Cabernet - Fruity, oaky, that'll be $22 plus state sin tax Smells like April Fools' Day. You know, immature and cheesy, with a quick, bright finish. At least according to Google Nose, one of the latest additions to Google's long line of new...
I know a lot of people pay a lot of good money for a site, only to have it be ugly as sin, non-functional, or not search engine friendly. I've seen my fair share of Google fallout though, usually brought forth by someone after they've seen their...
The City of Angels stole the crown from Sin City as the most searched destination in 2012, no doubt thanks to this epic viral video of a twilight landing at LAX to a Sugarcult soundtrack. What most captured the interest of the American public this...
Breaking commandment 0111 wouldn’t be considered a deadly sin, but this one surely is. The newly named Digital Analytics Association ushers in a time to revitalize and refresh the values of the industry, so I could think of no better way to welcome...
Despite it being an ‘SEO 101 no-no’ many sites are still committing the anchor text sin of ‘click here’ or some variation thereof—a non-trivial percentage of the ‘garbage’ anchor text were ‘click here’.
The graphing functions are strongly capable; searchers can enter everything from a simple geometric function such as sin(x) to a wild set of lovable equations. Google has made their search bar into a graphing calculator.
Duplicate content sin #2: Default page linking - Conversation Marketing Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Oct.to 22, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
Duplicate content sin #1: Pagination - Conversation Marketing Calling it the unfolding of a new era of social search, Bing this week revealed big changes to their search results. Bing and Facebook are teaming up to better personalize search results...
Original sin was one such idea that needed to be re-examined as a result. Our latter day HAL citing a character from the sci-fi novel "Dune" echoes an undeniable and common experience of life, so close to original sin of the past and yet so modern...
The left hand navigation bar was disqualified as "counter-intuitive", "redundant" with the top menu, and the icons for the various "Everything" options were said to be "clutter", "as ugly as sin" (in case you wonder, these are all direct quotes...
Las Vegas, NV: Sin City-area residents are also 29 percent more likely than average to be users of Apple products. But I've just seen a study from Experian Simmons that answers the question: Which markets are the biggest users of Apple products?
And to be clear: even this magical tool doesn't completely absolve you of the sin of spinning off multiple duplicate content pages as unique. Unfortunately, some of these recommendations have been incorrect, confusing, or not focused on some of the...
Knowing I'd have a deadline only 24 hours after getting back from Sin City, I took it upon myself to see how search (and specifically paid search listings) fit in with my Las Vegas interests. Since I wrote my last column, I've spent most of my time...
To me, eTrade made the cardinal sin of thinking everyone knew it was eTrade.com. For any that did not get to watch the commercials, a fairly good introduction and review can be found at Ad Age (Video Link).
Yahoo is a media company at its core, and a very good one.However, the company committed "a cardinal sin of stock maneuvers," promising delivery of its revamped "Panama" search advertising platform and then delaying its release.
If you really
think you're running a crucial site, you can sin against Google and gang and
probably be forgiven in short order. Matt Cutts over at Google
lets everyone know
they are now back in. So, they got a three day slap on the wrist.
New movies like Sin City rent for $3.99, and all other movies are $2.99. Although Google has been grabbing headlines with the announcement of its forthcoming Google Video Store, many other services let you search for and view many types of video...
Sin City rent for $3.99, all other movies are $2.99. These services allow customers to
record, search, browse, download and/or purchase video content online. We're not talking about stores selling you a DVD (like Amazon) but suppliers
of...
Sin City It's a holiday of sorts for pop culture fanatics and search junkies. Today, we begin the journey with the release of the Lycos list from the Lycos 50 of the most popular Internet search terms of 2005.