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Google SearchWiki 101: An Illustrated Guide: Google SearchWiki — a new feature that allows you to move and comment on search results — has been out for less than a day, and it’s amazing to see how much confusion (as well as commentary) there is already

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 21, 2008: Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:SEM Pre-Click & Post-Click Double Feature: Conversion Attribution and Q&A with Analytics Guru Eric Peterson In The

SEM Pre-Click & Post-Click Double Feature: Conversion Attribution and Q&A with Analytics Guru E(...): In The Trenches is a spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: news from the search engines, today’s double feature is Pre-Click: Conversion

Search In Pictures: Yahoo’s Larry Tesler, Google Subway Ads, Yahoo Parade Float: In this week’s 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 meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.Yahoo’s Larry

Yahoo November Search Update: Yahoo has informed us that they will be rolling out a search update over the weekend. Yahoo said, that you can expect “some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days and expect the update

Two Little Things That Make A Big Difference: A lot of the focus in the search marketing world—both paid and organic—is on the technical and quantitative side. And that’s understandable, given the technical background of many of the practitioners and the perception that those elements are relatively easy

A Searcher’s Perspective Of iPhone 2.2 Update: Last night Apple announced a software update to the iPhone. This update was pretty major and there are tons of sites covering all the details of the changes. I thought I just focus on the features specific to searching.Apple made

Google SearchWiki 101: An Illustrated Guide: Google SearchWiki — a new feature that allows you to move and comment on search results — has been out for less than a day, and it’s amazing to see how much confusion (as well as commentary) there is already

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 21, 2008: Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:SEM Pre-Click & Post-Click Double Feature: Conversion Attribution and Q&A with Analytics Guru Eric Peterson In The

SEM Pre-Click & Post-Click Double Feature: Conversion Attribution and Q&A with Analytics Guru E(...): In The Trenches is a spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: news from the search engines, today’s double feature is Pre-Click: Conversion

Search In Pictures: Yahoo’s Larry Tesler, Google Subway Ads, Yahoo Parade Float: In this week’s 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 meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.Yahoo’s Larry

Yahoo November Search Update: Yahoo has informed us that they will be rolling out a search update over the weekend. Yahoo said, that you can expect “some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days and expect the update

Two Little Things That Make A Big Difference: A lot of the focus in the search marketing world—both paid and organic—is on the technical and quantitative side. And that’s understandable, given the technical background of many of the practitioners and the perception that those elements are relatively easy

A Searcher’s Perspective Of iPhone 2.2 Update: Last night Apple announced a software update to the iPhone. This update was pretty major and there are tons of sites covering all the details of the changes. I thought I just focus on the features specific to searching.Apple made

8 Reasons To Sign Up For SMX West Now: The next Search Marketing Expo - SMX West - takes place February 10-12 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. With the pre-agenda rate expiring the first week of December, we thought we’d put together a list of the reasons you

Yahoo’s Sean Suchter Switches Sides, To Head Microsoft Search Efforts In Silicon Valley: News came out yesterday on Valleywag about Yahoo vice president Sean Suchter leaving the company and heading to Microsoft. To do what? Sean had told me privately on Tuesday, and I’d been waiting to get an official heads-up to say

Search Biz: Yahoo & AOL, Again?; IAB On Ad Revenues; Debating Google’s Evilness & More: Does anyone want to dance with Yahoo? Well, Bloomberg is reporting that Yahoo is continuing to talk with Time Warner about buying AOL. The report says the two companies have met “in the past few weeks,” and are discussing a

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 20, 2008: Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land:Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page Google will announce today the launch

Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page: Google will announce today (Update: official announcement) the launch of SearchWiki, a major addition to its user interface that allows users to edit search results. When using SearchWiki, you can re-order, remove, or add web pages to the search results

Google AdWords Testing New User Interface: The Google AdWords blog took the proactive approach and blogged about a beta test they are running on a small group of AdWords users. The beta is a new user interface for the AdWords management console. The new interface should

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Interview of Greg Jarboe on PR, SEO, Video Optimization, and the Chicago SES Conference: I met Greg Jarboe at my very first SEO conference about 5 years ago and have chatted with him many times over the years. Recently we conducted an interview via email. You are speaking at SES on a variety of

Google Outsourcing Their Search Algo.....To You!: Not really. But kinda. Google have announced the release of SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Dont like a result? You can vote it down. Likewise, you can vote

How To Keep SEO Clients: In The Art Of The SEO Proposal, weve discussed how to get SEO clients. In this post, well look at how to keep them.In most businesses, a high proportion of revenue comes from repeat business. Because it can

The Moral Authority of a Search Engine: John Andrews highlights the fallacy of make good contentIf we follow this “make good content” path eventually the search engines will fail to deliver meaningful search results, either because of the excessive noise or because they enjoy such a monopoly

