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Guest Blogging Tools and Advice: Interview with James Agate
The combination of several blog networks recently being deindexed along with anticipation related to the upcoming over-optimization penalty has many businesses looking to diversify their...
Report: MSIE Sees Greatest Traffic During Work Day; Chrome Picks up in Evenings
The last year has been a wild ride in the world of web browsers. Chrome has been quickly gaining on Microsoft Internet Explorer’s (MSIE) market...
Google’s “Fresh” Video SEO Tips for Website Product Pages
Google wants to always be featuring the freshest and relevant product information; and does so with their “freshness algorithm’ – originally released last fall as...
How to Track Off-Site Clicks as Goals in Google Analytics
On the Single Grain blog, we’ve talked a lot about the power of Google Analytics in general terms with the following posts: Google Analytics...
Judge Demands Lower Court Reconsider Rosetta Stone Lawsuit Against Google
Prior to 2009, Google AdWords prohibited advertisers from bidding on trademark protected phrases and keywords. Due to the implementation of an advanced algorithm allegedly capable...
Are Patents the New Black for Tech Companies?
Google recently ogled at a plethora of new patents; so, it’s likely its competitors will follow suit, as Microsoft has done on Monday, purchasing more...
Level Up: 3 Tricks to Try When Your Content Marketing Plateaus
If you’ve been playing the SEO game for a year or more, odds are you’ve got the basics down by now. By “basics,” I mean...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 4/11/2012
Hubspot is putting on an interested upcoming Webinar entittle, “The Science of Webinars”. This would be a good one to attend if you are interested...
Maryland Lawmakers Ban Employers from Requesting Facebook Credentials from Employees or Interviewees
Last week, Maryland’s House and Senate passed legislation prohibiting employers from asking for a current or prospective employee’s logins to Facebook and other social media...
E-Mail IPR Worldwide See Major Drop in Second Half of 2011
Marketers worldwide that continue to utilize e-mail for much of their marketing activities may have batted an eye or two at a report from e-mail...
Seven Over-Optimization Penalty What-If’s. Are You Ready for These?
Both Google and Bing told an audience at South by South West (SXSW) that they are actively working on an over-optimization penalty in order to...
Facebook to Purchase Instagram for $1 Billion!
When Stanford University graduates Devin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched Instagram in October of 2010, they were just a couple of college graduates trying to...
Crazy Easter Fun and Food Ideas via Pinterest
Let me start by saying that SEJ wishes you a very happy and safe Easter weekend. Easter is just a few days away and decorating...
To Blog or Not to Blog, That is the Question
I believe that in today’s inbound marketing world, delivering quality blog content to your target market needs to be a top priority. Connecting with your...
Anti-Trafficking Organizations Request Investigation of Google AdWords
In the recent past, Google has been accused of profiting off of serving illegal ads related to online pharmacies, illegal Olympic ticket sales, and recently...
Starting Points for Taking your Business International
Internet trading takes place on the World Wide Web, a metaphysical place without borders, so why would you limit your business strategy to domestic customers...
Google Glass Project: Augmented Reality Coming Soon!
In February, Search Engine Journal began covering Google’s development of “augmented reality” glasses. The glasses, which will enable users to simultaneously view the actual physical environment...
Report: Search Engine Market Share, March 2012 Update
The search engine market remained relatively stable in the month of March. Google solidified its position as market leader with a gain of 4.8% in...
Ninja Link Prospecting – An Afternoon of Epic Geekery
I’m not a programmer. I can hack things together, and I’m great at copy / paste, but creating code from scratch that isn’t massively buggy?...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 4/4/2012
If you didn’t get the chance to head to San Fransisco for Ad Tech there are a few webinars to watch to keep your skills...
Mac OS X Mountain Lion Preview Takes .06% Share of all Mac OS X Traffic
Mac OS X, the Unix-based operating system running on all Apple computers since 2002 is a major part of the brand image, carefully cultured by...
Google Art Project Expanded to Include Digital Tour of White House & New Artwork
Recently, at The Art Institute of Chicago, Google announced an expansion of the Google Art Project initiative. The project, which launched in early 2011, initially...
Web Engineers Aren’t Fooling About Hacker Preparation
If you opened the printed paper of the New York Times’ business section on Saturday, your vision was breached with copious news of Internet hacking. ...
An Event Worth Saving Up for: Tim Ash’ Conversion Conference Chicago
In a recent article, Prashant Puri pointed out the need for SEO folks to start wearing another hat: that of user experience designers and conversion...
What Customer Services Can Learn from SEO
The principles guiding search engine optimisation are sound business goals for all areas of a company, including customer service. From showing off how local you...
Status Update: Could Facebook Analytics Help STD Information Go Viral?
Although many Facebook users already have concerns regarding their privacy, the social network’s large user base combined with the vast amount of data available continues...
Preparing for Link Armageddon
Many SEO’s have used blog and syndications networks at one time or another to take advantage of the controllable anchor text and ease of building...
Senator Al Franken Claims Free Market Incapable of Regulating Facebook and Google
U.S. Democratic Senator Al Franken, who is the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, recently accused Google and Facebook of...
The Tracking Tool That Monitors Your Guest Blogging Campaign Effectiveness
Trying to keep track of backlinks is one of the most miserable elements of being a guest blogger. Relying on the blog owner not to...
Social Video Marketing: A New Competitive Advantage
What do businesses mean when they say they do “social video”? Is it just about creating an interesting video and distributing it on YouTube and...