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Google TV Platform In Testing, Says New York Times: Following up initial reports that came out last week, the New York Times offers more details today about Google’s plans to gain a stronger foothold in our living rooms via what the paper is calling Google TV.What is Google TV?

FTC Commissioner: Google’s Buzz Launch Was ‘Irresponsible Conduct’: An outgoing FTC commissioner has slammed Google over the way it launched Google Buzz last month, calling the episode a case of “irresponsible conduct.” According to PC World, FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour also said Google and other online companies

4 Ways To Increase Conversion Rate Without Testing: So much of conversion rate optimization relies on testing. “Test everything, test often” is a good mantra to keep in mind and will do you no end of good. But you can’t always test everything. In this post I discuss

Now View The Night Sky In Bing Maps: Roughly two years ago Microsoft introduced “WorldWide Telescope.” At first it required a software download. It then was made available as a Silverlight web app. Today it’s being integrated into the new Silverlight version Bing Maps. In other words, you

What The Future Of Search And Social Marketing Means To An InHouse SEM: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the future of search. What will it look like? What will the changes ahead mean to me as an inhouse search marketer? Will my work be different? Will I need new skills?It’s almost

B2B Hubs Or PPC? Are All Leads Created Equal?: B2B companies crave leads. Good leads. Quality leads.At the right price.Both Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC) and Buyer Hubs/Lead Generation sites offer opportunities to cap the Cost Per Lead and gain some control (which is not as easy in other media,

Google’s St. Patrick’s Day Doodle & Logos From Others: If you visit Google.com today you may see a Google Doodle (logo) for St. Patrick’s Day. Here is a picture of the special St. Patrick’s Day Doodle for this year:Google is not the only search engine with a special logo.

Facebook Adds Auto-Suggest To Search Box: Continuing to improve and emphasize its search capabilities, Facebook today announced the inclusion of an auto-suggest feature to its search box. Just as it does in other settings, the auto-suggest appears as you type a query. But, with some Facebook

SPONSOR MESSAGE: Start Ranking Higher in Search Results with the Free Yield SEO Analyzer: Instantly see how well your website’s pages are optimized. The free Yield SEO Analyzer is a great place to start. It thoroughly evaluates your pages and provides easy-to-understand advice about what you can do to rank higher in search results

Nexus One Comes To AT&T, Rogers But Runs Into Trademark Trouble: Google announced today that the Nexus One handset is now compatible with the 3G networks of AT&T in the US and Rogers Wireless in Canada. A CDMA version (for Verizon) is coming soon. However the phones are unsubsidized (no contract)

Bing Hits All-Time High Market Share: Nielsen: The latest search market share numbers from Nielsen are out, and it’s more good news for the folks in Redmond. Nielsen says Bing’s market share in February was 12.5%, an all-time high that continues Bing’s overall growth since it launched

Statistical Significance: Not Just For Geeks Anymore: The concept of “statistical significance” is probably one of the most misunderstood phrases in search marketing. People sometimes ask me to assess whether the difference between two clickthrough rates is “statistically significant” or not with the same look on their

5 Reasons To Make Sure You’re Deep Linking: Whether you’re building links for yourself or a client, at some point you need to make sure that you’re procuring inbound links to not only your homepage, but also your critical subpages. Chances are, that if you have a nicely

Twitter To Launch Ad Platform On April 13th?: Peter Kafka from AllThingsD is guessing that Twitter will be launching an ad platform on or about April 13th. Some suspected Twitter would announce an ad platform yesterday during Ev Williams Keynote at SXSW but he did not. So why

Google: Mobile Query Growth “Dramatically Higher” Than PC: During an investor and financial analyst webcast yesterday Google’s Vic Gundotra said that an “increasingly large” number of advertisers were doing mobile campaigns and that there was a “dramatic amount of interest” in mobile among those not yet advertising in

Why Is Ask Really Hiding Their Ads Referrer Data: I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Ask Sponsored Listings has changed how they handle sending referrer data to webmasters. From now on, they are basically not sharing the page of origin with the webmaster.Why? Ask said they have

How To Find The Right People To Follow On Twitter: While many of us in the marketing world tend to focus on how many followers we have and how to get more, for many Twitter users the other side of that coin is a real challenge: How do I find

Elevating The Global Importance Of Content: Shortly after my last Multinational Search post (Global Vs. Local: How To Let Google Know How To Treat Your Site) I was taken to task by a few readers complaining that supposed global experts only talk about domains and hosting

Twitter Announces @Anywhere Platform For Web Sites: You may have caught this in Danny Sullivan’s liveblogging of Ev William’s keynote at SXSW today, but just in case … Twitter has introduced a new platform called @anywhere that will allow web sites to integrate Twitter features more easily.The

Facebook Passes Google (Again) As Most-Visited US Site: Hitwise: Facebook.com was the most-visited web site in the U.S. last week, surpassing even Google.com. And this is not the first time it’s happened.According to Experian Hitwise, Facebook.com received 7.07% of all internet visits during the week that ended on March

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Rhea Drysdale - SEO Industry Hero: Anywhere there is controversy you will find many marketers who will opine and try to shine the lights on themselves about how wonderful they are and how much they help everyone else and how everyone should link to them in

Professionalism: Some people email you out of the blue accusing you of things that are not true while being rude and condescending. One person stated that they were certain I sold their email and that I am unethical and etc etc

