Sep 06, 2010 - 13 Questions To Ask Before You Hire A Local SEO Consultant
I am sick of small businesses being scammed by shady and/or incompetent SEO consultants so I put together this list of questions that any business should ask before they hire a local SEO consultant.
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Sep 03, 2010 - Consumer Watchdog Uses Google Analytics to Track User Behavior?Wait, What?
Yesterday I posted about a video being shown on a jumbotron in Times Square that showed Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a privacy peeping Tom; gathering information from unsuspecting children as he offered them “free” ice cream in his Google ice cr...
Sep 03, 2010 - Yedda Is Now AOL Answers
The Isreali start-up AOL bought three years ago to compete in the Q&A market has been rebranded as AOL Answers this week. The site is similar to Answer.com, Yahoo Answers and Ask Answers.Click to read the rest of this post...
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Aug 31, 2010 - SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 31, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Is SEO Integrated Into Your Localization Process?
For many, the question posed in the title of this post seems silly,...
Aug 31, 2010 - Is SEO Integrated Into Your Localization Process?
For many, the question posed in the title of this post seems silly, often resulting in either a confused expression, or a “how dare you ask that question” look from localization managers. Yet over the past few weeks I have spoken to a number of local...
Aug 30, 2010 - TweetUp, Now PostUp; Name Change Reflects Expansion into Facebook and LinkedIn
Search engine meets advertising platform start-up, TweetUp, will now be known as PostUp, according to an article by Business Wire. Why, you may ask? Well because not only is it going to continue to be used in the same way it always has been, but now it wi...
Aug 30, 2010 - 23 walls of Googley
A couple months ago while visiting our London office, I noticed a really cool Google logo on the wall. It was a mosaic of photos of London that had been created by a product manager named Clay Bavor and a team of Googlers (in fact, Clay wrote about it). ...
Aug 26, 2010 - The 4 Hardest Things About Conversion Optimization For Local Search
As I was perusing through some updates on twitter the other day I came across an Alan Bleiweiss article entitled CONVERSION OPTIMIZATION IS THE NEW BLACK. Â Now, not only did the article have an extremely catchy and trend-a-rific title, but Alan reall...
Aug 25, 2010 - HOW TO : Choose SEO Web Hosting ? Definitive Guide
Choosing a reliable and SEO-friendly web hosting service is one of the very first and most important steps in your website development and marketing process. No matter how “cliche” it may sound, your website hosting is literally the foundation...
Aug 24, 2010 - Weekly Search & Social News: 08/24/2010
Weekly Search & Social News: 08/24/2010
Hello and welcome to the latest -’7 Days of Search and Social‘ . It was a fairly busy week out in the trenches with plenty to get into… other than new patents. Ok, sure, you prolly don’t ...
Aug 24, 2010 - When to Say Goodbye to a SEO Client
No Internet Marketing company likes losing clients. Most people think that by losing clients, I mean that the client wants to walk away from the agreement because your services are under-performing or they are not seeing the value. But I am actually tal...
Aug 24, 2010 - Making Customer Feedback Worthwhile: Moving Beyond Statistics to Actionable Data Collection
The owner of a small corner store can easily communicate with customers in an actionable fashion. If shoppers are dissatisfied with product selection, they might audibly mutter about it in the store aisles or tell the owner directly. If two custo...
Aug 23, 2010 - 3 Facebook Limitations You as a Marketer Should Be Aware of
Facebook is an awesome social media marketing tool and the brand Facebook presence is GOLD but it has some bugs and limitations you should be aware of before trying to leverage the platform.
Apart from an infamous 5000 friend limit that restricts a person...
Aug 18, 2010 - Search Engine Market Share Steady In July: Hitwise
There’s little change in the latest search engine market share numbers from Experian Hitwise. The company announced its stats for July 2010 today, and there’s almost no change at all for Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Ask.com did get a 6% jump from ...
Aug 17, 2010 - Weekly Search & Social News: 08/17/2010
Hey there gang, welcome to this week’s edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social‘ ? It seems things might just be winding down for summer if the search world is any indication. Things are traditionally slow during the summer month’s ...