SES Chicago, Blogger & Paid Links

Today’s post is a rushed hodge-podge of topics. A lot is going on and yet – time is short. I’m rushing through last-minute stuff to make sure I’m ready to head to Chicago tomorrow morning for SES. SES Chicago is already underway but I only get to be there for the two days I’m speaking. […]

SEO: A Job Or An Addiction?

I was chatting with one of my clients today and he was noting how their site has been holding steady for a while in the top five and how he’s now nervous about updates. Funny, you look forward to them when you’re not in the top 20 and you fear them when you enter the […]

MSN Takes A Blow

As if the folks over in Microsoft’s search division didn’t have enough woes in their lives lately (and by “lately” I mean for all the years after people started using search engines) the data released by ComScore yesterday paints a bleak picture. Until yesterday they were at least able to call themselves one of the […]

I’m Superficial? Probably.

I sat at roughly 8:30PM on a Wednesday night working on a client proposal and I decided to open up Internet Explorer. Now, this is a rarity for me being the Firefox enthusiast than I am, and I’m honestly not sure what prompted me to do so this time. So rarely does this event happen […]

Google Algorithm Update Analysis

Anybody who monitors their rankings with the same vigor that we in the SEO community do will have noticed some fairly dramatic shifts in the algorithm starting last Thursday (July 5th) and continuing through the weekend. Many sites are rocketing into the top 10 which, of course, means that many sites are being dropped at […]

Building Link Bait

Link bait (n): Link bait is any content put on a website with the primary function of attracting links to that page or to another page on the site. The purpose of link baiting is pretty obvious, to develop incoming links to your website. One thing that may not be clear however is how links […]

Protecting Corporate Identity On The Search Engines By Dave Davies, Beanstalk Internet Marketing

Companies go to great lengths to establish their corporate identity through marketing, advertisements, promotions, search engine positioning, and other means. As with any success, it may well happen that criticism follows. Any company is likely to do something that someone, somewhere won’t like. As we all witnessed with the “miserable failure” rankings on Google, if […]

Google Updates Offerings

Thanks Google – Now I Can See My Backlinks !!! Only a couple hours later and there’s already an update below. Well today appears to have been an even bigger day than I first thought. First there was the launch of Yahoo!’s Panama and now I’m reading in Google’s press center that there are some […]