The 'Information' Age: Relevancy is a good thing. It makes search and the world more efficient. Many attempts at relevancy, like search is getting more social, may just create more noise. But computers are getting better at understanding language is a good thing

A Proven Time-tested Effective Technique For Reducing Your Income: When Transparency is ValuableIf you are selling a site which you just want to get rid of and lack passion for then there is nothing wrong with being fairly transparent and shopping it for the maximum amount you can get

Crafting SEO Landing Pages: The landing page, in terms of SEO, went out of fashion. Landing pages, which tended to be mass-generated, near identical pages pointing to one money page, became a target for the search engine spam filters. However, the type of landing

Interview with Andrew Shotland: Today I get to interview one of my favorite reads in the SEO blogoshpere, Andrew Shotland. Andrew runs the Local SEO Guide blog and has graciously taken some of his time to share with us his thoughts on Local SEO.1.

The Evolution of Man & Media: So remarkably bad, that I had to share it! :DI dont know who Demand(ed) that Media, but could I please get my minute and six seconds back? With 50,000+ views, that 1 video has wasted over a month of human

Is SEO Science or Art?: Recently SEOmoz posted about running a test that proved their thesis that nofollow PageRank sculpting still works (while actually only proving issues with sample size & methodology). But the issue of proving things with SEO publicly is typically a misguided

Local SEO - A Case Study: How Do You Do Local SEO?Its quite clear that local SEO will be *one* of the places to be in 2010 and beyond. Need convincing?Check out: Google and Yelps failed deal - If local search was unlikely

Mark Cuban's Mahalo Wants Your Blood (And Gets it TOO!): Mark Cuban recently talked about how search engines and content aggregators are vampires. There is no reason to be indexed in Google. ... You haven’t gotten anything backBut he failed to disclose how his Mahalo investment loots content.

Slow & Steady vs Hype, Crash & Burn: HOPE is perhaps the single most lucrative thing to sell. There are so many people in need of direction, while so few actually want to do the work required to achieve the end goal. Thus many scammers

Starving Artists in the Age of Cesspool Content: On Hacker News, Melvin, from Web Design Company, had a great analogy on the Mahalo business modelLets use a different industry to illustrate what is happening. Lets say a band named The Beatles records a new album. The local radio

More PROOF Jason Calacanis is a ____: Publicly Jason claims to be ignorant about SEO because it allows him moral flexibility and makes Google less likely to torch his site (even though he is blatantly violating their search quality guidelines, and has for *years*).

Why Mahalo (and Other Content Scrapers) Render Google's Spam Team Flaccid: I was talking to a friend yesterday who was at a conference where Demand Medias CEO spoke, and he stated that nobody asked the big question: what if google decides they dont like you anymore?Then I got thinking about how

Learning SEO: It Can Get Noisy: There is obviously no shortage of information on SEO. But thanks for turning up here :) The sheer avalanche of SEO information can be overwhelming, for beginners and experts alike. Who do you know who to listen to? What information

I Turned the Google Toolbar Off, But It Kept Spying On Me...: Ben Edelman: Although I had asked that the Google Toolbar be disable, and although the Google Toolbar disappeared from view, my network monitor revealed that Google Toolbar continued to transmit my browsing to its toolbarqueries.google.com server

Google AdWords Tax Calculator: Many experienced advertisers realize that there are many gotchas in the AdWords system...optimization tools and default setting which optimize to boost Googles yield at the expense of unsuspecting advertisers, who dont yet know what match types are or that their

All Shades of Gray: Does Google like auto-generated websites wrapped in Google AdSense ads?The short answer is no.The long answer is a bit more convoluted. But so long as they are...well brandedwell fundedoperating at scalegood at public relationswrapped in AdSense ads...the answer is yes,

SEO Consulting: How To Construct Great Proposals: Like in any consulting field, SEO is rife with competition. There is only one way to win in such an environment, and that is to set yourself apart from the crowd. Not in a bad way, of course :)Here are

Beating the Logic & Creativity Out of You: I remember in 2nd grade when our teacher was teaching us how to do math I raced ahead and was doing lessons for today, tomorrow, and next week. The teacher rewarded my efforts by yelling at me and ripping up

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An Illustrated Guide to Matt Cutts' Comments on Crawling & Indexation: Posted by randfishLate last week, Eric Enge of Stone Temple (and a co-author of mine on The Art of SEO) published a fascinating interview with Googles head of Webspam, Matt Cutts. I think the whole of the SEO community can

Using Anchor Links to Make Google Ignore The First Link: Posted by ErrioxaThis post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The authors views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views

I Want To Be Like Rhea Drysdale: Posted by Sarah Bird, EsquireMay It Please the Mozzers,I havent written on the blog in months, but I simply couldnt let today pass by without acknowledging the courage and perserverance shown by Rhea Drysdale in her pursuit of justice. Shes my

Double Your Fun with Double the SEOmoz API: Posted by Nick GernerI know, I promised a Linkscape update by last week. And I missed it. But theres an update today! Do you forgive me? No? Not enough? Well how about doubling the volume of data available in our

Data Visualization Techniques: Posted by willcritchlowRob and Duncan are currently in Seattle, with this week full of interviews of SEO consultants for our US office. Since the announcement in February, we have been working flat out with a bunch of new clients and

