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Google Offers A Peek Into Its Internal Eye-Tracking Studies: There’s an interesting post today on the Official Google Blog that gives a glimpse inside the company’s usability and eye-tracking studies — tests that help Google determine what their search results pages should look like.The image above, for example, shows

Privacy Critics Don’t Give Google Enough ‘Latitude’: Since it launched a couple days ago there have been several predictable responses from persistent Google critics who regard the new location-aware Latitude service on Google Maps as a threat to privacy. The phrases “tracking,” “stalking” and “Big Brother” popped

Another Survey (Incorrectly) Predicts Google Could Lose Search Crown: In a “what’s wrong with this picture?” moment, AdWeek reports that Forrester Research has concluded that Google, for lack of user loyalty, is vulnerable to being dethroned and that another “Google Killer” may be lurking just around the corner. First

Search In Pictures: Google Doodle Wall, Ask.com On Labonte’s Helmet & A Google Boat?: In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.Introducing the

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Advertising: Despite the economic meltdown of the past several months, search still seems to be cruising along with barely a hiccup. To be honest, it’s a little surreal. For those of us in the industry, it seems like we’re in a

Google Offers A Peek Into Its Internal Eye-Tracking Studies: There’s an interesting post today on the Official Google Blog that gives a glimpse inside the company’s usability and eye-tracking studies — tests that help Google determine what their search results pages should look like.The image above, for example, shows

Privacy Critics Don’t Give Google Enough ‘Latitude’: Since it launched a couple days ago there have been several predictable responses from persistent Google critics who regard the new location-aware Latitude service on Google Maps as a threat to privacy. The phrases “tracking,” “stalking” and “Big Brother” popped

Another Survey (Incorrectly) Predicts Google Could Lose Search Crown: In a “what’s wrong with this picture?” moment, AdWeek reports that Forrester Research has concluded that Google, for lack of user loyalty, is vulnerable to being dethroned and that another “Google Killer” may be lurking just around the corner. First

Search In Pictures: Google Doodle Wall, Ask.com On Labonte’s Helmet & A Google Boat?: In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.Introducing the

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Advertising: Despite the economic meltdown of the past several months, search still seems to be cruising along with barely a hiccup. To be honest, it’s a little surreal. For those of us in the industry, it seems like we’re in a

Google Books Search Goes Mobile: The Google Books Blog announced they have now created a mobile version of Google Books. If you have an iPhone or Android phone just navigate your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m to start using Google Book search on your mobile device.There

Newspaper Publishers & The Video SEO Opportunity: Grant Crowell, of ReelSEO and GC Interactive, published a whitepaper this week discussing the newspaper industry’s opportunity to tap into the increasing popularity of video consumption as a means to drive incremental site engagement and revenue streams. Full disclosure -

The Answer To All SEO Your Questions!: I recently appeared on Vanessa Fox’s new Webmaster Radio show, “Office Hours” where we discussed some of the simple things business owners can do to increase search traffic to their website, but which are often neglected. During the show, Vanessa

Last Call: SMX West Next Week. Register Now!: Juggling multiple projects testing your multi-tasking skills? Time to move this to the top of the to-do list; you’ll be glad you did.Register today for Search Marketing Expo - SMX West in Santa Clara, CA and join search marketers from

Google Continues AdWords Product PlusBox: Yesterday, at the Search Engine Roundtable, I wrote about Google’s AdWords Product PlusBox. The Product PlusBox has been a limited test since November 2007, but it seems like Google has expanded the test. I asked Google about this and they

Google Books Search Goes Mobile: The Google Books Blog announced they have now created a mobile version of Google Books. If you have an iPhone or Android phone just navigate your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m to start using Google Book search on your mobile device.There

Newspaper Publishers & The Video SEO Opportunity: Grant Crowell, of ReelSEO and GC Interactive, published a whitepaper this week discussing the newspaper industry’s opportunity to tap into the increasing popularity of video consumption as a means to drive incremental site engagement and revenue streams. Full disclosure -

The Answer To All SEO Your Questions!: I recently appeared on Vanessa Fox’s new Webmaster Radio show, “Office Hours” where we discussed some of the simple things business owners can do to increase search traffic to their website, but which are often neglected. During the show, Vanessa

Last Call: SMX West Next Week. Register Now!: Juggling multiple projects testing your multi-tasking skills? Time to move this to the top of the to-do list; you’ll be glad you did.Register today for Search Marketing Expo - SMX West in Santa Clara, CA and join search marketers from

Google Continues AdWords Product PlusBox: Yesterday, at the Search Engine Roundtable, I wrote about Google’s AdWords Product PlusBox. The Product PlusBox has been a limited test since November 2007, but it seems like Google has expanded the test. I asked Google about this and they

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Thanks for the Feedback & All You Need is Love: Early feedback on the SEO Toolbar has been quite positive. You know people like a Firefox extension when an official Microsoft blog makes an entry promoting it!Actually I just wanted an excuse to embed this Beattles video in

The SEO Toolbar: What would happen if you smooshed together many of the best parts of Rank Checker, SEO for Firefox, the best keyword research tools across the web, a feed reader (pre-populated with many SEO feeds), a ton of competitive research tools,

True Internet Marketing Icons / How Online Marketing Works: If you build it, they will come. The web is full of people looking for your product. Maybe, but if it were that easy, competition would saturate the field, increasing the effort and investment required to compete.

