Archive for September, 2011

Former Mobile Search Engine Taptu Reinvents Itself As Tablet Platform Tool

2011/09/12

The search technology behind failed social search engine Worio became the guts of the successful Zite app, which was recently acquired by CNN. Similarly Taptu, which began as a mobile search engine in the pre-iPhone era (2006), did almost the identical thing and is hoping to follow Zite’s..

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Top 10 Web Analytics Myths… Dispelled

2011/09/12

Having worked in online marketing and web analytics for nearly a decade, I’ve heard it all when it comes to myths passed around small and large companies alike. Here is a top 10 list of my favorite web analytics myths and practical advice on…

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FBI Computer Crimes Unit Investigating Hacked NBC Twitter Account

2011/09/12

Early Friday Evening, just two days before the tenth anniversary of the September 11 th terrorist attacks, the official NBC Twitter account was hacked and used to tweet false information related to terrorist attacks.

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4 Link Building Strategies for “Too Busy for Link Building” Local Businesses

2011/09/12

More and more small businesses working in a “local” market are waking up to the realities and need for Search Engine Optimization. However, in talking with many of these owners, they are concerned with the importance and on-going nature of link building, and the lack of financial and human resources needed to carry out link building activities. As link building can account for up to 75% of the success of a SEO program, it is imperative that these businesses find a way to collect links within their limited resource budgets

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4 Link Building Strategies for “Too Busy for Link Building” Local Businesses

2011/09/12

More and more small businesses working in a “local” market are waking up to the realities and need for Search Engine Optimization. However, in talking with many of these owners, they are concerned with the importance and on-going nature of link building, and the lack of financial and human resources needed to carry out link building activities. As link building can account for up to 75% of the success of a SEO program, it is imperative that these businesses find a way to collect links within their limited resource budgets

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4 Link Building Strategies for “Too Busy for Link Building” Local Businesses

2011/09/12

More and more small businesses working in a “local” market are waking up to the realities and need for Search Engine Optimization. However, in talking with many of these owners, they are concerned with the importance and on-going nature of link building, and the lack of financial and human resources needed to carry out link building activities.

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3 Things to Remember When Selling SEO Services

2011/09/12

Over the last six years, I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of a number of successful SEO sales pitches to a wide variety of companies, from startups to the Fortune 100. And I’ve also been part of a few that weren’t so successful. When I anal…

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Bing Gets a New Home Page

2011/09/12

Bing has released a new version of their home page that removes some clutter, adds mobile-friendly elements, and moves most navigation to the explore bar. This move and other experiments may indicate that Bing HTML5 is coming soon

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Google Apps Update: Places, Maps, Music, Blogger

2011/09/12

Google has added new features to the Google Places app, Google Maps, Google Music (beta), and the Blogger app.

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How I Would Do SEO for Hipmunk.com

2011/09/11

Posted by Tom Critchlow I’ll admit it, I just love Hipmunk . In this post I’m going to outline an SEO strategy for them for all to see

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