Search Biz: YouTube Growing Up, Google Owns Ad Serving Market & More

It wasn’t too long ago that YouTube was mostly a haven for the video expressions of teens and young adults; popular clips often showed skateboard crashes, air guitar contests, and bedroom renditions of Numa Numa. But now, as the site continues to grow in popularity, it seems YouTube is…Read More

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This post was written by admin on December 21, 2008

Wishing For The Perfect Search Marketing Tool

In The Trenches is a spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition.
My SEM Wish List: All I Want For Christmas is the Perfect Search Tool, Continued
In my last column, I explained how much I want a [...]Read More

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This post was written by admin on December 21, 2008

Web Design vs SEO - Can’t we all just get along?

Is it me or are a lot of web designers too rigid in their design ideas. I recently went in to consult for a firm on the creation of their website and I had the opportunity to work with a well established web designer out of Orlando. Although I would say the overall experience was positive, I also found that the web designer was not very flexible with his design ideas. Keep in mind the web designer had about 10-12 years of experience but was very limited in terms of SEO knowledge. (Whisper) He thought meta keywords was all SEO was about. Read More…

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This post was written by admin on October 8, 2008

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Title Tags Q & A - The Power of the Title Tag

Here are a few of the questions we often receive regarding title tags. I know, it’s been done to death, but I like to get back to basics from time to time. Check it out and let us know if you find anything that you may have missed in the past or possibly disagree with. Read More…

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This post was written by admin on September 25, 2008

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Don’t rewrite dynamic URL’s? What the heck google?

Just saw this post at Search Engine Land about mod rewrites on dynamic URL’s. After years of preaching one way, they do a 180 on us. That’s life and technology I guess. I don’t think I’ll be changing my old sites anytime soon.

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This post was written by admin on September 24, 2008

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SEO Elite Review - Is SEO Elite Software Worth $167.00?

We’ve used SEO Elite for about 3 years now and we’ve found, overall, it’s a great peace of software. However, there are several features and options we wish were added as well as other fluff that is there to make you feel like the $167 is a good value. There are 8 projects that can be run on the software. We’ll go through the usefulness of each below. Read More…

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This post was written by admin on September 18, 2008

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