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Google Confirms Layoffs Of Contract Employees: The Associated Press reports that Google has released “a substantial number” of its contract and temporary employees, but the exact number isn’t known. The news isn’t a surprise; in October, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told the San Jose Mercury News

Search Biz: Yahoo-MSFT Update; Google’s 20% Time Changing & Google Router Coming Soon?: The latest twist in the Yahoo-Microsoft saga comes from TechCrunch, which reports that a new group is trying to takeover Yahoo … with Microsoft’s money. The group is made up of investment bankers and Silicon Valley big-wigs, and Microsoft would

Microsoft Wins Verizon Mobile Search Derby: Reuters is reporting that Verizon has chosen Microsoft to be its mobile search partner. The rumor, based on an initial Wall Street Journal report in November, had been that Google and Microsoft were in tight competition for the relationship.Microsoft provided

Bush: Fix Your “Miserable Failure” Googlebomb Legacy Before Obama Takes Office: Few realize that outgoing US president George W. Bush has left behind a unique legacy for future presidents, including Barack Obama — that they are all condemned to rank tops for a search on “miserable failure” in major search engines.

Google Maps For Mobile Simplifies Directions: According to the Google Mobile Blog, Google Maps has simplified getting directions on your BlackBerry, Nokia, G1 or iPhone — if you have the Maps client downloaded. Previously if users entered a business name on the Maps client as a

Report: Sitemaps Increase Crawler Response Time: An SEOMoz post has documented statistics on how submitting a Sitemap to Google and Yahoo impacts the rate of crawling that web site. The results show that submitting a Sitemap to Google and Yahoo decreased the time it took Google

Bruce Clay Releases Two New Tools: The folks at Bruce Clay have announced the release of two new SEO tools. One tool is named the Search Engine Optimization/KSP tool and the other is a toolbar named SEMToolBar.I used the Search Engine Optimization/KSP tool to run a

Baidu Sued As Search Monopoly In China: Leading Chinese search engine Baidu has been sued by Chinese medical B2B marketplace Qmyy.com to prevent its site from being blocked or dropped by the engine. According to a factually lean report in China Daily:Qmyy.com required Baidu to stop blocking

Considering In-house SEO? How to ease into in-house SEO Smoothly: In-house SEO can be more cost efficient, but it can also be very costly because in-house SEO has many unique challenges. If you are planning to bring SEO in-house in the coming year, be smart. Most companies can’t actually be

Google Testing ‘Blended’ Mobile Ads: Yesterday Google Operating System noticed that search ads were showing up between and amongst the organic content in mobile search results. I tried a variety of times this morning to reproduce those results and was unable to.The ads I saw

Google Trends Features ASCII Art Of 9/11: A reader tipped us off to how ASCII art of an airplane is showing up in the number two position at Google Trends. When we first looked ourselves, we thought the image was that of an airplane approaching a landing

Yahoo To Advertisers: We Can Create Ads & Edit Keywords Without Asking First: Last night, Yahoo emailed their search advertisers about new terms and conditions including a controversial provision that they are allowed to create ads, remove or add keywords to campaigns and “optimize” accounts — which could allow for bid changes. All

Google Wins “Gu Ge” Lawsuit In China: Google Wins Lawsuit on Name, Trademark of Subsidiary in China from Bloomberg reports Google has won the lawsuit over Google’s trademark on its Chinese subsidiary “Gu Ge.”The Beijing Haidian District Court ruled that Beijing Guge Science and Technology has to

Google Claims That Google Checkout Increases Conversion By 40% & Clicks By 10%: Google has added claims to its Google Checkout Merchant homepage that having Google Checkout as part of your AdWords ads will lead to higher conversions and a better click through rate. Google specifically writes that conversions will increase by 40%

Google Finally Brings Picasa To The Mac: Google announced the now have Picasa for Mac available for download. Why now? Well, MacWorld 2009 is currently underway - so that is why they released it this week. What took so long for Google to bring Picasa to the

The Big List of 2009 Marketing Predictions: If you’ve been thinking about what’s in store for 2009, join the crowd. The start of a new year always brings out the proverbial crystal ball, but perhaps this year more than most, online marketers are trying to figure out

What Could Save The Yellow Pages? 10 Ideas: It’s something of a “perfect storm” for the embattled yellow pages companies right now. Not only has the usage of print yellow pages books declined in recent years, but they’re also facing heavy competition in the online space from each

Will Google Book Search Help Or Hurt Libraries And Book Sales?: The NY Times runs a longish article about Google Book Search, its outlook and some fears surrounding its further development. Book Search was freed from legal entanglements when Google settled a class action suit against it. That opened the door

Choose Your CMS With Care: The best time to start working on SEO is before you start building your site. It goes back to that old saying: “If you don’t have time to do it right, will you have the time to do it over?”

Marissa Mayer Denies Rumor She’s Leaving Google, Comments On Search Being “90% Done”: In some ways the “future of search” is a tired topic that has already seen hundreds (maybe thousands) of speculative articles. But it’s also a topic of critical importance for search leader Google, whose entire franchise is built upon doing

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Interview of Muhammad Saleem, Social Media Expert: After seeing the rapid rise of Tipd, I figured it would be a good idea to interview Muhammad Saleem, a social media adict who knows social media both from site manager and site participant perspectives.How did you get into social

Internet Marketing's Words That Sound too Good to be True: Words that sound good are often used in marketing by those in dire need of credibility, or those promoting a warped view of reality needed to justify their own business models. Many catch words and phrases obtain an Orwellian opposite

Youtube Monetization 2 Years From Now: I think my wife came to say hi to me when I was sleeping a week or so ago and I started singing you are my sunshine in a rather annoying voice (not sure where I first heard the song,

Captcha Advertising via SEO Trivia: Recently we lightened the background color and increased spacing between keyword results in our keyword tool...making the results look more aesthetically appealing. While playing with it I wondered how hard it would be to change the captcha questions to make

Books Are Great Web Content Sources: I saw about a half dozen blogs mention this review of Predictably Irrational...a book we covered 4 months ago that is still getting tons of new press. The book is so good that Rand did a review of the review.