How To Buy SEO/Search Marketing Services: This is the first of a two-part article to help those looking to buy SEO and other search marketing services. OverviewUnlike traditional media buying, where placement is guaranteed, SEO can appear to be hit and miss. This is

Time to Update the SEO Toolbar: Earlier today I called an older version of the SEO Toolbar that does not have the update option built in it. If you downloaded it earlier today, please download again fromhttp://tools.seobook.com/seo-toolbar/The current version should be 1.0.1 (rather than 0.1). Sorry

Around the Web in 20 Links: Loren Baker is holding a 3 day spring break SEO get together in Deerfield Beach, Florida. There are only 200 tickets cheaply priced at $500 each (especially when you consider that there will only be 200 people attending and you

Google: Closing the Loop on Content, Advertising, & Commerce: Every listing site or review site has to start off from scratch at some point. Over the past 3 or 4 years it has got much harder to rank thin affiliate database sites, and now that is only going to

Interview of YieldBuild's Jason Menayan: With online ad networks slowing in growth and some collapsing I thought it would be a great time to interview the team from YieldBuild, an ad optimization service, to see where they saw online ads and ad networks

Webmaster Utilities We Dig: Heres a review of tools we use every day at SEOBook. No affiliate stuff - we use and recommend these tools because, well, they rock! Camtasia - Screen Recording SoftwareWhat it does: records on-screen demonstrations.What we use it

Creating a Sweet High Value Keyword List in 5 Minutes: Step 1: list a few core keywordsFor this example we will cover hosting...so our core word list could be something like...hosting web hostinghostweb hostserverdedicatedvpsThis need not be perfect or exhaustive, as this is just a seeding list to pull deeper

Fracturing Media to Help Small Online Publishers: The Financial Times highlights that nearly a half billion dollars was recently raised for tech and media investments, but Drama 2.0 highlights how some of the web 2.0 companies that raised capital are still losing money 4 or 5 years

Bloggers as Influencers: Since blogging about a toy flower I bought my wife I got multiple emails from guys who said they bought them for their wives. And one member went so far as paying Mahalo answers $10 to find the exact flower

Ad Networks - "Partners" Hoarding Publisher Data For Profit: Are the big networks trying to lock up their data?It would appear that some big players are trying to muscle in between the user and the webmaster by limiting the webmasters access is to valuable statistical data.The excellent SmackDown blog

"Borrowing" Content: How The Little Guy Can Fight Back: The problem: big publishers borrowing stories from smaller publishers, redrafting them, and republishing them. Because the bigger publisher has greater domain authority, their story achieves higher rank.Can you pick who made who in the following examples? Give Windows

Uncertainty, Risk & Profit Potential: Given the recent economic uncertainty in the world, I find myself reading more stuff about economics...a field which I currently find far more complex and fascinating than SEO. I came across an article pitching the idea of another potential great

Selling Less Ad Inventory to Gain Marketshare: Some areas of the economy are going well still, but many are crumbling. If you are a publisher that monetizes via advertising one way to make up for lost earnings is to add more ad units to a page, but

Has Yahoo! Search Marketing Lost Their Minds?: Imagine selling web traffic as a commodity in a blind auction, while touting its value based on the traffic being targeted, relevant, precise, and trackable. Then imagine taking away the default keyword tool on the internet that has been written

The SEO Process Lifecycle: It is no secret to readers here that SEO is an ongoing process, but I was playing with SmartDraw and created an SEO process circle.One of the problems many people have with SEO is that they think that

Who Do You Recommend for Web Design?: Good design makes quality content look and feel better. Design can help improve conversion rate, makes a site more linkable, and sometimes a site generates additional links and mentions just for having a great aesthetic design. I frequently get asked

Interview of Muhammad Saleem, Social Media Expert: After seeing the rapid rise of Tipd, I figured it would be a good idea to interview Muhammad Saleem, a social media addict who knows social media both from site manager and site participant perspectives. You can follow him on

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An Example Of Why Content is King - The Guardian Chalkboards: Posted by Tom_CSometimes the power of the internet and the modern age just astounds me. Ill see something that I just need to share and this is one of those times. Its not necessarily about SEO directly but it certainly

Whiteboard Friday - Positioning Your Blog: Posted by great scott!This week Rand discusses how to position your blog within your niche. Blogging is obviously an incredibly powerful tool for building a brand and can be effective in almost any industry. However, there are important considerations to

Blurring the Boundaries Between Fair Use and Copyright Violation: NYTimes and GateHouse Media Settle: Posted by Sarah Bird, EsquireMay It Please the Mozzers, Content Aggregators should pay attention to a recent settlement between the New York Times and GateHouse Media. According to Online Media Daily, the New York Times agreed to remove headlines and

YOUmozzers of the World Unite!: Posted by rebeccaIm sad to say that there are currently no posts sitting in the YOUmoz queue awaiting moderation. For shame! Thus, Im calling for any of you SEOmoz blog readers, community members, PRO account holders, Internet marketers and passerbys

AJAX: Great for Scrubbing Analytics Clean!: Posted by rebeccaI was pinging people on Twitter about what to blog about, and Michael Vandemar suggested I take a look at his post about Google web search switching to AJAX. He and some other SEOs have recently noticed that Google

8 More SEO Topics that Have Me Stumped: Posted by randfishA couple years ago, I posed some questions from the SEO world that I couldnt answer. Tonight, Id like to repeat that process and throw up some dilemmas that, once again, have me in a quandry. Does QDD

Business Assets + Historical Tracking = Serious Value: Posted by randfishOne of the areas we rarely touch on here at SEOmoz is how to use your offline, general business assets for SEO. Today I want to tackle that along with the seemingly unrelated subject of watching historical progress.

Whiteboard Friday - When to Track Rankings: Posted by great scott!Okay, so any of us in the online marketing world have been guilty of obsessing over rankings at one time or another. Well, in this weeks Whiteboard Friday, Rand makes the case that Rank Tracking may not

Advanced Google Analytics - Zero Visits and Search Page Referrer: Posted by willcritchlowAbout a month ago - back before Christmas and before my brilliant trip to New Zealand - I wrote a post over at Distilled about how to track referrals from the second page of Google using Google analytics.

