Archive for April, 2011

Most SEOs Feel Google Webmaster Tools Is Not Accurate

2011/04/20

Do you find the reports within Google Webmaster Tools to be accurate? We ran a poll asking just that question a few months ago…

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Google’s Eric Schmidt Gets $1.25 Million Raise

2011/04/20

It’s good to be Google’s Executive Chairman. When Eric Schmidt handed over the reigns to Larry Page on April 4 as Google CEO, Schmidt’s token $1 yearly salary ballooned to a $1.25 million base salary per year, with the ability to earn a bonus of 400 percent of his base salary — up to a maximum bonus of $6 million, according to this SEC filing

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Baidu. Yandex. More. Global Opportunities Revealed at International Search Summit

2011/04/20

Economic growth will be sluggish in America and Europe, forecasters say. But emerging Asian and Latin American offer huge opportunities for growth

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eBay Buys Location-Based Services Pioneer WHERE.com

2011/04/20

Adding to its LBS portfolio, eBay has acquired Boston-based WHERE.com, which has a popular mobile app and operates a “hyper-local” mobile ad network.

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Google Map Maker: User Generated Tagging of Live Google Maps

2011/04/20

Google has opened up Google MapMaker to all Google Account users to edit any spot in the United States. With the philosophy of “you know your neighborhood best,” Google wants everyone to jump online to tag their favorite bike paths, coffee shops, college buildings and more. Click to read the rest of this post..

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How to Convert a Website into an Ebook

2011/04/20

Writing for blogs lends itself to many useful possibilities. You’re regularly updating them with fun and informative content, which makes for a fantastic resource for anyone who comes across it. However, if you’ve been thinking about creating an ebook from the same kind of niche, you may be lost as where to start

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“But I don’t LIKE Facebook and Twitter” Makes No Sense To Me…

2011/04/20

“But I don’t LIKE Facebook and Twitter” Makes No Sense To Me… To which my response is always “But do you like generating new leads and making sales?” There are still tons (tonnes for my Canadian friends) of people out there that don’t use social media as a business tool because they don’t like it. Yes, building your business should be fun and hopefully you’ll enjoy most aspects of what you do.  But if you aren’t willing to do everything necessary you are limiting yourself right out of the gate

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Google Instant Now On New Google Toolbar 7

2011/04/19

Google Instant continues to spread.

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Improve Your Link Prospecting With Reductive Queries

2011/04/19

When we search for websites to link to us, we often use inputs on Google in order to return results  such as “KEYWORD resources”, “KEYWORD links” , or simply just “KEYWORD”. The problem with this process is that what we input is not what we are looking for

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