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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 12, 2008: Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the webFrom Search Engine Land:Yahoo Displaying Geo Criteria Of Search AdsThe BrandVerity Blog noticed that Yahoo started displaying the businesss location under the

Yahoo Displaying Geo Criteria Of Search Ads: The BrandVerity Blog noticed that Yahoo started displaying the businesss location under the search ads. For example, a search on lawyers in Yahoo returns several ads that display New York under them. Why New York? Because I am based in

Twitter Beats (Wow, By A Minute) The USGS With China Earthquake News: Hey, I like Twitter, but this entire thing Robert Scoble started about how Twitter had news of the Chinese earthquake before the US Geological Survey seemed absurd. Did it really? As it turns out, probably so -- by about a

Small, Local Businesses Taking Economic Downturn in Stride,: The economic downturn is a reality, but the specific ways that it affects businesses run the gamut based on the size and type of business. During these times, small, local businesses often feel the pinch more quickly and sharply, causing

Google Launches "FriendConnect" Social Widgets For Site Owners: Contrary to some earlier reports, Googles new FriendConnect, launching today, is not focused on data portability or a direct answer to MySpace Data Availability or the new Facebook Connect. While theres a data portability dimension, its focused on the flip

Yahoo Search Ambassador Program Closing: The Search Engine Roundtable reports that it seems to be no longer possible to sign up for the Ambassador Program. Although there is no specific confirmation from Yahoo on that on the Ambassador program page, when one tries to sign

Cast Your Vote For Doodle 4 Google Contestants: You can now cast your vote for the Doodle 4 Google competition at google.com/doodle4google/vote.html. Again, the winning doodle will be showcased on the Google home page on May 22, 2008

Yahoo Labels Google As Malware? No, Yahoo URL Mix Up: Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo) from TechCrunch reports a funny bug at Yahoo, that accidently made it look like Googles home page had Malware on it, based on the Yahoo SearchScan feature that was recently launched.A search for

Powerset Launches "Understanding Engine" For Wikipedia Content: After nearly two years in the making -- and plenty of hype -- Powerset has finally rolled out a "natural language" search engine. Its not a Google killer. Its barely a business model right now. But at least its something

SnapStream Brings The "Power Of Search" To Television Programming: Imagine TiVo on steroids combined with a search engine like Google. It exists today but for the enterprise market. That product is called SnapStream TV and it allows thousands of hours of programming to be recorded – up to 10

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 9, 2008: Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the webFrom Search Engine Land:Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free

Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN: Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free webcasts later this month, ranging from dealing with big PPC campaigns, big brand SEO and bridging the offline-online gap in analytics. SMN webcasts run about 40-50 minutes

Search In Pictures: Cinco De Mayo At Yahoo, Google Lego Monster & Yahoo's Soccer Team: In this weeks Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they

Yahoo Buys My Favorite Search Browser Plugin, Inquisitor For Apple Safari: Yahoo has acquired my favorite search browser plugin for Apple Safari, Inquisitor. Inquisitor is an extremely useful search refinement and search aid tool for the Apple browser market. Inquisitor offers autocomplete, refinements, suggestions,

Google Executives Defend Potential Yahoo Deal, Microsoft Releases "Proxy Directors," Looks Beyo(...): Yesterday before Googles annual meeting shareholders, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page fielded questions from reporters on a range of subjects, including a potential paid search deal with Yahoo and its anti-trust implications. Their argument

Search Engine News, An In-Depth Look At Google's Tools & The Google SERP Tester: In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to

SMX Advanced Selling Out -- Book Soon!: Todays the last day to get the "early bird" rate on a ticket to ourSMX Advanced show this June 3 & 4. Perhaps more important for those thinking of going, 85 percent of our available tickets have now gone. Weve

Google Maps Adds Pictures & Explore Feature: Some users like Mathiew Ingram noticed that Google has now added images from Picasa and Panoramio into the bar beside their maps.Click to continue reading...

Google AdWords Adds Landing Page Load Time Metric To Reports & Launching Mid-June: As expected, Google has announced that landing page load time will become a quality score factor in Google AdWords starting mid-June. In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for

Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com

Content as Marketing for Link Building (and the Win): HP can spam the hell out of Google and Google engineers are afraid to do anything about it because they do not want to lose the associated AdWords ad budget. But if you follow HPs strategy it is called spam

Interesting SEO Links...: Roger Montti offers an insightful post on link building for new websites in 2008. If you have no traction you need to find a way to buy/beg/borrow/steal attention. Use that exposure to spread content that turns people on / gets

Why is Google Buying Links From SEMPO?: Google, which has arbitrarily forced its will to use nofollow on the web (and declared link buyers and sellers who do not use the tag as spammers) is buying a PageRank 7 link from SEMPO.org. You would think that if

Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo! Offer: Microsoft decided to walk on the Yahoo! deal. After the sharp Yahoo! stock decline Monday, expect many shareholder lawsuits. The press release contained the following open letter to Jerry Yang. Dear Jerry:After over three months, we have reached the conclusion

Yahoo! May Carry Google Ads: Yahoo! may announce a deal to carry Google ads in the next week, according to the WSJ:While a broad search ad pact would likely attract intense antitrust scrutiny, the options Google and Yahoo are discussing include a nonexclusive arrangement that

How Much is a #1 Google Ranking Worth?: I just wrote a ~15 page article aimed at helping SEOs estimate how much a top rank in Google is worth. I would appreciate any feedback you have on making it better. If you like it please hook me up

PBS MediaShift Covers SEO: Mark Glaser recently queried me about improving the SEO of PBSs MediaShift. The tips and advice I gave him apply to most blogging and media websites. The piece was well balanced, with information from Poynter, and he mentioned Joosts great

Search Twitter in Realtime, and Get Free(ish) Content: Summize is a conversational search engine which allows you to search Twitter in realtime. Useful for finding customer feedback even when people do not provide it directly to you. For example, I just found out that for some people the

Will Your Website Pass a Google Review?: Welcome to GoogleNet!Hitwise recently mentioned that Google controls over 1/3 of UK web traffic.With that much usage data, if

SEO is a Social Activity :): Here is a 10 minute and 46 second flash video about how SEO is becoming less mechanical and more social. So far we have about a half dozen members only videos like this one...I am trying to make about one

