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Shakeup at Apple: Scott Forstall Leaving, Jony Ive Taking Larger Role
Late yesterday afternoon, Apple announced a major overhaul of the upper level management structure in Cupertino. According to the Apple press release, Scott Forstall will...
Mobile Search Marketing for BRIC Countries
Mobile search is big news everywhere. According to Google, mobile searches quadrupled in the United States last year. “Roughly one in seven searches, even in...
SEO Tech Leader #Conductor Secures $20 Million in Financing
Conductor, a leader in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technology, today announced that it has secured $20 million in financing led by Investor Growth Capital, marking the...
How You Can Help Those Affected by Hurricane Sandy Now
It is obvious that millions of people are going to need as much help as we can give them by the time this hurricane is...
Mobile Has Changed Us: The Couch Potato is Extinct
Back in August of this year, Real officially launched their RealPlayer app for Android . As part of the development process for the video application,...
LivingSocial Contributes to Amazon Q3 Losses
Yesterday, Amazon posted it’s third quarter earnings statement. The $13.81 billion in revenues fell short of covering the company’s expenses for the quarter, costing shareholders $0.60 per...
Facebook Leaves the Privacy Barn Door Open to App Developers
Updated Post Yesterday afternoon, Miranda Miller of Search Engine Watch broke the news about how some Facebook app developers are exploiting the private information of...
#Pinterest Makes Top 50 Website List
Pinterest has finally made it into the top 50 most visited websites in the United States, according to comScore, with just over 25.3 million visitors...
#Facebook Posts Better Than Expected Q3 Earnings, Stock Up
Wall Street investors seem to happy with yesterday’s 3rd quarter earnings statement from Facebook. According to Don Reisinger writing for CNet, “The social network’s shares have...
Anchor Text Analysis: Post “Penguin” and EMD
We all know by now that over-optimized anchor text was a huge factor for sites that were dinged by the Google Penguin update. We’ve seen...
Apple News: iPad, MacBook, iMac
As reported to you last week, Apple kicked off a what will be a full week of tech announcements and product launches—and the tech giant...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 10/24/2012
Well, if you’ve been following any of the twitter streams from the last two conferences, #Pubcon and #Convcon, you’ll see that there has been a...
10 Post-Panda/Penguin Era Link Acquisition Strategies
In February of 2011, the introduction of the Panda update shook up the search results, altering more than one out of every 10 searches. Content...
Pubcon Presentation: Proactive Link Building Tactics
In the session at Pubcon Las Vegas 2012, I spoke about link building, essentially revealing what works and what does not in a post-penguin world....
Future of Yahoo: Mayer Expected to Announce Plans
Yahoo will be releasing its third quarter earnings statement later this afternoon. CEO Marissa Mayer is also expected to announce her plans to turn the...
Tweet the Vote: Is Social Media Impacting Political Engagement?
There is no doubt that social media is certainly enabling the campaigns to measure the volume of political discourse in a way it hasn’t been...
September 2012: Best of Search Engine Journal
Well, we have 10 fantastic and educational SEJ articles that brought in the most traffic in the month of September. There is a lot to...
Apple and Google and Windows, Oh My!
After all kinds of announcements and press invitations this week, the tech world is set to be abuzz with news over the course of next...
Blekko Releases New Premium SEO Tools
Blekko, the user curated search, launched a new suite of SEO tools to give developers and websites unparalleled data for improving site traffic. The new...
Want to Start Your Own Consultancy? Read This First
The term “consultant” can describe just about anyone these days, but perhaps, a more appropriate term for consultant would be artist—that person with niche expertise,...
Should You Accept Guest Posts?
It’s no secret in the SEO world that Google’s recent Panda and Penguin algorithm updates have killed off a number of backlink building techniques that...
HootSuite Enterprise Solution: Social Media Command Center
HootSuite, the popular social media dashboard, announced it will be launching a new comprehensive social media solution for enterprise business. The HootSuite Command Center will...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 10/17/2012
This week I’m writing from PubCon in Vegas. I’m hitting the show tomorrow and excited to see what is going on. Last week, I had...
How Salesforce Does Online Marketing (via #DF12)
During Dreamforce 2012, I had the pleasure to attend a session on “How Salesforce does Online Marketing.” If I had to sum it up I...
How to Get Your Mobile Strategy Ready for Multi-Screen Web (Plus Brands That Did It Right)
About two years ago, digital marketers began talking about the “mobile revolution” and how it was going to change the Web forever. There’s been a...
Majestic SEO Fresh Index Updated Hourly
Today marks another milestone in the Majestic SEO offerings. This morning, the Fresh Index began updating on an hourly basis. According to the blog post...
FTC Moves Closer to Pursuing Antitrust Action Against Google
On Friday, Reuters reported that four of the five Federal Trade Commissioners were convinced that antitrust action is warranted in the case against search giant, Google. This announcement lines...
25 Ways to Boost Community Engagement on Your Website
As a website owner, you’ve probably heard over and over again how important it is to build a community on your website. And while it’s...
Friday Vegas Humor For #Pubcon Attendees
Pubcon is next week and we all want to have a good time, but I found some images that might give you food for thought...
10% Off Google Analytics and Google Adwords Training
One of the things I have on my list to learn more about is Google Analytics. I love data and I like to inspect our...