Happy New Year!: Social Media Case StudyThis Sphinn thread is a case study in social media...with lots of brilliant analysis / advice in it from SugarRae, John Andrews, and Fantomaster.Microsoft Search = Tragic FailDanny Sullivan wrote in depth about why Microsoft Search has

Yes, Keyword Ranking Reports are Still Valuable: In Mike Grehans New Signals to Search Engines he highlights how personalization, social media, and universal search may help move search beyond text and links.Mike also contended that ranking reports are dead. While clients should see the end effect of

Download Alexa Top 1,000,000 Websites for Free: Quantcast was the first web traffic analytics company that allowed users to download their top 1,000,000 websites. Recently Alexa followed suit, giving away a daily updated index of their top 1,000,000 websites.Such lists should be taken with a grain of

Why We Are Lucky to be SEOs: The US (and global) economies are in sharp decline after a period of growth that was largely fueled by speculative (and fraudulent) loans that increased money supply way too quickly. While carnage is wide reaching offline, it is simply a

The Return of Garbitrage (Click Arbitrage SEM): Recently one of our AdSense sites had a lot of poor ads on it that we filtered out, but it is hard to keep up with all the new ones. Some of them are so bad that you know they

Recent Links: While at Pubcon I did an interview with Ralph Wilson about link building. I have got wayyyyy too chubby, but I think the video turned out ok outside of that. And there is even a guest appearance of Abraham Lincoln

Are You Advertising on Your Most Profitable Search Results Yet?: What is Visible?One of the biggest problems with this site from a business model perspective is how much free content (including tools) that we give away...as the site was started out of passion with intent to help people, rather than

Credibility Experience Audit: Do you search visitors bounce?As we approach the end of the year, and people start to wind down, it might be a good time to take stock of our web strategy beyond SEO. How can we make more

How To Start Writing: Be RemarkableWrite great contentEveryone says that the secret to achieving great search rankings is to produce great content. People link to great content. So you sit down to write some great content. ....but the screen remains blank..........the cursor

Link Building Ideas For Small Business: Its easy for the big guys.They have big advertising budgets. They have brand awareness. Every time they twitch, some business journalist will be writing up a story. But what if you operate a small business? You have a

Search Traffic Growth Profile for New Websites: There is no universal right or wrong to the overall SEO process and strategy. There are many ways to get to the end destination of ranking. This flowchart aims to show some of the stages new sites go through, and

My First SEO Conference - Guest Post by Falko Luedtke: Falko Luedtke has been a member of our online training program and community forums since the day we opened up nearly a year ago. He has done in house SEO for some fortune 500 clients and recently branched out to

Worth Sharing...: Andrew Goodman offers a free 40 page guide to Google AdWords.Dave Winer and Paul Graham published articles about how complexity and corporate thinking increase the cost of doing business and stifle innovation. Worth reading both of them. Michael Gray offers

Editorial Integrity & Publisher Control of Ads: Chris Brogan and John Andrews both wrote great posts about how you do not lose your editorial integrity just because you exercise editorial control of your ads. Lets look at the flip side of the equation. Most networks do not

Google Chrome Adds Search Pre-roll Ads: Google Chromes biggest change from an SEO perspective are that it... combines the address bar and search box into 1 boxthat search box shows search suggestion results before searchers see the organic search resultsThe combination of those 2 means that

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Do Sitemaps Affect Crawlers?: Posted by chenryLike any other person out there, I fall into habits, good and bad. Recently while working on a client’s website, I created a Sitemap and submitted it to the search engines, like I always do. I started to

If I Could Change One Thing About the SEO Industry, It Would Be...: Posted by randfishMy personal ending would be - to Improve the Industrys Professionalism. Were a young industry, which means opportunity, excitement and lots of fantastic entrepreneurs and personalities. Conversely, it also means a lot of unprofessional, immature behavior, even from

Best Practices for Content Optimization: Posted by randfishIs it possible that in all the years weve been writing at SEOmoz, theres never been a solid walkthrough on the basics of content optimization? Lets fix that up.First off, by content, I dont mean keyword usage or

Redirect 301 /jane.html: Posted by Jane CoplandIt was a bit difficult hitting the Compose Entry link in my account to write this, because this will be one of the last blog posts I write as an SEOmoz staff member. At the end of

I Will Bet You $1035.58 that the Internet is Recession Proof: Posted by Danny DoverAbout six months ago, I created a list of the top 100 domains based on estimated monthly visits. This list identified the elite corporations that had found the success that most entrepreneurs (and SEOs) are striving to

10 Irrational Human Behaviors and How to Leverage Them to Improve Web Marketing: Posted by randfishI couldnt help but love Chris Yehs Outline of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions. Its a fascinating look into the surprisingly predictable psychology that powers human actions and reactions and I think there are

A Christmas Present for SEOs: 10 Tips to Pick the Low Hanging Fruit: Posted by randfishIts very late on Christmas Eve, and I can hear our hosts, my cousin-in-law and his girlfriend, snoring in the next room. Their new dog is curled up on the couch, grumbling and huffing through his wet nose, one eye

What the heck should we call *.domain.com?: Posted by randfishIf youve been playing around with Linkscape a little, youve probably seen our attempts at creating a lot of new naming conventions for metrics and features that were previously the exclusive realm of web indexing researchers, information retrieval

