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A Few Bits of SEO News to be Thankful For
During the first two weeks of this month, I was fortunate enough to be on the beautiful island of St. Lucia for my wedding. During our time there my husband and I agreed to be “unplugged”, meaning no cell phones and no internet (gasp!)....
The Importance of Content for SEO, Conversion, and Your Grandma!
In the wild and crazy world of the web, you may have heard various adages like “content is king” or “write for people, not for search engines”. For an SEO like me, my stance is that you must have text on your website ̵...
Bing Twitter Search & Google Social Search: Real-Time Search is Validated
Yesterday afternoon when I first checked out Bing’s Twitter Search feature, I was actually quite impressed. Staying true to its “decision engine” layout, the tweet results are broken up into categories. Check it out: I real...
1 Week Following #seo on Twitter
After The Big Conference last week here in Portland, I had the idea of changing what I’ve been doing on Twitter a little and start following conversations about SEO on Twitter and responding to questions and concerns that people had. So I add...
Search Engine Optimization FAIL: An SEO Horror Story
It’s almost Halloween, kids, so I thought I would share a scary SEO disaster tale to get you in the Halloween spirit. Listen (er, read) closely and be very afraid, as it could happen to you [insert evil witch cackle here]. After careful consi...
No Meta Keywords Tag for You! Says Google
Matt Cutts (the head of Google’s Webspam team for those of you not in the know) tweeted out to the world on Monday that “Google confirms that we don’t use the meta keywords tag at all in web search” and included a link to the ...
Google Analytics Team Speaks – How and When to Get Help With Your Analytics
The Google Analytics blog is a must-read if you’re interested in getting the most out of the powerful analytics platform and learning about changes from the horse’s mouth. Google, as an organization, has been especially good about using...
Working the SEO Mojo
My title is an oxymoron, but I couldn’t resist because it sounded kinda cool and it rhymes (double bonus!). In actuality, there are no magical spells or powers (mojo) involved with SEO, just a lot of hard work and a willingness to continually...
Fun with Search Trends: Google Insights for Search
Since it’s nearly back-to-school time, I thought I would throw a little fun your way before the summer winds down. Google originally launched Google Insights for Search last year, but they just took it up a notch by adding a forecasting featu...
SEO Strategy: Do You Focus on Winning a Battle or Winning the War?
The most identifiable difference between marketers with traditional marketing backgrounds and those who are pure internet marketers is how they define victory. Traditional marketers tend to focus on the individual battle or battles while most savvy ...
Time to Percolate on Google Caffeine
Boy, was I excited when I received my personal invitation read on Google’s company blog that they are allowing searchers to test out Google’s new-and-improved search, codenamed “Caffeine”. Could it get any better than that? ...
Off to the races: Social Media, Search and Realtime
Photo credit: zappowbang Holy smokes! Yesterday was a whirlwind of internet news! Keeping up with any and all changes is trying sometimes, so what we like to do here at Hall is give a recap on any events that may have happened that could effect you...
But It’s Not Google (Bing)
BING = But It’s Not Google I have to admit, I snickered when I first read this clever little acronym for Bing!, given my penchant for all things Google. And does anyone else find the Bing TV commercials annoying? (“Moms who wear jeans to ma...
Yahoo! and Microsoft Combining Forces to be One Step Closer to Google Domination
A deal between the 2nd and 3rd place search engines has finally been confirmed and is reported to close in early 2010. Microsoft and Yahoo!, who have been in talks since early 2009 after Microsoft’s failed attempt to buy Yahoo! last year, are ...
Using the Right Keywords to Conquer the “Word” Wide Web
OK, so it’s technically the World Wide Web, but with so much emphasis on keywords as part of a website’s SEO strategy, I tend to think of the web as a world of words. And it can be overwhelming.You know that keywords are the foundation o...
Real-Time Search: The Good, The Bad, and The SEO
Real-time search has been on the horizon for a while now, but after the tragic death of Michael Jackson a few weeks ago, it seems to have reached a fever pitch. The day following Jackson’s death, Danny Dover at SEOMoz blogged that Google is fa...
Tag, You’re It: Some New Information on SEO Best Practices
Everyone in SEO-land understands the most basic elements that are key to any optimization campaign, but Danny Dover at SEOmoz has some new insights on the old standards. Based on their own field research and the rankings correlation report developed...
Google Wave and the Shift Towards Real-Time Search
If you’re anything like us, the recent announcement of Google Wave leaves you salivating. Wave is Google’s new breakthrough email/blogging/twitter/facebook/project manager/IM technology, a landmark new product that Microsoft only wishes ...
