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Verizon Wireless’ Viral Video An Epic Fail or Imperfect Win?
Verizon Wireless Surprises Customer Okay - so I’m having a hard time deciding how to labeling this one. On the one hand there’s quite a bit of negative buzz being generated by viewers who recognized the video as staged (”victimR...
Google Engineer Matt Cutts Exposes 5 Insider Secrets!! (satire)
Source: YouTube Here’s the skinny on the latest Google Secrets leak You want your site to rank really well for a particular phrase? Matt Cutts leaks 5 amazing tips to help you make it happen! I can’t believe these have gone public! 1. Use...
Search Spotlight on 2008 Olympic Games
The 2008 Olympic Games are well under way now and the blogosphere and news channels are abuzz with Olympic-mania. News of a violent murder tops today’s news, but there’s plenty of regular Olympic drama unfolding as well. What’s in...
Microsoft Live Search Coming to Facebook
Microsoft, desperate to secure real estate for their paid search ads, strikes a new deal with Facebook, the industries quickest growing social platform. Under the new arrangement, Microsoft will trade it’s exclusive global advertising placement...
Microsoft ‘Buying Yahoo - A Tactic, Not A Strategy’
Microsoft struggles to convince analysts and investors it still has a plan - a solid strategy for building search market share. Most remain unconvinced. I noted earlier this month that Microsoft, despite it’s varied and familiar tactics, has fa...
10 Essential FireFox Plug-Ins No SEO Superhero Should Be With-out
From smoke pellets to grappling hooks, from night vision goggles to batarangs - is there anything the caped crusader can’t pull out of that utility belt? But what sort of a superhero would Batman be with-out the contents of his trusty gadget gi...
A Search Engine’s Homepage The Key to Search Success?
From the smoke and rubble of the failed dot-com-bubble era emerged 3 contenders for the search crown. (4 if you count that interesting blip on the radar - Ask) Each hungrily stockpiled features and tested innovative ideas in hopes of building an a...
Google Usage Still Rising, Yahoo Steady, MSN Falling
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Google Keyword Tool To Get Search Volume Numbers?
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Google Improves on Robots Exclusion Protocol
You may remember when Google took a step towards transparency in early 2007 when they started laying out tips on the ‘how’ & ‘why’ of using a robots.txt file in their January post “Controlling how search engines a...
Google Crawls Javascript, News at 11!
Just when you think you’ve pretty much got it all figured out, Google drops another little bomb on the SEO world. With their recent shift to more intrusive crawling, Google has began piercing the JavaScript veil and peaking inside - and it...
Tossing Keyword Remix Into The Mix
I just love finding new, intelligent SEO tools and getting to share them with other SEOers who are passionate about their efforts. Of course not every tool that we discover can find it’s way into our ‘favorite tools’ list. Some lac...
SEO Digger - Still Diggin it
I just wanted to follow-up on the SEO Digger tool I posted about a few weeks ago. As I shared previously, SEO Digger Dug It’s Way Into My ‘Favorite Tools’ List. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to use the tool in a few real world situa...
The SEO Shortcut Widget Rocks (even in beta)
I love finding new SEO tools. Sometimes the tools introduce a completely new concept such as the SEODigger.com tool which finds the keywords a URL ranks for - other times it’s a new tool that simplifies and expedites common SEO tasks, or co...
SEO Digger Digs It’s Way Into My ‘Favorite Tools’ List
A friend (private SEO consultant Matt Lerche) recently turned me on to SEODigger.com - a new SEO tool from the Russian crew that brought us the SEOQuake FireFox add-on/extention (which is now available for IE). The SEODigger.com mole has quickly ...
Invoice Machine : Web 2.0 Invoice Application
Super simple online invoice builder Have you ever needed to crank out an invoice in a hurry? Ever been on the job-site wishing you could generate a quick invoice? With this very Web 2.0 online invoice builder you can build simple, yet effective invoi...
The AdSense Rule Change Buzz
In a stunning blow to AdSense publishers everywhere, recent news of the upcoming Google AdSense’s rule changes is sweeping the web. It looks like EVERYONE is ranting about it since EVERYONE in the AdSense publisher community (albeit some more t...
Ad Intelligence: Microsoft adCenter Add-in Released!
Finally! Intelligent, actionable keyword data strait from a reliable, accurate and transparent source - right at our fingertips! In a bit of science-fiction inspired uber programming and marketing genius, (tomorrow) Microsoft introduces the Microsoft...
Google Social Influence Experiment
Google has another experiment going at Labs.Google.com integrating social influence into results priority. Imagine if Google had a horrbile industrial accident and was repaired using spare parts from Digg (roll ‘$6 Million Dollar Man’ t...