The Long Tail Theory Gets Challenged, Just Not in Search Query Demand: Posted by randfishResearch has been cropping up in the last few years to challenge Chris Andersons modern-classic theory of demand distribution. The Times of London had this to report today in their article - Long Tail Theory Contradicted:The internet was

The Evolution of Search Results and What It Means for Search Marketers: Posted by randfishIn the last six weeks, 3 unique events have led me to conclude that this post is essential. We, as search marketers, need to understand not just the small changes the engines have been making in Q4 08, but what

The Big List of PPC Resources & Articles: Posted by Tom_CThis post needs very little introduction. I’ve scoured the web, my bookmarks and twitter (thanks guys!) for all the very best articles about PPC that I can find. I’ve broken the links down into several categories to make

Headsmacking Tip #10 - Incentivize Links: Posted by randfishA very short tip, but one that has been proving incredibly valuable to all of our clients of late.When you think about attracting links organically, the process goes something like this: What content can I create that will

Collecting Past Due Payments From Clients: Posted by Sarah Bird, EsquireMay It Please the Mozzers,I want to briefly touch on some collections methods and issues today. The first step is to try and collect the money yourself with follow-up invoices, letters and an offer of a

10 Ways I've Been Using Linkscape to Help Our SEO Projects: Posted by randfishLinkscape has been out for just over 2 months, and recently had its first index update. Although its still in beta (and probably will be for another update or two), Ive been using it enough for our client

Whiteboard Friday - The SEO Fundamentals Pyramid: Posted by great scott!Straight from a conversation at a recent seminar, we bring you a new model for looking at the fundamentals of an SEO campaign: The SEO Pyramid!This is a great way to visualize what you need to consider

Differential Diagnosis #2: A Double Mystery: Posted by randfishIve been watching a lot more of the Dr. House show, and becoming a bit obsessed with some SEO mysteries of my own. Since our last outing into diagnosis went so well, I thought wed try again. I

You've Got 70 Minutes to Vote on this Post: Posted by randfishThis morning at SEOmoz, were having a dev priorities meeting to decide which items in our queue of tools, upgrades and improvements will take priority for the next 45-60 days. For fun, I thought Id open it up

The Exact Science of Hindsight and How This Helps in SEO: Posted by Duncan MorrisOver the last few months Ive found myself doing slightly less SEO, and in its place Ive been thinking about how we can improve the SEO services we offer our clients.SEOs (Ive found!) tend to be quite

Social Media: The People's Choice Awards of the Internet: Posted by rebeccaIve been hearing a lot of grumbling lately about the steady degradation of the quality of content online, especially as it relates to social media and social news sites. I dont necessarily agree with the gripes--was content that

The Five Secret Ways Nintendo Rules The Internet: Posted by Danny Dover By keeping children and teenagers entertained back in the 1980s, Nintendo has claimed a spot in the heart of the present day internet generation. Nintendos internet success is widely accepted yet largely undocumented. The tactics below reveal

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Webspam in 2009?: It’s the beginning of the year, so I just wanted to get some outside opinions: what would you like to see Google’s webspam team tackle in 2009? Here’s how I asked for suggestions in 2006:Based on your experiences, close your

Start the Year with an Empty Inbox!: Here’s a nice Gmail tip that will make you feel like a million bucks: empty out your crufty email inbox. There’s nothing like an empty inbox to motivate you and give you a fresh start for the year.“But Matt,” you

Chrome Provides Dedicated Privacy Options: I was browsing the web when I ran across a statement about Google Chrome that I’ve seen echoed in different ways in the last couple months: “the reality is that Google Chrome is sending basic info about my pc back

Last Toolbar PageRank update of 2008: In case you didn’t see where I confirmed it on Twitter, Google recently did a toolbar PageRank update. It’s pretty much done now. If you want more info, I’ve answered questions about PageRank and the Google Toolbar in the past.I

Google Feedback from my Parents: (I’m not with my parents this Christmas, but I’m thinking about them and thought I’d post this.)I was chatting with my parents a couple weeks ago and the subject turned (as it often does) to Google. They wanted to give

My 2008 traffic stats: I published traffic stats for my blog for 2006 and 2007, so it’s time for the 2008 statistics.The rough summary is:2006: 1.7M visits and 2.9M pageviews2007: 2.3M visits and 4.8M pageviews, plus 31K RSS readers2008: 3.4M visits and 5.7M pageviews,

Living in the cloud: I used Wakoopa to track which applications I run on my home Windows machine. Here’s what it says:When 96% of your computer time is spent in a browser, that’s living in the cloud.

Living in the cloud: I used Wakoopa to track which applications I run on my home Windows machine. Here’s what it says:When 96% of your computer time is spent in a browser, that’s living in the cloud.

My RSS Reader Stats: I noticed that The Guardian drew up a list of top 100 sites for 2009. There’s a lot of great sites on their list, from stackoverflow.com to popurls.com to xkcd.One snag for me is that The Guardian only recommended two

My RSS Reader Stats: I noticed that The Guardian drew up a list of top 100 sites for 2009. There’s a lot of great sites on their list, from stackoverflow.com to popurls.com to xkcd.One snag for me is that The Guardian only recommended two

Ten things I don’t like about Google Chrome: Recently I blogged about what I like about Google Chrome, and Philipp Lenssen asked a good question: “What do you *not* like about Google Chrome?”Normally when I have suggestions or complaints about a Google product, I talk directly to that

Ten things I don’t like about Google Chrome: Recently I blogged about what I like about Google Chrome, and Philipp Lenssen asked a good question: “What do you *not* like about Google Chrome?”Normally when I have suggestions or complaints about a Google product, I talk directly to that

Charity donation recommendations?: It’s the end of 2008, which means that it’s time for one of my favorite posts of the year: what charities would you recommend donating to?As I said a couple years ago:If you’re not aware of them, GuideStar and Charity

