Archive for July, 2010

Today Is Moon Day, Google’s Nam June Paik & Columbia Logos

2010/07/20

Today is Moon Day, it was celebrated widely last year by the search engines because last year was the 40th anniversary. This year, it pretty much has gone unnoticed or unrecognized by the search engines. We have a logo today:…

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5 Useful Tools for Conducting International Keyword Research

2010/07/20

Have you ever wondered how search engine results change from country to country? If your company is multinational, it is important for you to know how your site ranks for relevant keyword terms in different countries.

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50% Of SEOs Use Nofollows Internally & 50% Don’t

2010/07/20

Despite the advice of Google’s Matt Cutts, SEOs are continuing to use the nofollow attribute for internal linking. A few weeks ago, Matt advised against using the nofollow for internal linkage and PageRank sculpting

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Stuck In Link Limbo? How To Craft Real Business Metrics For Link Building

2010/07/20

As the in-house person in charge of marketing the online legal directory, Avvo, I need to have accurate and timely access to all of our performance metrics.

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Do Links Every Really Disappear?

2010/07/20

Tedster at WebmasterWorld asks an excellent question.

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Study: “Facebook Flops, Google Drops” In New Consumer Satisfaction Ratings

2010/07/20

That’s the headline Foresee Results, which administers the e-business portion of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), used to get attention from reporters and bloggers. This is the first year that the survey, which tracks general consumer satisfaction levels with websites, has measured social media. What the company found was that the ad hoc collection of *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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Google Wins Patent For Cursor-Driven Search Relevancy

2010/07/20

Did that just feel weird to read? It is indeed the latest patent obtained by Google , a giant innovative step for search: now the Mountain View-based company will be able to serve more relevant search results based on your mouse pointer movements on the page

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Mom & Google Save The Day: Finds Lost Keys

2010/07/20

I spotted a cute story by a mom based in St. Louis where she saved the day by using Google

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Google Building Search Turbo With Metaweb Buy

2010/07/20

As Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo forge ahead with their Search Alliance integration, Google is also readying to turbo charge its Search activities by purchasing Metaweb . Click to read the rest of this post…

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5 Tips on Twitter Chats Plus 8 Marketing & PR Chats to Follow

2010/07/20

There are many tactics companies can implement as part of a smart Twitter Marketing strategy. Growing the initial following is important as is providing the budding community you’re building with something of value to keep coming back and to spread the good word to their networks. One such tactic that offers value and brings people together is the Twitter chat

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