December, 2009

GOOGLE TOOLBAR PAGERANK UPDATE: DECEMBER 30, 2009

So despite claims of ditching the little green pixel bar, Google has once again updated their Tool Bar PageRank (TBPR) about an hour ago, at 8 p.m. on December 30, 2009. I noticed the change immediately when I was doing a little WordStream brand searching and saw in the SERPs that we’d jumped from a [...]

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Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love

Historically, I’ve been fairly narrow in what I read in the blogosphere and tech arena (almost all SEO-centric stuff). You can see my Firefox sidebar list here, which  hasn’t changed much since 2008 with the exception of the blogs and news sections. But, over the past 6 months, I’ve been broadening out considerably and found that it [...]

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Why Aren’t You Building Links From Relevant Sites?

Today I wanted to take some time to talk about link building with relevant sites. I wanted to start off with a couple of questions, concerns, or push back that we tend to get from clients and people who just don’t understand link building. One of the things that I am told by clients is [...]

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Top 10 Reasons Your Website Should Go Mobile

The mobile web is a fascinating space that is still in its infancy. If the current capabilities of mobile devices are a sign of things to come, I can only imagine what will be possible five years from now. Here are 10 reasons I think that anyone with an online presence should establish a mobile [...]

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Does SEO still matter?

Remember the early days of the Web? Everyone was using an Internet service provider that promised unique content along with your dial-up connection. Most of those companies are gone now, though AOL is still plugging along — albeit with the rest of the Internet giggling behind its back. But what if AOL was really just [...]

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Tracking Back Links: How Do You Do It?

There is an excellent thread at HighRankings Forum on the topic of how you should or could track one’s link building efforts. The topic in this thread started off about how to track links accrued due to a link building contest. However, the topic moved into how to track link building efforts for a site in [...]

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Social Media Marketing: Friends With Benefits

Nowadays, social media marketing is very much akin to a friends with benefits type of situation. Always bear in mind when thinking about and planning social media marketing campaigns and strategy that you have to focus more on making friends than selling your products and promoting your business! Social media is just that—social. In order [...]

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Groovle Beats Google In Domain Battle With Groovy Defense

Back in 2007, we wrote about Groovle, a site that lets you skin Google with your favorite image, and serves results through Google’s Custom Search. It seems that Google wasn’t much of a fan though: the search giant sought to  take control over the domain name, alleging that it would confuse users. Today comes word that their [...]

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TenYears: Biggest Losers in Tech

Loser: Brick and mortar stores Once consumer trepidation regarding e-tailers wore off, it was really only a matter of time before physical stores with limited stock and pushy salespeople bit the dust. Among the fallen we have Circuit City, CompUSA, and Gateway stores among others. Sure, for sundries, your Wal-Mart and Big K are doing [...]

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Google New Advertising Professionals Search

Preparing to take my Google Advertising Professionals exam, I have had to spend a lot of time poking around in the Google Advertising Professionals section of Google Adwords. From within the Pro Center in my Google Adwords Client Center, I discovered Google Professionals Search. According to Google Adverting Professionals Search: Google Professionals Search is a [...]

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