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Anyways, if you haven’t been keeping up with the social media scene lately, I would have to say you have been missing out on a lot of crazy stuff. In this post I will try and link to all the things that have been going on lately in terms of Digg and read more »
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Lee - Social media and search marketing: Are they two peas in a pod, complimentary or two very distinct channels?

I think the answer is all of the above, depending on the situation. The growth in attention to social media as a marketing, communi read more »
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A great post on dangers of screwing over people who build reputation for a living. read more »
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Lee Odden writes, "With search engine optimization a challenge for most company marketers to stay current with, how exactly are businesses supposed to confidently hire a SEO consultant? Google has an opinion on this if you haven’t noticed." read more »
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SNIP - There needs to be a massive amount of inbound links to a site for it to become one of the seo black holes. A working example of such a site is Wikipedia, who NoFollowed links and has had content pages steadily at the top of SERPs ever since. read more »
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with earning a link from a blog post you decide to comment on. In fact, if you comment often on blogs, it is a good way to increase the amount of inbound links pointing to your site's pages. However, there is a "rig read more »
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Dave Naylor: Are we starting to see Google turn the screw of “we don’t like you” on blogs? For many months rumours had been flying around that Google was going to purge a lot of blogs, at the beginning of last week I noticed that some of my pages we read more »
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This should be quite a event, requiring intense focus for attendees not to get distracted by the huge range of interest areas. read more »
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Mike Dammann: Everyone I network with uses wordpress. Sure, there are some Typepad and Moveable Type users here and there, but Wordpress is the search engine friendliest, easiest to install and the plugins are great.

Wordpress is by far the best. read more »
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Want to know whats happening in the world of Local SEO; but been too busy to stay up to date, don't worry David Mihm has done all the hard work and compiled a nice list of local seo reading from the last month. read more »
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B2B marketing automation leader, Marketo continues its series of interviews with industry thought leaders, providing best practices and tips to improve lead generation and increase marketing roi. Dianna Huff is a B2B Marketing Communications Consult read more »
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Ever wanted to find a webmaster but there's no obvious contact page or details on the site? Here's a comprehensive guide to tracking these elusive figures down! A great guide read more »
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Some people are wondering about why I decided to remove the NOFOLLOW function from my blog's comments. So...here's the explanation, as well as what I believe to be an argument in favor of removing NOFOLLOW from a post's comment links. read more »
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B2B marketing automation leader, Marketo is conducting a series of interviews with industry thought leaders for best practices and tips to improve lead generation and increase marketing roi. Tom Pick with WebMarketCentral provides some valuable advi read more »
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It's The ROI blog article on how some people are seeing UI testing by Google that sows 7 results per SERP instead of the sacred 10. read more »
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Lee Oden writes "What exactly, does Web 2.0, social media and even SEO have to do with public relations? Everything!

You’d be hard pressed to find any modern public relations agency practice that isn’t researching or already implementing a digita read more »
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Countless social media sites are created each year yet only a few of them persist and develop into authority hubs on the Web. This article discusses factors that contribute to a site either failing or succeeding and analyzes a social media site that read more »
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Content is King and links are Queen. Together with a nice dose of marketing they make a nice little kingdom. But what if you have trouble generating new content on a regular basis? How can resource strapped bloggers and busy web site owners leverage read more »
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Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to.

The remedies to this may vary but here are some read more »
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Andy Beal writes, "A California resident is suing Google for trespassing. Apparently Google’s Street View driver ignored a "No Trespassing" sign, drove down a private road, and snapped photos of the resident’s house." read more »
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Its no secrete that the reputation of the SEO industry isn't as many of us wish it to be. The term "snake-oil salesman" has been used few times to describe our industry, unfortunately.

It might be therefore we see some responsible SEO companies f read more »
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We have all been there, in fact, much like a night out, you are most likely going to run into at least one!

Editor's note: This post is our continued dissemination of content from this week's Search Engine Strategies San Jose search marketing co read more »
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Shana or The Nanny to some has been nominated for the 'Hot Blogger Calendar', show your appreciation by giving your vote to 'The Hot Shana Albert' !!! read more »
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"SEO and blogs equal success" Lee Odden told the packed audience at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose Wednesday. "Blogs with great content, that are optimized and promoted, create overwhelming competitive advantages." read more »
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Mixx, Digg, Facebook, Reddit, Myspace and Twitter all have way too much downtime. How do they deal with it? read more »
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