Root Domains, Subdomains vs. Subfolders & The Microsite Debate: Posted by randfishLast week, I did a Whiteboard Friday, The Microsite Mistake, in which I called out a practice I see as potentially detimental to SEO - using a separate domain to accumulate links for your content site. I was not

The Best Spam Submission Ever: Posted by rebeccaAs you may know, one of my job duties here is to manage our user-generated blog. Every day I sift through the queue of blog entry submissions and publish posts about Internet marketing, business tactics, social media, web

5 Ways Obama Should Change How You Communicate: Posted by Lucy LangdonAfter Obamas inauguration speech last week, a lot of attention was paid to his speechwriter, Jon Favreau. Listening to Obama and reading about how he and Favreau wrote the speech

10 Tips for When Startup Life Gives You Lemons...: Posted by randfishTheres no doubt about it - being a startup in any economic condition is rough, and in the current tumult, mind-bending challenges arent out of the ordinary. However, I, like most other entrepreneurs Ive encountered, am a staunch

Struggling Against Google's Greatest Advantage: Posted by randfishThousands of posts, news articles and analysis pieces have covered the central topic of battling Googles dominance in web search, but Ive seen very few that have discussed what is, in my opinion, the most telling example of

Whiteboard Friday - The Microsite Mistake: Posted by great scott!This week well look at an all too common misconception: the idea that building out a microsite to target a particular keyword, and then using that sites strength to link to your primary site is a worthwhile

Where's Rand the First Half of 2009? London, Munich, Sydney, Reykjavik & More: Posted by randfish2009 is shaping up to be my busiest travel period ever (and thats saying something). Im going to be on the road a lot between February and June, and while its nothing like the 250+ days per year guys like Enquisites

Do the Little Things in SEO Make a Big Difference?: Posted by randfishMany companies and professionals in the SEO sphere (SEOmoz included) often make "best practices" recommendations to clients that include items like: Switch from underscores to hyphens to separate words in the URLs Employ the H1 tag for page headlines Use

Headsmacking Tip #11 - Refresh Legacy Content for a Rankings Boost: Posted by randfishThis weeks headsmacking tip is extremely powerful and pretty darn simple to implement. The premise is straightforward - youve got old content that ranks in the top 20-30 results, but never achieves first page (or top 5) rankings.

Linkscape Update 2 Now Live: Posted by randfishThose of you whove been running Linkscape reports this weekend may have noticed our new, fresher data in the index. This is our second update (the first was on Dec. 8th of 2008) and its brought with it

SEO for Video Content: Posted by great scott!This week were talking about video optimization. Video has become one of the most powerful content formats in recent years--whether as a regular part of a blog (like good ol Whiteboard Friday) or as a viral content

Matt Cutts

Talking to a Wiimote in Ubuntu 8.10: To add Wiimote support on Ubuntu 8.10, start by running the command “sudo apt-get install wminput wmgui lswm” to install the CWiid library and associated software.If you’re using a desktop machine, you probably don’t have Bluetooth capability. If you run

Talking to a Wiimote in Ubuntu 8.10: To add Wiimote support on Ubuntu 8.10, start by running the command “sudo apt-get install wminput wmgui lswm” to install the CWiid library and associated software.If you’re using a desktop machine, you probably don’t have Bluetooth capability. If you run

Give Google feedback on “noresults” pages: I recently posted asking what issues the Google webspam team should tackle in 2009. Getting this outside feedback is really handy, because it’s helpful to compare our internal perceptions against what annoys hundreds of people outside Google. After the first

Give Google feedback on “noresults” pages: I recently posted asking what issues the Google webspam team should tackle in 2009. Getting this outside feedback is really handy, because it’s helpful to compare our internal perceptions against what annoys hundreds of people outside Google. After the first

Google and Big Ideas: I love Om Malik and respect him greatly. I’m hoping to corner him for lunch sometime to pick his brain on ways that Google could improve. But today he happened to do a tweet that caught my attention just as

Google and Big Ideas: I love Om Malik and respect him greatly. I’m hoping to corner him for lunch sometime to pick his brain on ways that Google could improve. But today he happened to do a tweet that caught my attention just as

Video of my “Preventing Virtual Blight” talk: If you need a search fix, we just posted a video on the official Google webmaster blog. Essentially I recreated a talk I did for Web 2.0 and posted it online. You can also watch it below if you’d prefer:and

Some fun links: I caught up on some of my non-search feed reading this weekend. Normally I’d drop some of these links in my Twitter stream, but I ended up with a ton of links. So I thought I’d drop them here.In case

Video of my “Preventing Virtual Blight” talk: If you need a search fix, we just posted a video on the official Google webmaster blog. Essentially I recreated a talk I did for Web 2.0 and posted it online. You can also watch it below if you’d prefer:and

Some fun links: I caught up on some of my non-search feed reading this weekend. Normally I’d drop some of these links in my Twitter stream, but I ended up with a ton of links. So I thought I’d drop them here.In case

Good books to read?: Here’s my current “to-read” books:Are there any other great/recommended books to read that you would suggest adding to the list?

Good books to read?: Here’s my current “to-read” books:Are there any other great/recommended books to read that you would suggest adding to the list?

