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Are You Searching for the Right Way to Manage Your Business?
In a day and age where the business world seems even more competitive, how would you describe your ability to manage your small business? With...
Guide to Bringing Your WordPress Blog Up to Today’s Google Algorithm Standards
Keeping up with Google’s ever-changing algorithm updates on WordPress blogs requires constant monitoring and adjustments, which many webmasters fail to keep up with. Following the...
#Facebook Search Impacts Business Pages
Yesterday Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, unveiled the next big step in the social network’s development. Soon Facebook users will be able the search within the...
3 Core Link Baiting Strategies for 2013
The search engines are always changing, but link baiting strategies never die. Here are the three core elements of an effective link bait campaign, which...
#Facebook’s Big Announcement: Search
The mysterious announcement that Facebook promised to make is a mystery no more. During a live media event at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park,...
A Conversation with Ekaterina Walter, Author, “Think Like Zuck”
Ekaterina Walter is a social innovator at Intel. A recognized business and marketing thought leader , she is a speaker and a regular contributor to...
ShoeMoney Hits the $80,000 Mark for Charity
Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker has been an Internet Marketing phenom for years now, and he is a polarizing figure in the community thanks to his pulls-no-punches...
Alibaba Wants Subsidiary Private but All Businesses Open to Consumer Interests
Facebook recently opened itself to the public while the Alibaba Group (featured in New York Times) may have plans to put itself back in private...
The Definitive Guide to Penguin Friendly SEO
On April 24, 2012, Google launched what was originally called simply the “webspam algorithm.” It’s impact was large enough in the SEO community that Google...
Speculation Abounds in Advance of Facebook Press Event
Last week Facebook sent out an invitation to the press to “Come See What We Are Building.” The invitation gave no clues as to what...
Google Hangouts On Air Now Full Screen
Yesterday, the Google+ Help Page alerted its G+ followers that Hangouts on Air have a new look. The Hangout is a feature of the growing...
5 Ways to Fulfill Your Traffic Goals in 2013 Using Data from Google Analytics
Most businesses start the year by creating goals and objectives. What many businesses don’t know is that Google Analytics can greatly assist them in achieving...
Are You Falling Asleep at the SEO Wheel?
A recent post here on SEJ by Alan Bleiweiss certainly got the comments flowing. If you haven’t read it yet, “Get Over Yourself – Matt...
Have You Been Invited to the NEW Myspace Yet?
We first alerted you to the coming iteration of the new NEW Myspace last fall when the preview video was first released. At the time...
Misconceptions about Google Search Algorithm Updates and the Disavow Links Tool
In 2012, Google released significant search algorithm updates that have changed SEO practices forever. Many websites have been penalized by different algorithm updates. For some...
#Facebook Timeline Redesign Rolls Out in New Zealand
As we reported to you last November, Facebook has been working on a redesign of Timeline away from the 2 column layout. Just before Christmas,...
On-Page Optimization Methods Still Valid in 2013
SEO can be divided broadly into on-page and off-page optimization techniques. Simply put, on-page optimization is concerned with everything that can be done to boost your...
FTC Concedes to Google on Antitrust Ruling
Last week was a banner business moment for search giant, Google. The Federal Trade Commission ruled to drop any further action against Google after a...
5 Inbound Lead Generation Lessons in Building Trust with Your Website
I recently started working with a client who has a consulting business and discovered something really intriguing about their SEO and inbound lead generation. To...
How to Use MajesticSEO to Identify a Possible Negative SEO Campaign
MajesticSEO has been one of my favorite tools for some time. Its value for site audits, competitive research, and a lot of other tasks is...
The Lowdown on Website Load Speed
The loading time of your website is an important factor that determines its overall success. As people generally prefer sites which load fast, they tend...
You Can Be a Hero on New Year’s!
Today is a big day, it is New Year’s Eve and many celebrate by drinking and/or using substances that impair their ability to drive safely....
Get Over Yourself – Matt Cutts Did Not Just Kill Another SEO Kitten
Fed up with Google’s continual changing of the rules? Worn out by all mixed messages they send? Sick and tired of being sick and tired...
Dear Santa… All I Want Next Year from SEJ
Ho, ho, ho! Santa has agreed to accept a few last minute wish lists from the readers and contributors of Search Engine Journal. The little...
I’m Back… Let’s Make SEJ a Better Place
I am back temporarily. I will be helping out at SEJ until a new editor can be found and the SEJ Advisory Board is set...
SEJ Talks with Marketing Dynamo Bryan Eisenberg
Recently, I had the distinct pleasure of talking with one of the web’s most influential marketing experts, Bryan Eisenberg. The interview you see below is the...
Is P.C.P the New SEO?
For years, optimizing a website was quite a simple affair. Through the course of search engines indexing sites, there were various algorithm updates too, but till Panda...
Sprint’s Acquisition of Clearwire in the Balance
Sprint’s attempt to takeover Clearwire and save its unlimited monthly data plans is in the balance following reports that some of the wireless service provider’s...
Google Hires Ray Kurzweil as Director of Engineering
Beginning December 17, 2012, Google’s new Director of Engineering is Ray Kurzweil, a renowned futurist whose affinity for Google has been known for years –...
Evaluating the Knowledge Graph vs. Social Graph
What’s more valuable, the vast inter-relationships of all known factual knowledge or the interconnected set of personal relationships of one billion people? In many ways,...