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Newspapers: Go Social or Go Home
Obviously the newspaper industry is struggling. Industry analysts, journalists and online marketers are frantically scrambling to come up with a smart solution to monetize content...
Local Search Tips Whitepaper from Location3 Media
Location3 Media has shared with us their Local Search Tips whitepaper that covers big picture strategies and small hints to maximize local search campaigns. They...
Using Up Your Leftovers: Link Building Edition
Are you tired of turkey yet? By now we should all be just about done with turkey sandwiches and leftover sweet potatoes. But using up...
21 Power User Tips for Web Marketers
Note: This article is intended to bring those who are not from a technical background fully up to speed with some time saving techniques and...
How to Number Google Results in FireFox and Google Chrome
We scan through Google Results daily, sometimes even hourly. Having Google results numbered helps a lot in understanding where your (or your competitor’s) page scores....
Google Ads Cater to Catering
In the United States, the holidays are often seen as a time for the “three F’s”: fun, family, and food. From our Thanksgiving feasts to...
Google wants to know all about YOU
Convenience or Conspiracy? You Decide. What once started as a convenience for users has, over time, started to sound more like some Orwellian nightmare stalking...
A Cornucopia Full of Local Search O-Pack Advice
Yes. Not only did I tie in the word cornucopia into a local search post, but I managed to spell it correctly as well. Now...
Just for SEOs – How to Find and Keep a Great Copywriter
One of the things I enjoy most about SEO is that I get to work with a lot of creative, talented specialists, especially copywriters. For...
SEO SpyGlass Adds Blekko as Additional Backlink Research
Today SEO SpyGlass, the link and and competitor research software we gave a very favorable review earlier, is adding a new exciting feature and data...
Internet Marketing Cornucopia
I have many reasons to be grateful this year on many fronts for many reasons. One area happens to be the fact that I’m blessed...
7 Keyword Suggest Tools Beyond Google
We all know about the value that you can find while performing keyword research using the Google Suggest feature for regular search as well as...
Google Adwords Cost
One of the theories I wanted to test was about using Google AdWords inbuilt bidding engine focusing on clicks versus focusing on conversions instead of...
Get Instant Access to Multiple Google Services with Google Shortcuts (FireFox)
Google is launching more and more free tools and services. I use some of them daily if not hourly (like Google Search, Google Docs, Gmail,...
10 Things from 2010 that May Shape Your 2011
A compendium of random stats I’ve found interesting from 2010 It’s that time of year again, where people are in full swing of 2011 planning...
The Key To Increasing Inquiries, Leads, Sales…
If you want to increase __________________ <inquiries, opt-ins, leads, sales etc> by ______% <5, 10, 30, 50, even 100%> then you need to pay close...
12 Tips For Using Twitter to Grow Your Business
1. Monitor Your Name and Brand Use the search feature to find out who’s talking about you and your products. If someone tweets something nice...
Increasing SEO Competition and Change: Survival Not Mandatory
Image by Rebekah May It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. – W. Edwards Deming It’s safe to say the way search...
Can’t Get Those Rankings? Maybe Your Social Circle Can Help!
I started noticing some new natural search terms in my Google Analytics keyword report. Highly competitive terms like SEO, SEO Blog, and SEO Blogger were...
How Many “Dark Patterns” Can You Name?
I have always been amazed by and supportive of simple but genius ideas I keep coming across daily. This time it’s “Dark Patterns” community initiative...
The Power of Listening in Social Media
I’m amazed at how few marketers spend time listening to social networks before deciding whether or not to invest in them. Twitter and Facebook are...
Zero In On Your Problem Areas
Building links is tedious work, whether you enjoy it or not. I’ve done almost every form of SEO at one time or another, and I...
Educating The Client About SEO Is The Best Way To Recover The Reputation Of The SEO Industry
Just the other day I came across a discussion regarding the The SEO Industry’s Reputation Problem on Sphinn.com. After going through the discussion, I strongly...
Make the Most of Twitter Lists with Formulists
When Twitter lists were first introduced many people were very skeptic, others (like myself) didn’t have the time to use them properly and to figure...
Lions and Tigers and Emails – Oh My!
What do you think are the most visited sites on the Internet today? If you said Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and YouTube, you would be...
Google AdSense Rolls Out New Interface
Google AdSense has rolled out a major interface change that they have been testing for a good month or so, which has the new ability...
Google Place Search…what about PPC?
What a big couple of months for the Google SERPs. First they add the “instant” feature (which I’m still getting used to) and most recently,...
Don’t be Another Link in the Chain: Quality Content and PR is Key to International SEO
SEO is categorized into two broad categories: off-page and on-page optimization. On-page is more straight-forward, in that full control lies with the optimizer. In the...
The Social Assisted Search Conversion – Hard to Track, But Harder to Ignore
First, I’m sure you are wondering where you can find this metric. Let’s start by drilling into Google Analytics to find the report. Access the...
Using Reference Sites for Acronyms, Colloquialisms and Internet Slang for Inspiration
With the rise of modern instant forms of mass communication, the languages we use in our daily lives are evolving at a pace never before...