Charity donation recommendations?: It’s the end of 2008, which means that it’s time for one of my favorite posts of the year: what charities would you recommend donating to?As I said a couple years ago:If you’re not aware of them, GuideStar and Charity

I know, I know..: Sometimes I think Twitter steals energy away from blogging. I just did my 1000th tweet a few days ago. I’ll try to write something soon, but it’s been busy for the last few days. At least my cat Emmy has

I know, I know..: Sometimes I think Twitter steals energy away from blogging. I just did my 1000th tweet a few days ago. I’ll try to write something soon, but it’s been busy for the last few days. At least my cat Emmy has

SES San Jose video interview: Another day, another video interview. This one was with Greg Jarboe at SES San Jose. You can watch it on the Search Engine Strategies channel on YouTube, or I’ll embed it below:Some of the things we discussed:- a quick story

SES San Jose video interview: Another day, another video interview. This one was with Greg Jarboe at SES San Jose. You can watch it on the Search Engine Strategies channel on YouTube, or I’ll embed it below:Some of the things we discussed:- a quick story

PubCon video interview: I spoke at a few conferences in the second half of 2008, and a video interview from PubCon recently came out.The always-charming Mike McDonald and I did a 10 minute video interview at PubCon a couple weeks ago. A few

PubCon video interview: I spoke at a few conferences in the second half of 2008, and a video interview from PubCon recently came out.The always-charming Mike McDonald and I did a 10 minute video interview at PubCon a couple weeks ago. A few

Search Engine Watch

SearchDay | Writing Sales Copy for Conversions: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Forget Tibet; Free the Content; Paid Search Spend up 12% in Q4; Facebook Reaches 150 Million Users Worldwide; and more.

SearchDay | There's No Shortcut to Good SEO: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Theres No Shortcut to Good SEO...Or Is There?; E-mail Marketing Tips for Small Business; Yahoo Gives Itself Permission to Change Your Search Marketing Campaigns; and more.

SearchDay | Search Shifts and Predictions for 2009: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Search Ad Quality Score 101; What Makes a Successful Online Promotion?; 5 Web Resources to Find a Job in Search; and more.

SearchDay | Use Caution When Growing Your Site: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Use Caution When Growing Your Site; 50 Most Memorable Moments in Search for 2008; Online Holiday Shopping Down 3% Overall for 2008; and more.

SearchDay | Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox?: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox?; SEO Site Structure 101; The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Google 2008 Review; and more.

SearchDay | Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Assembling Your Landing Page Optimization Dream Team; Online Spending Soars Before Christmas; Keep Tabs on Santas Whereabouts; and more.

SearchDay | Social Media and SEO -- Friends with Benefits?: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Social Media and SEO -- Friends with Benefits?; The Small Business Guide to Choosing Keyword Phrases; Hubspot Releases State of the Twittersphere Report; and more.

SearchDay | Revisiting 2008 Search Predictions: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Revisiting 2008 Search Predictions; SEO Site Structure 101; Holiday E-Commerce Sales Flat Overall; and more.

SearchDay | Local Search: Where's the Love?: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Local Search: Wheres the Love?; SES Chicago 2008 Recap; YouTube Rolls Out HD, Niche Landing Pages; and more.

SearchDay | PPC Landing Pages: PPC Visitors Have ADD: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: PPC Landing Pages: PPC Visitors Have ADD; Link Building Strategies in Troubled Economic Times; Google Website Optimizer Launches New Help Forum; and more.

SearchDay | Buying Links is Hard Work: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Buying Links is Hard Work; What Will 2009 Bring Us?; Online Video Wins the 9-5 Hour, Weekdays; and more.

SearchDay | PPC Landing Pages: PPC Visitors Have ADD: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: PPC Landing Pages: PPC Visitors Have ADD; Link Building Strategies in Troubled Economic Times; Google Website Optimizer Launches New Help Forum; and more.

SearchDay | Buying Links is Hard Work: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Buying Links is Hard Work; What Will 2009 Bring Us?; Online Video Wins the 9-5 Hour, Weekdays; and more.

SearchDay | Social Shopping: Build Long-Term Traffic and Trust: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Social Shopping: Build Long-Term Traffic and Trust; Google Product Search + Mobile = The Future?; Yahoo! Unveils Social Inbox; and more.

SearchDay | Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox?: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox?; Keyword Discovery 101, Part 2; Google, Lessig Defend Net Neutrality Positions; and more.

SearchDay | Social Shopping: Build Long-Term Traffic and Trust: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Social Shopping: Build Long-Term Traffic and Trust; Google Product Search + Mobile = The Future?; Yahoo! Unveils Social Inbox; and more.

SearchDay | Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox?: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox?; Keyword Discovery 101, Part 2; Google, Lessig Defend Net Neutrality Positions; and more.

SearchDay | User Ratings and Reviews: Join the Conversation: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: User Ratings and Reviews: Join the Conversation; Citysearch Launches Application for iPhone; Google Chrome Out of Beta; and more.

SearchDay | Paid Links: A Black Hat/White Hat Discussion: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: Paid Links: A Black Hat/White Hat Discussion; Look for SEO Opportunities in these Dire Economic Times; Yahoo Shareholder Wants Search Sold to Microsoft; and more.

SearchDay | User Ratings and Reviews: Join the Conversation: Todays search engine marketing news and opinion: User Ratings and Reviews: Join the Conversation; Citysearch Launches Application for iPhone; Google Chrome Out of Beta; and more.

Pronet Advertising

Catchup - 12/22/08: Jeremy Schoemaker is giving you a once in a lifetime opportunity to get your brand out there while supporting a good cause. During Affiliate Summit Jeremy will be wearing one persons brand on his t-shirt during the conference. If you

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

SEO Black Hat

Are You Paralized by Too Much Freedom?: With what you do, you probably have the freedom to be doing it anywhere in the world. You have the freedom to do whatever you want in your free time.

