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"Any Sales Pitch is About a Transferrance of Emotion From The Salesman to the Customer". Learn why it’s not enough to just deliver a seemingly good pitch on the surface, but rather to read between the lines and peer into your audience’s thought, dis read more »
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What the coming (or already upon us) economic downturn means for small business websites & SEO. read more »
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In an earlier post, I [Greg Sterling] solicited questions for Google about local search. My intention had been to present them at the What’s New in Local Search panel at SMX East this morning. But I didn’t get my act together to distribute them at t read more »
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Search Engine Land - here has been a lot of talk and speculation recently about eBay wanting to get rid of StumbleUpon
, but until anything happens I am not going to stop using it. With over 6 million users contributing to over 350 million stumbles read more »
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These outstanding web failures did not require a $700 billion government bail out but they did manage to burn a hole in someone's pocket! read more »
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David Harry covers a variety of patents Google have for social profiling - while illustrating the massive intrusion into privacy.

However, the suggestion is that this could be a way to monetise social media, but there's no getting around user int read more »
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"More and more conventional link building methods, like directory submission are of less and less value, Google does not even recommend high quality paid directories any more. In fact soon we’ll see a situation where all artificial ways of link buil read more »
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Socialblade.com is a great resource to see stats about the top Digg users. This is a new page that specifically shows all users that have been banned, and where they rank among the top 1000 users all time. read more »
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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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On page, it is the optimizations on a web page directly. We do some synthesizing, modification on a web page that called on page optimization while off page activity are not directly related to work on a web page. We don't changes anything on web pa read more »
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What is custom 404 page and why we are recommending to set it up? Also get to know hot to set it up! read more »
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There are many ways to build backlinks. There are many ways to waste your time building backlinks too. Therefore, it makes sense to invest your time and effort in something that just works. read more »
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SEO is time consuming but seems the only way to drive targeted traffic to your site and become leader in your niche. read more »
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A look at the wider implications of the forthcoming Google phones read more »
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I have compiled the following not only to share my favorite plugins with you, but also to hopefully make your life as blogger easier. read more »
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There's more user unrest in the community of popular social news site Digg, after the all-time number 3 ranked user Zaibatsu, a.k.a. Reg Saddler, was banned for multiple violations of the Digg Terms of Use. That decision is "final and irreversible", read more »
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After consulting reliable sources, who have verified our own monitoring of StumbleUpon it is evident that their RECENT UPDATE has included a silent change to their algorithms as well.

Several sources agree with our analysis that the following eff read more »
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Another do-follow social bookmark site that with a few simple techniques will produce several do-follow links per site. read more »
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An interesting look at the rates of Digging of the Top Diggers. Given the hoopla about Diggers being banned lately, it would appear that Digg has only scratched the surface of their problems. read more »
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After what seems like forever writing and blogging for Bruce Clay, Lisa Barone is moving on to pastures new...


I hope your new venture still sees you writing online somewhere. The old place just won't be the same without The Lisa. read more »
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I [David Snyder] think all SEOs believe it is important to control how the search bots view their site.

All quality SEOs would agree this control begins with a quality site and information architecture.

However, no matter how strong your IA is read more »
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While I liked the fact that my WordPress login and registration pages were seamless with the rest of my site design wise due to a plugin, that ugly non matching user profile page was driving me nuts. So I enlisted Joost de Valk's programming skills read more »
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Peter Da Vanzo writes, "Link building is hard work. Have you ever tried to get people to link to your pure commerce/commercial brochure-web site? You know how tough it is out there. The link economy has become so established, we've even got strategi read more »
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Digg bans Zaibatsu as Digg goes into a massive cleanup effort to try and still sell the place. Many have already been banned from Digg and everyone is laying low right now, even Digg to 10. Can you hear Kevin crying in his sleep, "Google come back, read more »
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Dev Basu writes... Sometimes it can be pretty hard to come up with creative social media link bait ideas for otherwise un-interesting small businesses. After brainstorming for a bit, I think I’ve come up with some ideas that can be applied to almost read more »
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