InLinks.com - TLA Launches In Links, an Inline Link Buying Program: Just in time for the holidays, Media Whizs Text Link Ads launched a new links product named InLinks, which puts text links inside the content of sites powered by Wordpress, MovableType, and Drupal. Rather than links sticking out like a

Changes in Online Publishing & Advertising: Online Ad Networks in DespairSome ad networks are late with payments and slashing rates. There have been many reports of internet ad networks dying recently, and most of them deserve to because they add no value...they are all hat no

Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo!: The WSJ reported that Jerry Yang is stepping down from the Yahoo! CEO role as soon as the board can find a replacement. May the bleeding soon stop. To appreciate the agony Jerry Yang lived through watch this Web 2.0

Free Search Marketing RFP Proposal Template: In response to my post yesterday The Art Of The SEO Proposal, we had a few comments from readers wanting to see examples of proposals. Thanks for the feedback, guys. It really helps us to cover areas you find most

Google Finance Adds AdSense Ads: Google recently added a big ugly AdSense block to Google Finance. It looks poorly integrated and noisy.I am surprised they didnt look to take a page out of Yahoo!s book on this front. Yahoo!s ads offer more in

The Art Of The SEO Proposal: Following on from last weeks post, How To Be An SEO Service Provider, well now take a look at the art of the SEO proposal.Pitching and proposal writing is a time consuming business, so ideally you want to

Google's Relevancy Algorithms Change by Keyword: Longtail vs Core Category Words: Changes in SearchIn recent years personalization, localization, universal search, search suggestion, and specialized algorithms like query deserves freshness have altered the landscape of search. But even outside of these add-ons, Googles core relevancy algorithms are (at least to some degree)

Word of Mouth Marketing vs Search: When Top Google Rankings Are Worthless: As an SEO professional it is easy to over-estimate the value of top search engine rankings. After all, we sell traffic and rankings. In some cases (thin affiliate sites, for instance) good SEO is the difference between a website worth

How To Be An SEO Service Provider: When we asked for questions from our readers on topics theyd like to see covered, we received a few requests on how to set up an SEO agency and position the service.Heres my take on it:Dont do it!OK,

Is Social Media Marketing A Waste Of Time?: Social media is the next big thing! No, its the big thing! It is here, now, and it is big! Lets face it, if youre not aboard the cluetrain to social media marketing city, youre sitting on that

Have Any SEO Questions? Please Ask!: We are always trying to come up with good content ideas to write about, but we would love to get your feedback on what you would like to read. Here is a Google Moderator page where you can submit SEO,

SEM Rush Search Marketing Research - Review of SEMRush.com: What is SEM Rush?A new competitive research tool by the name SEMRush is being beta tested, backed by the same programmers who created SEO Digger. SEM Rush can be seen as a deeper extension of the SEO Digger

Outbound Linking For Fun And Profit: Linking out is a valuable marketing strategy on a number of levels. It increases the utility of your site. People will see you as being helpful. People will see you as non-partisan i.e. not always favoring your own

Lots of Marketing Goodies: PPC StuffMy wife recently put together a PPC strategy flowchart. Check it out and please give her feedback. Search Engine Land has a good post with interview snippets of Nick Fox about some of the recent Google

A Spring Clean For SEO, Even Though It's Winter: An SEO strategy is an organic process.Your SEO campaign should change focus as your popularity grows. The SEO approach for an established site can be quite different to that of a new site, mainly because, with an established

How Long Until People View Google Like Microsoft?: From the Official Google blog 9 months agoCould Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought

SEOmoz

Whiteboard Friday - Machine Learning: Posted by great scott!This week one of our mad geniuses in residence, Ben Hendrickson, steps in front of the camera to discuss something a little different: Machine Learning.Ben is one of the folks that designed and built the technology behind

So What Should We Be Asking Bloggers?: Posted by Jane CoplandLast week at Pubcon in Las Vegas, I took part in a session titled, "5 Bloggers and a Microphone." Since then, weve heard a fair bit of feedback that people were disappointed in the session, mainly because

Normally, It's a Good Thing to Get Featured on Techcrunch: Posted by randfishWell, not this time.New York-based advertising firm MediaWhiz, never one to worry about gray areas when it comes to advertising, has launched a new product today called InLinks. It’s fairly straightforward - advertisers who want their sites associated

Which Social Media Platforms Work Best For Your SEO Efforts?: Posted by randfishThe SEO world, particularly the blogosphere and forum chatter, is overwhelmed with talk of how to leverage social media sites for SEO value. Tonight, Im curious - which types of social media platforms do you actually get the

Pubcon Recap: Booths, Beginners, and Bashes: Posted by rebeccaPubcon came and went last week in a red-eyed whirlwind (I can never wake up in Las Vegas without emptying a half bottle of Visine in each eye). I actually didnt attend any sessions except for the two

