There is an interesting thread at WebmasterWorld that talks about the fear of linking to third party web sites. One webmaster knew he had about 3,000 links to his web site, but the site wasn’t ranking well. So he built..

While some joining the Internet marketing workforce in recent years have prior IT or web development experience, many come from less technical sectors such as off-line marketing, or have got into the field via their own initiative. Those that come from less technical areas, or have come to use computers for work only in recent years may be missing a few ‘old school’ tricks in applications and the operating system that can dramatically increase productivity in all sorts of tasks common to SEO, PPC, and working with web documents

The web is shifting rapidly, again. Search has seen accelerated growth over the last two years, at a quicker clip than any time over the last ten.

I believe some time in September, Google launched a landing page at google.com/adwords/watchthisspace to promote their display ad network at the MIXX conference. The slogan was: Display Ads Are Big. They’re Gonna Be Huge.

I believe some time in September, Google launched a landing page at google.com/adwords/watchthisspace to promote their display ad network at the MIXX conference. The slogan was: Display Ads Are Big. They’re Gonna Be Huge.

I believe some time in September, Google launched a landing page at google.com/adwords/watchthisspace to promote their display ad network at the MIXX conference. The slogan was: Display Ads Are Big.

Photo credit: timtak via Flickr Social Commerce is a very hot topic right now with numerous blog posts , articles and even a few events focused on ecommerce and social media.

Over the past week, there has been many rumors that Google would be making a buy-out offer to Groupon, the popular local deals site. Those rumors have heated up this morning, with Vator.tv reporting the deal has closed, with Google buying Groupon for $2.5 billion. Google or Groupon has yet to..

The New York Times has a great, detailed story out today about a merchant with an unusual marketing strategy: be mean to customers. Any publicity, even negative publicity, means a win with Google’s ranking algorithms. Is he right?

Posted by Kate Morris Meta tags are the beginning of most SEO training, for better and worse. I contemplated on how to introduce this topic because we always hear the bad part of meta tags, namely the keywords meta tag