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Smartphone Penetration: Japan Users Lead Way When Adapting To Mobile Technologies [INFOGRAPHIC]
While the smartphones market in Japan has only reached a 6% penetration rate compared to 31% in the United States and 30% in the United...
E-Commerce Spending Reaches Record Breaking Levels in 2011
For the ninth consecutive quarter, the fourth quarter of 2011 achieved strong year-over-year growth in online retail spending. The recent report, which was released by...
Twitter is Impossible to Resist: Study Indicates Social Media Urges Stronger than Sex
A new study just released by the Chicago University’s Booth Business School suggests that people find it more difficult to resist the urge to use...
Matt Cutts Explains How SafeSearch Works
Google’s Matt Cutts answers a question about how SafeSearch works. The link Matt mentions is below the video. If you’re a website owner and you...
Utilizing Existing Partnerships to Score Easy SEO Wins
I am a big believer that the term “link building” should be abolished and forever re-branded as “relationship building.” Successfully creating and managing relationships is...
Do This, Not That: SEO Content Edition!
I’m sure you’ve seen those handy guides in magazines that tell you to eat 13 pretzels instead of 100 M&M’s or taco pizza instead of...
Google Blogger URL Redirects Censor International Users
When Twitter announced they were instituting a new censorship policy, the micro-blogging platform faced an immediate and severe backlash from the majority of the web...
Marketing Mayhem in the Hotel Booking Space
If there is any more dynamic and competitive marketing niche online than travel and hospitality, even the casual observer would have a hard time noticing...
How To Get Hired At A Top SEO Agency Part 4: What Not to Do in An Interview
See Part 1 and Part 2: What most applicants are lacking and Part 3: Rocking The Interview. The last question I asked our panel of...
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Pinterest the Referral Giant: New Site Driving More Traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn Combined [INFOGRAPHIC]
In addition to recently winning the Crunchie for Best New Startup of 2011, a new study by shareaholic is now indicating that Pinterest is driving...
Illegal Anti-Poaching Policy: Google, Apple, and other Tech Giants Face Lawsuit
Although seven technology giants from Silicon Valley requested the district court dismiss a lawsuit that alleges anti-poaching deals, U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh stated...
Zendesk Announces Availability in Google Chrome Web Store
Zendesk, the cloud-based help desk technology behind Groupon and Zappos, announced today its availability in the Google Chrome Web Store. Zendesk has two offerings on...
Facebook IPO: Social Hype or Sound Investment
As early as tomorrow, Facebook is expected to file paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO). The social media giant is reportedly hoping to raise...
How To Get Hired At A Top SEO Agency Part 3: Rocking The Interview
You did it! You got an interview at the SEO agency of your dreams! Since you’ve started reading this series you now know the main...
BlueGlass Aquires Voltier Digital
When asked about this acquisition Chris Winfield said, “I have known and worked with the team at Voltier for about 4 years (that’s actually 28...
AdWords, Plus Your World – 7 Examples of How SPYW Could Impact SEM
When Google+ first hit the scene this past summer, I couldn’t help but think about how the fledgling social network could eventually be monetized by...
Twitter Censorship: Necessary Evil or War on Freedom of Speech
In a blog post late last week, Twitter announced plans to begin censoring users’ tweets within certain countries. The censorship policy, which the company has...
Google Plus Promotes Network and New Security Features to Young Teens and Parents
On Thursday afternoon, Google+ announced that the rapidly growing social network is now available to teens ages 13 and up. Although minors can sign up...
Optimizing for Search Engines: By Language or By Country?
When it comes to targeting search engines to reach international markets, we’re going to have to do things a little differently. As we expand our...
Google Public Alerts: Innovative System Provides the Public with Emergency Alerts
Yesterday, Google launched its new Public Alerts page, which provides emergency information and warnings related to floods, tornadoes, winter storms, earthquakes, and other natural disasters....
Google Exposed: Federal Government Used Con Man in Google Sting Operation
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article that provides additional details of last year’s sting operation against Google AdWords. The federal investigation, which alleged...
Interview with Ryan Jones: Big Brand SEO, Social Media & More
Can You Tell Us About Your Current Job? I’m the Senior Search Strategist at Team Detroit. We’re a full service agency owned by WPP. I...
CRM Software to Improve Online Marketing
Over the past few months I have been concentrating on improving my time management skills with the introduction of a number of different tools and...
New Google Privacy Policy Update: Your Data Now Combined Across Google Services
Earlier this afternoon, Google announced plans to begin tracking users across e-mail, YouTube, Google+, search, and almost all of the other Google products. The change,...
Feed Your Body Like You Feed Your Brain: SEO Recipe Collection
I know that recipes are totally off-topic and abnormal for SEJ. But I put this post together for 3 reasons: SEO’s and Internet marketers can...
Google Increases Fourth Quarter Lobbying Budget by 300%
With the ongoing battle related to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), antitrust allegations, privacy concerns, and acquisitions and mergers, Google has been steadily increasing...
How To Get Hired At A Top SEO Agency: Part 1
The image from Indeed.com shows how companies have finally figured out that having a well planned SEO strategy is a vital part to their companies...
Important Google News: Recap for Last Week
If you were sick last week or on vacation or in a coma you missed A LOT of Google news. Here is a must read...
Google Plus: Growth by Brute Force
When Google’s new search feature “Search Plus” started favoring Google+ results several weeks ago, the change was immediately resisted by competing social networks like Twitter...
Bye Bye Summify:Twitter Acquires Social News Aggregator
Yesterday, Twitter announced that they are acquiring the Vancouver-based social new aggregator Summify. Summify, which was founded in late 2009 as ReadFu, summarizes the stories...