I Say: Just Ignore It.: Totally hypothetical question here.

Hands Down the Best Marketing “Post” of the Year.: Yes, I realize its not technically a blog post, but its still the best marking post of the year.

Poker Lessons Applied to Business: How are Poker and Business Related?

The Gift of the Magi: ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY-SEVEN CENTS. THAT WAS ALL. AND SIXTY CENTS of it was in pennies.

The Stuff of Lies: The Story of Stuff is a stories of Lies.

Since When Does ‘Top 89th Percentile’ Mean ‘Douchebag’? (Since Always!): Is that the best you can do?

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 7, 2009: 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....

Google AdWords Downtime on January 10, 10am-2pm PST: Just a quick heads up that the Google team has posted a notification at Google Groups that the AdWords team will be conducting maintenance this Saturday. Both the AdWords login console and the API will be offline between 10am and...

Tips on How to Get Indexed Faster by Google, Yahoo, & Live Search: A WebmasterWorld thread asks for tips on how he can get his site indexed and crawled faster by Google. The thing is, most, if not all, of these tips apply not to just Google, but any search engine, such as...

Request Reinclusion If Site is Ranking Well in Google?: A Google Webmaster Help thread asks a very interesting question. Should a webmaster consider submitting a reinclusion request if the site is still ranking well in Google? The question seems obvious. Why would you bother submitting a reinclusion request when...

Ranking in Google Search For Plurarls Vs. Singulars: There is a nice old school SEO thread at HighRankings Forum on the old topic of ranking well for singular cases, when you are already ranking well for the plural version. For example, you are in the tops of tops...

Why Does The Site Command Show More Indexed Pages Then Google's Sitemap Report?: A WebmasterWorld thread asks why does the site command in Google not match up in the number of indexed URLs reported in Google Webmaster Tools. A very valid question, let me show you. A simple site command in Google for...

Google Trends Attacked, Again: Targets Former World Trade Center Towers: Yesterday, I was tipped off by a reader that the number two listing on Google Trends was this form of ASCII art ✈ ▌▌. At first, I thought it was an airplane landing on a runway strip. By I was...

AdWords Using Google Moderator For Feature Request Voting: A week ago, we reported that the Google Mobile team is using a new tool to track and monitor how popular feature requests are. Well, it seems like Google AdWords started their own similar tool, using Google Moderator. A AdWords...

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 6, 2009: 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 Google's PageRank Indicators in Webmaster Tools Useless?: A WebmasterWorld thread asks just how accurate is the table in Google Webmaster Tools that shows the details of Your page with the highest PageRank. It is found under Statistics and then under Crawl stats at the bottom of the...

SEO's View of Google's Greatest Achievements of 2008: Frank Watson posted a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums asking members what they feel Googles top achievements of 2008 were. Here are some of the responses from the thread: Google, swooping in to muck up any and all Yahoo/MSN...

Are Google AdSense Optimization Reports Helpful?: Google AdSense began testing AdSense optimization reports about two years ago. They officially released in in April 2007 and publishers were eager to get tips from Google. We then began noticing that the tips were not only repetitive and automated...

Yahoo Updates Search Advertisers Terms & Conditions: Last night, Yahoo sent out an email to their Search Marketing advertisers, notifying them that they have updated the terms and conditions. So I compared the current version to the archived version to see what significant changes have been made....

Case Study: Transferring Google PageRank With Redirects: An older WebmasterWorld thread has been updated to share the time frame it took this webmaster to transfer his Google PageRank scores from old URLs to new URLs. In summary, he set up a new URL structure (possibly a new...

Are Low Google AdWords Quality Scores Due to "Penalties"?: You dont hear the word penalty come up much when you are talking about Googles AdWords program. I hear it all the time with Googles web search algorithm, but rarely when it comes to Googles AdWords quality score algorithm. In...

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 5, 2009: 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....

Newbie Thread of Week: Alphabetized META Tags: Sometimes I seriously wonder where some of these SEO theories come from. One that caught my eye this week was found in a Google Webmaster Help thread, asking if it can hurt your SEO efforts if you do not alphabetize...

Poll: Do You Like Video Thumbnails Near Google Search Results?: Ever since Universal Search hit Google, we have been noticing flavors of video thumbnails and static images left aligned on the Google search results. A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around this latest format and some are happy with it, while...

Google & Date Formats : US vs UK Date Formats: A Google Webmaster Help points out that Google handles most date formats in US format. So if a site has a date in the format of 04/06/2007, Google will read that as April 6, 2007, but in UK format, it...

Google Warns About Social Media "Schemes" in SEO Guide: Remember a few months back when Google published their internal SEO guide? Well, Michael Gray asked if Social Media links is an easy way to SEO death row. Michael pointed out that on page twenty of the guide, under the...

