As expected Yahoo will be closing down Yahoo Site Explorer this year. Yahoo has just announced the date for the closure. This coming Monday, November 12, 2011, Site Explorer will cease to exist. The short Yahoo blog post reads: With the completion of algorithmic transition to Bing, Ya...
Google Analytics is divided in five main categories: Visitors Advertising Traffic Sources Content Conversions In this post, I want to talk about the Content category. I will not discuss all the reports available, but the ones I use most frequently. If you click on Content it will expa...
Google+: Brands Rush In Where Consumers Fear To Tread Nov 18, 2011 at 9:44am ET by Greg Sterling Tweet Earlier this week BrightEdge released data on early adoption of Google+ pages by brands. It also offered a comparison with Facebook. The SEO firm said that 61 percent of the top 100 ...
Most people assume they know how to get me “geeky” gifts, but I have a pile of stuff I can’t use. If you are looking for a gift for a geek or nerd this list might help you out. Please know that SEJ cannot verify that these items work as advertised. Each picture links to an online webs...
Howdy SEOmoz fans! Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Thrilled to have you with us. Today we're talking about mapping keywords to content for maximum impact. Now the problem is that a lot of folks think about the world of keyword research and keyword targeting separately...
Google+ Expands Search Options, Adds Trending Topics To Search Results Google+ has made a few tweaks to how its search function operates, and has added the obligatory trending topics its search results pages. The first change begins right in the search box itself: As you type a search...
SEO company BrightEdge has published a study in which they detail some statistics regarding Google+ Pages usage. Among the highlights: 61 percent of the world's top 100 brands have created Google+ Pages since its inception. 94 percent of the top 100 brands have a presence on Facebook....
Google's "These Go to 11" press conference marked the official launch of the Google Music program for U.S. users, opened the door to Google's long-awaited MP3 store, and unveiled several new music features for both consumers and artists. As we discussed previously , all signs pointed ...
Google+ has made a few tweaks to how its search function operates, and has added the obligatory trending topics its search results pages. The first change begins right in the search box itself: As you type a search query, Google+ now separates possible matches in a pop-up window with ...
We know the illegal online pharmacies used to love the Google. Apparently, the mortgage scammers have found AdWords to be quite useful in their nefarious schemes, as well. The Treasury Department’s Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP)...
On Google today is a special logo for the 224th birthday of Louis Daguerre. Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process of photography. Daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process commonly used for portraits. The process took a while, requiring the subject...
Google+: Brands Rush In Where Consumers Fear To Tread Despite New Rules, Google Product Search Merchants Not Providing Accurate Tax & Shipping Costs First Impressions: Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 Smartphone Google Takes On iTunes, Amazon With New Music Store Google+ Badge Tool Now Makes ...
Details on Microsoft Socl are surfacing. The site will be a content discovery platform with strong social elements and partial integration with Facebook. It is currently in private testing but is nearing an invite-only beta. Socl has been the subject of speculation for months, especia...
PotPieGirl, the one who posted the latest Google quality raters handbook has come back with a new post on Google Raters – Who Are They? She looks into a discussion forum devoted to these quality raters, where they discuss day to day topics that come up for the job. She points out one ...
I know many of you are very savvy on the web and don’t need a list of websites and resources, but there are many that don’t have time to track down all the places that will show the best deals on items this holiday season. So for all of you that want to save time, here is a list of we...
In response to user requests, Google has added a tool that explicitly searches for exactly and only your search term. This verbatim search removes personalized, corrected, suggested, related, and non-inclusive results. The Verbatim Tool After conducting any standard search, users can ...
Yahoo, which recently rolled out redesigned search results , is adding some new search options just in time for the holidays. Users can now do advanced searches for recipes, use Yahoo for quick comparison shopping, and get richer updates for entertainment queries. Advanced Recipe Sear...
The sepia-toned Google Doodle today honors the birthday of French inventor Louis Daguerre whose daguerreotype was the first successful form of modern photography. Daguerre was born November 18, 1787 and died July 10, 1851. Both an artist and physicist, Daguerre also worked as a theate...
Yesterday afternoon, the popular local reviews service Yelp filed official paperwork for a 2012 initial public offering (IPO). Although Yelp has not determined the number of shares to be sold or the price per share, the company is hoping to raise $100 million. The IPO, which will be l...
Internet Marketing for Brick and Mortar Businesses – Level343 SEO Should I Work In-House or at an Agency? [10 For/Against] – Search Engine People SEO for Google+ Profiles and Pages – Search Engine Watch Quantifying the Impact of Google’s Keyword Referral Data Shutdown – SEOmoz New Res...
As we move into planning mode for next year, many of you may be debating if you should bring your SEO program in-house. Bringing SEO in-house has pros and cons that you need to evaluate. Even though the SEO experience is unique to each business, the underlying challenges (and frustrat...
Vertical Measures created an infographic called “The Authority Building Machine ” that has some detailed information about building authority for your website. There is a pretty good list of things you should be doing. A good one to print and hang on the wall of your Internet marketin...
Meaty Content – Take the example of a “Best X Blogs” list – there are almost certainly some (if not a lot) of these in your niche, but many of them will just have a link with a quick line describing the blog. Go a little further and add some things like a unique, in-depth description ...
I hate to pick on the good folks at TextPlus , because I like the service (and my kids do too). But my family recently had an experience that reminded me how stunted the advertising ecosystem remains in the (relatively) new world of apps. Quite serendipitously, after that experience I...
NBC-owned iVillage has steadily grown the frequency and amount of video across its site and is now generating more than 4 million video views each month, with plans to expand the video on its site in 2012. Kelly Wallace, the site's head of video and chief correspondent, said advertise...
Yesterday, Louis Gray posted a real life Google +1 button picture on his Google + profile. I guess someone at Google put this together. I think it actually works, if you press the button with your hand, it seems like it will add a number to the score board area. Love it when people ta...
Microsoft AdCenter Now Supports Negative Exact Match (Page 1 of 2 ) Microsoft added a long-awaited feature to its adCenter search engine advertising service. Negative Exact Match, arriving as part of a larger set of improvements for adCenter customers, will allow users to more precise...
The Ultimate Fighting Championship recently came to the Fox network, and people who had never watched the UFC before got to see a fight that lasted a little over a minute. While that was disappointing, I'm sure, to previously-undefeated Cain Velasquez, the UFC, and anyone who watched ...
Mercury News reports the US Federal Government has shut down "dozens" of online mortgage scammers from using Google AdWords as a way to attract new victims. This comes month after Google settled with the US to pay $500 million for illegal ads . According to the US government, Google h...
Directly from the Avid product interface, video content creators and editors send their video files directly to Sorenson Squeeze for encoding, with no added steps. Sorenson Squeeze 8 enables producers, filmmakers and enterprise users – along with the rapidly expanding market of web de...