Are You Following Google's Marketing Strategy?: I just read Google and The Value of Web Supremacy, comparing Google to the history of Venice. It is a great blog post well worth a read.Googles position on top of the web allows them to monitor any area of

The Value of Small Daily Incrimental Improvements: Building a well known brand and a sustainable business model in a competitive marketplace is challenging, but if you break things down into pieces and do something every day eventually you win marketshare. People who become successful have large goals

Google Thinks YOU Are a Black Hat SEO. Should You Trust Them?: Preemptive Spam PenaltiesThere is a great thread over on SEOmoz by Matthew Inman about how some Googlers consider any of his future attempted linkbaits and widgetbaits to be off topic spam, based on his aggressive misuse of widgets in the

Effective & Scalable Automated Content Generation Strategies: For years there have been a wide array of automated content creation solutions, from RSS recycling wordpress plugins, to open source content generators, to fake science paper generators, right on through to custom high end programming jobs used by financial

SEO Video Subdomain Clean Up: I recently glanced at our SEO videos subdomain and was disappointed with the layout and formatting, so I spent the last couple days adding videos, categorizing them, and adding introductory text. With that subdomain only having 1% of our overall

Google is Quietly Consuming the Internet: TechRepublic asks Will the Google revolution engulf IT departments? Each time I write a newsletter, about 80% of the items are about Google. They keep innovating faster than other companies their size. Here are some examples of things they have

3 Tips to Kill Passive Verbs & Wasted Words: One of my worst writing habits is writing filler text, the most common offense being passive verbs. Here are the 3 things that help me write clearer using fewer words:Read every day. We emulate what we consume. When I go

Elsewhere...: Adam Audette has been posting some great stuff lately. Check out his posts on link building fundamentals and internet marketing and the limitations of language.Dan Durick posted about how the economy can affect search behavior. Look at the numerous sources

How to Protect Your Business From Nefarious Subdomain Hijacking: A couple days ago while I was at a conference news came about that Network Solutions was hijacking unused customer subdomains to post links to their other websites. It is getting really hard to trust *many* online service providers.A big

Elite Retreat 2008 and Final Thoughts: Theres always take home value that you can immediately apply after attending Elite Retreat. I, Giovanna have signed an NDA so I cant go into deep details. Last year, I learned the various monetization models from Jeremy Shoemakers presentation and

SEOmoz

The Beginnerâs Guide to Getting Your Foot in the Door: Posted by Danny DoverAbout two weeks ago Rand and Scott posted a Whiteboard Friday explaining how to get a SEO job. I think it is a great resource for SEO’s who already have a lot of experience, but what about

Do I Really Need to Build Web Access to My Service?: Posted by randfishYes, whiny title writer, you most certainly do. Check out this piece from the AP on PapaJohns.com:The nations third-largest pizza delivery chain trumpeted the $1 billion milestone Wednesday, noting that its U.S. online sales have been growing at

Two Conflicting Judicial Opinions on Using A Competitor's Trademark in Metatags: Posted by Sarah Bird, EsquireMay It Please the Mozzers,Today were going to contrast two recent judicial opinions on the use of a competitors trademark in meta-tags. Same issues; Different outcomes. Lets take a very brief look at each case. North

Does "Query Deserves Diversity" Algorithm Exist at Google?: Posted by randfishMost of us in the search space are familiar with the principles of the "query deserves freshness" (QDF) algorithm at Google, but this is almost certainly not the only intent detection process and algo-tweaking area the engine applies.

Digg Has Shout-Blocked Me: Posted by rebeccaIve been shout-neutered, folks, and it aint cool.Let me explain. Yesterday I submitted a story to Digg. I didnt expect it to get on the home page, but I had an "Oh well, what the hell" mentality about

Whiteboard Friday - Sharing Content for Fun & Profit: Posted by great scott!This week Rand fields another reader inspired topic: Why share content that could possibly be used by your competitors?There are several reasons including Attention, Authority, Credibility, Scalability and Marketing. Watch the video to learn the thought behind

Tool of the Week Keeping Visitors With Lijit: Posted by kung_fu_mike5-8%. It doesnt sound like a huge amount of most things. What if I told you it was 5-8% of the visitors to your site? Would you be more interested then? What if I told you it was

Thursday Roundup for the Week of 5/4/08: Posted by rebecca Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Weve got star link Yahtzee today--a link for every star! Woo hoo, time to celebrate!Zero star link: Mel showed me this,

Why Don't We Read (and How Much Do We Read) on the Web?: Posted by randfishThis short post looks at a Jakob Nielsen alertbox column entitled, How Little Do Users Read? Why a short post? Well, it would appear that we dont read long posts, so why bother? Nielsen examines a

Customer Service Protocol 101: The Revised Edition: Posted by Jane CoplandI apologise for another Facebook-centred post, but something interesting happened to me this week. I also realise that it is a bit strange to title an original post, "The Revised Edition," but this is indeed a complete

10 Clear Questions for the Engines that Deserve Some Answers: Posted by randfishOver the past few days, Ive seen a lot of questions in our Q+A section and across the blogosphere that suggest its time for some direct answers from the search engines on major issues that affect business practices, consulting

Have Online Press Releases Gone the Way of the Dodo?: Posted by rebeccaRecently I attended the eCommerce Summit, and while I was there I attended the "Using Press Releases to Drive Sales" session. The sole speaker was Joe Beaulaurier, marketing manager of PRWeb. Sure, his session was a bit salesy

Google Spam Illuminates the Algo's Reliance on Domain Authority: Posted by randfishTry a few searches with me...Buy ViagraCialis OnlineCheap Payday Loans

Florida Court's Order on Negative Keywords Will Not Break the Internet: Posted by Sarah Bird, EsquireMay It Please the Mozzers, Last week, there was minor uproar over a Florida District Courts Order involving negative keywords. Understandably, many SEO/Ms were anxious that the Court screwed something up that would prevent companies from

Rewriting the Beginner's Guide Part VI: How Usability, User Experience and Content Affect Searc(...): Posted by randfishIm currently working on re-authoring and re-building the Beginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization, section by section. You can read more about this project here.How & Why "Great" Sites Rise to the Top of the Search ResultsThe search

