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How Google Is Screwing Its Own Advertisers with Comparison Ads
In October of 2009, Google launched their new Comparison Ads product specifically for mortgage advertisers, which allowed them to compare their mortgage products side by...
Umlauts, Accents, and Google
When optimizing sites in languages that contain characters not found in the English language, it is important to know that Google will return different results...
Get Focused for a More Effective Online Marketing Campaign
When you are first starting out in business you may put all of your efforts into whatever marketing you can afford or have time to...
How a Good Salesperson Can Teach You to Be a Better SEO Consultant
I recently had the opportunity to review the work of a fellow SEO company in the form of recommendations they had made for a client’s...
Bing to Power Chinese Retail Search Engine, Etao.com
Looking for a little traction in China, Microsoft has partnered with the country’s largest online retailer, Taobao.com (whose parent company is Alibaba Group, owners of...
Yahoo Elaborates on More of Their New Search Enhancements
In the wake of Yahoo’s announcement that they would be releasing new search enhancement features in the coming weeks, today and yesterday they announced on...
Put Some Skin In The Game & Become a Better Marketer, Guaranteed.
I believe there’s a process that any person can go through that will make them a better marketer, guaranteed. I started my own business in...
UniversalBusinessListing.org Announces New Verification Process to Ensure Search Results’ Credibility
UniversalBusinessListing.org is a site that provides home-based and micro businesses with the service of having their business profiles distributed to major search outlets, social networks,...
Google Talks Their Self-Driving Car
Sebastian Thrun, a software engineer at Google, posted on the company’s official blog over the weekend that they have been developing technologies that will allow...
Google’s Reasonable Surfer Model: A Scalable Solution to Paid Links?
Google recently released a patent based on the browsing tendencies of “reasonable surfers”. Within, it details that previously, Google had followed a “random surfer” model...
Canonical Links Users Experiences
The three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) joined forces in February 2009 and introduced the canonical tag. That was supposed to be a...
New Release of the Ontolo Link Building Toolset
The Ontolo guys Garrett and Ben are at it again with the launch of the V2 of their Link Building Toolset… And from the demo...
The Fitness Mantra For Your Inbound Marketing Campaign And Healthy Online Visibility And Results
The world of online and inbound marketing is getting tougher and more competitive. In order to gain and retain visibility, it is essential to follow...
Yahoo Adds New Search-Enhancing Features
Yesterday on Yahoo’s search blog they announced the launch of the first series of search features that integrate news and entertainment results in one area....
Display Ad Creation Platform, Dapper, to be Acquired by Yahoo
Looking to not only maintain its rank as the “most successful force in display advertising”, Yahoo has a signed a deal to acquire Dapper, a...
Using AdWords to Test Key Phrase Overall Traffic
I recently wrote a post over at SEOmoz talking about how to forecast key phrase traffic. And when I say traffic, I mean the pool...
Google TV – A Slap in the SEO Face
Well this one has been a long time coming. Thanks to the brilliant minds at Google, WebTV has been resurrected from the ashes, and transformed...
Greg Boser & 3 Dog Media Join BlueGlass Interactive
Today I’m very happy to announce that BlueGlass Interactive has entered into an acquisition of 3 Dog Media which includes the additions of Greg Boser...
Self-Regulation Program to Help Protect Internet Users’ Privacy
There is an on-going battle between Web users and the amount of access advertisers have to their information. A new program is going to be...
Touch Screen Startup, BlindType, Acquired by Google
Touch screen technology startup, BlindType, announces that they have been acquired by Google. If you are unfamiliar with BlindType, the short and long of it...
3 Things Link Building has Taught Me about Life & Vice Versa
Life is all about the lessons; the things we figure out through trial and error along the way. At its core link building is a...
Visual Search Engine, Quintura, Sells The Patent for Their Technology
Visual search engine, Quintura, announces that it has sold its patent technology to an unnamed buy for $600,000. According to CEO Yakov Sadchikov, the price...
Googles’ Link Shortening Service, Goo.gl, Now Open to the Public
Google’s URL shortening service, Goo.gl, has added new features and launched it’s open service and companion site today for public use. When the feature first...
The Importance of Google Scribe & SEO
Whenever Google releases a new experiment in their Lab, it’s important to pay attention. Often times, the search engine shows its cards so to speak,...
The 3 Major Causes of Duplicate Listings in Local Search
Over the past 2 months I would say somewhere in the neighborhood of 99.3% of the phone calls I have received involve companies who are...
Demand Media Case Study
It seems that Demand Media and its recently filed IPO has re-ignited a lot of the discussion that was first set in motion after Wired’s...
The Future Of Search Engines If Paid Search Is Given More Importance Than Organic Search
The search industry thrives because of the search engines, the searchers(Users) and the people who work behind the content of every form of web resource...
AOL Acquires TechCrunch and Mike Arrington is Really Excited About It
Yesterday the news broke that AOL had acquired TechCrunch, the technology-oriented and web properties community. A lot of speculation has been going around as to...
5 Reasons Why You Will Outsource Local Business Listing Management
Does your business standout to local consumers through local business listings? Is your business dependent upon the local geography for your revenue? If you’re not...
Link-Dealer: My Interview With Jay Young
I’ve attended all 4 SMX Advanced Conferences and if someone were to ask me who gave the most memorable presentation that I saw, I would...