Interview with Lynsey Little from Distilled
Posted on 19. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
Our industry’s conferences are a lot of fun, and of course educational. In the past few years several companies, like Distilled, have been offering smaller conferences which allow attendees to get to know each other better and have more contact with experts in the field. Distilled has been offering conferences for the past three years. [...]
Twitter Supports Do Not Track Privacy Feature
Posted on 18. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
Ed Felten, the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technology officer, recently announced that Twitter is now providing support for the Do Not Track feature. The feature, which was initially proposed by researchers in 2009, was first implemented by Mozilla Firefox in early 2011. Since that time, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera have all added support and [...]
SEO in 2012: The Best of Times or the Worst of Times?
Posted on 17. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
I don’t like trying to package everything that’s happening in our industry into a neat little box, because it’s like trying to describe the cause of the Civil War in two sentences. I’m likely to leave some things out, overstate some factors, and unintentionally offend some people. But I do think that an individual perspective [...]
Why Did GM Drop Facebook Advertising?
Posted on 16. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
I am sure you heard yesterday that GM stopped investing in ad space on Facebook. New research on Facebook advertising performance from WordStream may offer a few clues as to why General Motors discontinued advertising on the massive social network. Wordstream’s research provides some important data such as: Ad Performance: Click through rates on Facebook [...]
Google-Backed Offshore Power Project Moving Forward
Posted on 15. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
A Google-backed project, the Atlantic Wind Connection, cleared the first of many regulatory hurdles yesterday. The U.S. Department of the Interior said that no competitors have an “overlapping competitive interest” and cleared Atlantic Grid Holdings LLC to proceed with an environmental impact study for their underwater power line. The study will analyze and measure the [...]
Google Considering $100M Meebo Acquisition
Posted on 14. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
According to several inside sources, Google is reportedly in serious talks to acquire the social platform Meebo. Although Meebo CEO Seth Strenberg has not commented on the negotiations, Google is expected to pay approximately $100 million for the seven-year-old technology company. Since the time Meebo launched in 2005, the company has consistently evolved and grown. [...]
4 Content Techniques That Will Improve SEO & Sales
Posted on 13. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
On the back of Panda, Penguin and any other updates Google has stored in the Zoo, writing SEO content has become more and more about delivering a better user experience. Gone are the days of keyword laden text that reads poorly and lacks substance. It has been laid to rest and will never return. We’re [...]
Google Chrome Commercial Pulls on the Heart Strings
Posted on 12. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
One thing that irritates me more than anything is stupid commercials. Some are so incredibly bad I just can’t believe that big brands have paid for the commercials to be made. So last night I am watching TV and this Google commercial comes on. It was just so smart I had to share it with [...]
Rand Fishkin Discusses Myths, Realities, and Precautions of Negative SEO
Posted on 11. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
This Whiteboard Friday video is very educational and is a great tool to help business associates, managers and even clients understand how critical it is have a solid SEO monitoring and maintaining your website(s) and SEO. Rand explains how negative SEO can hurt you and what others may be doing to hurt competitors. Examples of [...]
Ultimate Productivity Guide [Interactive] + An Email Productivity Tangent
Posted on 10. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
Our industry works on the Internet. All day. This in and of itself leads to major distractions – one minute you’re conducting a keyword analysis and the next you’re watching some YouTube video of cats, when really, you don’t even really like cats or the whole online craze over them. There’s countless resources to help [...]