Building a Better Spam Detector: Posted by Nick GernerA couple of weeks ago the AIRWeb held its 2008 conference. After seeing Dr. Garcias post on the conference I was going read the papers and provide a high-level overview of some of the papers. However, after

Whiteboard Friday - Building a Personal Brand: Posted by great scott!This week Rand discusses the topic of Personal Branding. What are the pros and cons of having a personal brand for yourself or within your company? How can you build a personal brand, and what benefits personal

Tool of the Week - Disk usage analysis with Baobab: Posted by Mel GrayWorking as a tech at a SEO company isnt always about SEO. Behind the scenes, there are servers to support, tools to debug and interoffice technical problems that arise all the time. The developers at SEOmoz have

Thursday Roundup for the Week of 4/27/08: Posted by rebecca Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Two star links: Regarding TechCrunchs "Is Keyword Search About to Hit its Breaking Point?" article, well, Ill quote what Rand said:

Facebook Does Keyword Research: Posted by Jane CoplandIf I had been paying attention on April 15th, instead of swanning around New Zealand, I would have noticed that Facebook had launched what amounts to an elementary keyword research tool... and as I write that, I

Matt Cutts

What Google Knows About Spam: If you didn’t attend Web 2.0, you can watch my keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I’ll embed the keynote below as well.The only thing I don’t like about conference speaking is preparing

Custom Search Engine adds new features: Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) just announced that they now power AdSense for Search. Another nice new change is that if you provide a Sitemap, Google will use that to improve the coverage of the custom search engine.Now let me

Back from Maker Faire: Man, I love Maker Faire. It’s almost as if Burning Man mated with Slashdot. Here are afew of the fun things I saw today.In the Craft area someone showed the credit cards that they accepted, but the credit card sign

Maker Faire!: I’m heading to Maker Faire today. It’s a fun event if you like robots, crafts, art cars, flame throwers, Coke ‘n’ Mentos shows, building your own electronics kits, knitting weird hats, Lego creations, plush monsters, power tool racing, or walking

Review: Google Apps Hacks: Last week at the Web 2.0 Expo I decided to walk the exhibition floor. Niall Kennedy and I checked out the inflatable Google booth, we gave feedback to the WordPress folks, and we came to rest in the Yahoo booth,

New WordPress version 2.5.1 includes security fix: Read about WordPress 2.5.1 and download the new version here. It includes a security fix, so you’re going to want to upgrade. It’s well-known that older versions of WordPress get attacked by malicious bad guys, so I absolutely recommend upgrading

Google Hacks: Pacman graph with Google Charts: This link was cool, but it generates a graph like this:With a little modification, I made this graph:I like my picture a little better. It was quite simple to make this diagram, and Google provides a free graph-drawing tool that

Trip report: Domain Roundtable Conference: This weekend I did a Q&A session at the Domain Roundtable Conference. It was an hour and a half of answering various questions. Rand Fishkin and John Andrews both did write-ups of the session. Rand and John were both on

Recording an IRC channel on Linux/Ubuntu: There are a ton of Interney Relay Chat (IRC) clients for Linux/Ubuntu, e.g. Gaim (now called Pidgin). One IRC client that makes recording an IRC conversation pretty easy is Irssi. Install Irssi on Ubuntu with a simple command:sudo apt-get install

Nice “News quote” feature: Google just announced a cool addition to Google News. If you search for a person’s name on Google News, you can see statements where that person has been quoted by a news source. For example, search on Google News for

Socially exhausted: I communicate with people in lots of ways: face-to-face, email, via my blog, leaving comments in the blogosphere, conferences, etc. At SMX West a couple people asked “I sent you a friend invite on service X but you haven’t responded.

Two Search Interviews: Popular Mechanics asks 20 questions of Udi Manber, who is a VP of Engineering at Google on core search quality. My favorite:There have been a lot of fads in search of late, such as Human Assisted Search and contextual search.

Technology moves fast: Sometimes I feel like the technology space moves slowly. Cool new devices appear every few months, but I want neat new things every day! When I feel like this, it’s tough to remember that technology moves quite quickly compared to

Please don’t send me free stuff: The title pretty much says it all. A while ago, someone saw my call for good summer vacation reading and the resulting pile of Amazon books that I bought, and they sent me a couple free books, maybe to get

Solved: another common site review problem: Okay, go read this post on the Google webmaster blog. In fact, if you read my site, you really should add the Official Google webmaster blog feed to your list of subscriptions, because that blog is almost 100% SEO/webmaster-related posts,

I wanted to blog, but…: Honest. I wanted to write a big, in-depth blog post about X (pick whatever X you want), but then Emmy came and sat down beside the keyboard with a forlorn face. This is what she looked like:Emmy was just waiting

Google App Engine: Launching a startup gets even easier: This is pretty cool. Google launched App Engine, which lets you write code for a web application, then Google takes care of the scaling/failover/logistics-type issues. You can store your data in a Google Bigtable using the Google File System (GFS).

How to use a notebook: 7 quick tips: You never know when your brain is going to flash on an idea, a great gift, or something you need from the store. That’s why I carry a small notebook around with me most of the time. Here are some

Okay, enough foolishness. Back to work.: Update: This post was an April Fool’s joke as well. I was hoping to catch people off-guard by doing a late-night post after all the other pranks were out there. Clicking on the video link just gets you rickrolled in

iPhone can connect to anything!: Update: This was an April Fool’s day joke.I recently discovered something really wild: the iPhone has a secret SATA interface. Using the SATA interface, the iPhone is much easier to hack because it looks just like a hard drive to

Search Engine Watch

SearchDay: Google AdWords Editor a Great Tool for Content: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Google AdWords Editor a Great Tool for Content; Google Friend Connect to Make Advanced Social Features Easily Available; Google on Spam; and more.

SearchDay: Yahoo Rejects Microsoft: Worst Decision Ever?: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Yahoo Rejects Microsoft: Worst Decision Ever?; Optimization by Numbers; Black, White, and Blue All Over; and more.

SearchDay: A Seat at the Table for Web Analytics: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: A Seat at the Table for Web Analytics; Giving Links Away; SEM/SEO Events to Attend; and more.

