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Yandex.Webmaster Now Available in English Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 12:04AMThe Russian search engine Yandex recently translated its Yandex.Webmaster service to English. Originally a tool for Russian webmasters, Yandex.Webmaster is similar to other tools for webmasters offered by both Google and Bing. Like its Amer...
Forget Clicks, Call-through Rate Could be New CTR Controlling Ad Position Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:19PMAdWords Call Metrics are now available to all advertisers in the U.S. and Canada. Launched toward the end of last year, call tracking has been limited to a small number of advertisers in the AdWords innovations program who expressed an interest in...
Volacci CEO Delivers Deep Dive Into Drupal 7 SEO at CapitalCamp in DC Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:17PMStep by Step Highlights & Configuration Tips
ROI Pop Awards $50,000 in Grants to Two Nonprofits for 2011 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:07PMSome companies talk about doing good, ROI Pop is committed to it. This is why ROI Pop, a leading internet marketing agency focused on nonprofits, is announcing $50,000 worth of grant to two great charities; Drop in the Bucket and Healthy Child Healthy World. (PRWeb July 19, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/roipop/grants/prweb8652219.htm
New Domain Structure May Challenge Search Industry Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:54PMKenneth C. Wisnefski, a well-regarded expert in the SEO industry, discusses how a new proposed structure to domain names may affect the industry, and how companies can capitalize on this. (PRWeb July 19, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Webimax_SEO/Wisnefski_press_release/prweb8652068.htm
Searchmetrics Announces New North American Vice President of Sales Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:28AMMike Dutter Brings Sales, Marketing, and Business Development Experience and a Successful History of Helping Tech Companies Reach New Heights in the Market
Google Tests Locked Search Box, New-Look Instant Previews Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:19AMApparently not content with its recent search results page makeover, Google appears to be testing a new search interface that locks the top navigation bar, search box, and Google’s vertical search options (images, video, news, etc.) in a fix...
Small Business Internet Marketing Survey: Over 40% Crying For Help Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:11PMA new survey of small business’s internet marketing practices reveals new findings about the satisfaction and use of their websites and social media. Many are “do it yourself internet marketers” but they recognize the need for improving local search optimization and using affordable tools to make better use of social media. (PRWeb July 18, 2011) Read the full story at http://www ...
Social Media Is Changing Your Search Results Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:52PMRISMEDIA, July 18, 2011—The rules of search results are constantly changing—a testament to a highly dynamic industry, where there seems to be never-ending volatility in how search results are determined. Ken Wisnefski, founder and CEO of WebiMax, a high ranking…
How to Optimize 3 Important Internal Link Structures Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:19PMOne of the most overlooked aspects of a successful SEO campaign is aligning internal link connectivity with SEO best practices. In countless situations, great effort is expended to optimize page content, title tags, meta data, and external links, ...
Understanding the 98 Google Local Ranking Factors Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:19PMDavid Mihm has released his annual Local Search Ranking Factors list, which compiles feedback from 33 local optimization experts. The 98 resulting local ranking factors can, however, be overwhelming. This article walks you through the key takeaway...
Diane Mastrull: Bucks businessman finds success in search-engine optimization Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:58PMLance Bachmann entered the working world when consumers relied on thick, softbound books filled with yellow pages to find businesses they needed. Remember that?
AWG Offers Original Website Content Development That Gets Results Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:17PMActive Web Group is a full-service web marketing firm with offices located across the nation, helping companies across the globe achieve Internet marketing success and prosperity. Equipped with unsurpassed knowledge and expertise in the web marketing industry, the online marketing specialists at AWG offer their services in website content development to create fresh, unique content that gets ...
SEO is More Alive Than Ever Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 5:19PMSEO may be a bitch, but it’s not dead. I wrote last month about my love/hate relationship with search engine optimization. It’s absolutely true. Most of what I don’t love about this space is running an agency (the business side...
Static Media Now Recognized by Microsoft as Qualified Accredited Professional Company Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:52AMSEO and full service internet marketing company, Static Media recognized as the only qualified Microsoft Professional Company in Utah. (PRWeb July 15, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ppc/advertising/prweb8647161.htm
Google Product Search Insights: The Impact of UPCs on Customer Conversions Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 1:04AMGoogle Product Search has recently released new Unique Product Identifier (UPI) requirements in June and new data feed requirements as of July 11. The new requirements are an attempt by Google to self-regulate their recently imposed Panda update a...
