Not All Spam Deserves The Death Penalty

By now you’ve most assuredly read about the Google Chrome fiasco. You know that Google threw Essence, their video ad agency, under the proverbial bus. You’ve probably even read that Google gave themselves a penalty and reduced the PageRank of the chrome page. They also removed all of the sponsored posts and admitted responsibility. In [...]

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January 4, 2012 | 16 Comments | Read Story

Online Giant Expected to Give One Bank Financial Facelift in 2012

As if the brand needed more exposure (aside from its 800-million-plus users), this coming season, we’ll hear a lot of on and offline chirping regarding Facebook, the leading social media site (actually, an online destination sought more often than Google).  This winter, a number of leading banks will vie to get friendly with Facebook, “besties” [...]

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January 4, 2012 | 2 Comments | Read Story

What the SEF is Your SEO Doing?

I’ve worked with a number of website designers and developers over the years, many of them good people with a plethora of skills I couldn’t even dream of having. But one thing gets under my skin: when developers claim to know SEO when they clearly don’t. Many developers do have a solid grasp and understanding [...]

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January 3, 2012 | 9 Comments | Read Story

Interview #1 with Joanna Lord for PPC Beginners

Joanna Lord is the Director of Customer Acquisition at SEOmoz.org, a leading SEO software company out of Seattle, WA. While she currently heads up SEOmoz’s paid search, affiliate, and acquisition marketing efforts, she is also a well-known social media enthusiast and frequent conference speaker. Her diverse experience in data analysis, paid search marketing, search engine [...]

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January 3, 2012 | 1 Comment | Read Story

Apps for New Year’s Eve 2012

Here is a collection of New Year’s apps you may need. We are going to start with apps to help you get a cab and avoid drinking and driving over New Year’s weekend. If you have any other apps you would like to suggest please comment below. Cabs Cab4me – iPhone and Android Call a [...]

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December 30, 2011 | 1 Comment | Read Story

Norad Santa Tracker : The History of NORAD, Google & Santa [Infographic]

Embed this on your siteSource: Norad Santa Tracker : The History of NORAD, Google & Santa [Infographic]Christmas Eve is only 1 day away and that means that Santa Claus is getting his reindeer and sleigh prepped to bring presents to boys and girls all around the world. Every year around this time, NORAD launches its [...]

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December 22, 2011 | Comments Off | Read Story

WordPress Q&A With Andrew Norcross

I am starting off a series of interviews with Andrew Norcross. I met him in 2010 at the Search and Social Conference in Tampa. He is a really nice person, extremely intelligent and very focused. He has always been willing to help out SEO’s and has recently become the Senior WordPress Developer at BlueGlass. I [...]

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December 20, 2011 | 3 Comments | Read Story

Hate Facebook? 3 Glaring Reasons Not To Expose Your Community

Image © laurent hamels – Fotolia (Dot) com With social media penetration at an apex internationally, niche’ communities are being built surrounding businesses of all sizes. But, is the planet’s blind rush to Facebook prudent? Facebook may be big, but big does not always mean better for organizations taking steps to socialize their communities.  Other [...]

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December 19, 2011 | 3 Comments | Read Story

SEJ eBook: Most Popular Articles Read on SEJ in 2011

Search Engine Journal appreciates all of the writers that contribute to our site and we want to thank them for all of their hard work. We also appreciate all of our readers. We know how hard it is to keep up with so many articles around the web and we want to help you keep [...]

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December 16, 2011 | Comments Off | Read Story

Google’s Autocomplete On-Deck and What It Means for Online Reputation Management (ORM)

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 [...]

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December 15, 2011 | 4 Comments | Read Story