Super Conference Recap Special: FOSM, SMX London and Pubcon Las Vegas: Posted by Jane CoplandI always feel the need to reintroduce myself after an extended period away from the blog. Im Jane and I work here. For the last three weeks, Ive done a lot of traveling and attended three vastly

How to Find Out What Search Engine Users Are Really Asking: Posted by radcottonAs the SEOmoz team have been away at Pubcon Ive been asked to fill in with a blog post. Im Richard Cotton and I work for Distilled as their paid Search marketer.One of my colleagues sent me a

8 Ways to Buy Links Without "Buying Links": Posted by randfishThis post is sourced from my presentation at Pubcon on the Linkfluence: How to Buy Links with Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk panel. Since it received such positive feedback and a lot of requests for sharing, I thought

Washington State Sues SEO Company Visible.net: Posted by Sarah Bird, EsquireMay It Please the Mozzers,The Washington State Attorney General announced in a press release yesterday that it was suing a Redmond-based SEO company, Visible.net. According to the Complaint, Visible also does business under the name WebMarketingSource.com,

Whiteboard Friday - PageRank Part II: Posted by great scott!Following up on last weeks Whiteboard Friday, this week Rand discusses what PageRank means to YOU. How can you use it to your benefit? What can the metric tell you about your site, your pages, and your

Fluctuating Search Results, Hand Editing and Poker: Posted by willcritchlowRand has talked before about the need to think like a search engineer when you are doing what we do. So a week or two ago, I came up with a theory about how I would look at

Lead Generator MostChoice Must Pay Competitor 4.8 Million Dollars For Creating Fake Leads: Posted by Sarah Bird, EsquireMay It Please the Mozzers, A Jury awarded 4.8 million USD to NetQuote after finding that its competitor, MostChoice, submitted more than 3,500 false applications for insurance quotes to the NetQuote website. The jury was so

Differential Diagnosis: A Broken Website Ranking Atop Google: Posted by randfishAs I was stumbling around the web today, building some slides out for my Pubcon sessions next week, I came across some search results I couldnt help but blog about. Have a peek:

Whiteboard Friday - What's PageRank Got to do With It?: Posted by great scott!This week Rand discusses Googles PageRank metric: what it is, what it isnt, and how much it actually has to do with how sites rank. A lot of people (especially clients) tend to misunderstand what PageRank implies;

SMX London 2008 Recap: Posted by Tom_CThis week saw a few momentous events, of which Ill name two: the election and SMX London. The election seems to have been covered in a few other places, so Im going to focus on SMX. It was

Roundup Thursday for the Week of 11/2/08: Posted by rebeccaStories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Are you going to Pubcon? Do you enjoy kicking ass? If you answered "yes" to those questions then youre in luck! Rae

SEMNE Event: Inside the Black Box of Search: Posted by Nick Gerner"Im not an SEO. Ive never worked at Google or Yahoo! I worked at Microsoft, but not on search." This is how I began my talk at the SEOmoz Expert Training Seminar last August. Now I have

Customer Service and Reputation Management the Twitter Way: A Case Study: Posted by rebeccaLast year I bought Comcasts NBA League Pass, which gave me access to the entire season of NBA basketball games. My brother egged me on to order it so he could use my online login and watch streaming

How to Find the Spam You're Linking To: Posted by randfishToday, between meetings at the office, I had a brief IM chat with Jane, whose globetrotting ways have taken her to the UK for SMX London. Jane noted that our website - www.seomoz.org - was up for review

Pubcon Next Week: Sessions, Parties, Werewolf Games and More: Posted by randfishNext Tuesday, Pubcon Las Vegas 2008 kicks off, and were sending a big cadre of mozzers to the show. For the first time ever, SEOmoz will have a booth at Pubcon, so please stop by, check out Linkscape,

Matt Cutts

Trying (and failing) to get Ubuntu to work: I really want to run Ubuntu, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Plugging in an SD card reader that I picked up from Best Buy shouldn’t cause a hard freeze of my system (on both Gutsy Gibbon and Intrepid Ibex):The

Where did udevmonitor go?: In case you’re looking for the “udevmonitor” program on the Intrepid Ibex version of Ubuntu, it’s changed; use “udevadm monitor” now:$ udevadm helpUsage: udevadm COMMAND info query sysfs or the udev database trigger request events from the kernel

Virtual terminals not working? Check your keyboard.: (This is a boring post that I’m writing for people that have this same problem in the future. Just skip it.)Every good Linux user knows that if you want to drop from X down into a text-based virtual terminal, you

Reindeer Car Antlers are a Great Holiday Present: Last year I got these reindeer car antlers for my wife. This year she let me have them for my car. They look like this:(Note: this is the picture from the catalog, not one of our cars.)Tons of people stop,

