SVG Files and Documents Are Now Indexed by Google
Google has announced that they are now going to be indexing SVG documents and files. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an XML-based graphics format specifically...
Introducing Greplin: the Search Engine for Your Personal Online Life
Searching through the entire online world is already something we do, everyday. How about searching through your own personal online world? Y Combinator has just...
Users Still Able to Catch the Google Wave until 2011
Earlier this month Google announced that their real-time communication feature, Wave was no longer going to be developed by them. The communications and collaborations application...
Gmail Launches Email Overload-Fighting Feature
Starting yesterday, Google has begun rolling out its newest feature in Gmail – Priority Inbox. With this handy new tool, users now get a little...
Pay Per Fan: What Big Brands Are Paying For Facebook Fans
Although it may sound weird or repulsive to some purists, brands have been buying fans on a cost per fan basis for months (some for...
Testing the Water with Link Bait
In the SEM world, “link bait” is a common tactic designed to capture a large audience in the hopes that a given piece of content...
Gmailing is Much More Social with Rapportive
If you do business online and participate in social media networks, the number of contacts you have is overwhelming. Networking is the most important step...
Microsoft Adds Food Cart Finding Layer to Bing Maps
Apparently food carts are a very big deal in Portland, Oregon. So big in fact that Microsoft has developed a new mapping layer that allows...
TweetUp, Now PostUp; Name Change Reflects Expansion into Facebook and LinkedIn
Search engine meets advertising platform start-up, TweetUp, will now be known as PostUp, according to an article by Business Wire. Why, you may ask? Well...
Google Adds Blog-Finding Filter
Instead of just bringing up individual post containing specific keywords used in searches made by Google users, there is now a filter that brings up...
5 Link Building Questions That Make Me Die a Little Inside
If you offer link building as a service, there are a few questions you hear over and over. They are the questions which, like a...
Online Marketing – How Times Have Changed
If you pay attention at all, it’s easy to see how the economic crisis has reached into our everyday lives. Businesses with an online presence...
Watch the 2010 Emmy Awards Online
This Sunday, August 29th the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be airing on NBC at 8pm ET. The insanely popular awards show will be...
Google Fixes Bug That Leaves Some User Blacklisted as Spammers
Over the past few days, ending on Thursday, certain Gmail users were experiencing a problem with their accounts – specifically, having emails resent multiple times...
Affiliate Fraud: Who is at Risk and What are the Solutions?
In the world of affilate marketing, it can be a little overwhelming deciding which software to choose as there are so many options. Affiliate marketing,...
Google Reports 1 Million Calls Made in First 24 Hours
Google’s new voice client is already a success after just having launched earlier this week. A mere 24 hours after it’s debut, Google reported via...
New Awesome Ways to Search within Current Site (Using Google)
I am sure you are familiar with (and using regularly) Google’s most useful search operator SITE: – that restricts search results to the domain you...
Google Places Removes Yelp Reviews From Search Results
As of right now, Google has removed all Yelp reviews from its Places feature. Even though the local reviews website’s snippets will no longer be...
Digg 4 is Released, But Are Users “Burying” This New Version?
Digg, the user-powered social news website, has released its new version – Digg 4. If you are not familiar with exactly what Digg is, here’s...
Time for another look at TrustRank concepts
How well do you know your neighbours There is a concept that folks don’t really seem to talk about as much as they once did...
The 4 Hardest Things About Conversion Optimization For Local Search
As I was perusing through some updates on twitter the other day I came across an Alan Bleiweiss article entitled CONVERSION OPTIMIZATION IS THE NEW...
Search Conferences Getting Mobilized
Mobile in recent years has been a sort of side panel at search marketing conferences but here in mid 2010 I feel for the first...
6 Ultimate On-Page Search Engine Optimization Tips
These on-page search engine optimization tips will assist you in setting up your pages with the appropriate title and meta tags, headers, text elements and...
Topsy Lets Us Reminisce on Our Tweets Past…Kind Of
If you have ever tried to search on Twitter you know that it is pretty frustrating. The search results don’t go back very far at...
Apple Bringing 99 Cent TV Show Rental Service to Fend Off Competition
Companies like Hulu and Netflix are pretty steep competition for Apple in the online video services arena. As of right now iTunes users must purchase...
Google Voice Marketing Campaign: High-tech and Old School All At Once
This will be my third post about Google’s new VoIP service today, so I guess that means they are doing their jobs over their in...
Google Finance, Now in a More Mobile-Friendly Form
As of Monday, Google launched their new mobile-friendly version of Google Finance for iPhone and Android. While it’s original form wasn’t terrible, this new compact...
Writing Good Copy: Let Keywords Be Your Guide
Whenever I’m starting a new SEO campaign, I always begin with a heart dose of Keyword Research. Well before you touch any Meta data or...
How Just Noticeable Difference Theory Impacts Your Blogging
Just noticeable difference (JND) describes the marginal difference in a stimulus (compared to a similar stimulus) needed for that difference to be perceived. Also mathematically...
Opinion Crawl Tracks and Semantically Analyzes Sentiment on Twitter and News
I have reviewed several tools to analyze sentiment: their methods varied from manual sentiment setting to textual analysis, emoticons and symbols. Today we are looking...