Marketing News & Consulting
Matt Cutts put out a good video today answer the question from Kenichi Suzuki of Tokyo, Japan when he asks, “Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) & I make another fishing site that solely focuses on lure fishing (B). Does linking to A from B violate guidelines? I’ll make sure both […]
We’re all interested in expanding our marketshare. For a lot of businesses with a solid SEO strategy and success that means either expanding into new marketing efforts or expanding your reach outside of your core market. Yesterday on my weekly radio show Webcology on WebmasterRadio.fm by co-host Jim Hedger and I decided to host a […]
This is my final installment on my overview of the New Webmaster Guidelines. My first post covered Design & Content the second part covered Technical Guidelines.
It’s clearly time for Beanstalk to officially list ourselves as a sitedefibrillation solution provider. Why? Because apparently the secret to SERP dominance with an EMD is to coin your own phrase! Do a search for ‘coinflation’ + ‘gold’ or really, almost any other keyword to see what Google considers an ‘improved’ result following the EMD […]
Is Matt Cutts just goofing around or is he really trying to scare us? The statement in the title of this article, from Matt Cutts, has the SEO world looking for further information as to just how bad the next Penguin update will be. During the SES in San Francisco this week Matt Cutts got […]
Admittedly, when I read the announcement that Google Advisor (Link removed – no longer available) was here to help me manage my money the first thoughts were about privacy and that last bastion of private information Google hasn’t touched yet: Banking. Being wrong never felt so good! Google Advisor is not (at the moment) a […]
Thanks to the recent (April/March) Google updates, ‘tread lightly’ has never been better advice to anyone in the SEO industry. Between extra offers in my inbox to ‘exchange links’, ‘sell links’, ‘purchase links’, that all seem to be coming from GMail accounts, and reports of simple Java-script causing pages to drop from Google’s index, I’m […]
FACT: People are still writing blogs. Despite suggestions that blogs are passé, it seems that more and more people are still writing blog content now more than ever. Blogging remains as an important avenue for consumer expression. Consumer generated blogs have been showing significant growth since 2006 when NM Incite began tracking them according to […]
Yesterday we covered the hot topic of Google’s social search from a very ‘news’ perspective. If you haven’t watched the tour video take a minute and hit play on the video below. The truth is that Google is rolling this new search functionality piecemeal just in the same way as most of the recent features. […]