Ideal conference badge: I don’t even know how many conferences I’ve been to in the last decade, but it’s probably 30-40. In that time, maybe 2-3 conferences have really nailed the conference badge for attendees. Here’s what the ideal conference badge should look

Ideal conference badge: I don’t even know how many conferences I’ve been to in the last decade, but it’s probably 30-40. In that time, maybe 2-3 conferences have really nailed the conference badge for attendees. Here’s what the ideal conference badge should look

Webspam in 2009?: It’s the beginning of the year, so I just wanted to get some outside opinions: what would you like to see Google’s webspam team tackle in 2009? Here’s how I asked for suggestions in 2006:Based on your experiences, close your

Webspam in 2009?: It’s the beginning of the year, so I just wanted to get some outside opinions: what would you like to see Google’s webspam team tackle in 2009? Here’s how I asked for suggestions in 2006:Based on your experiences, close your

Four Things You Need To Know About Knol: Recently Google mentioned that 100,000 different articles have been posted to Google Knol. I’ve been meaning to talk about Google Knol for a while, because there’s a few things you need to know. It seemed especially relevant after I saw

Detecting Googlebombs: I recently did a Googlebomb post over on the Google Public Policy Blog. I’ve talked about Googlebomb phenomenon before (also see more Googlebomb background here). Just as a reminder, a Googlebomb is a prank where a group of people on

Four Things You Need To Know About Knol: Recently Google mentioned that 100,000 different articles have been posted to Google Knol. I’ve been meaning to talk about Google Knol for a while, because there’s a few things you need to know. It seemed especially relevant after I saw

Detecting Googlebombs: I recently did a Googlebomb post over on the Google Public Policy Blog. I’ve talked about Googlebomb phenomenon before (also see more Googlebomb background here). Just as a reminder, a Googlebomb is a prank where a group of people on

Search Engine Watch

Don't Believe Everything You Read: Would you make a life or death decision about caring for a sick infant based solely on blog advice, or even WebMD? Would you decide on a retirement strategy by reading a few blog posts or a forum discussion? Probably

Local Search Tactics for Tough Economic Times: What tactics and best practices can improve our local search campaigns in these challenging times? Local search marketing efforts focus around ensuring youre the one chosen when the question of where to buy arises. ...

Don't Believe Everything You Read: Would you make a life or death decision about caring for a sick infant based solely on blog advice, or even WebMD? Would you decide on a retirement strategy by reading a few blog posts or a forum discussion? Probably

Local Search Tactics for Tough Economic Times: What tactics and best practices can improve our local search campaigns in these challenging times? Local search marketing efforts focus around ensuring youre the one chosen when the question of where to buy arises. ...

Integrating Marketing Campaigns with Link Development: Companies can often make simple modification to their promotions to develop links simultaneously. Other times, the links already exist from marketing campaigns, but they arent being utilized for their full value. ...

Integrating Marketing Campaigns with Link Development: Companies can often make simple modification to their promotions to develop links simultaneously. Other times, the links already exist from marketing campaigns, but they arent being utilized for their full value. ...

Google and the Obama Administration: I thought we were moving past paying back campaign favors with key positions. I thought we were changing the world. Transparency doesnt mean appointing your supporters so they can continue building their brand by plugging in familiar connectivity. ...

Google and the Obama Administration: I thought we were moving past paying back campaign favors with key positions. I thought we were changing the world. Transparency doesnt mean appointing your supporters so they can continue building their brand by plugging in familiar connectivity. ...

Using Search to Help you with Search Engine Optimization: Link research can take time, but there are several ways you can use a search engine to find quality links. Today well look at queries you can make using your favorite search engine that can help you find places to

Users and Search Engines Want the Same Things: Optimizing your site for users is just as important as optimizing your site for search engines. While those are two very different things, you can often serve both audiences by being smart with your Web site development. ...

Using Search to Help you with Search Engine Optimization: Link research can take time, but there are several ways you can use a search engine to find quality links. Today well look at queries you can make using your favorite search engine that can help you find places to

Users and Search Engines Want the Same Things: Optimizing your site for users is just as important as optimizing your site for search engines. While those are two very different things, you can often serve both audiences by being smart with your Web site development. ...

Is Your Landing Page Relevant?: Your landing page is the first impression by which search engines and users alike will judge your site. And when a searcher first lands on your Web site, you have but mere seconds to establish credibility. Web sites must rise

Link Building 101, Part 1: The concept of getting backlinks to a page internally is sometimes overshadowed by trying to acquire backlinks from external pages. Why not use the same concept and apply it to your internal linking structure and reap the rewards? ...

Is Your Landing Page Relevant?: Your landing page is the first impression by which search engines and users alike will judge your site. And when a searcher first lands on your Web site, you have but mere seconds to establish credibility. Web sites must rise

Link Building 101, Part 1: The concept of getting backlinks to a page internally is sometimes overshadowed by trying to acquire backlinks from external pages. Why not use the same concept and apply it to your internal linking structure and reap the rewards? ...

Battling Click Fraud is Important for All Involved: Every pay-per-click advertiser sees the presence of click fraud, as does every search engine. Were just disagreeing about the numbers. Both sides need to acknowledge that a certain level of click fraud exists, and work together to diminish its impact.

Best-Kept Secret in PPC? Part II: Last weeks discussion of Google Conversion Optimizer generated a flood of user questions. It seems the promise of simplifying the time-consuming, complicated chore of regulating keyword bids is especially appealing to advertisers. ...

2009 is a Year of Change for Travel Search Marketing: The economy is forcing travel search marketers to change the way they approach online marketing. The travel vertical is already one of the most advanced groups of search marketers, but the industry has been under more pressure in recent months

Advanced Keyword Research Checklist: Using Multiple Datasets: Search behavior has long provided marketers with useful data for informing their search and other online marketing campaigns. But in 2009, there are additional datasets available to marketers, using mash-ups of analytics, paid and organic search, and social media. ...