Whiteboard Friday - When Optimizing, DON'T Test Everything: Posted by great scott!Test, test, test! Thats the mantra these days. Conversion Rate Optimization is the buzzword on everybodys lips (and tweets). So why are we telling you NOT to test? Well, were not, were just saying to be smart

4 Things That Are Getting Me Rankings, Right Now: Posted by Glen AllsoppThis post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The authors views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the

SEO Health Checks - Regular Housekeeping Tasks for Your Website's SEO: Posted by richardbaxterseoTechnical problems, errors and surprise releases are all regular features in the day to day management of a website when you’re an SEO. There’s no doubt that maintaining a quick, error free and well optimised site can lead

SMX West 2010 - Man on the Street Interviews: Posted by jennitaNote: This post will make you smile, possibly even laugh. It wont however teach you much about SEO. Youve been warned.Last week I attended SMX West in Santa Clara, California and took a couple flip video cameras along.

Optimizing Search Conferences: How Differing Incentives Create Audience vs. Organizer Issues: Posted by randfishWARNING: Get ready to read with this one. There arent a ton of fun graphics or quick bullet points, but I do promise that if you read through, youll feel much more knowledgable about the topic, and likely

Targeting Multiple Keywords vs. Singular Keyword Focus: Posted by randfishDespite being a seemingly simple topic, this one seems to stymie even experienced SEOs. Theres a natural conflict that creates the issue - the more keywords you target on a single page, the less you need to link

Search Marketing Success Stories: Posted by RobOusbeySearch Engine Optimization covers a huge range of tactics - all of which can bring direct benefit to a website. In this post, Ive shared examples of different tactics used at different websites, and the effects that have

Strategic Link Building: How to Productize Link Acquisition and Dominate Your Niche: Posted by randfishThis week, despite still being seriously under the weather (see this weeks sad WB Friday), I flew down to SMX West to speak on the Link Building Strategies panel. Although Id wanted to put more work in and

Whiteboard Friday - Twitter as an SEO Research Tool: Posted by great scott!Sure, you use Twitter as a social media tool, but have you ever considered it as an SEO research tool? No? Well watch and learn this week to find out how you can harness it in a

Introducing New Features for Open Site Explorer: Posted by Danny Dover Today I am proud to announce the launch of the second version of Open Site Explorer. Since SEOmoz has officially moved out of consulting, we are now able to put our full resources into building fantastic SEO

Ballmer, Sitelines & Other Favorites from SMX West Day 1: Posted by jennitaSMX West 2010 kicked off with quite a bang (or was that a yell?). Since Microsofts CEO, Steve Ballmer

One Dead Simple Tactic for Better Rankings in Google Local: Posted by randfishThis post is short and easy to follow, just like the tactic it recommends. Most everyone who optimizes for Google Local (aka Google Maps) is familar with David Mihms excellent and oft-referenced Local Search Ranking Factors. In that

Pagination: Best Practices for SEO & User Experience: Posted by randfishWeve been getting a lot of questions in Q+A and on the road at events like last weeks Miva Merchant conference, Online Marketing Summit and the YCombinator conference about how to properly paginate results for search engines. In

Managing SEO Campaigns in Declining Industries: Posted by RobOusbeyThis is a graph of organic traffic for a theoretical site - they might be in an industry such as print advertising, construction equipment or VHS rental. The decline in traffic is pronounced and serious.

Whiteboard Friday - 5 Things You're Not Doing (But Should Be): Posted by great scott!This week, weve got a couple of newcomers to Whiteboard Studios! Our very own Jen Lopez and Danny Dover (whom you should know well thanks to Jens Meet the Mozzers post) are pinch-hitting for our globe-trotting CEO.

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More material for web site owners: Here’s some more stuff you should know about.- I did a monster-long interview with Eric Enge. I think the interview lasted an hour or something like that, and we covered several areas in depth.- Next, take a break and go

Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking: Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches:Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide

Google stars for bookmarking: Google is replacing SearchWiki with stars in Google search. The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go. Once you star something, it shows up above the search results:Pretty cool. But I discovered

Clarifying a couple points: Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google’s Arrogant Leaders. The two assertions that used my comments as material were “Google’s wealth means Google

Start an embedded YouTube video at a certain timestamp: In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video. The short version looks like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08sThe “#t=31m08s” takes you to 31 minutes and 8 seconds in a video. I just found out that

Calling for link spam reports: Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you’d like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links (e.g.

Leaving the iPhone: I’m three weeks into a new 30 day challenge: no iPhone. When I got a Nexus One in December, I spent a few weeks carrying both phones around in the pockets of my jeans. It took a little while to

Search Engine Watch

Paid Search Freakonomics: Finding and Ostracizing Losers: Effective optimization is about picking on freaks and losers -- segments in your account that deviate from the norm. Here are six useful tools for setting context and hunting down paid search losers. ...

Managing Global Web Sites: Managing global sites across dozens of markets is a very complex process. Heres a quick primer on how to effectively manage global search programs and see them succeed. ...

SEM: A Call to Action: A call to action in your ads and your site is critical. Getting your potential customers attention is important, but getting them to direct that attention to doing what you want them to do is an absolute. ...

Did Bing Outsmart Google in Their Real Time Results Strategy?: A new study shows that the real time results in Google are overlooked by most users. Will Bing rule as a real time search engine, or does Google have another trick up their sleeve? ...

