SEO Zeitgeist

Whiteboard Friday – Interview with Google’s Maile Ohye

Saturday, 10. 10. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Posted by great scott!
This week our very own Jen Lopez is at SMX East in New York. She took a few minutes to sit down with Googler, Maile Ohye (first name pronounced like the Disney teen pop-star, last name rhymes with "Oy vey!"), to get the answers to some of webmasters’ most frequent questions.
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Click Economics: The Last Click

Saturday, 10. 10. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Sorta an old post that I forgot to publish until today! Having the site closed to new members has given me time to start working through a few of my almost done posts that were never published yet. It’s hard to have time to do everything while growing a few businesses.
Media has traditionally [...]

Business.com Promo Codes for Business’s Web Directory – Save $50 Today

Saturday, 10. 10. 2009  –  Category: SEO

I generally do not do too much affiliate promotion on the blog here, but when there is an offer that I use that saves our readers money I am all over it. Why not share it? Just as I once promoted the Microsoft adCenter coupon (which has since went away) I am glad to have [...]

Google and Digg’s Secret Backroom Deal

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting the urge to get back into blogging a bit. However, when it’s been awhile since you’ve attempted to construct a thought longer than a 140 character tweet, actually doing it is a bit harder than you regular bloggers might imagine. I keep finding myself sitting [...]

Don’t Vote

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Matt Cutts has gotten the ball rolling on this “don’t vote” blog meme that asks you to tag five friends to register to vote.  With election day being just about a month away let’s help keep this moving.  So join the meme and register to vote within the next month.  Not sure how? Don’t worry. [...]

The Need for an Adult Filter on Twitter

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Twitter is not the first online entity to be plagued by porn spammers, as it is an unfortunate and unavoidable part of the internet. As soon as a social site becomes somewhat popular, adult outlets will try to exploit it.
I’m sure many of you had some questionable followers as soon as you joined twitter. The [...]

Is Digg the Google of Social News Sites?

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

BusinessInsider.com has a chart stating that Digg received 17.4 million unique visitors in August 2009, easily eclipsing other social news sites. Its dominance in the social news sphere brings to mind another company…
Top Search Engines According to a July 2009 comScore Search Report:

Google (65% market share)
Yahoo! (19.6%)
Microsoft/Bing (8.4%)
Ask (3.9%)
AOL (3.1%)

Top Social News Sites Based on [...]

Social Media for Reputation Management at SMX East 2009

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

We all know reputation management is important, but it still remains something most of us think about only as an afterthought.
It is some Thursday afternoon and you head over to Google to search for your name or brand and the next thing you know someone is saying some pretty nasty things about you, and ranking [...]

Matt Cutts on Social Media Marketing & Widgetbait

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Recently Rebecca Kelley, from 10e20, did a nice interview with Matt Cutts on widgetbait and any current social media headaches challenging Google in 2009.
I did an article a while back that shared a part of an interview between Matt Cutts and Eric Enge, where Matt highly endorsed Social Media Marketing as a quality link building [...]

Yoda’s Ultimate Tool List Part II – Keyword Research

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Okay, so it has been a little more than a week since Part I, but SES NY takes a long time to recover from.
There are a ton of keyword research tools and tool lists out there, but it is still incredibly important to have all of your tools in one place. There are a lot [...]