SearchDay: Microsoft Feels Out Social Network Acquisition: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: About Face(book): Microsoft Feels Out Social Network Acquisition; Why PPC Lead Gen Campaigns Miss Volume Targets; 100 Million Theoretical Dollars; and more.

SearchDay: Conducting a Redirect Audit on Your Web Site: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Conducting a Redirect Audit on Your Web Site; CEO Tells Wall St. Why He Invests in SEO; Convincing the Executive Team to Invest in SEO; and more.

SearchDay: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Offer; Yahoo Responds: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Double Conversions in One Month; Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Offer; Cinco de Mayo; and more.

SearchDay: Search News and Views from May 2, 2008: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Top 5 Non-SEO Ways to Increase Your Search Rankings; Avoid the Pitfalls of Mobile Marketing; Training Your Search Marketing Employees; and more.

SearchDay: Search News and Views from May 1, 2008: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Social Media = Societys Watchdog; Budgeting Resources for SEO Link Building; Tweaking High Traffic Landing Pages; and more.

CNN and MSNBC Battle Yahoo News for Top News Site: Integration of video into news stories may be making the difference in the battle for news supremacy.

Highlights from the SEW Blog: April 21-25, 2008: Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week.

The Google Content Ad Fraud Lawsuit: Just the Facts, Ma'am: Googles being sued for tricking advertisers into advertising on its content network – but the truth may be more damning than the lawsuit claims. Or is there a fatal mistake in the lawsuit filing?

Is There Room for Another Free Analytics Tool?: Yahoos recent acquisition of IndexTools begs the question: do we need another free Web analytics tool? That depends on how much of IndexTools capabilities remain in Yahoos free offering.

Highlights from the SEW Blog: April 14-18, 2008: Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week.

Barack Obama is Rocking the Youth Vote: Search and online marketing are playing a significant role in energizing the youth vote. But the way each candidate is using social media is very different.

Print Journalists Optimistic...Or Not: A recent survey of journalists found that many thought their publication will continue to exist in its current state. But is the survey sample skewing the results?

Is Search Recession-Proof?: While online advertising will probably suffer if there is a recession, I predict search will be the last place from which marketers pull their ad dollars. Paid search is accountable, efficient, and built on a cost-controlled model, making it the

Highlights from the SEW Blog: April 7-11, 2008: Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week.

Search Engine Forums Spotlight: April 11, 2008: Found in the search marketing forums: AdWords Live on Yahoo; Can a Web Site Compete; Is PPC Irrelevant; and more.

Social Search: It's Time For Monetization: Contrary to popular belief, social marketing doesnt have to be painted with visions of Big Brother. As a publisher, you cannot have a better segmentation methodology -- in real time and without any bias -- than the one that organically

Blended Search Results Change Searcher Behavior: Search marketers received more evidence this week that universal or blended search results are changing searcher behavior. If youre not yet optimizing your news, image, or video content, you need to start.

Pronet Advertising

What is a #1 Google Ranking Worth?: Aaron Wall wrote an interesting article the other day about the value of a Google ranking. As we already know being number 1 on Google can drastically affect your business, but the question is, what is it worth? According to

Webmaster-Talk.com and Earners Forum Merge: I am not sure how many of you are into forums, but Webmaster-Talk.com and Earners Forum have just merged to create a better community. Now users have access to an enhanced marketplace, informative articles, blogs, interviews, and valuable tools.I personally

SEO Catchup: There has been a lot of new stuff been going around the SEO industry lately, so I thought I would do a quick blog post talking about the two things that were interesting for me:The first is that Best of

Who's Attending SMX Social Media?: Just out of curiosity, how many of you have attended a marketing conference in the past? Or to take it one step further has anyone attended a conference that purely revolves around social media?Last year was the first time that

Clickbooth Setting the Pace for Affiliate Marketing Companies: As many of you can tell, I havent been blogging as much lately. One of the main reasons for this is because of Clickbooth. I have been spending a lot of time on the Clickbooth network because it pays out

Social Media Marketing - Weekly Wrap Up - 02.27.2008: Every Wednesday Pronet Advertising will be highlighting some of the best posts related to social media news and marketing. As always, please feel free to comment and if you have any recommendations, let us know so we can include them

Social Media Marketing - Weekly Wrap Up - 02.13.2008: Every Wednesday Pronet Advertising will be highlighting some of the best posts related to social media news and marketing. As always, please feel free to comment and if you have any recommendations, let us know so we can include them

The RKG Duck: Im not sure how many of you run/manage advertising campaigns, but I just found a useful tool that makes it easier to sort ad groups.Hopefully the tool can make your life easier like it did with mine. Click here to

Banner Blindness Gets Creative: When most companies are trying to create buzz they usually ask bloggers to blog on their company or they higher a marketing firm to do it for them. Although these are not bad ways to create buzz, with a bit

Social Media Marketing - Weekly Wrap Up - 01.31.2008: Every Wednesday (sorry for the delay) Pronet Advertising will be highlighting some of the best posts related to social media news and marketing. As always, please feel free to comment and if you have any recommendations, let us know so

Triple your income by attending Elite Retreat: One of the best conferences I attended last year was the Elite Retreat. Many people were skeptical of a conference that charges $5000 for 2 days, but ALL of the attendees felt that they got their moneys worth. When I

Why You Have To Attend Search Marketing Expo: As many of you already know, last year Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman kicked off the Search Marketing Expo (SMX). The conference series started with SMX Advanced in Seattle and it was a hit. Compared to most conferences, people actually

Social Media Marketing - Weekly Wrap Up - 01.17.2008: Every Thursday Pronet Advertising will be highlighting some of the best posts related to social media news and marketing. As always, please feel free to comment and if you have any recommendations, let us know so we can include them

Are you are Shoeperstar?: Shoemoney is throwing a contest called Shoeperstar where one lucky winner is going to get an all paid expense trip to SXSW, plus $1000 in spending money.Want to rock out like a big money blogger? This is your chance. Register

Digg Adds Image Functionality: Day before yesterday, Digg launched its new image functionality feature. Although its primary effect on Digg will probably be to silence the countless users that keep complaining about no image section, it also makes some interesting changes to the submission

Gamespot: How To Destroy Your Brand And Alienate People: Digg (and the rest of the internet) was ablaze this weekend as gamers took to message boards to protest the firing of Gamespots long-time reviewer, Jeff Gerstmann. The incident not only had broad ramifications for the whole game enthusiast industry,

Firebrand - All Ads, All The Time: Firebrand recently launched with a relatively new business model: Broadcast all advertisements, all the time, but only display the ones that the company deems creative and interesting. Today, we take a look at the new service.

