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Startup SEO – Lonely, Frustrating, and Sometimes Embarrassing…But It Doesn’t Have to Be
I’ve had the opportunity to speak with a number of startups during my career, and I have helped several with digital marketing strategy. If you’ve...
Inbound Marketing in Foreign Languages
Traditional “outbound” marketing techniques, such as advertising and telemarketing, involve reaching out to potential customers and grabbing their attention. Inbound marketing involves creating quality content...
The Problem with SEO: Mistaking Correlation for Causation
So you just saw a big jump in your natural search result rankings? Congratulations, that’s great news! But before you start patting yourself on the...
Facebook Email Fiasco: 900 Million+ Profile Updates Without Permission
Even though most Facebook users were not even aware that they had a Facebook email address, the social network recently changed the publicly displayed email...
Changing Jobs? Some Tips from Alan Bleiweiss
I have had lot of SEO/Internet marketing friends that have lost jobs or changed jobs and then had to move far away to a new...
Facebook “Find Friends Nearby” Feature Quietly Launches
Although Facebook has not yet officially announced it, the social network has quietly launched a new feature called “Find Friends Nearby.” The feature, which allows...
Your Step-by-Step Guide to AdWords
New to AdWords? Have clients who struggle to grasp PPC? Simply Business recently created this interactive step-by-step guide to setting up and using Google AdWords....
New Law Requires Sex Offenders to Post Criminal Status on Social Networks
On August 1st, a new Louisiana law that requires sex offenders and child predators to declare their criminal status on social networking sites will go...
Too Bad We Didn’t Write Optimize First
Kudos to Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing for beating me and SEO Stoney deGeyter to the punch. If the two of us had collaborated...
Human Development Center, The Non-Profit Marty Weintraub Supports
I talked to Marty Weintraub, AKA @aimClear, about the Human Development Center. I asked him to tell us about this fantastic organization and the help...
Google’s Endangered Languages Project Fights to Save 3,054 Languages
With languages disappearing at an unprecedented rate, linguistic experts are predicting that over 3,000 of the world’s approximately 7,000 languages will become extinct in the...
Facebook Explains the “Report” Feature
When one of Facebook’s 900 million plus users clicks the “Report” button, the world’s largest social network has multiple security teams ready to take immediate...
12 Questions to Ask a Prospective Link Building or Contact Marketing Client
If you’re an SEO/SEM/inbound marketing/content marketing agency that offers link building or content marketing services independent of other services (such as keyword research, a technical...
10 Easy-Peasy Conversion Optimization Tips That Make Visitors Happy
If all our clients considered conversions to be as important as top search engine rankings, I think I would pass out. Or pass the beers!...
Announcing SEJ’s First Featured SEO Writer, Glenn Gabe
Search Engine Journal is excited to announce that Glenn Gabe, a regular contributor to SEJ, will be a “Featured SEO Columnist.” Glenn has been writing for SEJ...
Google Reports U.S. Government’s Censorship Request Volume “Alarming”
Google recently announced that the United States and several other Western governments drastically increased the number of censorship requests during the second half of 2011....
You Don’t Want a Google Disavow Links Option
Do you really want a disavow links option? I don’t. With the recent Penguin update, the SEO community has been talking a lot lately about...
Facebook Settles Sponsored Stories Lawsuit for $10 Million
Over the weekend, news broke that Facebook has agreed to pay $10 million in order to settle a lawsuit related to Sponsored Stories. The five...
YouTube Considering Paid Subscriptions
YouTube, the leading video website in the world, streams over 4 billion videos daily. Although the site is currently monetized through advertisements and site sponsorships,...
SEO for Facebook – New Video Revealed
Facebook is probably not the first place you would think to go for SEO advice. However, the social media giant is looking to change that. With...
Microsoft Bing Local Search Results Now Powered by Yelp
This morning, Yelp announced a new business partnership with Bing and unveiled its plan to provide Bing’s local search pages with trusted user reviews and...
The Non-Profits Pubcon’s Brett Tabke Supports
I contacted Brett Tabke, founder of Pubcon and WebMasterWorld, to find out if there was a specific non-profit he volunteers his time with. He doesn’t...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 6/13/2012
Check out the list of industry conferences coming up. There are plenty to attend this summer. If you have insight or feedback on some...
Facebook Launches New Plugin for WordPress & Simplifies Social Publishing
With WordPress powering more than 16% of all websites, people have been asking Facebook to release an official WordPress plugin for years. Yesterday, Facebook finally...
6 Months with Panda: A Story of Complacency, Hard Decisions, and Recovery
In the fall of 2011, I was contacted by the Director of Marketing for a B2B company. The company’s website had been hammered by Panda,...
Facebook Acquires Entire Pieceable Team to Bolster Mobile Efforts
Facebook, which was one of the most hyped initial public offerings of all-time, is hoping to reverse the stock’s bad fortune with yet another staff...
Content Marketing Beginners Suggestions for Businesses: Where to Start
Did you know there is a lot of work that has to happen before one begins creating a content marketing strategy? There is and I...
Google and Nextag’s Jeff Katz Exchange Blows
Jeffery Katz, a vocal Google critic and the CEO of Nextag, recently published an article in The Wall Street Journal claiming that Google is misusing...
The So-What Factor: 4 Questions to Ask for Stickier Content
You’re a marketer, not an artist, but you still have good reason to create content that is not just helpful and well-written, but meaningful and...
Twitter Monetizes Mobile Users as Facebook Stock Flounders
Due to the company’s inability to monetize mobile users, the Facebook stock, which opened at $38 and is currently trading in the $26 range, has...