Archive for April, 2012

SPONSOR MESSAGE: SEO ROI – How Do You Maximize Return of Search Activities?

2012/04/05

That’s where Searchmetrics Essentials becomes essential to you. Our fast and easy-to-use search analytics tool provides high-quality data to provide you the unique data advantage you need to stay ahead of your competition and stay up to speed with the ever-evolving Search landscape

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Group: Google Should Halt All Online Dating Ads Until They’re Sure None Are Fronts For Human Trafficking

2012/04/05

Google says it’s spending “millions of dollars” to police AdWords ads to ensure they’re not contributing to human trafficking, but the head of a victim’s rights group seems to believe that’s not enough. Asked what he thinks Google should do, Philip J. Cenedella..

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The SEO Breakdown: Bank Information Center Site Audit

2012/04/05

As part of a site audit special series, we’re going to review an interesting website, Bank Information Center (BIC). BIC is a non-profit organization that does some very cool things but, like most non-profits, hasn’t updated their website for many years.

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Google: No, We Don’t Use Akismet To Catch Link Spam

2012/04/05

There’s speculation going around that Google is using data from the comment spam filter Akismet to penalize web sites.

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SEJ Linkr™ Review

2012/04/05

It’s well known that link-building is one of the most important factors in SEO. It’s also well known that it’s not as simple as just building a link

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Google Stops Listing Burberry US Home Page

2012/04/05

Dean Rowe, the SEO manager at Burberry’s headquarters, received one of those Big traffic change for top URL notifications in Google Webmaster Tools for the http://us.burberry.com URL.

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Personalized Search, Clients from Hell & How Not To Be An SEO

2012/04/05

Linkdex recently announced last month’s winners of their ongoing competition to write SEO film scripts. Here are three animations that take an irreverent look at aspects of our industry; satirizing the real life situations we often find ourselves in.

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Starting Points for Taking your Business International

2012/04/05

Internet trading takes place on the World Wide Web, a metaphysical place without borders, so why would you limit your business strategy to domestic customers alone? By putting your business online you are exponentially increasing your potential clientele – so doesn’t it make sense to specifically target these inherently different markets? Perhaps you’ve had your Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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Google Glasses: Visual Search Embedded

2012/04/05

Google announced on Google+ Project Glass, which is basically glasses you wear that replaces your cell phone, your smart phone…

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Lawmakers Question Whether Google Adequately Reviews Ads Potentially Related To Human Trafficking

2012/04/05

Lawmakers Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) are concerned that Google is profiting from advertisements placed by sex traffickers, expressing these fears in a joint letter to CEO Larry Page. The missive seeks reassurances of the company’s commitment to ferreting out ads that… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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