Minnesota-spawned Brent Rangen is on the top of his game. 2010 Small Biz Discovery Contest Winner (Bruce Clay, Inc.), SEW News Author, and highly desirable internet marketing trainer. In his spare time, Brent enjoys cow tipping, table tennis, and squeaky cheese from Wisconsin.
Brent is also a partner at LinkOrbit and owner of the Optimize Guyz, a SEO and Custom WordPress Design Agency out of Central Minnesota.
The central idea of the new tool is to give webmasters a basic overview of site profile's standing with Google in one quick glimpse. The feature lacks several key components right now, but it’s a usability perk for anyone managing multiple sites.
Google has introduced a pair salt-blastedly new link elements to show th' schematic relationships 'o documents that span multiple pages 'n better identify duplicate content. Google emphasized they want to show sin'le-page versions in search results.
This month many companies that you may already be using, or a have heard about previously, updated their services or released new product offerings. Here is a brief outline of the pick of the bunch.
Facebook for Business offers a clear, concise, easy-to-follow guide for businesses. The resource center brings value to business owners, employees tasked with social media, and marketers looking to sell and educate regarding Facebook services.
Twitter continues to announce new records and milestones. But beyond the stats, which don't tell the real story, here are a few reasons why Twitter's popularity has exploded this year, and eight really cool things people are using Twitter for.
Shark Week, a smash-hit marketing initiative by the Discovery Channel, pulled in nearly 30.8 unique viewers last year, making 2010 a record breaker. Will 2011 hook more viewers than 2010? Time to try and tear apart some of their marketing tactics.
“World of Fourcraft” uses Foursquare's framework and Google Maps API, to create a social game social media marketers should look at for lessons on how to encourage clients, fans, and followers to become more active and swear allegiance to your brand.
On Facebook, visibility is key, which means making sure your posts appear at the top of everyone's news feed. Here's an overview of the major Facebook EdgeRank factors, and how you can optimize while managing and maintaining your presence.
SEO industry survey looks at top ranking factors paired with correlation-based analysis, and features more data, more specific data research, and many new factors entering into the ranking equation.
InboundWriter allows authors to focus on writing content, producing better quality content, and better keyword placements for maximizing search traffic. Whilst writing, InboundWriter assigns an SEO score value to your article based on a 0-100 scale.
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced they would implement a new daily budget feature for their PPC program. That time for has now come. Tomorrow (June 1st), the new feature will be rolling out to all daily budget advertising accounts.
What was first cited as “advanced talk” between the two businesses has been happening for over a month. Twitter beat rival UberMedia in a bidding war for the application development company, paying $40 million for London based startup, Tweetdeck.
Ontolo is a backlink discovery tool that will continually search for new potential link partners. By automating certain parts of the discovery process, Ontolo has the potential to cut down time spent researching new link propsects by 80 percent.
Google has unveiled a Sort by Subject feature for Image Search that allows users to sort photos more easily by subject and improves the general topic searches.
If you're looking for a picture of a certain bird, for example, and perhap…
Matteo Mucci asked SEW via Twitter, "what are the best 5 SEO Addons for Firefox 4?" SEW thought it was an interesting question, so had a stab at the answer. Here are 7 useful Firefox Addons and plugins for an SEO and their day-to-day workflow.
Search-based online advertising network Chitika has put out an interesting study showing that the top spot in Google receives 20 percent of clicks among iPad users.
Top Google Spot is Less Valuable on iPads [Study]
Last year Chitika tried to...
Google.co.uk appears to be testing out new placement locations for URLs on their search engine results pages.
As the PPC Blog spotted, the website addresses have been moved directly under the page titles. Normally, the URLs are located...
Google has released a new plugin that will help you verify your WordPress site in Webmaster Tools.
Blogger users already know this was an option for Google-owned-blogger blogs. Now, it's an option for WordPress users as well. Bloggers who...
Google users will soon see a new twist on Google's autocomplete feature when typing longer queries. Google announced that autocomplete will begin serving up search predictions based on only part of your search.
Autocomplete, which basically...
WordStream have repackaged all their different tools into a single "Keyword Research Suite" (KRS) and introduced a few tweaks to make it easier to use.
The PPC management software company presented a more robust toolset to the public several...