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Search Engine Indexing for Flash Websites is Improving: Are you frustrated because your Flash website does not show up on the search engines That s understandable. Keep reading though because there s hope all of your work is not wasted. The search engines are getting smarter where Flash

Microsoft`s Live Search Patents and Algorithms Related to Blogs: In this article we will cover three Microsoft patents and draw quick conclusions on where Live Search is going. Will the patents and the methods they represent help the software giant win market share in the search engine space The

Yasni: Yet Another People Search Engine?: Google s mastery of search sometimes makes us forget its shortcomings. Specialized search engines insist that they deliver better more relevant results for their particular fields. That seems especially true in the area of people search despite the many search

Using Images to Tell Your Story: The Internet has come into its own as a visual medium with entire sites devoted to still images and video. When searchers look for information or entertainment they ve come to want a little eye candy along with all those

Google`s Trust Rank and Hilltop Algorithms: PageRank is not the only algorithm Google uses to determine relevancy of pages. In this article we discuss two more publicly known algorithms Hilltop and Trust Rank. Keep reading for some enlightenment on how the world s most popular search

Mobile Search Engine Optimization: If there is one area of certain growth in these troubled economic times it is the mobile communications sector. And with significant improvements having emerged over the last few years in vital areas such as data transfer speed screens and

Middlespot: Getting More Out of Search: In the first part of this two-part review I introduced you to Middlespot a Canada-based startup company with an online tool that can help you organize your online research. In this second part I finish my review touch on the

Worst SEO Mistakes: In this article we cover worst SEO mistakes. Some of these will cause the search engines to ignore you others will cause potential visitors to ignore you still others may make your site disappear from the search engine results pages

Microsoft`s Search Bribery: a Brief Overview: The furor over Microsoft s Live Search Cashback program unexpectedly going dark for most of Black Friday highlights an embarrassing situation for the software giant. The company can t seem to make a dent in Google s search dominance. In

Middlespot May Hit Search Sweet Spot: Many of us do just fine online with standard search engines but what if you re working on a project or engaging in a hobby that calls for prolonged research You can set up a folder in your browser with

Google Penalty Checklist: Rank Drop Troubleshooting Guide: Is your website not appearing in Google and you re not sure why It is possible that your site has been penalized for not following Google s webmaster guidelines. This article will walk you through troubleshooting your website to help

Optimizing Your Website: If you re looking for a quick overview of a variety of topics to help you perform search engine optimization on your web site keep reading. This article will cover basic issues such as internal linking and anchor text as

Generate Traffic to Your Site by Posting in Forums: Using forum posts to generate traffic to your web site gives you several advantages that other methods don t. One of these of course is that it only costs you time not money and very little of that. But there

Editorial Calendars: a Blogger`s Best Friend: Have you felt stuck for content for your blog lately Maybe you re brand new to blogging and feel overwhelmed at the thought of producing all that content. Or you ve been at it for a while and feel like

Link Building: The Anchor Text: In this article we will discuss link building practices. Instead of focusing on methods however we focus on what you need to do when you put the methods into action. Specifically we re going to pay special attention to anchor

Can 123People Find You?: Last week I began reviewing Austria-based 123People.com a new search engine trying to make some headway in the vertical niche of people search. People search engines are useful to everyone from employers to stalkers but does 123People have what it

Write SEO Copy Like an Authority: If you want to get a high rank in the search engines you need to get lots of links. To do that you need good content. But you need to do more than write really good content to achieve your

U Rank: Microsoft Discovers Social Search: Everybody wonders what s bubbling away in Google Labs to the point that we sometimes forget that other major search companies boast their own research and development departments. To wit Microsoft Research began offering its own variation of social search

Finding People with 123People: 123People joined the legion of vertical search engines that specialize in finding people online. If you ve ever tried to track down old classmates or get a handle on a potential employee s background you know how much information Google

SEO Tricks That Will Lower Your Rankings: So the time has come for you to consider or more likely than not to reconsider your SEO strategy. Perhaps you re new to the game and don t even know what SEO is. Don t worry we ll explain

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Should Marketers Shift Offline Budgets to Digital Marketing?: You don’t have to look much further than recent headlines and research studies below to see that many companies are losing confidence in traditional marketing and advertising. The changing trends in information production, distribution and consumption coupled with the uncertain times we

6 Social Search Engines to Start 2009: There are many reasons to search social media including monitoring for brand and reputation management purposes. Smart online marketers have also been using social search for other reasons including competitive research and opportunistic content marketing through social keyword trends.Most advice

2008 Top SEO Blogs by RSS Subscribers: As part of maintaining the BIGLIST of search engine marketing blogs, we’ve posted a list of the top SEO blogs that publish their RSS feed subscriber counts and on this last day of 2008, I thought I’d put up just

How Community Building Boosts SEO: A while back I had a Twitter discussion with a few smart Minnesota based marketers, @cbensen, @albertmaruggi and @bestbuyCMO about the importance of customer service and community building that turned to a variety of ancillary benefits. Connie mentioned that community building is

Happy Birthday TopRankBlog & SEO Blogs Class of 2003: I am happy to say that this weekend, December 28th marks 5 years of blogging at Online Marketing Blog. From the infamous “Florida Update” of December 2003 to current, practical advice on social media strategy December 2008, TopRank has been

Happy Holidays from TopRank Online Marketing: The entire team at TopRank Online Marketing would like to wish our valued readers a very happy holidays and a fantastic new year. We sincerely appreciate all our subscribers and all the amazing insight, comments and connections you’ve helped us

Best Podcasts on Social Media: There are many ways to acquire information on the topic of social media ranging from blogs to books to Twitter. As part of our efforts to aggregate useful resources for Online Marketing Blog readers on topics related to digital PR,

Writing for the Web: SEO for News Content: At TopRank Online Marketing, we’re keen on matching content and therefore optimization efforts with the right audiences. News is a perfect candidate for optimizing by intent. Below is a presentation I did recently as part of a PR News webinar

ComcastCares Social Media Interview with Frank Eliason: Social Media Smarts: Interview with Frank Eliason of Comcast aka @ComcastCares Photo by Shel IsraelTwitter has become many things to many people and organizations for that matter, including Comcast. It really says something when a company experiences the bite of

5 Tips for Successful Blog Optimization: Yesterday I posted “3 Reasons Why Blog SEO Fails” to help readers avoid the pitfalls of starting a business or corporate blog purely for SEO reasons only to end up wasting time and energy. Without proper planning, oversight and passion

SES Chicago: SEO Through Blogs and Feeds: Yesterday I presented at SES Chicago in a session on SEO Through Blogs and Feeds with Stephan Spencer and Sally Falkow. I went first and presented the slideshow embedded below, a presentation in two parts:Why blogs created solely for SEO

3 Reasons Why Blogs for SEO Fail: There are many benefits to publishing a business blog and improved search engine visibility is one of the most popular. It’s pretty common advice to hear: start a blog and the fresh content will attract links, improving your search results.

