What’s The Real Value of Brand PPC?
Many of our PPC clients (and from what I hear from other pros and agencies, many of their clients) at some point start to believe they...
Featured FireFox Addon: Google Enhancer
Google Enhancer is this week’s featured SEO FireFox addon for adding a few really nifty features to Google search results page: Google SERPs enhancer: Numbers...
Lawyers, Guns, and Twitter – Who Owns Your Twitter Account
Last week I read an article on BusinessWeek.com that presented the results of a survey of c-level executives regarding employees and social networks. According to...
Nichebot Review: Third-Party Keyword Research Tool
I’ve been asked a few times what I think about NicheBot, so I decided to go ahead and review the tool. The first thing that...
Yahoo Releases Placemaker Geo-Tagging Service for Unstructured Data
Yahoo has just released Placemaker, a geo-enrichment tool for the web contents geared for developers. Yahoo’s official description of Placemaker service: … a freely available...
7 FireFox About:Config Tweaks for Internet Marketers and Bloggers
FireFox about:config stores the browser configurations. To access them , simply enter about:config in the address bar and hit “Enter”. Last week I shared a...
3+ Keyword and Topic Visualization Tools
Very often you can’t grasp the topic until you sit down and map it on the sheet of paper. Sometimes, you also need someone else’s...
There Is Definitely Something Devious Going on Over at Reddit!
For the last five months, I have been an active user of Reddit. When I first got started with Reddit, I was really impressed by...
Best Travel Social Media Networks : Traveling 2.0
Summer is fast approaching and I already can’t wait to have some rest. Of course, the social media geek inside me made me get prepared...
Another Cool Backlink Checker: Page Inlink Analyzer
With some tools you pick up one you like most (for some reason or another) and just keep the rest in mind without actually using...
The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media
The oft-discussed Seven Deadly Sins apply to Social Media as well and are worth exploring. Here’s a quick lesson to keep you from the sure...
SEO Q&A : What’s the Recommended Page Size?
SEJ readers keep asking me what the recommended size of a web page is. Really, it is hard to find any definitive answer online except...
How Google May (Theoretically) Discover Web Pages
Very often you find Google knows much more about your site than it is supposed to: you find it crawl pages with 0 backlinks (you...
Google Opening Up Trademarked Keyword Bidding on June 4th
Google plans to open up trademarked keywords to AdWords advertisers in June according to Michael Orey of Business Week. Beginning June 4th, companies will be...
Do You Use Your Brand Name in the Site Title Tags?
I normally recommend adding your brand name at the end of the title tag throughout the site (especially if the brand name is short, catchy...
Can SEO Agencies Effectively Outsource Elements of SEO?
What an odd question. Outsourcing is a tricky area for businesses though, and as SEO is a contractual business for many, agencies and freelancers often...
Duplicate Content Issues Visualized: Collection of Useful Infographics
Duplicate content is one of those topics that are almost impossible to explain to non-SEO-savvy people. The best way to that is to visualize. So...
WordStream: Keywords Management Made Easy
I rarely get excited about SEO and SEM tools – mostly because I am not a fan of anything that “automates” a type of work...
Twitter Search to Start Indexing Pages and Launch Reputation Algorithm
Some rather interesting changes are headed for Twitter search according to Cnet’s Rafe Needleman and Twitter’s new VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram. Jayaram, formerly the...
Google AdSense for Feeds Updates with Doubleclick.net Clickthrough
Google AdSense announced yesterday that along with the normal AdSense ads running on websites, AdSense for feeds now also runs using the googleads.g.doubleclick.net clickthough URL,...
WikiAlarm.com : Email Alerts When Wikipedia Page is Edited or Sabotaged
Want to keep tabs on when your (or a competitor’s) Wikipedia page’s accuracy is edited? WikiAlarm.com is a free new service to allow brands and...
Google Awarded Floating Data Center Patent
Google has been granted a US patent for its floating data center idea which the company originally filed with the patent office on February 26,...
5+ Tools For Google Advanced Searching
I have posted many times on ways to use Google advanced search operators. This time I have compiled a list of tools that can make...
Google Hires 200 Goats to Munch their Weeds
In kind of an offbeat story this weekend, Google announced on Friday that the company has contracted California Grazing, a goat herding company, in an...
Why It’s a Terrible Idea to Unfollow Everyone on Twitter
Joel Drapper recently made a post which was titled “Why I Unfollowed Everyone on Twitter and Why You Should Too.” While I am friends with...