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Google Search Results Get the Star Treatment
Google’s long-standing effort on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature – marking search results...
Free SEJ News iPhone Application Available
Attention all Search Engine Journal lovers and avid readers out there: we have good news! The new SEJ News iPhone application is now available in...
Google Launches DoubleClick for Publishers
Google has just announced its new ad serving technology which is geared for both large and small scale online publishers – DoubleClick for Publishers. This...
10 Questions to Learn Your Niche
If you truly understand your niche, you can better find relevant linking partners. If you don’t, you’re going to waste loads of time pursuing targets...
Is Link Building Worth Your Time?
You have proposals to write, meetings to attend, strategies to devise and posts to blog – where does building links work into your daily routine? ...
Top 10 Google Buzz Kills : Privacy, Noise & Clutter
As of this minute, Google said that there has been more than 9 million buzz created two days after Google Buzz was launched. This could...
3 Ways to Display Related Posts in WordPress Blog
Displaying links to previously published related posts in the bottom of each article has numerous benefits: (!) Dramatically increase click-through (people who are very interested...
Domain Strategy – Why It’s A Critical Component to SEO Technical Audits
When it comes helping clients with natural search, I’m a firm believer that SEO technical audits are an incredibly important first step for most engagements. ...
7 Awesome Ideas to Use Gmail Filters For SEO Tasks
Over the past weeks, I’ve come across a few highly valuable and inspiring articles on using Gmail filters as well Outlook rules for better productivity....
5 Powerful Ways to Use Google Reader’s Feed Creation Tool for SEO
You may have noticed that two weeks ago Google announced a new feature for Google Reader: the ability to create/track RSS feeds for pages that don’t...
Industry Insiders – Interview with Michelle Robbins
Welcome to the kick-off interview of Industry Insiders! As much as I’m getting to know more people through Twitter, I’ve found that because we all...
How to Hire Great Talent and Keep Them Happy!
In my ten years of designing and developing websites for clients, I can count on one hand how many I had a truly great experience...
Google Now Lets You Add Stars on News Easily
Noticed something different from Google News lately? Nope? Go ahead and check out Google News site. You’d notice those “un-highlighted” star icons before the title...
Google Adds Click-to-Call Phone Numbers
The Official Google Mobile Blog announced that phone numbers featured on some mobile ads are now clickable. This means that when you see a business...
How Search Engines Find Your Content
Discovery; where SEO starts… Long before you start to worry about actually ranking content, you need to get it into the index. And of course,...
Taking Front End SEO to the Next Level
I can’t recall how many times a prospective client has come along where my initial thought was “wow – this one’s going to take 250...
Building A Well Rounded Backlink Portfolio
Everyone in the SEO industry knows and understands that most websites cannot live by on-site optimizations alone. After you perform your keyword research, complete your...
Google Highlights Answers to Factual Search and Events
In a bid to make search results more relevant, Google is introducing two new features which were actually based from two of its experiemental products...
Google Now Showing Local Results for State Wide Searches
It is no news that Google is displaying local search results in the SERPS these days. If you are looking for anything from a dentist...
6 Super Tips for Creating a Natural Backlink Profile
If you’re paying for links or building them manually, it’s becoming more and more important to make it look like you’re gaining them naturally. That’s...
Google Becomes Richer by $6.7 Billion in Q4 2009
Google just released its Fourth Quarter 2009 Earnings Report and never mind if it didn’t exceed expectations of the Wall Street Journal, it’s still quite...
Google Caffeine for Mobile
As the Internet world continues to wait for Google to fully push online its next generation infrastructure called Caffeine, its best to understand why its...
Beyond Google PPC Ads in 2010
The New Year brings some new services from Google Adwords, which will take you beyond your basic PPC ads. Google has be working hard to...
Im-Portent SEO: My Interview With Ian Lurie
I first met Ian when he spoke at our SearchFest 2008 event. Though we’ve communicated frequently via social media, we, more often than not, missed...
How to Use Various REL Attributes – Learning Microformats
Last week with my post on hCard format I started a good tradition: overviewing microformats in an easy-to-understand way and learning to use them with...
Build Links with Better Answers
Have you ever typed a question into Google and the ranking results were from a mass produced “how to” site? Even if you don’t know...
How to Predict Traffic from Google
Google gives you plenty of really good tools at the moment to predict the traffic to your website from Google rankings. In this post I...
Covario Acquires NetConcepts
The San Diego based search marketing services and software firm, Covario, has acquired NetConcepts, the SEO agency which was founded by Stephen Spencer. Many in...
AdMob Metrics Show Surge on Android Ad Impressions
Admob just released a new metrics showing a significant spike on ad impressions for Google Android. AdMob’s report was based on the ad requests received...
How to Aggregate Google Analytics Stats with Raven Tools
The best thing about the Raven tools is that you can have all aspects of your website promotion campaign and performance tracking under one combined...