Trying (and failing) to get Ubuntu to work: I really want to run Ubuntu, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Plugging in an SD card reader that I picked up from Best Buy shouldn’t cause a hard freeze of my system (on both Gutsy Gibbon and Intrepid Ibex):The

Where did udevmonitor go?: In case you’re looking for the “udevmonitor” program on the Intrepid Ibex version of Ubuntu, it’s changed; use “udevadm monitor” now:$ udevadm helpUsage: udevadm COMMAND info query sysfs or the udev database trigger request events from the kernel

Virtual terminals not working? Check your keyboard.: (This is a boring post that I’m writing for people that have this same problem in the future. Just skip it.)Every good Linux user knows that if you want to drop from X down into a text-based virtual terminal, you

Reindeer Car Antlers are a Great Holiday Present: Last year I got these reindeer car antlers for my wife. This year she let me have them for my car. They look like this:(Note: this is the picture from the catalog, not one of our cars.)Tons of people stop,

9 tips for the Google Mobile App for iPhone: Here are some tips to help you get the most out of Google’s new Mobile Application for the iPhone.To get Google Mobile App on your iPhone, go to the App Store and search for “Google Mobile App,” or click on

Google Adds Voice Recognition to iPhone App: I have a very good feeling about Google’s new iPhone app that does voice recognition. I’ve been playing with this voice recognition application for several weeks and I have to say that I’m really impressed. First and foremost, the voice

9 tips for the Google Mobile App for iPhone: To get Google Mobile App on your iPhone, go to the App Store and search for “Google Mobile App,” or click on this link to install from a computer. If you have an older version of Google Mobile App installed,

Google Adds Voice Recognition to iPhone App: I have a very good feeling about Google’s new iPhone app that does voice recognition. I’ve been playing with this voice recognition application for several weeks and I have to say that I’m really impressed. First and foremost, the voice

A word about metrics, part III: market share of Google Docs?: I’m not sure what Google Docs market share is, but I thought it would be interesting to mention a couple data points and add a new data point.Data point #1: Compete. Compete just estimated that 4.4M visitors stopped by Google

A word about metrics, part III: market share of Google Docs?: I’m not sure what Google Docs market share is, but I thought it would be interesting to mention a couple data points and add a new data point.Data point #1: Compete. Compete just estimated that 4.4M visitors stopped by Google

Pubcon/WebmasterWorld conference, here I come!: I arrive Wednesday afternoon for the 2008 Pubcon conference, and I’ll be staying until after the networking event on the last day, which is the heart of the event. It’s the heart because the networking event is held at a

Fun email: Every so often I get an email like this:Dear Webmaster,I have browsed your site and I’m interested in purchasing advertising space in it.I am mainly interested in placing a new page on your site with content and links that I

Vote vote vote!: The polls will be closed by this time tomorrow, so don’t forget to vote, everyone if you’re a U.S. citizen. Update: If you want to find out where to vote, you can go to http://maps.google.com/vote to find your voting location.

Halloween 2008 wrap-up: I missed a few Halloween tidbits:- Our Halloween post on the Google webmaster blog gives you a feel for Halloween at Google. The dog dressed up as a lion was pretty awesome. There was also a guy dressed as the

My Halloween 2008 Costume: Rick Astley: For Halloween this year, I decided to be Rick Astley. With a little bit of hair spray, spray-on hair color, and some make-up for a widow’s peak, it looks like this:What fun. To make the costume complete, I took my

Halloween easter egg: Google protects itself from zombies: You probably saw Google’s Halloween logo today:But you may not have noticed that Google made another change for Halloween. Check out Google’s robots.txt file today:That’s right. Zombies are disallowed from accessing /brains on Google today. You can never be too

Pronet Advertising

Marketing Through Giveaways: Marketing doesnt always have to involve using methods like search engine optimization, email marketing, or banner advertising. Instead of using expensive methods of marketing you can also market your company by giving your product away for free to select bloggers.One

Are you going to Pubcon?: If you are going to Pubcon, there is a lot going on. DK, over at Purpose Inc is organizing a fight club, dinners, drinks, and a poker tournament with hot chicks.Go over to the schedule page for

Email Publishing Now On Docstoc: Docstoc just rolled out an email feature that easily allows you to upload documents online. Docstoc now supports email uploading and publishing. Simply email any document (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf) to uploads@docstoc.com, as an attachment, and your document(s) will be

Looking to increase your traffic? V7N has a solution for you!: As we all know, the more links you have coming into your website the more traffic you are going to get. The problem with this is that it can take hours to solicit and obtain links. Luckily V7N has solutions

'My Documents' Hits the Web: My Documents is something we all use. Whether you have a PC or a MAC, you are probably using some sort of documents folder. The major problem with storing your documents on one computer, is that you cant access them

Free ThinkTank Ticket: A while ago I wrote about the ThinkTank 2008 and why it is a conference that you have to attend. I know it maybe a bit expensive, so here is your chance to attend for free. Jeremy Schoemaker is throwing

50 Kick Ass Keyword Strategies: Aaron Wall and Wordtracker teamed up to release an e-book to help you learn which keywords you should pick for your online marketing strategy and how you can leverage those keywords.Here are some of the topics discussed:Employing Your Supporting Cast

5 Reasons To Attend Think Tank 2008: From September 26 to the 28th, a new conference called Think Tank is taking place. If you havent signed up yet, I highly recommend doing so for the following reasons:Its not a normal conference - Unlike most conferences, the Think

Search Engine Strategies San Jose: Is anyone attending Search Engine Strategies San Jose? If so, leave a comment and hopefully I will see you there.If you arent, it isnt too late to register. Click here to register.

