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...
10 Ways to Turn Google Calendar into an Effective Time Management & Productivity Tool
Google calendar is an awesome, multi-feature and easy-to-use productivity tool. Let’s see how we can make it even better: Google Calender Feature Enhances Go offline:...
An Interview with Luis Pereira, Founder of Stumpedia
Launched in February 2008, Stumpedia a human-powered search engine, was very well received in the blogosphere. It was reviewed by quite a few popular blogs...
10 Ways to Be a Great SEO
Most of us see the same tweets, read the same blogs and know the same case studies. We know to optimize titles and anchor text,...
4 Ways to Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Google Search
Last week we published a cheat list of 50+ Google and Yahoo shortcuts. Today I am following up with a smaller but also useful list...
Low Hanging Fruit and PPC Keyword Opportunities
We could call it Target Market Proximity, ROI Proximity, or Persuasive Distance. How closely your offering fits the search query comes heavily into play in...
How Google Treats Punctuation
Using punctuation in Google search results is the reason for constant misunderstanding and rumors. Meaningful punctuation, like the “#” in C#, hyphens and apostrophes can...
Is Backlink Age an Important SEO Factor?
Apart from well-known characteristics of backlinks like relevancy, diversity, acquisition rate, etc, are there any other that might be considered as well? Some people wonder...
Find Local Blogs and Discussions to Build Links and Connections
Going local is one of the most effective ways to build links and connections. I have already looked at a few ways to search for...
How Huge Sites like CNN.com & Digg Are Integrating Twitter
Twitter is the first social media site the rise and evolution of which I’ve witnessed from the very start. I mean I remember how Facebook...
50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
A shortcut in general is defined as “a route shorter than the usual one.” I find this definition the best one because it can be...
KnowEm.com Launches : Check & Register Usernames on 100+ Social Media Sites
KnowEm.com (formerly CheckUserNames.com) launched a new web service today which monitors hundreds of social media sites for social media identity theft, helping brands to secure...
Google Maps Adds Over 9000 Webcams
Google Maps has added a ‘layer’ of over 9000 Webcams so users can get live footage of different areas where they may be driving, working...
Google Reports Q1 9% Profit Increase But 3% Revenue Decrease
Google has just presented the company’s Q1 earnings and finally the report showed that Google is not immune to the crisis after all. Google’s revenue...
Google Maps More Popular Than MapQuest
Google showed us a long time ago that it can dominate in search, but it’s taken a while for it to copy that dominance in...
Develop an Avatar Strategy for Social Media & Blogs
A lot has been said about avatar strategy already. However there is still something new to add. Choosing the right avatar is so crucial for...
Google Finance Now Running Google Display Ads
Google’s expansion of running AdSense style display ads across its own network has seen new ads within Google News, Google Image Search and other Google...
2 Tools to Aggregate Comments Across Social Media & Blogs
I love reading Internet discussions. That’s a source of inspiration, news and post ideas. There are so many sites where people can share their opinions...
3 Awesome Multi-Feature SEO Toolbars Compared
SEO toolbars are highly useful utilities providing us with: Lots of useful SEO info at a glance; Quick access to more SEO tools and resources;...
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...