Big brands and mom-and-pop shops alike got beaten down for all of their spammy backlinks. We couldn't rely on those ultra-cheap blog posts anymore – we had to create our own. We could also buy entire blog posts – some spun by computer programs...
Give away websites (Freecycle, Fiverr, mom blogs…) An unstructured citation is more of a casual mention of your business' NAP that appears anywhere that's not an official directory provider, for example, a blog, social media profile, newspaper...
A two-second search for “mom blog” results in the following: Let’s say our target audience is mom bloggers. As with Google+ communities, a simple search of LinkedIn groups focused around “mom blogs” yields over 2,500 potential prospects.
This is the classic “stay away from bad neighborhoods” warning that your Mom gave you. If your link building efforts were centered on SENuke and the BuildMyRank blog network, then say so. At best, your business won’t receive any organic search...
Cazier’s Impact Assessment compares year-over-year (YoY) and month-over-month (MoM) drops in organic click volume on Google, segmented by verticals. Looking at the difference in Google YoY and non-Google YoY rates of organic click change will yield...
You know that guy who's been running a mom and pop tractor repair place that he took over from his dad 40 years ago? If you find a blog post entitled "Top 100 companies that sell green widgets" and you sell green widgets but aren't listed, contact...
Here are the names of all the contested gTLDs, followed by the total number of applicants in parenthesis: app (13) baby (5) blog (9) book (9) buy (5) cloud (7) corp (6) cpa (6) dds (2) dev (2) diy (2) docs (2) dog (3) dot (2) drive (2) earth (2...
For Mother’s Day, we also interviewed another mom on YouTube - Mindy McKnight. Mindy McKnight: Below are a few hairstyles that mom can do on herself for Mother’s Day that take literally 2-5 minutes (and others will think that she spent 30 minutes...
Betty Givan, owner of the successful cooking channel, Betty's Kitchen, has such a well optimized channel that in 2010 the Official YouTube Blog asked her to share her recipe for meta data. Wishing you a happy Mother's Day!
Mom, the blue lowercase “g” in her pearl necklace, is surprised by her two kids, the red and yellow o’s, as they bounce in an open door and hand her a purple flower (reminiscent of the last year's Mother's Day Google Doodle).
If CNN linked to your site with an anchor of "great place to buy a computer" then your site would probably be viewed as an actual great place to buy a computer, and you'd probably rank higher for that phrase than if you'd gotten that link from...
A mom who sleeps better? Thanks to Virgnia Nussey for her live blog coverage, which I leveraged to remind of some of the key points made by the panelists. Discussions generally end up focusing on how the search strategy should integrate with the...
You could practically hear the collective eye rolling of the millions of people watching when stay-at-home mom Jennifer, who had taken Obama to task over her husband’s unemployment throughout the event, asked him to do a jig on camera during her...
Notes From a Dragon Mom (New York Times) From his blog: Surprisingly, the top 40 articles came from just six online news sources, largely led by Yahoo! and CNN. The most shared article of the year wasn’t really an article at all, but a series of...
Aaron Durand Leveraged the Power of His Network to Save Mom’s Bookstore Aaron Durand tweeted a link to his blog post offering a free burrito to anyone who spent more than $50 at the bookstore in Portland, shelling out from his own pocket to make...
For those of you hell bent on white hat SEO and creating search engine friendly sites it is all but a punch in the face when you look at analytics daily, MOM or even YOY to see a loss in traffic. Another beacon that may show this problem is a MOM...
For example, "I'm, a busy mom of multiples who somehow finds time for freelance writing! Specific niche focus: Vital so that you can be sure you're pitching the right "flavor" of article to the appropriate blogger within a topic area (e.g.while...
Interactive or infographic related pieces about Mother's Day on popular topics, such as “The Top 5 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas of 2011,” “The 10 Worst Things to Give Mom on Mother’s Day,” or “The Most Famous Mothers of the Last 100 Years” have great...
Today isn't about young mums with newborns, it's about all Moms, and that includes the Mom of your Mom, your Grandmother, who is likely to be even more cut off from online social networking. You might be have a special day planned for your Mom, or...
Yahoo Search Trends: Mother's Day - Mom's Want More Than Flowers and Breakfast in Bed - Yahoo Search Blog Our testimony on how technology can aid crisis response - Google Public Policy Blog Sneak Peek: Local Ad Offerings for Bing in adCenter across...