How To Get The Most Out of Shoemoney Tools Beta: About a year and a half ago I went to Jeremy Schoemakers house for a few days (aka Shoemoney, aka Shoe) because I heard rumors that the Shoemoney team was making tons of money from the affiliate marketing/arbitrage space. I

Online SEO Tools - The Ultimate Collection: Ann Smarty from Search Engine Journal, recently wrote a great article reviewing all of the SEO tools out there. If you are an SEO or want to be one, I highly recommend checking it out.

Alltop Top's Search Engines: High search engine rankings is something that many of us dream about and very few of us achieve. To obtain these rankings, in many cases you have to manipulate search results, but what if you could rank high naturally?Guy Kawasaki

Empire Today : Getting Your Customers to Social Media Market For You: Sometimes a company can be marketed virally on social media platforms without actually hiring a social media marketer or putting together a social media campaign. Established brands which have a loyal grassroots following, either large or small, sometimes enjoy the

Weird Asia News Design Contest: I was just reading Weird Asia News and noticed that they are having a design contest. If you are a designer and are looking to win a PS3 I highly recommend checking it out. The contest seems like a fun

AffiliatePrograms.com Launches New Website: AffilatePrograms.com just launched their new website. If you visited the site in the past, it pretty much looked like a directory with a forum. But now with their new design they have made a lot of improvements.The site now concentrates

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

SEO Black Hat

Bounce Rate Questions: Clearing up the air a little on bounce rate, Google and SEO.

Confirmed: Bounce Rate is A Search Engine Ranking Factor: Top rate SEOs must now take bounce rate into account when designing and refining a site. The rest of you? just keep doing what youre doing and hope it works tomorrow.

Top Forum Contributers Get Free Invite to SEO de Janeiro: It pays to be a top contributor. At SEO Black Hat, we take care of our own.

Internet Marketing Top Blogs: Want to find some new internet marketing blogs to read? Try this list.

Scorning Google’s Quality Guidelines vs. The SEO Starter Guide: What if we did the everything Google says to do . . . only the complete opposite?

$2 Trillion, No Oversight, No Transparency: Amazing.

Nice Fucking SERPs, G.: Change that default Search Engine to Yahoo.

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 21, 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 - 11/21/08: Jerry Yang Steps Down, TLA Inlinks.com, and We Yell Abou(...): Happy week before Thanksgiving! What are YOU doing next Friday? (Chances are, Ill be here blogging!) This week, we saw the biggest news of the month (or so I think), and thats where Im going to start. Jerry Yang, Ex-CEO...

Microsoft Endorses Link Exchanges -- Or Do They?: On the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Blog (and even in a second post), Senior Product Manager Skip Chilcott writes that link exchanges are a popular way to generate more links. Blogger Saad Kamal has a problem with this. Citing...

Google AdWords Tests Out New Interface: A new Google AdWords interface may be coming to an account near you. At Search Engine Land, Barry provides screenshots of this greener interface that looks like its sporting a new green type of Gmail theme. Here are some screens:...

Google AdWords Team Shares Insights into Google Optimization Center: Want some industry information about getting the most of your Google AdWords budget? Check out the Google Optimization Center, which gives you some great strategies depending on the type of industry youre in. PDF files are offered in each individual...

I'm Surprised Google Made SearchWiki The Default, Really: The blogosphere is buzzing about Googles announcement that they have made Google SearchWiki the default for users who are signed into Google while searching. What this means is that users will see features to promote, delete and comment on search...

My Google Maps To Sync With Google Maps Mobile: Google Maps Guide Tom replied to a Google Groups thread requesting Google to bridge the data between My Maps and Google Mobile Maps. Typically, a Google representative would say, thank you for your feedback and leave it at that. But...

Google AdWords Sandbox API SOAP Requests Broken: For those Google AdWords API developers, you should be aware that currently any requests sent over the SOAP protocol to the API Sandbox will return an error. A Google Groups thread has one developer complaining and an official Google representative...

Google Shopping (Base) Feeds Processing Errors: Sam from OhNuts informed me that Google is having some major issues with Google Base feeds. Google Base feeds are used to send data from your site to Google Product Search, amongst other places. A Google Groups announcement thread says...