What Does Google Social Search Mean for SEO?: Consider implementing these tips to expand your real estate in search results. ...

Do Top Students Get to Pray in Google Church?: Competitive spaces require creative methods for getting well ranked. But are big PPC spenders given SEO leeway? ...

Build Links in 30 Minutes a Day: You can successfully build links to any type of Web site in just 30 minutes a day. Heres how. ...

SEO vs. PPC Debate -- Which Do You Prefer?: Theres a growing divide between online marketers who enjoy organic search and those who prefer paid search. What do your preferences say about you? ...

Don't Over Optimize Your Site: SEO is a best practices game. Understanding how not to over optimize is an important part of the mix. ...

Winning the Multi-Agency Game: Can't We All Just Get Along?: Some survival tips for when youre asked to work with your clients other agencies. ...

Passing The Torch as an SEO Manager: At some point in your career as an SEO manager, you may decide to leave your current employer for greener pastures. How you help your soon-to-be former employer during this time says a lot about you as a professional. ...

Get Your Search Campaigns Ready for the Yahoo/MSN Merger: Tips on MSN search, blocking referrers, choosing your network, and a look at some promising Yahoo betas. ...

Search Around the World: Italy: A look at the most popular search engines, top industries, and search marketing best practices in Italy. ...

Your Locations are Your Biggest Digital Assets: A physical address has huge online implications. While youre covering your assets, make sure to build up your presence for local-based searches. ...

Measuring Social Media with Web Analytics, Part 1: Measuring social media is possible and Web analytics should be a key part of your measurement strategy. Part one of a two part series. ...

Forget Shorty: Long Tail Keywords Convert Cheaper: Dont miss out! Long tail PPC terms offer the cheapest ROI in many industries and are also easier to rank for organically. ...

3 Tools for Optimizing Page Speed: If youre responsible for a site, and you think you may have page load time issues, here are some tools to get your site performance up to speed. ...

What Can Mobile Do?: The transition for advertisers from online to mobile search is still in its infancy, so there are massive benefits for early adopters. Get ahead of other marketers, understand the space, and drive your brand as a leader. ...

Using Linkscape Metrics to Prioritize Link Building Campaigns: How to get the most out different backlink reports and generate high value link targets. ...

Focus on the User: How do you make sure that your Web site is user friendly? Here are some tips to avoid setting yourself up for search engine optimization disaster. ...

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The Conference You Have to Attend: SearchFest: On Tuesday March 9, SearchFest is going to take place in Portland. If you own a business, here are the top 5 reasons you should attend and if you dont own one... well there are still some good reasons for

My Home at Olive 8: Its been a while since I posted and updated you about my life. For the past year or so I have been living in Seattle and most recently, I just bought a place at Olive 8 by Hyatt. I know

The Micropreneur Academy: My friend Rob, just luanched the The Micropreneur Academy. Here is a bit more information on it.The Micropreneur Academy, an online learning environment for solo software entrepreneurs, is opening its doors to new enrollments soon. Launched in April by noted

Want to be a winner? Join the Winners Circle!: Gyutae Park from Winning the Webjust launched a new membership site called Winners Circle. I dont normally post about stuff like this but I wanted to mention it because I think it has a lot to offer marketers of all

DocStoc Charges Out Of Beta With DocCash: If you are looking to make money on the web, but arent too technically savvy, DocStoc has just released a cool new product that lets you easily make money. Through their new program, DocCash, every time you upload a document

How To Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time: Over the past few weeks I have been reading a book called Twitter Power by Joel Comm. As many of you know I am not a big fan of books, but I have to say it is one of my

You Have to Talk to People to be Successful! Who Knew?: Almost everyone on this planet wants to become successful, there is no doubt about it. You cant blame people for wanting this. Success in wealth can take you places youve always dreamed of going and buy you things you always

SEO Black Hat

This Gmail Feature Would Be Amazing: It will be so incredibly useful that Im shocked no one has done it before.

Corrected: Top 100 Site Traffic Breakdown: Their infographic was helpful, but it needed a slight correction.

$200 Twitter Contest: 122 Characters Sent Back 2000 Years: Whoever comes up with the best answer wins $200 (via paypal).

Why 6th Place in Search Might Soon Be a Player: Whats good for the Goose is good for the Google.

Microsoft Cross Platform Flow: This type of thing really is going to be huge.

Hear that? That’s the Sound of Socialist Head’s Assploding.: But . . . but . . . Canada has teh best health cares system evah!

The Real Reason Google Dropped Youtube Support: So you’ve probably heard that Google has decided to drop IE6 support for Youtube.At first I just figured “Cool, we’ll get more people away from IE6.” But the real reason is that they want to promote Chrome:That first Slot will

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 17, 2010: Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

St. Patrick's Day Logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others: Happy St. Patricks Day everyone! We typically post a collection of the various logos from the search industry, including Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and others for the special day. To see the past years logo see our 2009, 2008, 2007,...

Why Did You Get into the SEO Field?: A HighRankings Forums thread asks a fun question, why did you get into the SEO field? I decided to tweet the question via @rustybrick and I received some quick responses. The purpose of the tweet was to try to create...

