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7 Compelling “About Us” Pages
Avatar Story Found By: astrochase 524 Days ago
News Source: http://www.speedofcaffeine.com
Category: Usability
There aren't many places on your website where you can really let loose and tell your story. In our opinion, the "about us" page is one of the most neglected pages on a typical e-commerce site. It seems as though it's often written... Read more
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New Emphasis: Voting Patterns and Unexceptional Content
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 537 Days ago
News Source: http://blog.sphinn.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
Please read the latest post on our Sphinn blog about a new emphasis on enforcing existing guidelines, and asking Sphinn users to be more careful about the content that gets submitted, shared, and voted up. I'll try to keep an eye on comments during the… Read more
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SEO Hosting : Web Hosting for Search Optimization
Avatar Story Found By: markthompson 537 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
This is a complete guide to choosing the proper web hosting company that will cater to your Search Engine Optimization needs. Read more
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How User's Intention Influence Behavior in Search Results with Eye Tracking Study
Avatar Story Found By: matthewdiehl 538 Days ago
News Source: http://dynamical.biz
Category: Searching
New Eye Tracking Study Released July 2010: New study tried to determine whether the intention behind queries affects the way people browse the results page, the relationship between gaze patterns and intentionality while performing queries. Read more
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5 Common Problems (and solutions) with Google Base
Avatar Story Found By: BasvdBeld 538 Days ago
News Source: http://www.stateofsearch.com
Category: SEO
The writer remembered how many issues he encountered when creating feeds for clients (especially if you are using a CMS and not a custom xml feed for 50 or so products) and also how many questions posted by other people were left unanswered. He decided… Read more
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When to Say Goodbye to a SEO Client
Avatar Story Found By: techiesouls 538 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
This post discusses at what point an Internet Marketing company should say goodbye to a client. Read more
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Official: Google Now Lets One Domain Dominate Search Results
Avatar Story Found By: buckles 541 Days ago
News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Category: Searching
This will be interesting to watch from the reputation management side of things. Read more
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Seller Rating Extensions in Google AdWords
Avatar Story Found By: davidiwanow 540 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: PPC
Over the past year, Google AdWords has introduced a number of ad extensions that enable advertisers to provide additional information about their businesses and products. For example, product extensions, location extensions, ad sitelinks, and phone… Read more
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Mess With Your Friends Using Facebook Places
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 539 Days ago
News Source: http://samirbalwani.com
Category: Social Media
Funny stuff from Samir - SNIP - What many people don’t know about Facebook Places is that instead of just letting me check-in to a place, I can also tag my friends. Where we are, shows up on both our Facebook wall and life stream. So, why not spoof my… Read more
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Can Link Building Give You or Your Client a Bad Reputation?
Avatar Story Found By: gregshuey 538 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
Unfortunately, some types of link building can do more harm than good. That is why it is important to follow strict guidelines and be as white hat as possible when putting together and executing a link building campaign. Read more
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Keyword Research for Local SEO
Avatar Story Found By: Silver 559 Days ago
News Source: http://www.semclubhouse.com
Category: SEO
A look at current tools and methods for performing keyword research for SMBs for local SEO benefit. Read more
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The Ultimate Social Bookmarking Content Creation Guide (Part 2: StumbleUpon)
Avatar Story Found By: username1 removed by request 558 Days ago
News Source: http://www.stayonsearch.com
Category: Social Media
This is part 2 of a 5 part series that covers creating content for the following social bookmarking sites. Read more
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Are social signals ever going to usurp links
Avatar Story Found By: Badams 559 Days ago
News Source: http://www.stateofsearch.com
Category: Social Media
Pete Young asks if social media will form a strong ranking signal, and outlines several reasons why he doesn't think search engines are willing to make that step yet. Read more
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Using Excel for SEO – the Grand Collection of Tips
Avatar Story Found By: AlanBleiweiss 556 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Another brilliant how-to article by Ann Smarty.  This time she breaks out the Excel power tips - if you're weak-kneed or don't like the idea of being called a power-user, you may want to skip this article.  Otherwise, WOW... Read more
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Patience is an SEO Virtue
Avatar Story Found By: matthewdiehl 594 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Category: SEO
Kate Morris reminds us all that sometimes we just need to take a deep breath, relax and wait a little bit before we jump into the deepend when things aren't happening "fast enough" in the search engines. Read more
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A Comprehensive Guide to Link Building via Blog Commenting
Avatar Story Found By: markthompson 595 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Link Building
An awesome guide to things you will encounter when blog commenting to build links. Read more
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First Look - The New Digg Version 4.0 Alpha
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Administrator Story Found By: MattMcGee 596 Days ago
News Source: http://www.blueglass.com
Category: Social Media
Brent Csutoras takes a look (with plenty of screenshots) at the new "alpha" version of Digg. There are some interesting changes that may impact how search/social marketers use the site. Read more
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7 Steps to Creating and Cultivating a Brand in Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: joshuatitsworth 600 Days ago
News Source: http://www.briansolis.com
Category: Social Media
In this Brian Solis takes us through 7 easy to understand steps to get a brand up and going using social media. Here's a little teaser, "As business, marketing and service leaders, we face new challenges. We’re not quite sure how or why to implement… Read more
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Link exchange requests: what you SHOULD do
Avatar Story Found By: Badams 600 Days ago
News Source: http://www.stateofsearch.com
Category: Link Building
As a followup to his "8 things linkbuilders shouldn't do" Bas van den Beld now goes in to what link requesters SHOULD do if they want to get a useful and valuable link. Read more
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Do New Advertisers Pay 4x More Than Established Advertisers?
Avatar Story Found By: robertbrady 600 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: PPC
Case study to measuring the impact of hidden Quality Scores. To set up the test, I replicated one of our accounts into a brand new account. Shortly after, I began to see keyword level Quality Scores at even levels between the two accounts. I set maximum… Read more
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How to Deal with Competitors Copying Your Links
Avatar Story Found By: MattSiltala 599 Days ago
News Source: http://www.distilled.co.uk
Category: Link Building
Great write up by Kate Morris on dealing with competitors copying your links and linking strategies.  FROM THE PAGE:  You do some research to identify what they are doing (hey, you might learn something new!) and alas, they are copying all the links… Read more
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Adapting SEO for Personalized Search
Avatar Story Found By: mercylivi 599 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: SEO
Comprehensive post on personalised search and how does it affects SEO (Does it affects SEO?) Great guide to look into and clarify your doubts! Read more
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Can You Handle On Page Links?
Avatar Story Found By: theGypsy 621 Days ago
News Source: http://www.linkspiel.com
Category: SEO
I tend to agree with Debra on this one - SNIP - Here at the Link Spiel we’re going to stick with linking out from the body of the copy, we know our readers can handle clicking, reading, and returning to our blog.    We feel the whole link clicking… Read more
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The Backdoor to Social Media
Avatar Story Found By: joshuatitsworth 622 Days ago
News Source: http://www.clickz.com
Category: Social Media
Despite the draw of accessing millions of regular users, many businesses are not yet ready to enter social media. There's a host of reasons. They include: wrestling with compliance and regulatory issues; trying to establish clear corporate policies and… Read more
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How to Avoid Social Network Burnout
Avatar Story Found By: Sandrina 621 Days ago
News Source: http://webworkerdaily.com
Category: Social Media
It’s not trending on Twitter just yet, but I’ve noticed recently that a number of individuals I follow are taking breaks from it and other social networks. Some have announced their intentions; others have just gone quiet — and it seems that… Read more
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