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Search Engine Marketing, Inc.
Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site
Authors: Mike Moran and Bill Hunt
Paperback: 592 pages, $31.49
Published: July, 2005
I have to admit that this was a very difficult book for me to read, not because it isn’t an absolutely great resource or an all-inclusive textbook fore building a search engine marketing campaign from […]

Today we honor our vetererans and remember their service to our country. Freedom isn’t free and it comes at a cost paid by our nation’s soldiers throughout history. Let’s remember them today.

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If you are always optimizing pages then you probably know how easy it is to overlook small, but important things. The big stuff like keyword research, good copy, links, well, that’s the easy stuff to remember because that’s what SEO is all about. But it’s the small things that, when over looked, can often throw […]

Stuffing keyword phrases into your code or in the content is tempting when trying to game the search results, yet does little to enhance the user’s experience. Any keyword usage on a page, whether it’s visible or hidden in the code, needs to have a distinguishable purpose, other than to achieve top rankings.
I’m amazed […]

The Candidates
Synergy: Allie, Andrea, Brent, Pepi, Roxanne, Stacy, Tammy
Gold Rush: Bryce, Charmaine, Dan, Lee, Lenny, Leslie, Michael, Sean, Summer, Tarek, Theresa
Prelude:
Sean is upset for having to listen to Allie and Roxanne for another week. Who can blame him. He says he’s “bored to tears” with their “rubbish”. Aren’t we all. Aren’t we all!
The Task:
The teams […]

I’m an easy to get a long with kind of guy but at work I have a few pet peeves that really burn me up. Maybe it’s because I’m the boss, or maybe that I have very little patience, some things can get me worked up pretty quick. My employees all know this and I […]

Comscore has released thier Search Engine Marketshare stats for April 2006.
Google: 43.1%
Yahoo!: 28.0%
MSN: 12.9%
AOL: 6.9%
Ask: 5.8%
Compared to February ‘06, here is the change for each:
Google: +0.4%
Yahoo!: +0.0%
MSN: -0.3%
AOL: -0.7%
Ask: -0.1%

MSN has released support for a new meta tag allowing webmasters to opt out of having MSN usingODP (a.k.a. DMOZ) descriptions in their search results. This is outstanding!
What has bothered the webmasters previously is that when search engines preferred search result descriptions from dmoz.org, they did not empower webmasters to opt-out of those descriptions. This […]

I hate bad customer service. Providing good customer service is not rocket science. In fact it’s easier than, say, stocking shelves, selling a product or filling an order. So why is good customer service so hard to find when anybody can provide good customer service if the choose to.
The other day I was at a […]

Ok, so I finally jumped on the train and signed up for MSN’s new adCenter PPC. It’s only been a couple of days, but so far my impression of the new system is not a good one. For one thing, adCenter told me it would not support my FireFox browser! How […]

SEO is all about time. Optimizing a site properly takes time. Getting good quality links takes time. Getting your links to “count” takes time. Tweaking to improve rankings takes time. Improving conversions takes time. Becoming a good SEO also takes time.
But the difference with becoming a good SEO isn’t just about calendar time, but […]

Andy Hagans has an interesting post in response to an article by Eric Ward about link whoring. Andy’s post talks about the choice between getting rankings now from Yahoo and MSN or later from Google. Both articles are worth a read.

Last week I posted about looking for good SEOs. I was surprised by the response I got from that post, as many SEOs contacted us willing to do some outsourcing. And by and large, many of them appear to be the real deal. So I guess there are a lot of good SEOs out there […]