SEOs Continue To Dissect Eric Enge's Interview of Google's Matt Cutts: As most SEOs know, Eric Enge interviewed Matt Cutts, of Google. Eric is probably one of the best technical interviewers I know, so whenever he posts an interview, I try to read them carefully. When he posted an interview of...

More Google Caffeine Speculation : Is It Almost Live?: Let me start off by saying this is speculation, Google has not (I repeat, NOT) confirmed this. A WebmasterWorld thread has renewed reports that Caffeine, Googles new index, is going live really soon. Since yesterday, dozens of webmasters in the...

Google Opens 3rd Party Ad Networks To All AdSense Publishers: Last night, Google announced they are opening up the Google-certified ad networks to all AdSense publishers. The Google-certified ad networks are 3rd party advertising networks that are thrown into the bidding war with your AdSense powered ads. Google initially tested...

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 16, 2010: Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

SES NY 2010 Live Blogging Schedule: SES New York is a week from today and we will be providing live blogging coverage of the event - yet again. Every year I say I will retire from doing it, but then I continue to do it. Heh....

Why The SEO Industry Is Special: I have been part of the SEO industry for a pretty long time now. The thing is, I really dont offer SEO services, but yet, I still write about the industry, cover the news and go to the industry gatherings....

Google Providing SEO Support For Muti-Regional Web Sites: JohnMu from Google posted a blog post named Working with multi-regional websites. The post goes over many of the SEO implications behind making multiple web sites all targeting different regions around the world. John discusses URL structures, hosting, domains, using...

Google Hungary Shows Italy's Colors On Hungary's National Day: Reported via the Google Web Search Help forums, Google Hungrys web site yesterday was sporting a logo for Hungarys National Day, which was on March 15th. The Google Doodle reportedly had the wrong logo. Here is the Google Doodle as...

Warning: Google My Maps Bug Can Impact Your Maps: Google Maps Guide, Cecelia, created a Google Maps Help thread warning users not to edit their Google My Maps. The specific issue is with editing the Place Details in the My Maps. If you do edit it now, it may...

Facebook.com Beats Out Google.com In Web Visitors This Week: Hitwise reports that Facebook.com surpassed Google.com in visits to become the most visited website for the week ending in March 13, 2010. It is not the first time this has happened, on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day...

Ask Sponsored Listings Stops Sending Referrer Data: Ask Sponsored Listings recently launched a new platform which is managed by what they called Pureleads. Ask advertisers have been receiving emails about the change in the past week or so. One savvy advertiser, Jerry Nordstrom, posted a thread at...

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 15, 2010: Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

301 Redirects Do Not Pass Full PageRank & Link Value: Eric Enge interviewed Matt Cutts of Google and uncovered a few interesting tidbits about Google, but the most significant piece of information was that 301 redirects do not fully pass the PageRank from the redirect. Let me quote you the...

Keyword Data in Google Webmaster Tools Goes Blank For Some: Over the weekend there were several reports in the Google Webmaster Help forums that the data in the keywords reports within Google Webmaster Tools was empty. Here are some of those reports: Yesterday and for the last few months the...

Italy Goes After Google Over AdSense Payments: Italy really doesnt like Google, first they send 3 Google executives to jail over a YouTube video being posted, without their knowledge and now they are going after Google for how they pay Italian AdSense publishers. A WebmasterWorld thread reports...

Google Is Really Leaving China, Well 99.999% Chance: In mid-January Google said they are leaving China after being part of a hack by the Chinese government. Since then, Google has been trying to work out details with the Chinese government to stay. Part of Googles requirements to stay...

Google's Real Time Results Too Spammy?: Ever since Google began incorporating real time results in the form of Tweets and other real time sharing sites into their search results, it resulted in a new way for people to get their information out there, on the first...

SEO Chat

Mobile SEO: Create, Post, and Track Content on the Go: Who says you have to do all of your SEO in the office You ve probably considered getting some work done on the road but blanched if you own a laptop with the power to do it it seems to

More CrawlTrack Tips and Techniques for Webmasters: In part one you learned the important concepts and steps for installing and integrating CrawlTrack into your website. In this part you will learn how to maximize the use of CrawlTrack in dealing with website statistics. You will also learn

Has Your Website Been Hacked?: Traffic is one of a site s most important assets because it is the primary element of conversions leading to sales. The number one source of website traffic is primarily search engines led by Google. However search engines do aim

WordPress 301 Redirect: Tips and Techniques: There are several instances when you administer WordPress blogs where you will need to perform a 3 1 redirect. It is one of the most important corrective actions you can take when moving content. No other methods are as friendly

CrawlTrack: Tips and Techniques for Webmasters: If you re looking for a web analytics program but don t want to use Google Analytics you might want to give CrawlTrack a look. This web application goes beyond simple analytics to help secure your website. Let s take

Google`s Living Stories: the Final Nail in the Coffin for Paper Media?: Google has earned the wrath of publishers before. You d be upset at Google too if it looked like the search giant was going to put you out of business -- or at least force you to seriously rethink your

Keyword Difficulty vs. Size of Domain: You might wonder when it comes to competitive keywords does Google prefer ranking big domains This question can be answered by taking a close detailed look at the relationship between keyword difficulty and the size of the domain. The result

Social Networking SEO Tips and Techniques: The popularity of social networking sites on the Internet offers not only opportunities for friends to meet again online or get in touch with your old classmates and office mates but a new opportunity in the field of search engine

