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How to Hack a Dominating Domain Name for Your Website

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in SEOmoz

How to Hack a Dominating Domain Name for Your Website

It’s a familiar story. My first website name came from Go Daddy, found using a hunt–peck method, one name at a time. Using a $7.99 promo code, if a name wasn’t available I moved on to the next. Let’s step into the modern era. Each letter of a domain name is big business. In today’s [...]

‘How I Got Started In Business’ – ‘One Step Ahead’ Newsletter

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in IM News Watch

The latest issue of ‘One Step Ahead’ newsletter has been released. Rich Schefren says, “Today I’ve got something special for you. I mean really special. A couple months back, I was in Cleveland participating in a mastermind session with Dan Kennedy. During a break in our sessions, Dan and I sat down to talk about how I got [...]

10 Easy-Peasy Conversion Optimization Tips That Make Visitors Happy

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

10 Easy-Peasy Conversion Optimization Tips That Make Visitors Happy

If all our clients considered conversions to be as important as top search engine rankings, I think I would pass out. Or pass the beers! Unfortunately, conversion optimization takes a back seat to the age-old question, “Where are my rankings?” What businesses should be asking is, “Where are my conversions?” To paraphrase James 2:20, “But [...]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 18, 2012

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in Search Engine Land

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 18, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The Hideous Site: An Allegory For Oddities In Local Search Results The small, local businesses in a particular industry on this island all vied for top slot in Google’s rankings, since [...]

How Big Data is Fundamentally Changing Local Search

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in Search Engine Watch

How Big Data is Fundamentally Changing Local Search

In January 2011, the Pew Research Center conducted a broad research initiative to better understand how people learn about their local communities in the “SoLoMo” era. Their findings further substantiated that the manner in which we communicate with our local community has fundamentally changed. The Internet (and search in particular) has come to dominate the [...]

Tablet Owners Love Content and They’ll Pay For it, Too

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in Marketing Pilgrim

Tablet Owners Love Content and They’ll Pay For it, Too

It wasn’t long ago, we were talking about how attached we’ve all become to our cell phones, particularly our iPhones. A recent survey by Gazelle shows that the majority of iPhone owners would rather give up sex, even Facebook, than go without their phones for a weekend. But when it comes to securing a place [...]

Q&A: Co:Collective’s Content Chief Tiffany Rolfe Takes on Fortune 500

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in Clickz

Q&A: Co:Collective’s Content Chief Tiffany Rolfe Takes on Fortune 500

Tiffany Rolfe was a creative player at ad industry darling Crispin Porter + Bogusky before she jumped ship this month to become a partner at Co:Collective, a small, next-gen brand consultancy. It’s a grand leap – from a world where digital changes are challenges to be mastered, to a world that depends on digital turmoil [...]

Microsoft releases own tablet "Surface" for Windows 8 and RT

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in Webmaster World

Microsoft unveils Surface Windows 8 tablets, hardware for their win8 software.. [bbc.com...] Challenging Apple and Google and others .. Article source: http://www.webmasterworld.com/msft/4466958.htm

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 18, 2012

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in SE Round Table

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google Users Forced To Country Specific TLD There are dozens of complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums where users who are based [...]

How social networks bring notice to Stockn’Go

Posted on 19. Jun, 2012 by in Internet Retailer

How social networks bring notice to Stockn’Go

Social media is where Stockn’Go goes to get the word out about its brand. “There’s no other channel that offers what social marketing offers,” says Adam Berkowitz, CEO and cofounder of the online-only health and beauty products retailer. “It’s a way to engage with people and break through the traditional marketing barriers.” And because social [...]