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Social Networks, WAYN.com and Momondo.com Merge
There are numerous social networks online that center around traveling, booking travel excursions and users giving their opinions about various places they’ve traveled. Users frequent...
Bing and Google: Mutually Stealing Social Search Concepts
In previous posts, I’ve put a lot of heat on Vivek Wadhwa, who – while he’s clearly knowledgeable – has also released a lot of...
Google Graduates Label Labs
In the midst of a Gmail disaster (more on that later today), Gmail is adding a set of new features for users. These two options...
The Transformation of Chrome into an OS
We all know that Google will be releasing an operating system sometime later this year with Chrome OS. However, what many people haven’t recognized is...
Google Becomes Your Sous Chef with Recipe Search
There are always dozens of excuses not to cook your own food, but the biggest one tends to be simply not knowing what to cook. After...
Don’t Underestimate Over-Optimization
Is there such a thing as over optimized? Can there be too much of a good thing in link building? Well just like eating 100...
10 Tips for Building Your Online Business and Keeping It Alive
Obviously, you want your online business to succeed instead of flop. Like most business efforts, you have to learn what to do – very few...
Keyword Research: Analyzing the Important Factors that Contribute to Online Marketing Success
One of the most important initial steps in any search engine optimization endeavor is keyword research. Without the right keyword research, you can pretty much...
Google Encourages “Nuanced” Approach to No-Follows
Matt Cutts is often the insider who lets us – John Q Public – know what’s going on inside the giant Google machine. He’s the...
Google AdWords Adds “Conversion Optimization” Option
There’s little doubt that the AdWords interface from Google is both powerful and appealing; after all, that’s how Google has managed to achieve an estimated...
Chrome Introduces High-Powered Background Pages
Chrome is certainly an industry leader in innovation, even if it hasn’t quite swept the market yet. The Google-powered browser has still managed to show...
Google to Chrome Users: Calm Down – The Omnibox Is Safe
Google has long been a fan of minimalistic designs that get right to the point. The Google search engine was nearly revolutionary for this tendency,...
The Fastest Ways to Share Anything on Twitter (FireFox and Google Chrome)
Let’s face it, we tweet a lot. Most of us have a great habit of sharing any interesting article we come across. And I am...
Searchfest Recap: My Favorite Takeaways
On Wednesday, the 5th annual search marketing conference, Searchfest took place in my humble town of Portland Oregon. This is always a great conference with...
Renren.com Social Network Gaining on Facebook
In China, Facebook social networking services are banned by Chinese authorities from developing an online presence in the country. With over 500 million registered users...
Would you report a competitor to Google?
I was recently involved with an interesting situation with (yet another) large brand falling out of the good graces with Google. For those playing along...
Attention Traditional Companies: Stop Trying!
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been hesitant on writing this article because I felt that I might end up feeding the ranting mill,...
My PPC Campaign Isn’t Driving any Traffic: What Next?
If you’re a PPC campaign manager you’re probably at least somewhat familiar with this sequence: Do a painstaking amount of keyword research and segmentation, carefully...
The Group Buying Effect
Group buying and daily deals have increased exponentially in the past year or two- and they will only grow larger. The benefits on both side...
Tool Alert! Create a Twitter Digest to Easier Keep Up with Your Closest Friends
Keeping up with your social media contacts is one of the most important steps in building online presence. But how not to get lost and...
To Improve Search Quality, Google Must Penalize Sources of Link Pollution
If you’ve been in SEO for more than a few weeks, it’s a safe bet you’ve seen poorly moderated blog comments or forum threads that...
Why the SEO Industry Changes So Often
Let’s face it the SEO industry is a lot like a runaway train at times and all you can really do is just hold on...
9 Sins of Google Analytics
Google has created business and consumer applications for just about any occasion imaginable, exemplified by its popular programs like Google Maps and Google Analytics. Because...
Google Becomes Social – Twitter Flickr And Quora Are All Invited
The search giant Google has thrown its hat into the social networks ring. With social networks growing and expanding wildly, Google has decided to get...
Stay.com: Searching for Mr. Good Travel
Norwegian travel startup Stay.com, was the proverbial “toast of travel town” at the end of last year. Moreover, judging from today’s release of their version...
SearchFest 2011 Interview:Â Matthew Brown
Matthew will be speaking about “Advanced On-Site SEO” at SearchFest 2011, which will take place on February 23rd at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon....
Ad Text Evolution:Â 5 Changes to Your AdWords Ads & How They Affect Your Bottom Line
There’s a lot going on over on the AdWords product development team. Keywords are dying, new AdWords features are rolling out all the time, campaigns...
Using Drupal? Here’s the Best Modules for Onsite SEO Optimization
Without a doubt, Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems around; there are millions of websites using it. Many users face one...
5 Reasons To Create A Facebook Fan Page AND 5 Reasons Not To
While I’ve been known to ramble on and on, I’m going to keep this one short and simple. Shocking, I know! 5 Reasons You Should...
The Power of Unique Product Descriptions
Whether it’s online or offline, words help sell products. If you are setting up an e-commerce store you should take the time to really focus...