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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…
Google’s New Homepage Test: No Longer “Feeling Lucky”?
A new Google search interface experiment has been discovered. While there have been a few fun design changes, one major Google element has been…
Google Acquires SageTV for GoogleTV Reinvigoration
Google just picked up SageTV for an undisclosed amount. SageTV, a software and hardware company that built a product for watching and recording TV…
Google “Photovine” Trademarked – But What Is It?
Google recently filed a trademark for a new service called "Photovine," and the photovine.com domain name just switched to an unnamed owner. But what,…
Google Quietly Launches Panda Update Version 2.2
Webmasters and SEOs suspected the next wave of Google's Panda update began hitting last week, with reports coming in of traffic drops and recoveries.…
Google Warns WordPress Site Owners To Update
The Google Webmaster Tools team is now notifying webmasters running out-of-date or insecure version of WordPress, the popular content management and blogging software, to…
Google–British Library Partnership to Digitize 250,000 Books
The Google Books project has scanned over 12 million books, largely thanks to the forty-plus libraries in its Library Projects Partner program. The most…
17 Tips for Tip-Based Content – How to Research, Scale & Promote
A proposed definition of "tips" (the smallest documentable unit of "how-to" do something) for marketers and ideas and direction for link strategists and other…
Connected Marketing Week: The Tasty Other Half of #SES SFO 2011
Connected Marketing Week in August brings together marketers, executives, business owners, programmers, and designers from around the world for a feast of tips, tactics,…
Tight-Lipped Networking & Black Hat SEO Tips @ SES
The black hat strategies you'll hear about during the black hat/white hat sessions at SES conference events will definitely open your eyes to what's…
Google Welcomes First Day of Summer & Winter With Takashi Murakami Doodles
In honor of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, Google has tapped a guest Doodler, Japanese…
Google’s AdMeld Acquisition Sparks Anti-Trust Review
Google's $400 million acquisition of display ad ROI optimization tool AdMeld has, unsurprisingly, prompted action from the DOJ. According to multiple sources, an antitrust…
What Does AOL Mean To Huffington Post? All Our Links!
The Huffington Post has started a flame war with the New York Times claiming higher online users, but the increase at HuffPo has been…
Google AdWords Experiments with a Click Count Feature
Google is never short on AdWords experiments, running numerous format and placement experiments of varying sizes at any given time. One recent experiment includes…
Gifting Online & Offline: Not Just Holidays Anymore
Insights on search behavior around gifting from analyzing the back to school period, why gifting slows down in July-August, and examining last-minute gadgets and…
Oracle Copyright Suit Seeks Billions from Google
Oracle, the company that owns Java, has been engaged in an arduous legal wrestling match with Google. Oracle's recent claims make the true scope…
Google Extends Support for rel=canonical
After a recent warning from Google about the potential of hacked canonical tags, Google has announced they are now supporting the use of rel=canonical…
Google Adds Related Searches SERP Element
A recent addition to the SERP takes advantage of Google's understanding of the complexities of topic categorization to provide a list of related searches…
Aligning SEO with Marketing – A Plan for Success
Six tactics to help you successfully increase organic search traffic by aligning internal teams with SEO best practices in the areas of communication, keyword…
My Love-Hate Relationship with SEO
I love search engine optimization. It works. It can provide a lot of value and I'm a strong supporter/evangelist of the practice of SEO.…