In China, Baidu Continues Search Market Domination Over Google Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 8:34PMGoogle’s share of China’s 4.3 billion yuan ($665.9 milllion) search market dropped once again in Q2, according to numerous reports citing data from consulting firm Analysys International. China’s search market grew 62 percent in ...
HubPages Adds Subdomains, Claims Google Panda Recovery, But... Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:19PMUser-generated article site HubPages was one of the thousands of websites hit hardest by Google’s Panda update. But now they claim to have a solution that works: dividing its website into thousands of subdomains. But is this a legit workarou...
BBC Move Towards Facebook Puts Onus on Other Media to do the Same, says Punch Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 2:29PMThe BBCs move towards serving and selling content in the Facebook environment should lead to more forms of media doing the same, according to PR, search and social media agency Punch Communications.Following its announcement earlier this week, BBC Worldwide is set to start supplying content to Facebook users via its Facebook page,...
Veteran Sales and Marketing Executive Tom Merlo Launches Quick to Market Media Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:13AMSales and marketing expert Tom Merlo today announced the launch of Quick to Market Media QTMM, bringing together Merlos more than 20 years of sales and marketing expertise with todays most advanced digital communications and training techniques. QTMM develops a myriad of training tools to deliver big company advantages to not-so-big companies.Differentiation...
5 Marketing Definitions Every Young Job Seeker Should Know Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 2:15AMAfter having multiple interns to help me with my marketing, I could say that most college graduates will go into the business world and subsequent job search with a significant lack of understanding of the important facets that shape marketing today.
5 Things Small Businesses Must Know About Google Plus Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 8:52PMGoogle+ (also known as G+, Google Plus or Plus) is the biggest trending topic online these days. So, what is it and why should you care about it? Simple – it’s a new social media site that is directly tied into the most widely-used search engine on the planet, with
Turning Fails into Wins: 4imprint Explores the Topic of Failure in New Blue Paper and Podcast Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 8:25PMOSHKOSH, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Statistics on failed startups, crisis communications and major faux pas abound in the business world can be cautionary tales for what not to do. The newest Blue Paper™ and podcast from promotional products retailer 4imprint, however, looks at failure from a different perspective. Succeeding at Failure looks at how to identify, cope and learn from business failures ...
SEO Company Provides Free Online Tool to Create Video Sitemaps Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 8:10PMWeb Video Marketing is taking off at an alarming rate, and SEO-Company-Services.com has released a free, web-based tool that allows visitors to create Video Sitemaps for their web videos. (PRWeb July 14, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8616212.htm
4 Ideas To Improve IIS & .NET For Technical SEO Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:40PMIn June 2011, I spoke at SMX Advanced about SEO issues that I commonly run in to during technical SEO site evaluations.
Big News for Mom & Pops: Local Bend Launches Service to Improve Search Rankings for Northwest Small Businesses Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:08PMLocal Bend launches new service to help local small businesses in the northwest improve their search engine rankings. (PRWeb July 14, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8638632.htm
Using Facebook for Social Media Optimization Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:41PMThis search engine optimization tutorial will teach you some tips and tricks that you can use to increase pageviews. Specifically, you will be learning to work with (and implement) Facebook Pages.
“Google has woven itself into the core fabric of Internet usage in the UK” Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 3:14PMJune was Google’s best month of 2011, as the search giant accounted for over 92 percent of all searches conducted by UK Internet users during the month, according to Experian Hitwise’s Search Engine and Social Analysis.
Destination Lighting Announces Its Redesigned Ecommerce Site Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 1:10PMDestination Lighting redesigned its web site to offer customers a better online shopping experience (PRWeb July 14, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8638038.htm
Covario Named Among the AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:19PMSan Diego Firm Selected in the SaaS/Enterprise Category for Creating Tech Innovations
Site Claims to Loosen Google “Death Grip” Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 10:04PMHubPages.com, one of the largest sites hit hard by Google’s new ranking algorithm change, said it may have found a solution: divide itself into thousands of smaller sites.
5 Ways To Find Link Opportunities For B2B SEO Campaigns Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 9:55PMB2B marketers, it is unbelievable that we are already halfway through 2011. While I hope your SEO campaign thus far has yielded positive results, it is not uncommon to fall behind schedule, as unexpected initiatives arise.
Social Media Ventures Launches MakeYourSiteNow.com Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 5:30PMSocial Media Ventures, Inc.. announced today that the Company has launched MakeYourSiteNow.com Â a full-service Web-Design Portal, providing individuals and businesses with cost-effective website development services and SEO services.
