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How Long Should the Page Title Tag Be?
We’ve shared tips on crafting a good page title several times on SEJ and each time we’ve came to conclusion that it is better to...
Craigslist More Popular Than MySpace : Sign of Economy Says Hitwise
Hitwise is running a report on the top search term in the United States for the week ending March 14, 2009, and interestingly the data...
Google AdWords Conversion Tracking 101/201/301
Ok class, today we’re moving into graduate level conversion tracking. But we’ll start with 101. First off, the number of people using AdWords without conversion...
Flash & Search Engines : Indexed in a Flash
When it comes to SEO, Flash can be a polarizing topic. Whenever I’m speaking with clients about their SEO initiatives (along with their creative and...
EyePlorer : a New Approach to Semantic Search
EyePlorer developed by German company Vionto.com visualizes knowledge graphs (k-graphs) derived from Wikipedia content that can be interactively explored. The knowledge graph consists of eyespots...
Google AdWords Content Network: How To Get Great ROI With A New Strategy From Google
Historically, Google AdWords’ Content Network has gotten a bad rap. And for good reason. Advertisers usually see much lower ROI results from it than from...
AOL Names Google Exec Armstrong as CEO & Chairman
Can Google’s Senior Vice President and chief of ad sales turn AOL around and into the mega powerhouse that Time Warner has always dreamed the...
How to Design and Organize Global Navigation Menus
Last week I started discussing huge navigation menus by asking what is a better way to order the navigation categories: alphabetically or by popularity. Today...
Huge Navigation Menus: Ordering by Popularity Versus Alphabetical Ordering
A while ago I took a quick look at Amazon.com navigation menus evolution and a few really interesting questions popped up after I published the...
3 Common Uses of Robots.txt File
Despite of the existence of pretty self-explanatory Robots.txt standards, all-in-one tutorials and advanced tips, Robots.txt topic is still often misunderstood and misused. Therefore I decided...
Matt Cutts vs Ted Murphy on Paid Blogging & Sponsored Conversations
In a followup to the Forrester report on paid blog advertising via sponsoring the conversation in blogposts, Google’s Matt Cutts has weighed in a bit...
Can You Make Money with AdSense for Domains?
Google AdSense for Domains lets domain name owners set up AdSense links on a parked domain which if it receives traffic, will serve relevant ads...
Google Enters the Twitter Game : Google + Twitter = Twoogling?
Google is now on Twitter. As insane as it may seem, it has taken Google years to start using their Google account, which is located...
The Long Tail of Page One Rankings
When I’m meeting with clients or prospective clients, I’m often asked how important it is to rank on page 1 of the search engines. It...
Do You Care Who Your Domain IP Address Neighbors Are?
How Google views sites hosted on the same IP address is an interesting question. Have you ever been approached by a link farm owner offering...
Use Excel to Plan Meta Tags, Titles and URLs for SEO
Mike from MarketingBreakthroughs.com sent in today’s SEO Tip, which has to do with organizing and planning the meta tags, keywords and page titles for an...
Top 3 Search Engines Unite on Canonical URL
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft join hands in the drive to clean up the web of duplicate contents. The top three search engines are implementing support...
What Else Would You Like to See on Google Search Results Page?
Of course, Google can’t make everyone happy. I for one don’t like universal search and prefer seeing plain-text search results without being disturbed by images...
How to Track YouTube Videos
Youtube is the huge collection of both professional and amateur videos updated each minute. With online video growing popularity it is getting more important to...
5 Client Pitch Tips That Score Contracts
My last article on How to Deliver the Perfect Client Pitch was very well received, and so I’ve decided to follow up with a post...
Google is Broken, the 2009 Edition
I thought there was something wrong with my PC’s setting or something, or Firefox maybe experiencing some problem or my Internet connection has been attacked....
LeapFish : Instant Search Results as You Type
It’s not that often that I review new search engines, but Izea asked me to put together a sponsored post about LeapFish and after checking...
Obama Weekly Video Address Powered by Google & YouTube
The White House’s website, now redesigned into a more social media friendly blogging platform at 12 noon on January 20th, the day of the Obama...
Unable to Change Googlebot Crawl Rate via Google Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools allow you to set the Googlebot crawl rate and make it crawl your site faster. To access the feature: Sign into Google...
PPC: Is Vertical-Specific Experience Really Necessary?
George Michie just wrote a really cool blog post about PPC RFP’s (requests for proposal). So I was a list of what should you ask...
An Interview with Steve Plunkett: SEO Experimentation Done Right
Steve Plunkett is a well known for his SEO insights. You can follow him on Twitter or view his online resume at LinkedIn. And now...
Google Stops Print Ads Program
Google has just announced that it is closing one of Adwords’ not so popular revenue generating (or the lack of) stream – Google Print Ads....
Google Search Generates 7g of CO2, says Study
What would you rather give up? Boiling a kettle for your tea or using Google search? You might want to give up both, as boiling...
SEO & the Value of User-Generated Dictionaries
I have already blogged on using dictionaries for keyword research. Most of the online resources mentioned in that post are based on traditional English dictionaries...
Track Google SERPs for Reputation Management and Rankings Monitoring
I’ve been looking at a few rank checking and monitoring tools previously. This time I am going to share a few ways to monitor the...