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Microsoft Yahoo Meetings Signal Start of Intelligent Acquisition or Merger
Microsoft and Yahoo may be in talks again on some sort of advertising partnership, or babysteps to an inevitable acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, as...
Digg Launches New Digg Search Engine
Today Digg released a new version of their internal Digg search functionality which according to social media guru Brent Csutoras is “is a real improvement.”...
Discover Most Frequent Modifiers with Excel
Excel is one of my most favorite SEO tools. I use Excel for reporting, content planning, backlink research and keyword organizing. I discover new possible...
Google Expands One Line SiteLinks : Little Blue Links in SERPS
Over the weekend I noticed more and more Google search results with little blue links between the page descriptions and the target URL in Google...
How to Effectively Promote a Tool
You should have noticed that I can safely be called a tool junkie. I am no expert and I don’t like criticizing even rather a...
Keyword and Topic Research with Wikipedia Visualization Tools
Like I said previously, Wikipedia provides a mine of data worth digging into when researching a topic. It is user-generated, well-moderated and heavily interlinked –...
SEO & Social Media : Are You Willing to be Consistent?
So this question has been on my mind for a while now, “Are you willing to be Consistent?” I mean really ask yourself this question....
How To Leverage Rich Media SEO for Small Businesses
I deal with a LOT of local business – Lawyers, Bankruptcy Trustees, Plumbers, Movers… You name it, I’ve probably dealt with someone in that industry...
Internet Marketing Light Bulb Jokes
Why did I write this? I don’t know why. Because I write jokes… and I’m in internet marketing. I thought it would be fun to...
QuarkBase Provides One-Page SEO Analysis
You may want to argue that one-page all-in-one SEO analysis tools giving a quick one-page analysis are useful at all (and I may agree to...
3 Document Search Engines to Search for SEO Documentation
A while ago I listed a few ways to find PDF tutorials, and later also shared my collection of SEO cheat sheets which showed that...
An Interview with David Harry, Sensei of the SEO Dojo
Many know David Harry as the whiz behind Reliable SEO, The SEO Handbook, and the Trail of the Fire Horse at Huomah.com. Knowing I was...
Create A Brand From Scratch : Branding & Search
I have a little something to say about this topic, because I have built 3 of my own successful e-tail brands from the ground up....
How Long Should the Page Title Tag Be?
We’ve shared tips on crafting a good page title several times on SEJ and each time we’ve came to conclusion that it is better to...
Craigslist More Popular Than MySpace : Sign of Economy Says Hitwise
Hitwise is running a report on the top search term in the United States for the week ending March 14, 2009, and interestingly the data...
Google AdWords Conversion Tracking 101/201/301
Ok class, today we’re moving into graduate level conversion tracking. But we’ll start with 101. First off, the number of people using AdWords without conversion...
Flash & Search Engines : Indexed in a Flash
When it comes to SEO, Flash can be a polarizing topic. Whenever I’m speaking with clients about their SEO initiatives (along with their creative and...
EyePlorer : a New Approach to Semantic Search
EyePlorer developed by German company Vionto.com visualizes knowledge graphs (k-graphs) derived from Wikipedia content that can be interactively explored. The knowledge graph consists of eyespots...
Google AdWords Content Network: How To Get Great ROI With A New Strategy From Google
Historically, Google AdWords’ Content Network has gotten a bad rap. And for good reason. Advertisers usually see much lower ROI results from it than from...
AOL Names Google Exec Armstrong as CEO & Chairman
Can Google’s Senior Vice President and chief of ad sales turn AOL around and into the mega powerhouse that Time Warner has always dreamed the...
How to Design and Organize Global Navigation Menus
Last week I started discussing huge navigation menus by asking what is a better way to order the navigation categories: alphabetically or by popularity. Today...
Huge Navigation Menus: Ordering by Popularity Versus Alphabetical Ordering
A while ago I took a quick look at Amazon.com navigation menus evolution and a few really interesting questions popped up after I published the...
3 Common Uses of Robots.txt File
Despite of the existence of pretty self-explanatory Robots.txt standards, all-in-one tutorials and advanced tips, Robots.txt topic is still often misunderstood and misused. Therefore I decided...
Matt Cutts vs Ted Murphy on Paid Blogging & Sponsored Conversations
In a followup to the Forrester report on paid blog advertising via sponsoring the conversation in blogposts, Google’s Matt Cutts has weighed in a bit...
Can You Make Money with AdSense for Domains?
Google AdSense for Domains lets domain name owners set up AdSense links on a parked domain which if it receives traffic, will serve relevant ads...
Google Enters the Twitter Game : Google + Twitter = Twoogling?
Google is now on Twitter. As insane as it may seem, it has taken Google years to start using their Google account, which is located...
The Long Tail of Page One Rankings
When I’m meeting with clients or prospective clients, I’m often asked how important it is to rank on page 1 of the search engines. It...
Do You Care Who Your Domain IP Address Neighbors Are?
How Google views sites hosted on the same IP address is an interesting question. Have you ever been approached by a link farm owner offering...
Use Excel to Plan Meta Tags, Titles and URLs for SEO
Mike from MarketingBreakthroughs.com sent in today’s SEO Tip, which has to do with organizing and planning the meta tags, keywords and page titles for an...
Top 3 Search Engines Unite on Canonical URL
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft join hands in the drive to clean up the web of duplicate contents. The top three search engines are implementing support...