New Perspectives on Digital Asset Optimization for 2009: Search engine optimization can be challenging enough, especially for large, enterprise organizations rich with digital assets. They’re also rich with policies, procedures and often times a labrynth content approval and publishing process.An effort to optimize and promote those assets to

Dell Social Media Interview with Richard Binhammer: Social Media Smarts: Interview with Richard Binhammer from Dell - @richardatdell Photo Credit www.briansolis.com Of all the companies known for making advances in the realm of social media, Dell holds a place that reaches both ends of the spectrum. References to

TopRank Brings 2 Speakers on 2 Panels at SES Chicago: TopRank Online Marketing will have two speakers presenting on two panels at SES Chicago this week. On Tuesday, Senior Account Manager Jolina Pettice (who recently spoke on a panel with Yahoo’s Ron Belanger and Anne Kennedy at DPAC) will be speaking

SES Chicago Winds of Change: Today kicks off another Search Engine Strategies conference, this time in the windy and bleeping cold city of Chicago. Change has been in the air for SES with the naming of Stewart Quealy as VP of content development, responsible for creating conference

Get Social Media Smart with 26 Tips on the Social Web: Day one of the DMA / TopRankMarketing.com Social Media Smarts workshop kicked off covering a tremendous amount of information including defining social media, practical examples & case studies and blogging soup to nuts. Creating, marketing and measuring blog results was

Fundamentals of Social Media Marketing Strategy: Central to the notion of social media is the ability to create, publish and share content. The sheer volume of information on the topic of social media marketing makes filtering and prioritizing what’s most important to a specific organization a

Social Media Interview Shonali Burke: Social Media Smarts Interview with Shonali Burke I first ran into Shonali Burke right before she presented with Katie Paine at the PRSA International conference, “True Tales From the Social Media Measurement Trenches”. We had not met in person before but

Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software: There are more companies blogging now than ever. How do you measure results? Measuring the social web is a different thing than what most web analytics packages offer. It can be easy to start a blog, but making it successful

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Google Street View Helps Solve a Crime: Those who have been criticizing the invasion of privacy posed by Google Street View may find some reprieve from their complaints and perhaps appreciate one positive ways by ways the service can actually help the society. More particularly the police

Apple Removes Anticopying Measures on iTunes Songs: At the recently concluded Macworld conference, among the not so many highlights of the event was Apple’s announcement that it would start selling songs at its iTunes store withouth the usual Digital Rights Managements software. Apple reported that it has

Verizon Picks Microsoft Over Google for Mobile Search: In a move which may influence the search association mobile phone users have with their search engine of choice, Verizon has chosen Microsoft Search over Google as its default search engine of choice.Verizon is expected to be the #1 mobile

Search for SEO eBooks and PDF Tutorials: 1. Scribd (already mentioned at SEJ) is a huge user-generated database of eBooks and community of writers. Due to the huge volume of eBooks it contains and also being user-generated (and thus used for self-promotion most of the time) in

ExactFactor: Track and Compare Your Search Engine Rankings with Ease: I’ve been reviewing rank-cheking tools previously and also looked at both sides of the problem asking the readers if rank checking is worthwhile in general. Anyway, whether Google rankings are in your SEO campaign focus or not, you might be

Find Out If Your Online Identity Has Been Stolen: The diversity of social media communities has brought one huge Internet marketing problem: online identity theft. If you are lucky enough to own a fairly popular unique brand name and smart enough to use it for social networking, you might

Yahoo Now Can Change Advertiser Search Marketing Campaigns: Yahoo Search Marketing has rolled out a new TOS which gives it the right to change the search marketing campaigns of its advertisers via changing their ads and adding keywords.Sponsored Search 3. OPTIMIZATION. In the U.S. only, for those advertisers

5 Link Building Tactics You Probably Don’t Use But Should: The end of the year saw a couple of remarkable ultimate link building lists; so I see no reason to add my own. Instead I decided to describe a few highly effective, not yet overused and quite original link building

IM Spring Break Tickets On Sale : April Search Marketing Conference: I am very happy to announce that registration for IM Spring Break has opened. Taking place April 2-4 in Deerfield Beach, FL, IM Spring Break will have a limited number of tickets available for sale, starting with 200 tickets which

5 Common AdWords Myths Absolutely Destroyed: #1 Myth: AdWords Is Media Placement This is a misconception of ad agencies and clients who have done more media placement than pay per click. In media placement, you place your ad somewhere for a set fee, and that’s it.

