Dear SEJ Contributors & Readers, Thank you for everything you have contributed to SEJ and your participation in our community, comments & social media. We’ve noticed a major trend in our writer bios. About 90% of our bios include exact match links, extra links and other links to multiple companies. In an effort to clean …
Articles by Loren Baker
The Tumblr acquisition by Yahoo is smart in so many ways, from an advertising perspective to a “let’s be relevant again” perspective. And pair the Tumblr news with a relaunch of Flickr, and we’re looking at an end result of Marissa Mayer dominating a market where Google has a major weakness — photos. (Anyone use …
When you think back to how the world of SEO and link building has changed over the past 2 years, it’s absolutely amazing. Before the rollout of the original Penguin update and all of the webmaster warnings, link building was kind of a Wild West, with SEO managers throwing budget of whatever worked at the …
Hello friends and readers at SEJ! It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here, but I wanted to drop in and say hello, and give some props to John Rampton, who has done a wonderful job over the past month in his new role of Managing Editor at SEJ. John has some really great …
In the ongoing effort to pass the SEJ torch, Search Engine Journal currently hiring a new Managing Editor to take over the role of running the day to day at Search Engine Journal. Love blogging, building relationships and following the world of search engines? Do you have what it takes? Search Engine Journal, a community-focused, …
Happy Christmas Eve SEJ readers! Like many other search & tech blogs, we’ve been doing write ups on NORAD Santa Tracker for years. This year however is a little more special than usual. Why? Well, there are two reasons. The first and most important reason is that my son is now 2 1/2 and has …
In the next couple of weeks, Search Engine Journal will go through some significant changes : more news when it happens, online marketing intelligence, new trends in SEO, search engine news, mobile search tendencies and even more SEO tips & expert insight. In other words, SEJ is maturing into more of a magazine, a community …
Interested in advertising your company or SEO tool on Search Engine Journal? Thanks to our new partner BuyAds.com, you can now avoid contacting me altogether ;) We now offer direct advertising on SEJ via BuyAds.com’s self-service ad platform, which is simple to use and integrate into your current media buying & ad management campaign. Pick …
While the smartphones market in Japan has only reached a 6% penetration rate compared to 31% in the United States and 30% in the United Kingdom the countries users are far more engaged with the devices they do own. The infographic shown below demonstrates the true impact smartphones have had on Japanese consumers. Among the …
If there is any more dynamic and competitive marketing niche online than travel and hospitality, even the casual observer would have a hard time noticing it. If only there was a way to discern just where the many online business are headed. Well, maybe by noting some significant ones, along with their latest news, we …