Best Buy’s CEO recently resigned. It wasn’t his tacky suit, his larger than life mustache or even his horrible selection in ties, but these “style” choices might parallel his understanding of Internet marketing as a force in ecommerce these...
The Latest 2025 Top Organic Searches Online (now available) . Check out what the latest “top keyword searches are today! In late 2010, we studied for the second time, the “Most Popular Keywords” searched on the Internet. We gathered from as many...
If you’re interested in almost anything about Google’s search engine, you can find it here on “Inside Search” at Google. One of those nifty things you’ll find about their search engine are some advanced commands that will help you...
Google Changing Search Drastically here at the beginning of 2012 Recently, there’s been a little upheaval in the SEO world due to the fact that Google’s making an arbitrary decision to weed out sites that are “overly” search engine optimized....
When titling my “townhomes” focused website or page on my website, do I use the phrase “townhome” or “townhouse”? Wait a second…I could also title it “town house” with a space as well, couldn’t I? So, this a...
Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOMoz.org kicked off this great thread on Guy Kawasaki & his comments about SEO. I had to keep a record of it here in my blog & below are the comments up through the last one (i.e. me) that I saw. I enjoyed reading it and even...
Quality Content for SEO Everyone wants to show up at the top of all the billions of searches every day. So, they come to us to help them rank up there through all the great SEO strategies we’ve applied over the years. However, one of the best ways to frankly...
Updated here in 2017: What’s the best rank checker to check my true results for free. When we search in Google or in a search engine, we see how high or low our websites are by searching for them in the search engine results page. However, what if you’re...
Google pointed out in a recent blog post saying that if users can’t find what they’re looking for right away after clicking through from the search to your website, your website can be punished. In this post, they identify that having excessive amounts of...
From the horse’s mouth, Google plans on making it’s normal 1/2 a grand in changes this year to it’s search algorithm. “Overall, our advice for publishers continues to be to focus on delivering the best possible user experience on your websites...
A couple of months ago, I wrote a very extensive post about how 35% of the search results could change moving forward in Google. Over the past year, Google’s been spending a bit of time on their Caffeine Web Indexing System incorporating it more and more into...
If you pay attention to search engine market share like we have to as search engine marketing consultants, you’ll recently have learned that Yahoo’s no longer #2 behind Google. At the same time, we never really seemed to be that concerned about the fact...
SEOMoz surveyed many marketing agencies and got some great feedback on what all of them charged clients for Search Engine Optimization of their sites. We’ve always tried to price fairly, but also reasonably so that honestly we could survive as a business...
If there was a way to determine who the top SEO in Seattle, who would come up top? I asked the person I thought knew the most about SEO – Rand Fishkin at SEOMoz and he listed 5 great folks. However, if you search “top seattle seo” or “top...
In honor of “turkey day” (which is searched an estimated 1600 times/mo), we thought we would share the Top 10 “Thanksgiving” related phrases here in November. Given that most of us are focused both on “cooking” and...
Now you see them. Now you don’t. You’ve heard the old phrase we used to say as kids. Honestly, you may say it more often about companies we used to think would be around, but failed to take advantage of new marketing techniques like Organic SEO or PPC....
I love all the media when they say “Facebook is taking over” or how “Twitter is huge” on the Internet. The private financial valuations of the companies simply make me laugh when I see them. While I’ll admit any day that the (social...
Recently, a new web development firm I was asked to work with introduced a new eCommerce platform that I had never heard of: Volusion. While working with another web developer on another project, they told me this other great solution Spree which uses Ruby on Rails...
In my SEO Radio Show with the guys at distilled in June, Tom Critchlow mentioned that we should be paying attention to +1 from Google coming out soon. It will affect our SEO. Just like Tom’s plea for us to watch more TED Videos, I’m going to make a...
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