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 21, 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 - 11/21/08: Jerry Yang Steps Down, TLA Inlinks.com, and We Yell Abou(...): Happy week before Thanksgiving! What are YOU doing next Friday? (Chances are, Ill be here blogging!) This week, we saw the biggest news of the month (or so I think), and thats where Im going to start. Jerry Yang, Ex-CEO...

Microsoft Endorses Link Exchanges -- Or Do They?: On the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Blog (and even in a second post), Senior Product Manager Skip Chilcott writes that link exchanges are a popular way to generate more links. Blogger Saad Kamal has a problem with this. Citing...

Google AdWords Tests Out New Interface: A new Google AdWords interface may be coming to an account near you. At Search Engine Land, Barry provides screenshots of this greener interface that looks like its sporting a new green type of Gmail theme. Here are some screens:...

Google AdWords Team Shares Insights into Google Optimization Center: Want some industry information about getting the most of your Google AdWords budget? Check out the Google Optimization Center, which gives you some great strategies depending on the type of industry youre in. PDF files are offered in each individual...

I'm Surprised Google Made SearchWiki The Default, Really: The blogosphere is buzzing about Googles announcement that they have made Google SearchWiki the default for users who are signed into Google while searching. What this means is that users will see features to promote, delete and comment on search...

My Google Maps To Sync With Google Maps Mobile: Google Maps Guide Tom replied to a Google Groups thread requesting Google to bridge the data between My Maps and Google Mobile Maps. Typically, a Google representative would say, thank you for your feedback and leave it at that. But...

Google AdWords Sandbox API SOAP Requests Broken: For those Google AdWords API developers, you should be aware that currently any requests sent over the SOAP protocol to the API Sandbox will return an error. A Google Groups thread has one developer complaining and an official Google representative...

Google Shopping (Base) Feeds Processing Errors: Sam from OhNuts informed me that Google is having some major issues with Google Base feeds. Google Base feeds are used to send data from your site to Google Product Search, amongst other places. A Google Groups announcement thread says...

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 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....

The Value of a Link on Google's Home Page: Ever wonder what a link on Googles homepage would bring in terms of traffic? Lets take this G1 link: The Compete blog gives some detail into the number of clicks that link had while it was extremely visible on Google.com....

SEO Chat

Yang to Step Down as Yahoo CEO: It must have been a heartbreaking decision but Jerry Yang co-founder of venerable but battered search engine Yahoo agreed to step down as the company s CEO as soon as the board of directors finds someone else to fill that

The Google Force: Google didn t come out of nowhere it was far from the first search engine. Now that it s ten years old it has grown from the new kid on the block to the biggest game in town. What lessons

SEO and Link Building: Good and Bad Plans: So you want to get your site ranked highly by search engines and you know that one good way to help your site to get there is to build links. What you may not know is that not all links

Google Ad Planner Review: If you ve ever wanted some serious help with planning your online display ads cheer up it s a complicated process so you re not alone. In fact Google anticipated your needs when it introduced its Ad Planner in late

Building Search Engine Tag Trails: With so much of the success of your web site out of your hands and at the whim or the search engines and your site visitors wouldn t you like a way to tell them both that your site is

Keyword Research Tips: Keywords are search queries visitors use on search engines. Keywords are one to six words in length with a few longer exceptions. You know your site needs keywords but which ones How do you research keywords Keep reading that s

Google Faces Possible Anti-Cartel Investigation: Google may appear to be ready to take over the world but it still has some major regulatory issues to confront. Its advertising deal with Yahoo has anti-trust agents in both the US and Europe up in arms to say

Online Marketing Blog

Hands On Social Media for Direct Marketers: TopRank Online Marketing is pleased to announce a parternship with The Direct Marketing Association to develop and present a series of 2 day workshops on social media marketing for direct marketers. On December 4th in New York the new course entitled:

Post PubCon: Real-World Winning Tactics for Content Creation: Editor note: In order not to overwhelm readers with posts during Pubcon, we’ve saved a few additional sessions for posting this week. Enjoy!Content is king. In spite of all that has changed in the online sphere since its inception, content

Top Content Marketing Blogs from Junta42: Over at Junta42 Joe Pulizzi has announced the quarterly update of his Junta42 list of content marketing blogs. I’m happy to say Online Marketing Blog was again included in the list. This time in a slightly improved position as you

PubCon: Earning Big Bucks with Social Media Traffic: Have you considered developing content specifically to drive traffic from social media sites? Have you also considered what you want from that social media traffic, and what to do with it once you have it?In a session titled, “Earning Big

PubCon: Universal & Personal Search - This Changes Everything: Universal search has been touted as the biggest change to happen to search in recent years. Certainly universal and personal search have altered the search landscape to an extent, however to what extent is up for debate. In Universal &