SEO Burn Notice: When You’re a Blogger, A Scorched Earth Policy Is a Bad Idea Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 3:19PMBlogger Steve Rubel recently blew away his blog in what he called his “Scorched Earth Policy” on the notion that moving to Tumblr would be better and he didn’t want to “confuse Google.” (Did he talk to an search ...
Eight words consultants should avoid. Oops, there’s one Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 3:10PMIf you want to build a business someone will want to buy, stop using consulting world lingo
Freelance Business: PhotoShelter Unveils the Freelancer’s Online Marketing Blueprint, a New Free E-Book Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 1:56AMNew guide provides over 50 pages of expert marketing strategies and tactics to increase online exposure and generate revenue (PRWeb July 12, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8638256.htm
Forty SEO Tips to Achieve Category Domination Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 8:15PMATLANTABusiness leaders and advanced marketers can turn their search engine optimization SEO into a predictable, manageable, and profitable process by implementing the SEO tactics revealed today by the award-winning digital marketing agency Response Mine Interactive RMI. In its latest infographic, RMI reveals 40 SEO tactics that help demystify the secrets behind SEO success. It focuses on...
Event merges forces of old, new venture-capital groups Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 8:00PMThe third annual Innovation Showcase is getting a boost from a partnership between the Venture Club of Indiana and tech social group Verge.
Google Loves Search, Facebook Trusts Share Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 6:56PMFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is focussed on increasing Facebook Share within its massive family of 750million active users and not too worried about growth metric.
SEO 101: 6 Steps to Selecting Your Pages Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 6:19PMAfter you’ve selected your keywords by building your target keyword list, the next goal in building a search engine optimization (SEO) strategy is to match each of those keywords to pages on your website. Where do you start, though? ...
SEO Engagement Services From Panomark Deliver Top Rankings in Google Search for Clients Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 6:16PMFull-Service Marketing & Advertising Agency Yields Top Results for Clients
Dataram Successfully Leverages Web Strategy Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 5:45PMPRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dataram Corporation (NASDAQ:DRAM), a worldwide leader in the manufacture of high-quality computer memory, storage products, software and services continues to find success through a well-executed web strategy. Dataram has experienced a year-over-year doubling of website traffic contributing to corporate revenue growth during this same period. Furthermore, its ...
LifeLearn Launches WebDVM® Version 4 Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 5:33PMLifeLearn, Inc. has launched version 4 of its WebDVMÂ® web site design and hosting service. Â Compared with prior versions, WebDVM 4 contains enhanced social media and search engine optimization tools that allow veterinarians to better communicate with existing clients and raise visibility with prospective clients.
The PPC Test You Shouldn’t Run Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 5:04PMPPC has always been a fast-moving channel. The search engines (and lately, social channels) are continually innovating, adding great new products and features for PPC advertisers to try. In the past month alone, there have been Search Engine Watch...
DotAsia to Support Asian New gTLDs Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 4:17PMHONG KONG, July 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Following the approval from ICANN for the implementation of the new gTLD (Generic Top-Level Domain) program, DotAsia today announces its plans to support new gTLDs from Asia, including its own IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) TLDs and applications from other Asian new gTLD applicants. (Logo: http://www.prnasia.com/xprn/sa ...
Paula Berg: Six Reasons Every Brand Should Blog Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 3:16AMDespite the evidence in favor of blogging, many brands are reluctant to blog. While blogs can be a lot of work, they provide a foundation for information on the web and an owned platform for your social business.
Hot At Sphinn: Value Of SEO Ranking Reports, Bounce Rate In AdWords & More Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 11:28PMThe discussion was heavy last week on our sister site, Sphinn, with three stories in particular leading to a lot of conversation. No story generated more comments than our “Discussion of the Week,” which currently has 30 comments and is still going strong.
What Will Google Plus Google Places Equal? Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:13PMI have no idea what social network Google Plus (Google+) is going to kill. I have no idea if it is going to be huge or not. But I do have an idea of what it’s going to do to Local Search, or at least I have a vision.
Simple and low tech - that’s how to move forward Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 9:55PMIt may seem counterintuitive, but with more consumers browsing the Web on small screens, and search engines more important, there’s more reason to keep websites focused, uncomplicated and easy to use
Groupon Taps Clickworker for Global Crowdsourcing Project Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 9:45PMSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clickworker, a global crowdsourcing company, announced today that it has been selected by global Internet coupon giant, Groupon, to lead a large-scale, global translation and optimization project.