Pronet Advertising

Catchup - 12/22/08: Jeremy Schoemaker is giving you a once in a lifetime opportunity to get your brand out there while supporting a good cause. During Affiliate Summit Jeremy will be wearing one persons brand on his t-shirt during the conference. If you

Marketing Through Giveaways: Marketing doesnt always have to involve using methods like search engine optimization, email marketing, or banner advertising. Instead of using expensive methods of marketing you can also market your company by giving your product away for free to select bloggers.One

Are you going to Pubcon?: If you are going to Pubcon, there is a lot going on. DK, over at Purpose Inc is organizing a fight club, dinners, drinks, and a poker tournament with hot chicks.Go over to the schedule page for

Email Publishing Now On Docstoc: Docstoc just rolled out an email feature that easily allows you to upload documents online. Docstoc now supports email uploading and publishing. Simply email any document (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf) to uploads@docstoc.com, as an attachment, and your document(s) will be

Looking to increase your traffic? V7N has a solution for you!: As we all know, the more links you have coming into your website the more traffic you are going to get. The problem with this is that it can take hours to solicit and obtain links. Luckily V7N has solutions

'My Documents' Hits the Web: My Documents is something we all use. Whether you have a PC or a MAC, you are probably using some sort of documents folder. The major problem with storing your documents on one computer, is that you cant access them

Free ThinkTank Ticket: A while ago I wrote about the ThinkTank 2008 and why it is a conference that you have to attend. I know it maybe a bit expensive, so here is your chance to attend for free. Jeremy Schoemaker is throwing

50 Kick Ass Keyword Strategies: Aaron Wall and Wordtracker teamed up to release an e-book to help you learn which keywords you should pick for your online marketing strategy and how you can leverage those keywords.Here are some of the topics discussed:Employing Your Supporting Cast

5 Reasons To Attend Think Tank 2008: From September 26 to the 28th, a new conference called Think Tank is taking place. If you havent signed up yet, I highly recommend doing so for the following reasons:Its not a normal conference - Unlike most conferences, the Think

Search Engine Strategies San Jose: Is anyone attending Search Engine Strategies San Jose? If so, leave a comment and hopefully I will see you there.If you arent, it isnt too late to register. Click here to register.

How To Get The Most Out of Shoemoney Tools Beta: About a year and a half ago I went to Jeremy Schoemakers house for a few days (aka Shoemoney, aka Shoe) because I heard rumors that the Shoemoney team was making tons of money from the affiliate marketing/arbitrage space. I

Online SEO Tools - The Ultimate Collection: Ann Smarty from Search Engine Journal, recently wrote a great article reviewing all of the SEO tools out there. If you are an SEO or want to be one, I highly recommend checking it out.

Alltop Top's Search Engines: High search engine rankings is something that many of us dream about and very few of us achieve. To obtain these rankings, in many cases you have to manipulate search results, but what if you could rank high naturally?Guy Kawasaki

Empire Today : Getting Your Customers to Social Media Market For You: Sometimes a company can be marketed virally on social media platforms without actually hiring a social media marketer or putting together a social media campaign. Established brands which have a loyal grassroots following, either large or small, sometimes enjoy the

Weird Asia News Design Contest: I was just reading Weird Asia News and noticed that they are having a design contest. If you are a designer and are looking to win a PS3 I highly recommend checking it out. The contest seems like a fun

Catchup - 12/22/08: Jeremy Schoemaker is giving you a once in a lifetime opportunity to get your brand out there while supporting a good cause. During Affiliate Summit Jeremy will be wearing one persons brand on his t-shirt during the conference. If you

Marketing Through Giveaways: Marketing doesnt always have to involve using methods like search engine optimization, email marketing, or banner advertising. Instead of using expensive methods of marketing you can also market your company by giving your product away for free to select bloggers.One

Are you going to Pubcon?: If you are going to Pubcon, there is a lot going on. DK, over at Purpose Inc is organizing a fight club, dinners, drinks, and a poker tournament with hot chicks.Go over to the schedule page for

Email Publishing Now On Docstoc: Docstoc just rolled out an email feature that easily allows you to upload documents online. Docstoc now supports email uploading and publishing. Simply email any document (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf) to uploads@docstoc.com, as an attachment, and your document(s) will be

Looking to increase your traffic? V7N has a solution for you!: As we all know, the more links you have coming into your website the more traffic you are going to get. The problem with this is that it can take hours to solicit and obtain links. Luckily V7N has solutions

SEO Black Hat

Dude - where’s my Pagerank?: I know, I know - who cares about page rank? But still - this does mean something - I just have no idea what.

16 Day to SEO de Janeiro: Our Carnival VIP event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is now just 16 days away.

GDrive Now.: Why wait? You can set up a G-Drive right now. Its easy.

Google “Badwares” Almost Everyone: Whoops.

Bloggers Wanted: Paying Up to $200 Cash Per Post: Get Paid To Post Here on seoblackhat.com

What Can Questions Do For You?: Can they build suspense? Do they capture your reader’s interest? Can they make you rich?

When to be a Total Fuck-Up. Hint: It’s Chocolate Cake for Breakfast!: Being a total fuck-up is a horrible overall strategy for success. However, when used selectively, it can actually save you time and make you more successful. Heres how:

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 6, 2009: Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 6, 2009: Back from my quasi-vacation, we did text recaps the past two weeks, but I am back to the video recap now. This week we covered a Yahoo Search update. I also discussed the implications of Googles AJAX search result pages....

Google's Search Box Stops Working for Some Firefox Users: Sometime yesterday, Firefox 2.x users were unable to use Googles search box, as they typically do. They would go to Google.com, enter in a search query and hit enter. Then nothing would happen. Really, nothing would happen. There is a...

Show Images In Google News Results: Having images show up in Google News can be very beneficial in getting searchers to click over and read what you have to say. The more visually appealing content and images you have in your articles, the better your chance...

Is The Economy Taking A Toll on AdSense Publisher Earnings?: Many, many Google AdSense publishers are complaining about a drop in earnings from their Google AdSense initiatives. A long and detailed thread at WebmasterWorld has a lot of complaints from publishers on the topic. There is no question that ad...

Google AdSense Testing New Ad Format With Larger Search Box: Google AdSense might be testing a new ad format. We have a few reports of publishers noticing this new format from DigitalPoint Forums. Here is a look at the new format: This seems to be a fairly interactive ad box....