The Benefits of Not Advertising: The Associated Press recently published a story about a curious phenomenon: Google is one of the most lucrative ad-selling companies in the world, yet rarely indulges in buying ads for itself. Today we take a look at the advantages Google

Political Backlash on Reddit: Unlike Digg, Reddit allows its users to submit pages from the Reddit.com URL. Often this leads to wildly popular headlines that are simply criticisms of Reddit and its voting system. While the efficacy of these critiques is debatable, it has

Is Your URL Digg Compatible?: Wouldnt it be a shame? You wrote a great piece, it was relevant not only for your general readership, but also for the social media audience. Not only that, but a user with a large audience wanted to submit your

SEO Black Hat

Sniffing Yahoo Glue: Yahoo India Glue

Jerry Yang’s $500 Million Big Balls of Steel: Act Now to Pay 79% More For YHOO than GOOG!

YHOO Predictions: YHOO will never trade higher than the (inflation adjusted) $33 per share that Microsoft Offered.

Excellent SEO Training Module: This ones a keeper.

Interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt: Plenty on the future of Google.

Definition of Web Spam: Via this article:“Web spam is when somebody tries to cheat or take shortcuts so that their Web site shows up higher than it deserves to show up,” - Matt CuttsGreat definition. This was good too:“I’m struggling with what exactly to

Bush’s Mission: Accomplished: Oh, you didnt know that was the mission?

Search Engine Roundtable

Most SEOs Believe Competitors Can Hurt Your Google Rankings: About a week ago I ran a poll that asked Can Someone Hurt A Competitors Google Rankings With Links? I ran the poll because there is a lot of debate around this topic. So I figured, why not ask you...

Yahoo Now Showing Geo-Location Under Search Ads: Try it, a search on plumbers or bowling or lawyers and so on all may return a fourth line to the search ads at Yahoo Search. The fourth line might show a geo-location. Here are some pictures: If the advertiser...

Google Moves "Saved Locations" Feature in Google Maps: Google has moved the location of the Saved Locations feature in Google Maps. Now, you should see an arrow down on the right hand side of the search box, in Google Maps. Clicking on that arrow will show you your...

Google Has More Mass Email Problems With AdSense: Dozens and dozens of Google AdSense publishers have reported receiving an email from Google with the subject line, Important Account Information. The email basically was a reminder to those publishers who have not yet accepted the updated terms and conditions...

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 12, 2008: 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....

Is Network-Linking Frowned Upon?: A High Rankings Forum member talks about how he has a variety of sites that are all networked on the same server with the same owner. Theyre not related topically, but there are some subpages where adding links may be...

UK Users Report Google AdSense Phone Verification Not Working: Numerous new Google AdSense publishers are reporting that they are trying to get their phone numbers verified with Google AdSense in the UK, but Google is not calling their phone numbers to complete the verification process. AdSensePro Ashley writes that...

Yahoo Drops Search Marketing Ambassador Program: A forum member pointed out that the Yahoo Ambassador Program signup page is no longer accepting new members. Im not able to find any news on this story at press time, but I do have a screenshot of the page:...

Google AdSense No-Nos: A featured WebmasterWorld thread has a fun list of not to do with your AdSense account because Google might ban you for these things. Here is the list complied by a new member, BrandNewDay: Click your own adsAsking other people...

HS Parameter in Google Search Results When Using Firefox: The folks at WebmasterWorld really look at every fine detail when it comes to Googles search behavior. Moderator, Receptional Andy said he noticed that when searching in Firefox at Google, Google would append an HS parameter in the URL, when...

Almost Three Years Later, Yahoo Publisher Network Still Failing To Compete Globally: Yahoos contextual product, Yahoo Publisher Network, Yahoos Google AdSense product, almost three years later is still failing to compete with Google globally. The Yahoo Publisher Network launched on August 3, 2005, back then as a beta, exclusive to US based...

Mother's Day '08 from Google, Yahoo, Dogpile, Ask.com & Search Industry: Yesterday was Mothers Day and the search engines and search industry blogs/forums had special themes and logos up for the day. Here is a compilation of the logos I found: Google: Yahoo (Flash): Dogpile: Ask.com Cre8asite Forums Search Engine Roundtable...

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 11, 2008: In this special Mothers Day video recap, I discussed that landing page load time is coming to the AdWords quality score algorithm. The AdWords display URL policy is now being enforced. We noticed Google changes in terms of the floating...

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 9, 2008: 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....

Weekly Search Buzz Roundup: Microsoft and Yahoo Break Up, SEO Debate Back, & Dinner with Barry: Dear all, it is raining and icky outside, so todays a good day for a buzz roundup. Enjoy. ;) Landing Page Load Time: Check Your Google AdWords Quality Score now factors in your landing page load time. If you have...

Does the Multiple Link Penalty Really Exist?: A WebmasterWorld member wants confirmation if getting multiple links would cause a penalty in the SERPs. He notes that very popular sites which rank on the first page of Google have a lot of links, including those from shady places....

How Important are Header Tags?: A High Rankings Forums member wants to know if header tags (H1, H2, H3, H4...) are weighted on search engines. The answer is probably not, but some people think that theres minimal weight from search engines. The point is that...

Big Debate: Does Search Engine Optimization Have Long Term Viability?: In the middle of the week, my good friend Jeremy Schoemaker, aka Shoemoney, blogged that SEO has no future. He believes that personalized data will be more important, especially from the toolbar, user history, and analytics data. Social voting is...

Google's AdWord Quality Score To Add Landing Page Load Time In June: I reported this later last night at Search Engine Land but this is very important news for Google AdWords advertisers. Google will be introducing into the quality score component of your ad rank, the speed at which your landing pages...