Beyond Keywords: Increase Your Google AdSense Revenue: This two-part article series explains how to maximize your revenue from Google AdSense. You should have read the first part already as it discusses the selection of keywords for AdSense success. This time we ll go beyond analyzing keyword-related issues

How to Increase Google AdSense Revenue: One of the best ways to earn money online is by using Google AdSense. If you are a blogger and your blogging web software allows you to copy and paste HTML code then you can implement Google AdSense. In this

Five Ways to Optimize Pages: You think very carefully about your keywords your phrasing your titles and links when you create an article or blog post for the Web. When writing with an Internet audience in mind you re always sure to optimize your content

Updating WordPress Tips and Techniques: WordPress is one of the best and most popular open source CMS blogging platforms. The down side of its popularity is that it is frequently exploited by hackers wanting to take over and deface your website. In fact in one

WordPress Database Tutorial: Security, Backup and Efficiency Tips: WordPress is currently the most important open source website publishing software. It has diverse applications ranging from self-publishing content blogging to acting as a full-fledged content management system. Yet only a few tutorials give serious emphasis to the WordPress database

Design an Online Quiz Using Google Docs: In this article you will learn how to build an online quiz using Google Docs. Popular applications of this can be found at websites for online universities and schools. If you are planning a website that offers online training and

Submit and Update a WordPress Plug-in: WordPress is currently the most popular blogging platform as of 2 9 . It is released as open source and can be used by anyone for free. Because of this immense popularity it is widely supported by web developers who

Should You Be Clocked In?: Facebook. MySpace. Insert the name of your favorite social networking site here. These Web sites allow you to connect with contacts of all types -- old college chums family members acquaintances co-workers perfect strangers -- but they also largely have

Are You Optimized? Use SEO Analysis: There are lots of little ways you can check to see if your keyword optimization efforts are paying off for your Web site. You ll know you re achieving search engine optimization when your traffic increases when you enter the

Keywords in Domain and Links as Google Ranking Factors: This is the the third part in an article series that examines and verifies the important factors for ranking in Google. The factors we will examine in this part include keyword use in the domain name and keyword-focused anchor text

Testing Keyword Use in Title Tag as a Google Ranking Factor: This is the second part of a three-part tutorial that examines and verifies ranking factors for the Google search engine. If you want to make sure that your SEO efforts for your web site will be meaningful and give it

Assessing DMOZ: A Quality Review: DMOZ is the most popular directory among search engine marketers and professionals. This is because of its reputation for being a quality directory the directory s age its authority among search engines and the most important of all the fact

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2010 LeadingRE Conference: TopRank Digital Marketing Sessions: Last week, I was in Las Vegas for the LeadingRE annual conference and marketing technology event speaking on social media and SEO strategies for real estate professionals. It’s always interesting to see where different verticals are at with their willingness

5 Ways to Electrify Your Social Network: A typical situation for many marketers when it comes to social networks is this: Setup LinkedIn profile, check. Corporate LinkedIn page, check. Facebook profile, check. Facebook Fan Page, check. Twitter account, check. Corporate blog, check. Check check check!But where’s the

Shutterstock Voted Best Royalty Free Stock Photos Site for Bloggers: A great photo can really add a lot of flavor to a blog post and in our own analysis at Online Marketing Blog as well as with clients, including quality images with a blog post can boost traffic and referrals

10 Tips on Live Blogging & Content Marketing at SXSWi: So here I sit in the DFW airport hanging out with David Berkowitz waiting for my connection to Austin. What better way to spend that 45 min than to write a helpful blog post? A big part of my “mission”

5 Social Media Tips for Ecommerce Marketing: If you run an ecommerce business, chances are your customers – regardless of their age, gender or economic status – are active on social networks and social media sharing sites.Just consider the statistics from social media monitoring site Pingdom:Males and

BIGLIST Social SEO Blogs Update 031110: Welcome to the post-Winter/pre-Spring version of the BIGLIST review of SEO blogs. Snow is starting to melt and you can actually walk around outside (in Minnesota) without your eyelashes freezing together. We have a nice group for you to review so fire

11 Free Tools for Social Media Optimization: Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search.The

Ford’s Focus on Social Media: Scott Monty Interview: When you think of successful consumer brands in the social media space, names like Dell, Zappos and Pepsi come to mind. Another is Ford. Last year the Ford Fiesta movement generated tremendous amount of awareness (and pre-orders) for a vehicle

Poll: Best Royalty Free Stock Photo Sites for Bloggers: As with many bloggers, we’ve been using royalty free images for many years. Many bloggers make use of images from Flickr and we have too but you can’t always find the right image there. I’ve even made a point to

5 Ways to Weave LinkedIn Into Your Marketing Mix: From Facebook to Twitter to You Tube, there’s no limit to the number of social networking sites that can be leveraged to interact with customers and prospects, and build positive brand awareness.LinkedIn, however, stands apart from the crowd. The roots

My Top iPhone Apps for Social Media Marketing: It’s a little ironic that I’m writing this post about iPhone apps using WordPress on a Motorola Droid (Devour actually), but it allows me a chance to experience how hard it is to blog, using a tiny tiny tactile keyboard and

Customer & Influencer Research in Social Media: “If you don’t eat your meat you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!” Pink Floyd, The Wall.That quote from Another Brick in the Wall reminds me of the cart horse

