack vector. As Mozilla Firefox creative lead Aza Raskin describes it, the attack is as elegant as it is simple: A user has multiple tabs open, and surfs to a site that uses special javacript code to silently alter the contents of a tabbed page along with the information displayed [...]… - Starcraft 2 and Productivity
So much for getting things done!… - Why the New Bill Means I Won’t be Buying Health Insurance
All you suckers who are actually paying for insurance before you need it (you know, the way insurance is suppose to work) will be in effect paying my catastrophic risk premium.… - What is the Rational Decison?
Do you take the bet?… - Gmail Feature Follow-Up: This Ain’t Mashable Here!
So Google: Where's my new feature?!?…
Online Marketing Blog
- How to Cultivate the Socialization of Your Business
Sponsored by JenKaneCo, well known social media evangelist Brian Solis recently gave a presentation to an enthusiastic group of marketers in downtown Minneapolis to introduce the concepts behind his new book: Engage! The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate and Measure Success in the New Web. The following is an overview of his [...]… - 4 Steps to Social SEO Success
The sheer volume of social media marketing and search engine optimization advice posted online can make it difficult for companies to make sense out what direction they should take. There are many models and approaches to leveraging optimized content for discovery through search and how to develop social networks to engage customers and promote content. [...]… - 10 Social Media Marketing Questions Answered by Engage!
I’ve been familiar with Brian Solis as many have, for several years. We’ve done a few video interviews with Brian and he’s contributed to popular posts here like this one on social media marketing and this one on content curation. I have to admit that based on his early writing, I thought Brian was overly [...]… - Getting Connected at SES San Francisco
The Search Engine Strategies conference from Incisive Media has really taken an amazing turn this year for the West Coast event. Not only have organizers moved the conference from San Jose to San Francisco, but SES is now a part of an event called Connected Marketing Week that involves a coordinated effort from a number [...]… - 5 Tips on Twitter Chats Plus 8 Marketing & PR Chats to Follow
There are many tactics companies can implement as part of a smart Twitter Marketing strategy. Growing the initial following is important as is providing the budding community you’re building with something of value to keep coming back and to spread the good word to their networks. One such tactic that offers value and brings people [...]… - Is Your Online Marketing Agency a Dud? 23 Signals of Credibility
Hiring outside expertise to grow thought leadership, sales and market share is essential for companies that do not have the internal resources to do so. At TopRank Online Marketing, we have conversations with companies every day that have deep expertise in their fields, but when it comes to online marketing, they’ve realized the need for [...]… - Video: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead
Sometimes we learn best about doing things in new and innovative ways by understanding them in terms of something we already know. Stories provide useful context and perspective and that’s exactly what David Meerman Scott has done with his latest book that’s just been announced: “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can [...]… - SEO Tops Digital Marketing Tactics for 2011
Here we are just past the halfway mark in 2010 and we’ve tapped into the stream of future marketing planning with our readers for 2011 with a poll. Our question? What 3 online marketing channels & tactics will you emphasize in 2011? The number one answer? Not social media, not email marketing. The top digital [...]… - 6 Tools For Better Blogging With An iPad
Like many others, I recently purchased an iPad out of curiosity. While my intentions were of discovery, I quickly found some productivity gains with blogging. The upside to blogging with an iPad is that it’s portable and you can easily log your thoughts on a screen that is a lot more convenient than typing into [...]… - 3 Things You Should Know About the New PRWeb
As a longtime customer of PRWeb, I’ve seen many changes over the years. The oldest optimized press release I could find of mine that’s still online dates back to mid 2001 and in the years since, it’s been an evolving relationship moving from customer to consultant. From the days of talking new features as a [...]…