14 Essential Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Search: Greasemonkey is an addon for Firefox allowing users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages. To use the scripts you find in this post install the Greasemonkey extension first. This list ofGreasemonkey scripts is dedicated

New Year’s Resolutions 2009 : Business and Life Goals: Howdy folks, it’s now 2009 and like many out there in the world, I’m digging myself out of my Holidays and New Year’s feasting and over-consumption bunker to reflect on the past year and set goals for 2009. Looking over

4 Reasons Why PPC Is The Best Online Marketing Channel: What’s the number one reason for PPC’s strong growth as an advertising channel? High ROI. PPC is one of the most profitable advertising and marketing channels. This view is shared by most online marketers, who in 2007, according to Marketing

Track Google SERPs for Reputation Management and Rankings Monitoring: I’ve been looking at a few rank checking and monitoring tools previously. This time I am going to share a few ways to monitor the top Google results position changes by RSS, email or FireFox. This short guide will be

Microsoft to Layoff 17% of Staff?: I know it’s not so nice to usher in the first day of the new year with such a bad news. But hey, everybody is talking about it and Fudzilla broke the news. It looks like the rumored Microsoft layoff

Google PageRank Update on New Year’s Eve: Google has updated their Google Toolbar Pagerank as of about 1 hour ago, marking a New Year’s Eve PageRank update which should have a whole lot of web publishers and bloggers discussing their changes in PageRank over the New Year

FireFox Addons for Safe Browsing: This week’s FireFox toolkit is dedicated to addons allowing you to browse the web securely.1. McAfee SiteAdvisor will check each website you are entering in its huge index of sites. The tool: warns you before entering a suspicious/phishing website;shows a

Google Tries to Lure Gmail Users Using IE to Switch Browser: Google is reportedly trying to lure Gmail users who are still using Internet Explorer in switching to either Firefox or its very own Google Chrome browser. It was earlier spotted that Google is displaying a simple “Get faster Gmail” message

Google’s Product Search Catches Up with Rivals: It’s very seldom that we encounter this kind of news when Google is actually playing catch up with rivals instead of leading ahead of them. Well, at least for now, Yahoo has got something to brag about its Yahoo Shopping

Top 20 Twitter Posts of 2008: 2008 proved to a historic year for Twitter both in adoption through the sheer number of twitter users signing up to the services, but also as evidenced by many influencers writing about using Twitter for PR, Social Media, Branding and

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How Amazon Turned a Mobile Phone into a Cash Register: While there were numerous reports of Amazon being one of the few retailers who were positive this holiday season. One of the things that was didn’t receive a tremendous amount of press was the release of Amazon’s iPhone application. This

Google Guide to SEO - Are Social Media Links on Death Row?: I was reading Google’s guide to SEO (pdf) , and it’s actually pretty good from a website or business owner perspective. However here’s a quote I found interesting, this is something they recommend NOT to do on social media websites:involving

Who Else Wants to Make Money from Social Media?: Hi there. I suppose since this is a guest post, I should start with a little introduction. I’m Tim Woodin, and I’m going to talk about how to use social media to make money.Firstly though, let me give you a

Blogher 2009 Looking for Speakers: Blogher announced they are looking for speakers, looking for ideas for sessions and speaker nominations. I’m not sure why they can’t just say “call for speakers” like everyone else but hey that’s their thing not mine.Anywho if you know of

Re Inclusion Requests Only For Verified Sites: I’ve submitted more than one reinclusion request over the years, and the process was education in some ways (what you don’t think you can experiment with that too under the proper well planned and thought out conditions?). However I was

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So I Made it Onto Some Silly List: So while I was away I made it onto the Most Influential Online Marketers of 2008 list. Not that I don’t appreciate everyone who was nice enought to vote for me, and all the hard work that went into putting

Mapquest v.2: Google’s Attack On SoundClick.com: The Borgle is doing it again - after Google Maps ripping off MapQuest, Youtube is out to jack SoundClick.Before I got into the search marketing community, one of the first online communities I really got involved with was the hiphop

Michael Gray on Video: While most of our time is spent online, conferences are the one spot where people are in the same spot, so it’s a perfect spot for interviews. As we all know interviews are perfect tool for shameless ego stroking and

How Google Treats Trusted Sites Differently With Duplicate Content: One of the things that a lot of people don’t get about the new Google is the over-reliance on trust in the algorithm. It’s this over-reliance on trust that puts wikipedia at the top of so many searches. However if

Philip Rosedale From Second Life on Information Retrieval: The following is a video from Philip Rosedale of Second Life speaking at TED. From a search engine and information retrieval perspective the video get interesting at about minute 9:00 . He poses the thought that things are going to

So Where Have I Been and What Have I Been Up To: Blogging’s been a little lighter than usual the past few weeks as I was getting caught up, but now that my heads back above water, the regular blogging should kick back in.Also by special arrangement I’ll be blogging weekly-ish over

Blackhat Method for Increasing Your Twitter Followers: When I started my new website ViralConversations.com, I also started a new twitter profile. Since this was a brand new profile I was able to observe changes easily. As you can see from the screenshot below I am following 42

Why Font Selection and Usability Matter on Your Product: So last night I was chatting with Rae about Partnering for Profits program on Copyblogger. I paid signed up and downloaded my PDF copy. I sent myself a copy of the PDF by email so I could read it on

Danny Sullivan Naughty or Nice for Christmas: My friends over at Disney came up with this video that has the answer Danny Sullivan Naughty or Nice for ChristmasAdvertisement: Want to see your advertisement here find out how.Related PostsGoogle Thinks I Love Danny SullivanLooking at latest stats from

Singing In The Rain: or“How To Be Creative In 4 Steps”Ever pay attention to the affiliate network ads that pervade the blogs-on-blogging-and-marketing blogosphere? If you have, then you know that they’re all interchangeable. Every network promises you “better payouts and unique offers.”The web is

New Ad Format For Image Search: Had to redact the terms (sorry) but here’s a new advertising format I cam across while doing image searchsAdvertisement: Targeted Blog Advertising With PerformancingAdsRelated PostsGoogle New Format Shows Lack of DiversityI get and can acknowledge on a general search like

James Surowiecki on How Social Media Became the News: Since it’s a short week and your most likely going to be looking to bail out of the office early, I thought I’d leave you with a link you can watch when you have some free time. it’s from James

Google Search Wiki - Like Forcing You To Eat The Heart of a Live Cobra: Last week Google announced the release of a new project known as the search wiki. This represents another step where google shows complete disregard for their users, ignoring what they want, and instead forcing them to participate in what can

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

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