5 Sure Fire Tactics to Promote a Business Blog: Relevant, Consistently Updated Content + Flawless Technical Functionality & User Experience = Perfect Blog LaunchWhat’s missing from the equation above? You guessed it: blog promotion.Creating a glitch-free blog with informative content means next to nothing without attracting readers.Start promoting your blog

OMS10 B2B Marketing Case Study: Marketo: Our agency TopRank Marketing has been working with Marketo proving SEO, content and blog marketing consulting services for about 2 years. I finally had the opportunity to meet VP Jon Miller in person today prior to his presentation at Online

How Journalists Use Search & Social Media: TopRank ran a survey of journalists, reporters and editors on their use of search and social media in 2008. We found 91% use search engines like Google to do their job. 64% use social networks. Published in Jan 2010, a

15 Social Media Answers From OMS10: Online Marketing Summit 2010 in San Diego is host to a smorgasboard of internet marketing topics and this afternoon I am priveledged to participate on a panel about Social Media. Panelists include:Chris Baggott, CEO, Compendium BlogwareLee Odden, CEO, TopRank Online

Small Business Tips For Reporting Web Metrics: It’s an exciting time to be a small business owner or communications professional. Why? We’ve never had

Brandividualism: Dilema or Opportunity?: Many business owners and managers are perplexed by the social web. The effect of customer participation with social media on brands is undeniable. The effect of employee participation with social media can be a bit of a quandary. The range of

5 Twitter Management Tools You Can’t Live Without: Without a doubt, one of the most popular shiny new objects of many social media marketing programs is Twitter. There are Twitter books, Twitter conferences, Twitter blogs and numerous articles devoted to Twitter marketing. Unfortunately, there’s not enough time left

Open Letter to Blog Comment Spammers: Dear “SEO Consulting Services New York” and you too “Starting A Home Business”,I have an admission to make: I don’t like comment spam. You are comment spammers. Our readers don’t like you. I don’t like you. You’re not welcome here.Our

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Gesture Search, Swipe N’ Search for Google Android Phones: Google continues to shower mobile phones running its Android OS including its own Nexus One phone with great features one after another. Previously it just made the cool Gesture Search available for all phones running Android OS version 1.5+. And

Get Certified & Get Connected With Social Media- Six Easy Ways: Interacting between both students and faculty is convenient and easy with the Market Motive social media course I am taking. I know some of you are reading this thinking “I would hope people would be interacting within in a social

Twitter Contest! Pick a team!: You have heard of Team Jolie and Team Aniston. You have picked sides with Team Edward or Team Jacob. Now it is time to make your own team. Today, gather up everyone you know and get them on Twitter. Get

Blogging in 2010: What You Need To Know: In spite of all the claims that Blogging is dead, the numbers show Blogs are still a great way to get your message out there and to gain exposure and credibility in your industry. We’ll get started with some interesting

Google’s New Beta PPC Service Dubbed Remarketing: In the wake of Google’s new PPC service, there has been speculation that the new service is simply a version of Remarketing. After touching upon the new service in Beyond Google PPC in 2010, Search Engine Journal has since had

3 Simple Tools to Find Hidden Links (and Text): Like on-page linked text analysis in general, identifying grey areas like hidden links (and text) should be an important and thoroughly considered step. You will want to research hidden links: (!) When you need to diagnose a recently hacked site;(!)

Google-Certified Ad Networks for All AdSense Publishers: Its been awhile since we last heard anything from Google AdSense. Although it may be starting to lose its luster among website publishers, I would like to think that there are still tons of sites which relied on it to

Bing Adds More Sizes Option to Image Search: If youre fond of searching for great images and photos available on the web, most often youd probably encounter search results which dont give you the option for more sizes available for those images. The folks at Microsoft Bing knew

Facebook Rolls Out Search Suggestion Feature: Facebook has just rolled out a new feature for its site-wide search box - search suggestion. This is is similar to the search suggestion features offered by major search engines wherein various search terms are suggested via a drop-down menu,

Win a VIP Trip to Search & Social Spring Summit 2010!: Have you ever wanted to attend a premier industry event as a VIP, get inside secrets from industry leaders, and get treated like a rockstar? Well this week Search & Social are giving you several ways to make this a

Diamond iPad : A Smart Social PR Campaign with SEO Implications: This morning I started my day in a rather unqiue fashion which did not involve rushing into the office or trying to find some time to run to the gym. I brewed a cup of coffee, sat down on the

ISAPI Rewrite: Addressing Canonicalization and Redirects on Windows Server: In the previous posts, I’ve mentioned the importance of having a clean and crawlable website structure for SEO. The reason is simple. Without one, you’re dead in the water from an SEO standpoint. If your content cannot be crawled and

3 Skills You Need To Be An SEO: Being an SEO’s not the easiest job in the world. It’s certainly not as simple as understanding, “I need links, and optimized anchor text, keywords and META tags.” How can you develop those links? Why are links important? How does

An Unconventional Way to Choose Hosting: Choosing a hosting provider can be a big hassle. The first time I started paying for hosting was close to ten years ago and since then I have gone through a lot of hosts. And to tell you the truth,

Weekly Search & Social News: 03/16/2010: Welcome to another edition of 7 Days of Search and Social - last week was a pretty damned busy one out in the search news/blogging space and we have a TON of good reading this week. From compliant code for

