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Conferences are Important to the world of search
In the world of search, conferences are proving to be industry musts. Anyone wanting to know more about the search industry, or is interested in learning about current or recent developments, can use these conferences to gain a lot of knowledge in a short amount of time. In addition to the... Read more...
Published 3 hours ago

Thank God it’s �" SEO !
Today I’m taking a break from the meaning of search series simply so I can take a moment to give thanks. North Americans as we may be altogether, this Monday you might feel a little bit out of sync with your remote neighbours as Canada celebrates Thanksgiving more than 6 weeks ahead of the USA.... Read more...
Published 4 hours ago

Don’t be an In-house Douchebag: Learn, Discern and Earn Respect
The truth is, many companies are just now starting to wake up to the benefit of optimizing and marketing their websites online. Therefore, as a new in-house SEO, you should keep in mind that although your industry may be extremely exciting to you, not many (if any) in your new company will feel... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Link Building 101: How to Evaluate the Power of Directories
As previously mentioned in part 1 of this series, it’s extremely important to be able to evaluate the power of a directory for link building. Especially when you consider that the power of a directory listing is much more complicated than just looking at the PR of the directory homepage. Hence,... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Using Search To Mitigate/Reduce Business Risks
Talk to most people and ask why they engage in search and they’ll answer … “because it gets results”. There’s no question; search is a very important part of the marketing mix. That said, many people and businesses do not necessarily understand all the inherent benefits of search.... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Friday Funnies: The Next Tweet
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Published 7 days ago

Search and Undesirable Information
Now, although Search can’t be held directly responsible for the material it indexes, for the material it gives easy access to, as any parent and law enforcement officer knows, it certainly makes finding and accessing undesirable information a lot easier. In the real world (for geeks define:real... Read more...
Published a week ago

Blog Tips: 8 Ways to Get People to Read your Content!
Source: Andertoons The reason we all write blogs and content for our websites is because we have something that we feel is important to say, and we want to get that message out to the public and to our potential consumers. Unfortunately, as my boss has pointed out in one of his posts that only... Read more...
Published a week ago

Microsoft adCenter Desktop Beta - Google AdWords Editor Junior
In June of this year, Microsoft (MSFT) went public with beta testing of their desktop editor for PPC marketing, proving that they are getting even more serious about competing in the Paid Search arena.  Although they still have some vast distances to travel in order to compete on the field with... Read more...
Published a week ago

The SERPs are Alive with the Sounds of Microblogs
Lately the search engine results pages in Google have been alive with the sounds of Microblogging platforms. I have come across quite a few long tail, non-competitive search queries as of late that have actual individual utterances from platforms such as Twitter and FriendFeed in their top ten... Read more...
Published a week ago