SEO Zeitgeist

Optimizing For Bing

Saturday, 10. 10. 2009  –  Category: SEO

How are your referral stats looking? Noticed more traffic from Bing lately?
According to a Nielsen report last month, Bing is growing faster than any other search engine. It was reported Bing had 10.7% of the total search market, up 2% from the month before. Yesterdays report from Hitwise suggests Bing has since dropped to around [...]

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 [...]

Stop Wasting Money! 10 Ways Optimize Your SEM Efforts

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

I read an interesting article that discussed the importance of targeting and bounce rates and it got me to thinking about the clients that I have had, past and present and the buckets of money I have seen thrown away. So, I decided to put a list together of 10 ways you or your client [...]

Do You Have an SEO Horror Story?

Tuesday, 10. 6. 2009  –  Category: SEO

I know SEO works. You know SEO works (otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this blog). But there are some folks who’ve just had an horrendous experience with SEO. Whether it be on the receiving end and you’ve paid thousands for updated META keywords and submissions to all the major search engines, or you’ve had a [...]

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 161

Tuesday, 10. 6. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Practical Guide to Finding Link Bait Inspiration – Using Search, Sites, and Images
7 Steps to Improving Conversion Rates – The Only Metric That Matters?
Google Integrates Hot Trends to Web Search – Currently Only Works in U.S. or Japan
Why Google’s Behavioral Targeting Should Creep You Out – A Blueprint for a Truly Social Search Engine
Google Introduces [...]

SEO Game Changers – Search Engine / SEO History

Tuesday, 10. 6. 2009  –  Category: SEO

There is a misnomer in search marketing and SEO that things change all the time. I think I stopped consuming SEO blogs and news sites on a daily basis about 2 or 3 years ago when I decided enter full time consultancy with no one else’s safety net. There was no extra time [...]

Stunt Train Search and Social Marketing Manifesto 2.0

Tuesday, 10. 6. 2009  –  Category: SEO

I’ve been meaning to revise some old posts for quite some time, and am starting to finally get around to it. I’ll likely go down the list of some of my favorite posts, and do edits to what I feel has changed in the past 2 or 3 years with regards to search and social. [...]

Do You Have an SEO Horror Story?

Tuesday, 10. 6. 2009  –  Category: SEO

I know SEO works. You know SEO works (otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this blog). But there are some folks who’ve just had an horrendous experience with SEO. Whether it be on the receiving end and you’ve paid thousands for updated META keywords and submissions to all the major search engines, or you’ve had a [...]

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 161

Tuesday, 10. 6. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Practical Guide to Finding Link Bait Inspiration – Using Search, Sites, and Images
7 Steps to Improving Conversion Rates – The Only Metric That Matters?
Google Integrates Hot Trends to Web Search – Currently Only Works in U.S. or Japan
Why Google’s Behavioral Targeting Should Creep You Out – A Blueprint for a Truly Social Search Engine
Google Introduces [...]