Video Ad Support Comes To Google AdWords API Sandbox: An older Google Groups thread was just updated by Jeff Posnick the AdWords API Advisor, an official Google representative in charge of the AdWords API development and support. The Googler explains that the API Sandbox should now support the creation...

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Trends to Note in the Search Industry: Every so often it helps to take a step back from your industry so you can figure out where it is and where it s going. The search industry is no exception. I ve spotted some interesting issues and trends

Book Review: The Open Brand: Written by Kelly Mooney and Nita Rollins em The Open Brand When Push Comes to Pull in a Web-Made World em takes a look at the evolution of Web 2. and its effect on marketing. It is a wake-up call

Microsoft Gives Up on Yahoo Takeover Bid: In a move that caught many observers by surprise Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer walked away from his bid to purchase number two search engine Yahoo. The move ended three months of dramatic maneuvering on the part of both companies. Nevertheless

Network Solutions: Unethical SEO: Network Solutions displays a real talent for tripping itself up with unethical behavior. Sometimes it gets caught and called on the conduct quickly as happened when it engaged in domain name tasting. Other times though it can continue for months

Searchme: Most Visual Search Engine Yet?: Visual search engines try to show us that there s a better way to search than by looking at 1 links with snippets on a page and making an educated guess. Most try to say that they re more intuitive.

Basic SEO: What Search Engines Hate: In my last article I went over a few of the things that search engines love. Now I ll finish up the discussion with an article on what they absolutely hate which includes everything from clutter to cookies. So if

Google`s Latest Moves in Information Indexing: Sometimes Google does something with very little fanfare that stirs considerable interest. In this article I m going to discuss several of their recent moves. If you re curious about their attempts to index more of the web or make

Seven Important Qualities for Good Linkbait: I wanted to call this article Seven Habits of Highly Successful Linkbait but I didn t put in the survey work involved. I have seen and read a lot of linkbait though to say nothing of the number of articles

Basic SEO: What Search Engines Love: This article will give you a beginner s guide to optimizing your site for search engines. It will focus specifically on what the search engines will be looking for when reading and indexing your site. These are things you will

Legal Tides Changing for User-Generated Content: Many civil libertarians will tell you that there were certain problems with the 1996 Telecommunications Act but there s one part of it that every ISP and owner of a UGC-based web site loves. Now two rulings threaten to weaken

Think Like a Searcher to Increase Your Traffic: SEOs and site owners fight hard to get a top position on the search engine results pages for their chosen keywords. But that s only half the battle at best. If you ve optimized your way to the top but

Creative Advertisements: Psychology of Winning Ads: This is the second part of the two-part series on creative advertisements. Thanks for tuning in. In this segment we re going to focus on the psychology of winning advertisements. The theme of the article is recognizing the ingredients for

Making Social Media Optimization Work for You: Social media optimization is the art of using social web sites to promote your business or organization. If you do it right you can attract thousands of visitors to your web site to say nothing of the number of links.

Responding to Negative Publicity Online: In a previous article I talked about online reputation management. I explained why it s important to monitor your reputation online and how to do it. I also discussed what you should already be doing to manage your reputation. In

Creative Advertisements: the Psychology of Flow: Attracting public attention or patronage in order to promote a certain product or service is always a tough task. In this computing era dominated by the Internet advertising online has started to occupy a larger fraction of the marketing industry.

Blogged.com Offers Simple Way to Find Blogs: If you re looking for a blog search engine there s Technorati IceRocket BlogPulse Feedster and many more. So what does Blogged.com bring to the table that these other sites don t It s easy to use welcomes user rankings

Take Charge of Your Online Reputation: Whether you re just one person with a small business web site or you have the tremendous online presence of a large company to think about how you re perceived makes a big difference in your bottom line. You can

PageRank: Acting Brand New: Late last year something went down in the SEO world literally. It was big and if you are into Internet marketing you would have noticed it. The Google PageRank of large numbers of publishers gasp the ultimate navel gazing tool

Yahoo Sees Rosy Future without Microsoft: Ever since Microsoft made its initial 44 billion bid on Yahoo several weeks ago the venerable search engine has desperately tried to rebuff the software giant s advances. From behind-the-scenes bargaining with other companies to announcements that the deal vastly

I, Robots.txt: In this article we will take a look at the Robots Exclusion Standard. It sounds like something straight out of a science fiction book but is really nothing more than a tool to prevent web spiders and robots from accessing

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BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 050908: What a week! Spring is officially here in Minnesota. Don’t laugh, it snowed just 2 weeks ago. This week’s BIGLIST of SEO and SEM blogs includes a nice mix of search, social and online PR content. When I co-hosted the

Agency + Client = Superhero Link Building Team: Two heads are better than one. How many times have we all heard that in our lives? When having a brainstorming session, it helps to bounce ideas off of one another to generate the best possible solution. Even when saving

Top 10 Reasons for Monitoring Brands in Social Media: David is VP Marketing at Radian6 in New Brunswick, Canada

Tips on Content Centered Link Building: Yesterday, Junta 42 announced their latest list of top content marketing focused blogs (Online Marketing Blog came in at #2 in between Copyblogger and PR 2.0) and it reminded me yet again of how important content is for SEO. It

Book Review: Achieving The OPEN Brand by Way Of An Open Worldview: TopRanks Mike Yanke reviews the new book, The Open Brand: When Push Comes to Pull in a Web-Made World by Kelly Mooney and Dr. Nita Rollins with advice both for marketing agencies and in-house marketers looking to make sense of

Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know: Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. (Follow me @leeodden) We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community

BIGLIST Update Search Marketing Blogs 050208: Going by the last month of updates, we’re now updating the BIGLIST of SEO blogs every second Friday. That should give us more time to filter out the better sites for inclusion. Read on at the bottom as there are

Site Re-Design? Call Your SEO Expert First!: It’s a near nightmare situation really. A client sends an email on Friday saying, “We’re launching a new web site on Monday, can you take a look at it to make sure our site optimization is ok?”.The Account Manager asks

Update: Top SEO Blogs by RSS Subscribers: Online Marketing Blog manages a list of over 500 search marketing blogs called the BIGLIST, but it’s not ordered other than alphabetically. A year ago I took a sample of SEO and SEM blogs that were publishing Feedburner counts and