Pubcon: In-House SEO and PPC: The last regular session of the day I decided to attend was on In-House SEO and PPC which was moderated by Melanie Mitchell and included Jessica Bowman, Dan Perry, Ana Schultz, Allison Fabella and Jill Sampey. The issues that in-house

Pubcon: Top Secret SEO Tools: The first post-lunch session of day 3 of Pucon brought together a great mix of SEO experts including: Todd Malicoat, Rand Fishkin and last minute fill-in for Jessie Stricchiola, Andy Beal. Moderator duties were handled by Joe Laratro.First up is Todd who

Pubcon Day 2 Favorite Photos: The second day of WebmasterWorld Pubcon didn’t dissapoint with great sessions throughout the day. In between sessions, I was able to take a few candids and had help from Lisa Barone and Ashley Bruce during the sessions where I was

PubCon: Online Reputation Management: The sheer quantity of different information sources online has resulted in a media circus. The various blogs, tweets and mainstream media outlets are like different acts vying for user attention. Online reputation management amid all the chaos can be difficult.

PubCon: Managing Brands Online: The speed and availability of information online has given more power to the individual to be vocal about their opinions and feelings, both positive and negative. Social media, blogs, forums and online groups can leave you vulnerable to negative attacks

Pubcon Day 1 Favorite Photos: As is tradition at Online Marketing Blog, we take quite a few photos at conferences. I’ve never come back from an event thinking that I took too many. Here are a few photos from day one of the WebmasterWorld Pubcon

PubCon: Social Media - The Big Sexy Buzz: You may or may not be using social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, or Digg in your business. The overarching theme from this panel at PubCon was… why not, what do you have to lose?Social media gurus, including Warren

PubCon: Understanding the Complex Social Media Marketing Playing Field: Building and designing a successful social media campaign can be a lot like designing and building a skyscraper. You need to research the materials, lay a strong foundation, and continue regular maintenance to ensure your building, or social media promotion,

Pubcon 2008 Keynote Shawn Rorick of Cirque du Soleil: The WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference in Las Vegas opened up today with remarks from founder Brett Tabke, who mentioned that only about 30% of the content of this year’s event are dedicated to search marketing. The rest is made up of

Increase ROI From Marketing Conferences: Now, more than ever, marketing companies and consultants need to get competitive for client dollars and what better way than advancing your knowledge and your network?There are many options for companies and agencies to train digital marketing teams and to

Managing Online Reputation with SEO, Social Media & PR: One of the hottest topics that transcends the public relations, social media and search marketing worlds is online reputation management. Search engines are fantastic for finding things. They’re also a significant contributor to influence online. Blogs, forums, social networks and

The New Rules of Marketing & PR: Several of the TopRank Online Marketing team attended a Social Media Breakfast last Friday, along with about 150 local business leaders, code warriors, internet marketers, agency peeps and social media enthusiasts, to hear a presentation by David Meerman Scott, author

5 SEO Posts that Rocked Our October: In October we decided to mix things up a bit and offer more posts with practical tips, especially the SEO Basics series. While many of our readers appreciate industry insights, observations, conference coverage and interviews, it was the practical tips

David Meerman Scott Social Media Breakfast Minneapolis: This morning the 8th social media breakfast meeting (started by Rick Mahn) was held at the Deluxe HQ here in the Twin Cities. In a very short time this meeting of a few social media enthusiasts at a coffee house

How Big Companies Use Social Media @ BlogWell: Please welcome guest blogger Jessica Rosenberg, a freelance writer and active social media user who blogs daily at It’s my life… and does product reviews at The Lemonade Stand. Jessica attended BlogWell: “How Big Companies Use Social Media” event this

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These Fun Keyword Tools Will Answer All Your Questions: It’s exciting to discover more and more keyword tools and brainstorm how far you can go with your keyword research. Let’s look at my recent finds and see what we can do with them and what questions they can answer

MapQuest Launches Personalized Maps : My MapQuest: Playing catchup with Google and the search giants, AOL’s MapQuest yesterday launched My MapQuest, a personalized mapping service which lets MapQuest.com users save maps then access them anytime from any browser or mobile device. Here’s some key information from the

Google Search to Roll Out SearchWiki feature: Google will soon be rolling out its SearchWiki feature which it has been testing for a couple of months now. SearchWiki as the name implies would give Google search users some sort of control over their the way specific results

How to Search Twitter - the Advanced Guide: You might be tired to see Twitter-related posts every single day but this shouldn’t prevent you from using the tool. To network using Twitter or not - is up to you. There are still many people who just don’t get

Keyword Rich Internal Anchor Text - How Much Is Too Much?: We’ve heard and seen evidence that internal anchor text over-optimization (sorry, Jill, but this has really become a generally recognizable term) can result in Google penalty. Rand Fishkin, for example mentioned this issue in PRO tips as well as on

Yahoo Brings Visual Search Display, Glue to the US: For those who are aware of Yahoo’s experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo India dubbed Glue Pages and you’ve actually liked it, then you’ll be glad to know that a similar feature has been launched by Yahoo, specifically

Yahoo OneSearch Powers Up T-Mobile Search and Paid Mobile Ads: T-Mobile and Yahoo has just announced a new partnership that brings Yahoo’s mobile search facility - oneSearch to T-Mobile’s customers via its web2go services. With this new agreement, T-Mobile has now completed its suite of mobile services under web2go which

Information Environment Design: The Building Blocks: No description.

