When I am training people in how to use Twitter, the question asked most often is “How do you get Twitter followers?” When you are just starting out, you may not know any people that are on Twitter and don’t have any idea of where to start. If you have been on Twitter for awhile, you may find that your number of followers has stopped growing and are looking for ways to get new followers.  Wrong or right many people see Twitter as a numbers game, so even ‘Power’ Twitter users are often looking for new techniques to increase their numbers of followers too. Quantity vs.

If you constantly “chase the algorithm,” you might find that you adapted to the wrong version of the algorithm update and then – once Google “corrects itself” – you’re once again left behind. Even now…

Note from Ann: We a SEJ are all for knowledge exchange and therefore we encourage various SEO meetups and evens and always agree to cover them. Here’s one of the most recent SEO meetups covered by our guest author. SEO is not always a glorious profession, it requires a great deal of motivation and interest and without it one can fail miserably.

One of the easiest ways to gain credibility with any business partner is to establish quick wins using conversion rate optimization.

Ontolo, created by Ben Wills and Garrett French (who has since left the company to found Citation Labs), is a backlink discovery tool that will continually search for new potential link partners. By automating certain parts of the discovery proces…

Posted by Geoff Kenyon We all want to deliver actionable site audits, but doing the research can be a bit overwhelming if you don’t have a process in place to systematically go through a site. I have created a site audit checklist that will walk you through how to do a site audit.

Earlier this month, I wrote about how the promise of Facebook traffic has enticed millions of sites to use Facebook Like buttons and other Facebook social plugins. But does following Facebook’s socialist agenda really pay off

During the season finale of “Saturday Night Live” Google premiered its new ad for Chrome and its other services – heavily favoring YouTube – starring Lady Gaga.

Posted by Arnaud Joakim This post was originally in YOUmoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community.