What Conferences Are You Attending?: Jeremiah Owyang posted recently asking his readers what conferences they would be attending in the coming months and I thought that would be a great question for Online Marketing Blog readers as well.Over the past 3 years we’ve become very

A Web 2.0 Conference Day - Wrap Up: There are a few additional photos from Web 2.0 Expo that I wanted to share and so I took some creative license with the timing of some of the events to tell the story of a typical conference day.The first

Video Fake Steve Jobs Keynote - Web 2.0 Expo: One of the most entertaining keynote presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo by far was delivered by Forbes journalist, Dan Lyons. It’s a 15 minute long story of how Dan came to start the Fake Steve Jobs blog, it’s success

Web 2.0 Expo - Video Interview Brian Solis: Social media evangelist Brian Solis of Future Works, PR2.0 blog and bub.blicio.us during the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. tooks a few minutes to share his insights into what’s hot in Web 2.0 and the interplay of technology and

Web 2.0 Expo - Video Interview Dave McClure: While in the blogtropol.us blogger lounge today, I caught up with a dapper Dave McClure who took a few minutes before a PayPal reunion dinner to talk about his work helping develop the Web 2.0 Expo event, a little something

Web 2.0 Expo - Video Interview Robert Scoble: When registering for Web 2.0 Expo I ran into Robert Scoble whom I had just met 2 weeks ago in San Francisco at another conference. He a agreed to do a quick video interview on what’s new in the Web

Web 2.0 Expo - Photo Picks: After finding out my new camera’s SDHC card wasn’t recognized by my Sony Vaio laptop, I was stuck taking lots of photos but not posting to Flickr as I normally would. After checking several stores I finally found a card

Web 2.0 Expo - Facebook Marketing Best Practices: After the keynote frenzy this morning, the session that stood out for me was Facebook Marketing: Best Practices with Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester Research as moderator, Evan Mager from AKQA, Holly Liu from Watercooler, Brett Keintz of 750 Industries and

Web 2.0 Expo - Microblogging and Micromedia: Nothing smacks more of ADD in a Web 2.0 world than micro blogging and microcontent. “Flow Apps” as Stowe Boyd calls them. As such, the last session I’m blogging on day two of Web 2.0 Expo is appropriately named: “Short

Web 2.0 Expo - Creating a Social Strategy: The first session for me on day two of Web 2.0, “Creating a Coherent Social Strategy for Business” with Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li of Forrester, was one I’ve been looking forward to since I first read Groundswell. See my

Web 2.0 Expo - Day 2 Session Planning: Sessions on day two begin at 8:30 PST and while I appreciate that, it’s aggressive in my book. So, I’ll be attending, Twittering and blogging the following sessions at Web 2.0 Expo today as well as visiting blogtropol.us:9:40am Creating a

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Google Dominates Online Video Market in March: If Google is planning on running video ads, there’s no better time than now. New data from comScore is showing an ever increasing trend in the viewership of its YouTube property. Running ads on YouTube would certainly give them some

Google to Launch New Video Ads on YouTube: During a television interview last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that Google will soon be launching a series of new products for YouTube, in an effort to make its video-sharing service profitable. Up until now, Google hasn’t been successful

Move Over Facebook and MySpace, Here Comes Google Friend Connect: As announced last weekend, Google is launching the mother of all data portability features. After Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Portability announcement, here comes Google beating the two social networks with its Google Friend Connect features.

SEO Is Not Spam : Matt Cutts Google Spam Presentation from Web 2.0 Expo: Google Engineer and spam fighter Matt Cutts has posted his presentation on his blog from the Web 2.0 Expo on What Google Knows About Spam.Not only is Matt a spam fighting machine, but also a crusader for SEO :I’ve always

The Next Frontier for Search Marketing Standards: I believe it is time to introduce an additional topic into the standards dialogue that to date has been largely ignored. Currently there is no recognized standard for assessing the skills and knowledge level of the search marketing professional. This

Black Hat SEO Lessons: Indirect Promotion: I’ve always said that instead of getting angry with black hat SEOs, we should learn from them. Working and often succeeding in really competitive verticals, these people are just forced to be creative.We’ve had a number of discussions recently on

Powerset Launches : A New Dimension in Web Wikipedia Search: Powerset launches today to an overzealous amount of fanfare, as the mysterious new semantic search technology will open its doors for the first time to the public. The public must understand however, that Powerset is not a finished product, as

Google Helps with Myanmar Disaster Relief Effort, Donating Up to $1 Million: In an effort to help the victims of the cyclones in Myanmar (Burma) which resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and after effects of widespread diseases and famine, Google has set up a special Myanmar Cyclone donation page.According to

Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo Leaving Company: Facebook’s 23 year old CTO, Adam D’Angelo, is leaving the company to take some time off according to Facebook and BoomTown.The 23-year-old D’Angelo, the top tech exec for the social networking site, will be leaving the company to take some

Yahoo! Search Embraces the Mac Community: Yahoo is extending its search clout towards Mac users, as it acquired Safari browser plug-in, Inquisitor. This plug-in works similarly to Yahoo’s Search Assist which help users with their search by suggesting possible queries and related concepts in real-time.If you’re

Google Rolls Out Web Security for Mobile Enterprise: Google is getting serious about its push into the enterprise arena. On Thursday the company announced the launch of a new comprehensive security offering geared towards the mobile enterprise environment - an mobile add-on to their existing Google Web Security

Google Founders Would Love to Expand Partnership With Yahoo: Google really wants to make sure that Microsoft won’t get their hands on rival Yahoo. So much so that they’re willing to enter and expand an advertising partnership with Yahoo, that may prevent Microsoft from renewing any bids for the company

Twitter Monetization: How to Make Money With Twitter: Everyone seems to like twitter these days which is a really cool way of staying in touch with your customers, friends & colleagues. Basically twitter has presented itself as a micro-blogging platform where a user can shout out anything they

Google Maps Adds Photos, Video and Popular Searches: Google Maps has added a very Flickrish feature which serves photos and popular searches along wth specific Google Maps local search results.The photos are served by Panaramio (and some by Picasa), a geo targeted photo hosting company Google acquired in