Link Building and Blog Pitching Euphemisms: Today with blog pitching for link building and awareness you just can’t say straight what you are actually up to: a link back to your site. Even if you are approaching bloggers with an awesome unique resource that is most

9 WordPress Plugins You Need: As a WordPress enthusiast, guru, and lover, I use plugins every single day and am constantly researching new plugins — even creating plugins.These are the top 11 plugins that I’m in love with. Check them out and see if they’re

Google AdWords Rolls Out Search-Based Keyword Tool: Google AdWords is rolling a new tool that would let AdWords members identify which keywords their potential customers are searching for and to help them identify which keywords they should advetise on and which keywords are relevant to their landing

Check Your Site Usability With These Fun Tools: Usability (as well as accessibility) is a too broad topic to be discussed in one post of course. Besides, I am no professional web designer or usability professional to offer any expert advice on that. Still I’ve come across a

How To Super Charge Your Online Marketing for The Holiday Season: With the holiday season just around the corner, it still isn’t too late to tweak and optimize a dedicated holiday search marketing campaign. The fourth quarter of the year is essentially a ‘party season’ of sorts for those that have

Yahoo to Replace CEO Jerry Yang: As expected by many, Yahoo’s embattled CEO has finally decided to step down from his post as Yahoo starts searching for a new CEO that would uplift Yahoo (again) from where it is right now. Tasked to assess potential candidates

Google Analytics for Flash Campaigns : Ads & Widgets: Although Flash-enabled ad campaigns could be powerful form of advertising, its complex structure makes it difficult for advertisers to measure how users are interacting with those ad widgets to see how effective those ads really are. Up until now, as

4 Tools Visualizing Domain Backlinks: There are quite a few good Yahoo-based (and a couple of independent) backlink checking tools (both web-based and desk-top) that are great for investigating, organizing and keeping track of your own or competitors’ link building techniques. However we have very

Solid Proof that the Online Ad Industry is not Looking Good: Online advertising is not growing, and it has been declining since Q3 2007. TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld has the graphical data to prove that the combined ad revenues of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL account only for 0.6 percent growth from

Wal-Mart Tells Search Engines No Links to Black Friday Ads: Black Friday advertisement flyers from Wal-Mart have hit the web early after a leak and Wal-Mart is not only going after the sites that have posted the Black Friday specials, but also the search engines which are indexing or linking

Google Docs Turns 2, Struggles to Get into the Mainstream: A couple of days ago, Google’s online productivity suite Google Docs and Spreadsheets just turned two years old. And through those two years, we have witness how Google tried their best to improve its features to gain a significant stronghold

Yahoo Plans Over 1,000 Layoffs : 10% of Workforce: Yesterday, after the news of Sun Microsystems hit the newswires, Yahoo also confirmed that it would be again slicing the size of its workforce, this time by 10%, as Yahoo plans to layoff about 1,500 employees on December 10th.As the

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New Link Advertising Program InLinks.com from Text Link Ads: Yesterday, Text-Link-Ads launched a new service InLinks, that places ads inside the content part of blog posts (full disclosure TLA is an advertiser on this blog). I’ve seen this service in use for a while and it does really good

Google iPhone Voice Search - It’s All About the Ads: I was lucky enough to have lunch with Matt Cutts last friday, and one of the things we spoke about was the Google voice search application that was (FINALLY) released today. After playing with it for about half an hour

Las Vegas Pubcon 2008 Wrap Up: As I try and dig my way through my overflowing post conference inbox, and mostly overdue Remember the Milk to do list I thought I’d take a few minutes and share my thoughts on Pubcon 2008.As someone whose been to

Google and The Flu: Recently Google announced how their flu tracking system worked using data from Google trends. While I appluad Google for thier open discussion, I personally believe this logic is flawed. It’s a systemic problem that occurs throughout Google because of their

New Website ViralConversations.com: So if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been the past week, I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a new website ViralConversations.com. The idea behind Viral Conversations is putting business owners who have a product or service, in touch with

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Analogies in Blog Titles are Like Dirty Underwear: As I cruise thru my SEO folder in my feedreader every day I’m filled with a sense of dismay and utter dissapointment with most of what I see. More often than not I see titles like:How My Step Dad Taught

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