Tweet You want to make money with your blogging efforts. But, how? Which method is the best one? In this article, I outline what I believe are the top 10 ways to monetize a blog site. And I’m also going to do my best to rank them in order of
Continue Reading →Tweet The Google News news_keywords meta tag is now available to all publishers that are approved for inclusion. It is nice that Google News is trying to accommodate publishers and allow for more witty, print-style headlines. But in the bigger picture encouraging the use of this tag has as many potential cons
Continue Reading →Tweet Too often we, as SEOs, get our hands on a website after it has been built. Designers focus on making sites “pretty” and “usable.” Unfortunately, they either lack the knowledge or simply don’t care about the search value a website offers. This is where the ever growing feud between
Continue Reading →Tweet Let’s face it, the SEO industry, like any other, has its fair share of less-than-scrupulous players looking to take advantage of unsuspecting site owners. I’m not sure if SEO actually has more “bad guys” than most other industries or ours just get more attention, but the simple fact remains
Continue Reading →Tweet Google has announced the addition of a “Structured Data Dashboard” as a new feature in its Webmaster Tools offerings. The Dashboard gives webmasters greater visibility into the structured data that Google knows about for a given website. This will no doubt come as good news to people wanting confirmation
Continue Reading →Tweet With the demise of Yahoo Site Explorer, SEOs and online marketers will be wondering where to go now for free access to the invaluable information it provided over the past 6 years. Now you can download the most recent links Google discovered pointing to your web site. Better yet, Google will
Continue Reading →Tweet We’ve all been waiting for it, and now it’s here: Google’s monthly list of algorithm changes for May. This time, it’s 39 changes (less than last month). Of particular note, Google says it made a couple of adjustments to Penguin: Improvements to Penguin. [launch codename "twref2", project codename "Page Quality"] This
Continue Reading →Tweet Maintaining a corporate blog has many business benefits; both for search engine optimization (SEO) and from a lead generation perspective: • Publishing regular new content signals “freshness” and keeps search engines crawling your site on a regular basis. • Blogging is a great way to rank for long-tail search
Continue Reading →Tweet As expected, Google has finally released its big list of algorithm changes for the month of April. It’s been an interesting month, to say the least, with not only the Penguin update, but a couple of Panda updates sprinkled in. There’s not a whole lot about either of those
Continue Reading →Tweet The SEO community has been in a bit of a buzz over the last few weeks. Google, dominant in so many territories, has begun to email tens of thousands of site owners with warnings. Google’s warnings include alerts of traffic drops, traffic spikes, out of date software but also
Continue Reading →Tweet The Bing Editors’ Picks are a collection of editorially selected sites that are wholly relevant, excellent, search results. These Picks represent the best of the best, and are designed to highlight relevant, but often hard-to-find sites. Take a look at the Editors’ Picks homepage now and explore the content on
Continue Reading →Tweet The Bing Editors’ Picks are a collection of editorially selected sites that are wholly relevant, excellent, search results. These Picks represent the best of the best, and are designed to highlight relevant, but often hard-to-find sites. Take a look at the Editors’ Picks homepage now and explore the content on
Continue Reading →Tweet Google is giving its tried-and-true web-search formula a makeover as it tries to fix the shortcomings of today’s technology and maintain its dominant market share. Over the next few months, Google’s search engine will begin spitting out more than a list of blue web links. It will also present more
Continue Reading →Tweet Google annouced this month that they have many improvements to celebrate. With 40 changes reported, that marks a new record for our monthly series on search quality. Most of their updates rolled out earlier this month, and a handful are actually rolling out today and tomorrow. They continue to
Continue Reading →Tweet UK Internet users made 2.3 billion visits to search engines in January 2012, up from 2.2 billion in January 2011. Visits to search engines are up by 4.5 per cent year-on-year with nearly 100 million more visits in January this year than last year. Google remained the steadfast market
Continue Reading →Tweet Google+ is Google. Google announced this week that Google+ now has over 90 million users. That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s only been out about half a year. It may help, however, that it comes as part of just signing up for a Google account now. Google+ began on an
Continue Reading →Tweet Head over to Wikipedia today and you won’t find the random fact you were looking for. Instead, you’ll see a black page explaining why Wikipedia is currently unavailable. The English-language version of the website has been taken down for 24 hours in protest against two anti-piracy lawscurrently being debated
Continue Reading →Tweet Organic search marketing, often referred to as SEO is not an easy gig. Of course there are those out there who say that SEO is a farce or that SEO can be done by anyone. I disagree on both accounts. For me organic search marketing has never been about
Continue Reading →Tweet Surprisingly beating Yahoo to become the second biggest search engine in America isn’t one of them… Now is as good time as any to try Microsoft’s search engine -Bing. Bing has just surpassed Yahoo in search queries for the first time, this makes it the second biggest search engine
Continue Reading →Tweet Wow 2011 has been quite a year in Search. You might say that it has been the year of the Panda. In November 2010 at PubCon Las Vegas, Google’s Matt Cutts warned us that big things were coming from Google in terms of dealing with webspam. Look for more
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