Google announces "Search Plus Your World" informing the masses of their intent to include Google Plus in their universal search results. But have you considered how Google Plus may affect some of Google's vertical searches? The Case of Steve Bitter What you have above is a google image search for "Steve Bitter". Now Steve is [...]

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While playing with my new camera and recording some snow (of all things) I couldn't help but think back to How SEO is like shovelling snow, a post from 4 years ago. It even was on Sphinn which was then still a user-driven, voting site and thus still existed Anyway, this is what I gobbled [...]

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Personally and professionally, this past week has been challenging to say the least. I've been virtually AWOL from the web and tried to catch up on a weeks worth of reading this Sunday afternoon. Here are 10 interesting articles that caught my attention and what I learned: What you don't know about Facebook: Don Peat [...]

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It's that time of year again when everyone is talking about football. I don't know about you but at one point in my life, the lead up to the big game had me focused on nothing but. While life's priorities have lessened my interest in football, I still find myself watching the big game and [...]

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I came across Michael Martines blog this week. In it, he says that he managed to increase his blog’s subscriber count by nearly 200%, to 900 subscribers in just two short weeks, by offering a free eBook for subscribing to his blog. eBook readers have always sounded like a great idea to me, but until [...]

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All around good guy and internet marketing guru Matt McGee today announced the launch of the SEMMYs … the search industry's equivalent of the EMMY's. The EMMYs are described as; an annual awards event honoring some of the best articles and blog posts from the search marketing industry, as voted by the industry. We have [...]

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As search engine marketers, we all know that content is king and that content is more than just text. Images, video and audio each represent a fantastic opportunity to drive traffic to our client’s sites. As such, the latest Horowitz Associates report caught my attention. According to the report, six out of ten high speed [...]

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Do you intuitively understand the strengths and weaknesses of search as it relates to all other media? I mean, most of us get that paid search has distinct pros and cons, as does organic search, but what about search in general relative to other media? For example … why would search not be the ideal [...]

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Can a good search presence improve an offline marketing campaign's results? You may be surprised to hear … ABSOLUTELY! Offline and search campaigns are actually very symbiotic in nature. See the proof abreviated in graphical form below, but also be sure to check out the full study. The Proof: Courtesy iProspect The Cudos: The study [...]

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Week 4 of the contest has seen an increase in the number of submissions. And the quality … WOW! See for yourself below. We're also seeing a number of people using social media very effectively … good 'cause that's a compontent of the scoring algorithm. 1) 'The Real Search Guru' – Parody of 'The Real [...]

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