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4 SEO Recommendations for More Effective B2B Website Industry Sections
B2B marketers must fully leverage SEO to bring more leads and conversion opportunities. Here's how to determine optimal keyword strategies for gaining visibility and…
The Value of an In-House SEO
When it comes to putting a value on in-house SEO, you can assign a direct dollar amount on some activities. However, other activities have…
Concrete Details on Google Music (Beta)
After months of anticipation and weeks of dedicated waiting, I've received an invite to the Google Music (Beta). Here are a few concrete details…
Play Blekko’s New “3 Engine Monte” Game
Blekko, the world's favorite upstart search engine, has made some major recent updates. One fun extra included is called "3 Engine Monte." The feature…
Blekko Unmasks New Search Results With “Zorro” Update
Blekko, the hard-line anti-spam search site, has revamped their search results page format on the front- and back-end. Known as "Zorro," the update changes…
Google Hits the Billion Monthly Unique Visitors Mark
Roughly one in seven people around the world visit Google monthly. How do we know? Google has just become the first company to break…
Performance Based SEO: Innovative Pricing or Russian Roulette for Backlinks?
The performance-based SEO model can work, but has a disconcerting mix of over-the-top claims, moral hazards, and aggressive link building tactics that can damage…
Time to Turbo-Charge Your Twitter Strategy: Why & How
Twitter is well positioned to continue growing significantly. In addition to providing pure click value, Twitter is eyeing the mobile future of the Internet,…
The Tests You Want or the Tests You Need?
Testing website content and features is a vital part of conversion rate optimization but sometimes carrying out the tests you want must wait until…
Foursquare Hits 10 Million Users: Yeah, That’s 1,000% Annual Growth
Foursquare, the geolocation social network that started the whole "check-in" ball rolling, has hit 10 million users. To commemorate, they've released an interesting infographic…
Winklevoss Twins Row Away From Facebook Suit
The Winklevosses and their partner Divya Narendra have dropped their legal dispute against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, deciding not to continue their Supreme Court…
Hostage Drama Unfolds On Facebook
A woman in Utah was held hostage for 16 hours by a gunman who kept posting to Facebook and even posted photos of the…
Google +1 Counts Appearing in Search Results
In what seems to be an attempt to further push its new Google +1 button, Google is showing the number of +1's sites have…
DuckDuckGo: Ditch Google, Bing for Unfiltered Search
DuckDuckGo, a small-time search engine, focuses its promotions on showing ways it's (supposedly) better than Google. The current message: DuckDuckGo lets you escape the…
May 2011 Online Video Rankings: Nielsen, comScore Agree to Disagree
The latest video ranking data for May 2011 is now available and about the only thing that any of the market research firms seem…
Google Street View Halted in Bangalore
Just a few brief weeks after Google Street View cars started driving on the streets of Bangalore, India, Google has halted its efforts. It's…
U.S. Hotel Industry Could Be Losing $1.9 Billion From Branded Search Terms
Hotel brand managers need to issue much stricter brand guidelines to affiliates and channel partners. That's the message from a recent study by MarkMonitor,…
Has Same-Sex Marriage Controversy Caused Google To Retreat From Open Gay Support?
During Gay Pride celebrations last year Google's support was highly visible, as banner-carrying employees attended events around the world. This year, Google's only support…
4 PRO PR-Optimization Strategies: SEO, Video, Local & Social
It’s time to connect the dots between PR, social media, search marketing, and SEO. As competition gets SEO-smarter, the stream of online content continues…
SEO Your Website For Foreign Languages in Your Domestic Market
With less competition, there’s a huge SEO opportunity within domestic markets to target native speakers of foreign languages. Here are some tricks of the…