Google News Crawl Issues a Bug with Google: If you recently noticed that your News site is spewing errors in Google Webmaster Tools, under the Diagnosis - News Crawl reports, do not worry. A Google News Help thread has confirmed reports from Google, that this is just a...

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 6, 2009: Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 6, 2009: Back from my quasi-vacation, we did text recaps the past two weeks, but I am back to the video recap now. This week we covered a Yahoo Search update. I also discussed the implications of Googles AJAX search result pages....

Google's Search Box Stops Working for Some Firefox Users: Sometime yesterday, Firefox 2.x users were unable to use Googles search box, as they typically do. They would go to Google.com, enter in a search query and hit enter. Then nothing would happen. Really, nothing would happen. There is a...

Show Images In Google News Results: Having images show up in Google News can be very beneficial in getting searchers to click over and read what you have to say. The more visually appealing content and images you have in your articles, the better your chance...

Is The Economy Taking A Toll on AdSense Publisher Earnings?: Many, many Google AdSense publishers are complaining about a drop in earnings from their Google AdSense initiatives. A long and detailed thread at WebmasterWorld has a lot of complaints from publishers on the topic. There is no question that ad...

Google AdSense Testing New Ad Format With Larger Search Box: Google AdSense might be testing a new ad format. We have a few reports of publishers noticing this new format from DigitalPoint Forums. Here is a look at the new format: This seems to be a fairly interactive ad box....

Google News Crawl Issues a Bug with Google: If you recently noticed that your News site is spewing errors in Google Webmaster Tools, under the Diagnosis - News Crawl reports, do not worry. A Google News Help thread has confirmed reports from Google, that this is just a...

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 5, 2009: Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

IM Charity Party at SMX West: As many of you know, SMX West is next week and we are live blogging the sessions. The Internet Marketers Charity Party will be there as well. There is an $40 open bar from 8pm-12am on Tuesday, February 10th at...

Webmasters Call Yahoo's "Search Pad" A Big Scraper Tool: Yesterday, Yahoo released a new tool to help you take notes while you conduct research with Yahoo Search. The tool is named Yahoo Search Pad and you can learn exactly how it works with this quick video: @ Yahoo! Video...

If There Is Still a Google Sandbox, Is it US Based Only?: It has been a while since we really discussed the Google Sandbox. The Google Sandbox goes back to April 2004. We first spotted it when I wrote New Sites = Poor Results in Google, then it became known as the...

Google AdWords Offers Advice Low Traffic Keywords: In the Google AdWords forum, Google posts various tips every couple weeks or so. The latest tip, I found to be very interesting and thought some of our readers would benefit from it. It is on the topic of how...

Small Yahoo Search Update Two Weeks Later?: On January 19th we reported about a Yahoo update that many SEOs and webmasters took note of. The thing is, Yahoo never officially confirmed that shuffling as a update. Now, I am seeing new reports of a Yahoo update at...

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Top PPC Tips for Effective Marketing: Interested in pay-per-click ad campaigns but nervous about taking the plunge This article will give you a good overview of what s involved. It will lay out the benefits and introduce you to the top companies with which you can

Advanced Keyword Research Strategies: Keyword selection will haunt your search engine optimization campaign forever so in this article we aim to help you make better choices. In this first part of a two-part series you will learn where to find an abundance of keywords

Is Your Brand Killing Your Search Campaign?: Building a brand gets you name recognition that translates into online searches web site traffic and conversions right Not in all cases. You may try to position yourself as one thing but your target market is looking for something else.

Taking a DeepDyve into the Deep Web: If the latest figures from Internet research companies can be believed Google serves the needs of most web searchers most of the time. But serious researchers know that the web boasts nooks and crannies that even Google s spiders can

Google Algorithms: As SEOs we spend much of our time trying to figure out how Google s indexing algorithms work. This article will take a look at the techniques used by the search engine. We ll cover latent semantic indexing local inter-connectivity

Creating Your Domain Name: With the Internet now a staple of our society it seems as if everyone wants a web presence. If you dream of owning your own online business you need to create a domain name. That s a lot more complicated

How Google`s Quality Raters Treat Web Spam: This is the second part of a two-part article on the leaked Google document Google Guidelines for Quality Raters. In the first part we reviewed how Google raters are told to treat such things as relevance depending on the country

Is Yahoo`s New CEO Up to the Challenge?: Carol Bartz accepted what may be the biggest challenge of her career when she agreed to take on the post of Yahoo CEO. The venerable search engine s stock rose nearly two points on the news and then promptly fell

Blogspot SEO Checklist: The Practical Way to Improve Rankings: So you started a blog on Blogspot but you re not seeing the level of traffic for which you d hoped. Are you going to have to give up your dreams of blogging for a living or at least making

Google`s Quality Rater Guidelines Leaked: Someone at Google has leaked quality rater guidelines. The document is full of information that is highly desirable to anyone trying to rank a site high in Google s results pages. This article will take a close look at the

Yasni Puts the People in People Search: Last week I introduced you to Yasni which bills itself as the world s most popular people search engine. It offers some good figures to back up that claim. It s based in Germany is it ready for a US

Search Engine Indexing for Flash Websites is Improving: Are you frustrated because your Flash website does not show up on the search engines That s understandable. Keep reading though because there s hope all of your work is not wasted. The search engines are getting smarter where Flash

Microsoft`s Live Search Patents and Algorithms Related to Blogs: In this article we will cover three Microsoft patents and draw quick conclusions on where Live Search is going. Will the patents and the methods they represent help the software giant win market share in the search engine space The

Yasni: Yet Another People Search Engine?: Google s mastery of search sometimes makes us forget its shortcomings. Specialized search engines insist that they deliver better more relevant results for their particular fields. That seems especially true in the area of people search despite the many search