Yahoo Answers Serving Google Adwords: Dave Naylor posts this screenshot of Yahoo Answers serving Ads by Google above answers search results. According to the screenshot, which was sent in by a DaveN reader, it looks like the Google Ads are being served along with the

Digitizing Books with the Help of Millions of People around the World: I came across this video podcast episode of PBS’s Wired Science with Luis von Ahn, the guy who came up with “Captcha“, those fuzzy looking words that you have to enter on websites sometimes as proof that you are human.“Captcha”

Google Comes Out On Top After Yahoo Microsoft Saga: Microsoft’s failed attempt at taking over Yahoo might be one of the best things that could have happened for one of both companies’ rival - Google. Having wasted months of talking and negotiations, neither Yahoo or Microsoft is any better

How Much Would You Pay For a Link?: If on-page optimization is the meat of SEO, relevant and quality linking is the bread, butter and dish it is served on. Together, the mix of quality site optimization, targeted inbound linking, press relations, provocative content and social participation can

After Yahoo Failure, Microsoft Looks Into Facebook Acquisition: Microsoft just can’t stay put, can they? Instead of being content pumping billions into improving their own proprietary search engine and Internet presence, they poked their beaks down in Yahoo, tearing apart one of their largest online competitors and sending

Yahoo is Testing New Search Concept in Indian Search Portal: Yahoo has just launched its search portal in India a couple of days ago. And to coincide with the launch, it is being reported that Yahoo India has been displaying a new search result that combines text, image and video

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SEO Plugins for Wordpress Part II: Ever since my initial SEO plugins for wordpress post almost two years ago, I get asked for an updated list a few times a month. Well since we’re up to wordpress 2.5 I thought the time has come. I’ll also

Google Maps Ads Building Outlines: When you view satellite images in Google Maps you can see the building, however I just noticed you can also see the building outlines in standard view. For example here’s the Long Beach Westin Hotel where SMX local was held.

Yes Shoemoney SEO Does Have a Future: Now Shoemoney is a friend of mine, but regarding his post SEO Has No Future today, I am forced to disagree with him. Not only does SEO have a future but judging by the number of SEO clients I am

Hewlett Packard Giving Away Free Templates With Embedded Links: Seems the giving away free templates with embedded keyword rich links has filtered up to the fortune 500 level as Hewlett Packard released a series of free templates todayHead on over to HP Logoworks and download a free template. Open

When Your Title is Linkbait and Your Post Isn’t: I’ve often written that using a linkbait is like signing a contract with your readers. You’re luring them in with the promise of a reward at the end of the hook. Sometime you can give people what you promise but

Sk-rt Sometimes You are Pathetic: Hard to say which is more embarrassing or pathetic, the fact that their image hosting is over it’s bandwidth or the cheezy dating adsense banner. Sk-rt you make it hard for me to take you seriously. Sponsor:: Is your site

SMX Social Media 2008 Recap: Last week I attended the SMX Social Media Conference in Long Beach California, here are some of my thoughts about the event.The one thing that really stood out about this conference was the “focus” or “intensity” most of the attendees

Get Paid Links from the US Olympic Team: So hey Google care to explain why this isn’t a paid link page? Any reason you haven’t dinged the page rank of this known link seller or cut off their ability to pass page rank or anchor text? Now I’m

Interview with SEOROI Gab Goldberg, Sugarrae, and Stuntdubl: If you’ve ever wondered hey why should I go an SEO conference what the heck am I going to get out of it check out this interview with Gab Goldberg, Sugarrae, Stuntdubl and myself from SMX West. I had never

Why You Need to Be Concerned About Sloppy CSS: If you follow me on twitter chances are you seen more than one rant on bad web design, bad CSS, and bad/sloppy coding. Sure I’m a reformed CSS Zealot who used write XHTML 1.1 valid code for kicks. I may

Why SEO Can’t Be Your Only Value Add: In my early days I played a bit more in the darker side of the game. I fully admit that I built and ran more than 1 or 2 scrapers, aggregators, and MFA style sites, but as a business model

Are You More Entertaining than a Sock Puppet: So my buddy Loren Feldman over at 1938 media has been having grand old time giving a parody of Shel Israel lately. While it’s all been pretty funny I think there are a few points to learn from this.Let’s take

How Seth Godin Keeps Pissing me the F*%$ OFF: Dear Seth Godin,I read your blog and I buy your books I like your stuff so much I gave them as Christmas presents to my clients, but when you write this kind of stuff it pisses me offA quick glimpse

No Optimizer Left Behind: While I was off doing some work Jill and Lisa engaged in a debate over whether or not we need SEO standards. Even though I’m a day late and a dollar short I’m still going to throw my 2 cents

Evel Knievel and Social Media Promotion: As a young American boy growing up in the 70’s Evel Knievel was one of my role models. Aside from being a daredevil Evel possessed a strong understanding of marketing and engaged in a level of shameless self promotion that

Code Snippets Part of Universal Search: I’ve never seen this before a code snippet as part of a Google Universal Search ResultSponsor:: Interested in seeing your message here, contact me to find out how.Related PostsUniversal Local Search and Direct NavigationSo heres an interesting little discovery, type

Where I’m Speaking this Spring: Since I had some emails and phone calls of people looking to meet with me at the last show which I didn’t attend I thought I’d let you know where I’ll be next …Aprill 11th - Jim Boykin of We

How to Get 1 Million Dollars Worth of Links: I really find scandals interesting because people who are on the ball, plugged in, creative, not afraid to take chances and stir up a little controversy can do really well.Case and Point Playgirl Magazine offered Ex-Governor Elliot Spitzer 1 Million

Hey Vanessa Fox Have You Seen the New Wonder Twins: Sponsor:: Need help with your SEO strategy? Try a one hour phone SEO consultation to get you on the right path.Related PostsDuplicate Text and SMXOne of the people I finally had the chance to meet at SMX was Vanessa Fox

IMNY Charity Party a Huge Success: On March 18th the Internet Marketers of New York held our charity event and it was huge success. Thanks to BOTW and Search Engine Land for stepping up and covering the tab and donating door prizes. With their support we

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