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Why SEO needs to be bought and sold on quality of service - not price points.

Link beetle, anyone? Read more
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Inc. Technology article about optimizing blogs for increased search engine traffic.

"Blogs can be effective tools for raising the profile of your product or service -- but only if your target audience find them. Search engine optimization… Read more
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We’ve noticed that many people don’t use some tools that would make their lives online much more effective and efficient. Here’s our list of some tools we’d suggest are essential. Several of these tools will deliver huge value to… Read more
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Your clients are enjoying more exposure and tangible results than they ever did before. If you don’t know how to properly sell this value to your clients, you could be losing money and not even know it. Read more
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We got logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, Cre8asite, the Search Engine Roundtable and others. All for our special moms! Happy Mothers Day! Read more
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Securing SEO, PPC, social media and analytics advice can be risky, like buying diamonds from a jeweler you don’t know. The premise of the purchase is sometimes a customer’s (enthusiastic) lack of understanding of criteria by which to judge the… Read more
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At SEJ Ann said about Black Hat SEO and How to promote your website indirectly in Google. Read more
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Everyone managing cost-per-click (CPC) campaigns lives by three magic letters that can make the difference between a friendly pat on the back and a hefty push on the back... out the door. Those letters are ROI (return on investment). Put another way,… Read more
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Brian Turner - The problem is that link building isn’t simply about building links - it’s about managing a site’s entire link profile, and especially managing the risk built into developing links.

The bottom line is that when someone… Read more
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The Google News Blog announced the addition of "related searches" at the bottom of Google News search results. Related searches are "automatically generated based on an algorithm to determine terms related to your search," said Google. Read more
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Adam Audette explains the concepts of designing optimized site architectures for efficient spidering by search engines. Read more
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Everyone has heard the phrase "content is king." This post argues that the saying should be changed to "controversy is king." Read more
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An excellent detailed account of a gathering in Vancouver, BC, Canada that drew three times as many participants as planned. They were fully briefed on all the exciting things you can do with WordPress by some real experts. Well worth a read.… Read more
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I am not sure if anyone noticed or not, but Reddit.com has removed the advanced search option from it’s site. I used to use advanced search strings like “(site:brentcsutoras.com)” to check if anyone had submitted my posts to Reddit. Read more
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TopRank - Companies venturing into the SEO world are in fact, venturing into the content marketing world. It’s the reality of how both search engines and consumers will best respond to web site marketing efforts. Great content is an essential part of… Read more
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The first part of this series was a selection of tips on how to use your surroundings to come up with interesting ideas that can lead to great amounts of traffic, attention and links. After you’ve carefully selected the idea of your choice, it’s… Read more
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How to create interesting content that will force your visitors to link to you. Read more
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Even a slight mistake or bad preparation can turn a great content marketing campaign into an almost great content marketing campaign. And almost great just isn’t good enough. Read more
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TechCrunch - You know you’ve made it as a communications medium when you start attracting spammers. On Twitter, the problem is getting bad enough that the service is starting to blacklist people who spam other members. There is already an unofficial… Read more
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Google desperately wants access to future wireless broadband networks of all stripes and sizes,but it wants to avoid having to build and operate its own. Deals like this show that it is willing to pay to play. Read more
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"Something is wrong in the Facebook developer community," Farmer wrote in a blog post Tuesday. "Starting in March I began noticing that the level of activity in the Facebook developers forum was dropping sharply." Read more
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One of the benefits to spending time on Twitter is that it’s a great way to network. But if you are new to Twitter, it can seem difficult to find people that are in your industry or that share your interests. Here’s some tips to help get you… Read more
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Really, Twitter spam? I mean, how do you get spammed by people you voluntarily choose to follow. It’s like bitching that your Facebook "friends" are spamming you. Why did you make them friends, then. Read more
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Karri Flatla writes, "I’m probably going to lose a lot of Friends with this post, but I need to get some stuff off my chest about Facebook. If you’re a real Friend, you’ll listen without judgment. If not, it was nice Facebooking with you.… Read more
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Is it time for one site to be everything to everyone (in a similar fashion that Yahoo or AOL was 10 years ago)? We are all now forced into situations where time and the efficient use of it have become acutely important. Read more
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