Using Images to Tell Your Story: The Internet has come into its own as a visual medium with entire sites devoted to still images and video. When searchers look for information or entertainment they ve come to want a little eye candy along with all those

Google`s Trust Rank and Hilltop Algorithms: PageRank is not the only algorithm Google uses to determine relevancy of pages. In this article we discuss two more publicly known algorithms Hilltop and Trust Rank. Keep reading for some enlightenment on how the world s most popular search

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5 Tips to Make the Most of Your SEO Investment: Whether you’re a marketer at a large Fortune 500 company or a small business, search engine optimization (SEO) can be one of the most cost-effective tools for reaching a broader audience and increasing online sales. A solid and persistent search

BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 0020209: Today’s BIGLIST update of search marketing blogs includes a smattering of agency blogs from the US and the UK as well as appearances from Poland and Singapore. Step right up and get your daily dose of SEO, social media and PPC

4 Tips For Clean Link Checking: It’s time for another SEO Basics post and this time getting more out of link building efforts is the topic. Link building continues to be an important part of marketing and optimizing web sites and web marketers can often get distracted

11 Best URL Shortening Services - Vote Your Favorite: Update! We have a winner. Cli.gs received 26% (88) votes with budurl.com coming in a close second. Congratulations!URL shortening services were initially popular because web addresses started to get long and links would break when sent in an email.

BIGLIST Search Marketing Blogs Update 010709: It’s a new year and a new update to TopRank’s BIGLIST of search marketing blogs. The BIGLIST, like many of our readers undoubtedly, suffered a bit of bloat over the holidays, so we’ve resolved to trim things up a bit

Should Marketers Shift Offline Budgets to Digital Marketing?: You don’t have to look much further than recent headlines and research studies below to see that many companies are losing confidence in traditional marketing and advertising. The changing trends in information production, distribution and consumption coupled with the uncertain times we

6 Social Search Engines to Start 2009: There are many reasons to search social media including monitoring for brand and reputation management purposes. Smart online marketers have also been using social search for other reasons including competitive research and opportunistic content marketing through social keyword trends.Most advice

2008 Top SEO Blogs by RSS Subscribers: As part of maintaining the BIGLIST of search engine marketing blogs, we’ve posted a list of the top SEO blogs that publish their RSS feed subscriber counts and on this last day of 2008, I thought I’d put up just

How Community Building Boosts SEO: A while back I had a Twitter discussion with a few smart Minnesota based marketers, @cbensen, @albertmaruggi and @bestbuyCMO about the importance of customer service and community building that turned to a variety of ancillary benefits. Connie mentioned that community building is

Happy Birthday TopRankBlog & SEO Blogs Class of 2003: I am happy to say that this weekend, December 28th marks 5 years of blogging at Online Marketing Blog. From the infamous “Florida Update” of December 2003 to current, practical advice on social media strategy December 2008, TopRank has been

Happy Holidays from TopRank Online Marketing: The entire team at TopRank Online Marketing would like to wish our valued readers a very happy holidays and a fantastic new year. We sincerely appreciate all our subscribers and all the amazing insight, comments and connections you’ve helped us

Best Podcasts on Social Media: UPDATE 12/29/08: Voting is closed and the winner, Best Podcast Social Media, DishyMix by Susan Bratton of Personal Life Media. Congratulations Susan!Congrats also to the runner up, User Friendly Thinking by Bizzuka’s John Munsell and Paul Chaney.There are many ways to acquire information

Writing for the Web: SEO for News Content: At TopRank Online Marketing, we’re keen on matching content and therefore optimization efforts with the right audiences. News is a perfect candidate for optimizing by intent. Below is a presentation I did recently as part of a PR News webinar

BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 0020209: Today’s BIGLIST update of search marketing blogs includes a smattering of agency blogs from the US and the UK as well as appearances from Poland and Singapore. Step right up and get your daily dose of SEO, social media and PPC

4 Tips For Clean Link Checking: It’s time for another SEO Basics post and this time getting more out of link building efforts is the topic. Link building continues to be an important part of marketing and optimizing web sites and web marketers can often get distracted

How Community Building Boosts SEO: A while back I had a Twitter discussion with a few smart Minnesota based marketers, @cbensen, @albertmaruggi and @bestbuyCMO about the importance of customer service and community building that turned to a variety of ancillary benefits. Connie mentioned that community building is

Happy Birthday TopRankBlog & SEO Blogs Class of 2003: I am happy to say that this weekend, December 28th marks 5 years of blogging at Online Marketing Blog. From the infamous “Florida Update” of December 2003 to current, practical advice on social media strategy December 2008, TopRank has been

Happy Holidays from TopRank Online Marketing: The entire team at TopRank Online Marketing would like to wish our valued readers a very happy holidays and a fantastic new year. We sincerely appreciate all our subscribers and all the amazing insight, comments and connections you’ve helped us

Best Podcasts on Social Media: UPDATE 12/29/08: Voting is closed and the winner, Best Podcast Social Media, DishyMix by Susan Bratton of Personal Life Media. Congratulations Susan!Congrats also to the runner up, User Friendly Thinking by Bizzuka’s John Munsell and Paul Chaney.There are many ways to acquire information

Writing for the Web: SEO for News Content: At TopRank Online Marketing, we’re keen on matching content and therefore optimization efforts with the right audiences. News is a perfect candidate for optimizing by intent. Below is a presentation I did recently as part of a PR News webinar

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Like Google? Don’t Forget Yahoo & MSN Too: We can all agree that Google owns the search market.Have you heard anyone say.. “Dude, Yahoo the time for the movie“? or “Did you remember to MSN/live.com the directions?” (Why don’t we just say Microsoft search and be done with

