Do You Use Mind Mapping to Organize Keywords and Ideas?
What is Mind Mapping? Mind Mapping means graphically representing words, ideas, concepts, tasks in the form of a diagram – it is thus outlining some...
Twitter’s Search Function, Now Powered by Lucene
Even though they have had their new search out for a few weeks now, Twitter’s new real-time search engine is just now starting to get...
WhosTalkin: Introducing Facebook’s New API & New Social Media Metric
Our great friend Joe Hall has shared some exciting news about his service WhosTalkin, a social media search engine that searches real-time conversations from around...
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...
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...
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...
Scribe SEO: On-Page Search Engine Optimization Plugin
Scribe SEO is an on-site search engine optimization plugin that supports multiple platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc. Features: the Overview Basically, the tool makes...
3 Creative Ways To Drive More Traffic To Old Blog Posts
In many ways it makes as much sense to promote existing content on your blog as it does to create new content. Every site needs...
8 Lessons SEO’s Can Learn From The U.S. Military
In honor of the U.S. Military, I’ve borrowed some common-sense rules from military doctrine and applied them to search engine optimization for both educational and...
When SEO is Not the Right Solution
I had a meeting today with a prospective client and the account manager at one of my agency clients. The prospect was coming in to...
Successful Viral Marketing via Creating Playful User Experience
Successful viral marketing is art and in many cases pure luck. What makes the viral marketing campaign more likely to succeed is the properly created...
The 4 Biggest Keyword Research Mistakes
Keyword research is no rocket science, but many webmasters still struggle with it. If you analyze the pattern, however, you’ll see that most keyword research...
Tangential Relevance and Link Building
Tangential relevance is the idea of something being related to a topic in an indirect manner. I feel like Tony Robbins using that term, but...
5 WordPress Plugins to Keep in Touch with Your Blog Co-Authors
Maintaining multi-author blogs is hard but it definitely pays off. A multi-author blog provides the variety of insights, perspectives and blogs. Most feeds in my...
How to Get Facebook Fans: 5 Facebook Fan-Acquisition Strategies
These are the only five ways to get Facebook fans. If you have another way, it’s wrong. Just kidding. These 5 fan-getting techniques are part...
Yahoo! Search Suggestions Now Localized
Yahoo! recently announced that they are making search more intuitive by taking a users location into consideration when suggesting search queries. Yahoo! Search Assist helps...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Yahoo’s Results Now Officially Come From Bing
Just last week Yahoo announced that it had started transitioning it’s back-end technology in the U.S. and Canada (English) for Yahoo! Search over to the...
The Psychology of SEO
How far can you take a web site using SEO? On the surface, that depends solely on your ability to implement strategies and tactics to...
Tumblr Takes a Fall in Google Search Rankings
Blogs. Almost everyone has one (or in my case, three or four), follows one, or wants to create one. With the exception of a select...
3 Facebook Limitations Marketers Should Be Aware of
Facebook is an awesome social media marketing tool and the brand Facebook presence is GOLD, but it has some bugs and limitations you should be...
Killer Autoresponder Blueprint
Email marketing is a vital part of your success. I am going to share a blueprint I created to create killer messages. Just a quick...