It is the weekend and that means you might have 45 minutes to be entertained and get great tips from the fabulous Matt Cutts. This video is a recording of a live Q&A on September 21, 2011. If you haven’t seen it you may want to sit back, relax and maybe take some notes. Tweet …
With the rise of Google and the power of Search, online reputation management (ORM) has become an extremely hot topic. Let’s face it, after hearing about a person, brand, company, or product, most people Google it. As a result, and as many of you know already, the number people (and companies) needing help with online …
Google Offers, the new offering being molded to compete with the likes of Groupon, is expanding and in the process, hoping to make an impact in the increasingly crowded deal space. Google recently started presenting deals from 14 new partners, including localized businesses such as Juice in the City, Plum District, and PopSugar Shop. It …
There’s been a lot of fearmongering talk lately about Google’s human quality raters and just exactly what they’re used for and how their ratings are used internally at Google. Discussion was running rampant at Pubcon where I witnessed several SEOs grill Matt Cutts about the subject, and seems to have spread like wildfire across the …
My search marketing career started in 2003, back when the keyword meta tag rained superior and search engine submissions still counted for something. Back in 2003 if someone asked me if Google would be around in two years I would have laughed. Fast forward to today, and the same question is asked, I’d pause and …
As geo-location and real-time mapping begin to play a larger role in online advertising, a distant fear looms on the horizon. For quite some time, publishers have been granted the benefit of supposed “free” products such as Bing Maps or Google Analytics, with little thought to the real cost of these services. However, all of …
Recent trends indicate that Google’s heels are getting nipped at month over month by Bing + Bing-powered Yahoo Search. But do the “other search engines” stand a chance at gaining real ground on Google? Have a look at our company stackup and recent traffic trends.
Although social media sites have been around for less than a decade, they have played an active role in shaping the future and culture of the Internet, and probably will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Search engine marketers have been long studying the web-browsing habits of various demographics — including their choice …
Who’s smarter: SEOs or the search engines? A look back at how the criteria for making page 1 has changed over the years.
Recipe-finder.com announced on Friday that it publicly entered the recipe portal niche this month. The recipe portal niche has been fairly competitive over the past few months, with other sites such as Foodily and Supercook. Recipe Finder, however, has features that allow social sharing and menu planning simple and easy. There’s over 1 million recipes …
