February 22, 2012
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Weekly Webinar Roundup 2/22/2012

Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

Many of the webinars this week offer basic techniques for the web programs or services the company provides. Raven Tools and SEOMoz both give in-depth webinars concerning their programs. For the hour it takes to watch, is well worth the time to try and figure the program out for yourself. Enjoy and learn something new [...]

Google Purchases Patents From Former Competitor

Posted on 21. Feb, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

When Cuil launched in July of 2008, they claimed to be the world’s largest search engine and to have figured out a more advanced method of generating web results than Google’s PageRank. The search startup, which was founded by industry veterans from Google and IBM, claimed that they could crawl the web at 10% of [...]

Google Under Fire: Tech Giant Bypassed Safari Users’ Privacy Settings

Posted on 20. Feb, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

Due to recent changes, Google’s privacy policies have been closely scrutinized by industry experts, government regulators, and consumer advocacy groups over the past several months. On Friday afternoon a Stanford graduate student and tech researcher, Jonathan Mayer, discovered that Google was using a special computer code to bypass the privacy settings of millions of Safari [...]

How to Become a Panda’s Best Friend

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

With the launch of Panda, SEOs are more nervous than ever when it comes to their site’s survival in the search results. The mood has become more and more tense with many publishers scrambling to “fix” their pages in hopes of redemption. People are reading horror stories of seemingly innocent websites being affected by Panda. [...]

Friday Humor: Siri & The Big Bang Theory [Video]

Posted on 18. Feb, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

On a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory Raj started developing a relationship with Siri (on his iPhone). This video took all the great Siri parts of that episode. Since it is Friday and you may need a laugh after a long hard week I thought I might share it with you. Have a [...]

Public and Social Community Remember Whitney Houston

Posted on 17. Feb, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

With the passing of International star Whitney Houston there has been tremendous reaction by her many loyal fans and supporters. As most of the reaction comes from people that have supported her through the years, companies and webmasters have even taken-part of the reflection. BET.com, the leading global entertainment Media Company targeting the AA consumer, launched [...]

Does the Follower / Following Ratio Matter in Terms of True Influence on Twitter? [POLL]

Posted on 16. Feb, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

There are Twitter users that have 25,000 followers, but they follow 24,870. Do they have true influence or does the person that has 5000 followers and follows 230 people have more influence? There are a lot of people out there are “teaching” others how to use Twitter and they brag about their Twitter followers, but [...]

Weekly Webinar Round Up for 2/15/2012

Posted on 15. Feb, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

Open up some space on your daily planner for some of the webinars this week. If you see webinars offered that would be of interest to SearchEngineJournal.com readers, please email them to me at laura@searchenginejournal.com. Thanks! Raven Tools Walk Through February 16th at 11:00 EST Presenter: Raven Tools Cost: FreeDescription:A general walkthrough of all of the [...]

SEO Consulting for 2012

Posted on 14. Feb, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

It’s 2012, and SEO has never been more difficult. Convincing business owners to utilize us is an uphill battle. SEO is not easy. Even the brightest and most talented of Internet marketing managers don’t have the capacity to devote to the effort. It takes dedication, persistence, patience, scientific inquiry and a heart of stone. Oh, [...]

13 Ways to Get More Pinterest Followers

Posted on 13. Feb, 2012 by in Search Engine Journal

Pinterest – the web’s latest social media craze, is a great way to build awareness for your blog or website.  But as with most social media promotion techniques, your ability to influence others through your Pinterest presence is limited if you don’t have that many people following you in the first place. So today, we’ll [...]

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