Advanced SEO Reporting with SEJ Tools: One of the most powerful features inside SEJ tools is its advanced reporting ability which makes it a lot easier to create pretty, fully-customized and data-rich reports for clients. With SEJ tools you can choose among multiple templates (or create

Did Facebook Just Beat Google as The Most Visited Site?: Yes, the headline is not fooling you. According to the latest Hitwise data, Facebook made it pass through Google to become the most visited website in the U.S. Well, for the week ending March 13 at least.Actually this is not

Fun Ways to Improve Facebook Ad CTRs: Driving traffic to your website or Fan page through Facebook advertising is becoming a popular trend these days. And for good reason too! Facebook is easily capable of sending you thousands of highly targeted visitors! But with all of the

3 Ways to Subscribe to Any RSS Feed with Your IM: Did you know that you could subscribe to any RSS feed with your instant messenger client? There are actually quite a few ways this can turn useful: (!) Be one of the first to learn about any breaking news; (!)

Add Image Links to Your Arsenal: In the pursuit of new inbound links, people dont always seek out new image links. Weve been so conditioned to go after good editorial links that image links may be the last things on our minds as we reach out

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How to Handle Old Directory Listings, Links and off Topic Traffic: Today’s post is another answer to a question–this time from Nathan Schubert, who wants to know what you should do with old links from directories and websites that still drive traffic if you’ve changed the content on your website.OK. First

Developers VS Users: Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And

Are You Chasing Off Topic Traffic: When your blog or website becomes successful and starts to get traffic, if you don’t make direct sales yourself or commissions via affiliate traffic, you almost always look for other revenue streams. The most common revenue stream is CPM based

Outrank Your Competition By Taking One More Step: I love competition. I compete against just about anyone, at just about anything. For the last few years, competitive webmastering has been my focus. I like to start a site in a small to medium sized niche, and outrank everyone.

When Google Local Gets it Wrong: Now, don’t get me wrong. Google Local and Google Maps are extremely valuable tools that I use a few times every week. But every so often they get something wrong–so wrong, in fact, that I’m not sure where the wires got

Hey! Editors! Leave Them Links Alone!: There’s a trend of editors in the SEO world uptight about linking out. A friend in the industry who guest blogs recently told me that he was told by his editor he couldn’t promise links to contributors who participated in

Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors – February 2010: I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month. Without them, there wouldn’t be regular posts here.Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links.CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action

How to Set up Caching on Your Blog: The question for today’s post comes from Meg Geddes aka NetMeg. She wants to know more about setting up caching on Wordpress.Ok, let’s get the big question out of the way. What is caching and why do you want it?

How to Deal with Expired Product or Auction Pages: Today’s post is question from Hicham Damahi of beezid.com/ who asks “How to handle expired product pages on a classified / auction site.” I’m going to expand the topic to cover expired product pages as well, since the concept it

Creating Better Auto-Generated Text: Over the past two weeks we’ve taken a look at different aspects of copywriting, including aspects such as the value of good copy, outsourcing your content, and tools to make your content better. To round out the series I thought

When To Pay Top Dollar for Copy: It took Leo Tolstoy six years to craft the 460,000-word War and Peace. A cheap copywriting service could churn out as many words for your website for just $9,200 (at 2 cents a word) over the course of a few

Use Scribe SEO to Optimize Your Wordpress Posts: As you know I’m a big fan of the Wordpress platform. Although it’s not the most optimal platform, there’s no question that it makes it easier to run a website. I was recently asked by Brian Clark of CopyBlogger to

Is Wordpress Good or Bad for SEO: Earlier this week there was a post on SEOBullsh*t that talked about how Wordpress was inadequate for anything more than a personal blog. Since I’m a big advocate of Wordpress and use it more than any other platform, I thought

Sponsored Posts Experiment: There’s an old saying … You’ll never make the shot you don’t take. It’s in that spirit I’m announcing that, starting today, I’ll be experimenting with some new advertising here in the form of sponsored posts. I’m doing things with

Interview with Michael Streko of Knowem.com: The following is a sponsored post and part of new advertising option I’ll be announcing later today.For this post we’re going to be talking to Michael Streko Co-Founder of KnowEm.com. For my readers who might not know, you can you

The Tales Silently Told By The Cannons Of Titles: What Bestselling Authors Know About Writing TitlesThey vary by genre, but the majority of bestselling authors and editors return to the same hooks time and again to routinely sell obscene amounts of books. On the recommendation of Clayton Makepeace, a

Is Sarah Lacy Making Sponsored Posts on TechCrunch?: Post Updated See End of PostIf you read TechCrunch, you may have noticed a post this weekend about Blueprint Cleanse, a health product designed to cleanse your body. On the surface, the piece seemed to be a “California” lifestyle piece,

TextBroker.com Copywriting Service Review: Like most people who work in the marketing space, I’ve been hearing more and more about “demand media” and “content farms” in recent months and how they are either the death of quality writers or the greatest thing since sliced

Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic: Google has long been an advocate of “build great content”; however, in reality, it’s turning into “build great content … and if we like it we’ll take it from you, put it on our pages, and deprive you of that

Google’s Social Search – Affecting a SERP Near You: Late last week Google announced it was graduating social search from beta and making it active for everyone. I got a heads up from Barry Wise of KnowEm a day later, and we spent some time talking about what this

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