Dataopedia Reports on Your Website Statistics: Dataopedia.com is a new tool giving you a wealth of information on any website. Unlike other tools aggregating a lot of website-wise data on one page, Dataopedia also adds useful stats regarding the domain social media popularity:Reviews on StumbleUpon;Reddit domain

Building Links With Content? Get Your Point Across!: Before you read the rest of this post, think about this: if you’re trying to build links by having great content, you need to be very careful about how your points come across to people. Just because you know what

2 Cool FireFox Addons for PPC Managers: Surprisingly, we have only few good FireFox addons for PPC marketers (please share if you are using any not mentioned below). Today I am reviewing two extensions I am using more or less regularly:PPC Web Spy is a new comer

IBM & Google Partner for Google Health Records: IBM and Google has just reached an agreement allowing an IBM software to stream medical and health records of patients to their Google Health record, if they already have existing accounts.If you’re not using Google Health, this may not be

Google Presses AOL To Buy Back its Investment: Sometime in 2005, Google took a $1 billion to 5 percent stake in AOL. This put AOL’s owner, Time Warner into a $20 billion unit value. But now, realizing that it is probably not gaining grounds from its investment, Google

2 Cool FireFox Addons for PPC Managers: Surprisingly, we have only few good FireFox addons for PPC marketers (please share if you are using any not mentioned below). Today I am reviewing two extensions I am using more or less regularly:PPC Web Spy (note: please see the

Michael Phelps Bong Photo : Linkbait Gold: When discussing the art of linkbaiting, Nick Wilson of Performancing once wrote that In order to bait a link, you need a hook.Those hooks are as follows : News hookContrary HookAttack HookResource HookHumour HookThere is not a much more linkbait

How to Track YouTube Videos: Youtube is the huge collection of both professional and amateur videos updated each minute. With online video growing popularity it is getting more important to keep track of new videos to:track your reputation: learn when someone mentions your brand name

Microsoft Adds Instant Answers to IE8 Live Search Box: Microsoft’s Live Search is taking steps to assure that usage of the company’s IE 8 browser will entice users to stay active with Live Search via new Instant Answers. Microsoft search share has been slipping a bit, and total integration

Google News Launches New Widget : NewsShow Wizard: Today seems like Google News Day, literally! The company has launched a new tool which lets publishers create and embed targeted Google News stories on their websites. The new tool is called NewsShow Wizard and it lets publishers pick search

Google & NASA Opening New University: Just when you thought Google was scaling down on its spending and products, they go and open an entire University! Google and Nasa have expanded their partnership to open a new University for futurists, coined Singularity University.The University, get this,

Doodle 4 Google : Logo Contest for School Students: Google has launched another Doodle 4 Google competition, which invites children from grades Kindergarten through 12th grade to doodle around with the Google logo, and create their own Google design based around the theme “What I Wish for the World.”Teachers

Yahoo SearchPad : Yahoo’s New Research Notebook: Adam Ostrow has a great review over at Mashable on Yahoo SearchPad. I suggest everyone read it. Sorry for the short post, but I’m about to head out the door and also testing out Wordpress QuickPress here on SEJ.

Michael Phelps Bong Photo : Linkbait Gold: When discussing the art of linkbaiting, Nick Wilson of Performancing once wrote that In order to bait a link, you need a hook.Those hooks are as follows : News hookContrary HookAttack HookResource HookHumour HookThere is not a much more linkbait

How to Track YouTube Videos: Youtube is the huge collection of both professional and amateur videos updated each minute. With online video growing popularity it is getting more important to keep track of new videos to:track your reputation: learn when someone mentions your brand name

Microsoft Adds Instant Answers to IE8 Live Search Box: Microsoft’s Live Search is taking steps to assure that usage of the company’s IE 8 browser will entice users to stay active with Live Search via new Instant Answers. Microsoft search share has been slipping a bit, and total integration

Google News Launches New Widget : NewsShow Wizard: Today seems like Google News Day, literally! The company has launched a new tool which lets publishers create and embed targeted Google News stories on their websites. The new tool is called NewsShow Wizard and it lets publishers pick search

Google & NASA Opening New University: Just when you thought Google was scaling down on its spending and products, they go and open an entire University! Google and Nasa have expanded their partnership to open a new University for futurists, coined Singularity University.The University, get this,

Doodle 4 Google : Logo Contest for School Students: Google has launched another Doodle 4 Google competition, which invites children from grades Kindergarten through 12th grade to doodle around with the Google logo, and create their own Google design based around the theme “What I Wish for the World.”Teachers

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Blogher 2009 Looking for Speakers: Blogher announced they are looking for speakers, looking for ideas for sessions and speaker nominations. I’m not sure why they can’t just say “call for speakers” like everyone else but hey that’s their thing not mine.Anywho if you know of

Re Inclusion Requests Only For Verified Sites: I’ve submitted more than one reinclusion request over the years, and the process was education in some ways (what you don’t think you can experiment with that too under the proper well planned and thought out conditions?). However I was

So I Made it Onto Some Silly List: So while I was away I made it onto the Most Influential Online Marketers of 2008 list. Not that I don’t appreciate everyone who was nice enought to vote for me, and all the hard work that went into putting

Mapquest v.2: Google’s Attack On SoundClick.com: The Borgle is doing it again - after Google Maps ripping off MapQuest, Youtube is out to jack SoundClick.Before I got into the search marketing community, one of the first online communities I really got involved with was the hiphop

How TED Helped Me Understand Personalized Search: Long time readers here will know that I’m not a big fan of Google’s personalized search. However late last week I watched a TED talk and had a zen moment of clarity, and finally got personalized search. More interestingly I

Is Your Blog Advertiser Friendly: There are times when I’m maybe a little harsh on the lifestyle blogging community, but more than anything it’s a Judge Judy kind of tough love. What I really want is for people to grasp the concept that just because

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