Lisa Barone Why I’m a White Hat Now Big Business SEO Reputation Management in an Instant World How many of you out there have taken on a large business as an SEO client and just been appalled at the state of their Web properties? Some companies either think they don’t need to do SEO, or...Read More
By Rex Crum, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — It’s no secret that Google Inc. likes to have fun with its “Google doodle,†recasting its home-page logo to recognize birthdays of historical figures, holidays and other occasions. So perhaps it was no surprise that on Monday, for Halloween, Google /quotes/zigman/93888/quotes/nls/goog GOOG -1.25%  posted a time-lapse video...Read More
Guest post written by Pawan Deshpande Pawan Deshpande is CEO of HiveFire, producer of Curata online content curation software. You can read more on this subject in his free e-book. Pawan Deshpande: Staying relevant. The battle for top billing on the search results page is fierce – and sites with fresh, relevant content are the...Read More
A serious code injection vulnerability affecting timthumb, a popular image resize script used in many WordPress themes and plugins, has been exploited in recent months to compromise over 1 million Web pages. Estimating the impact is not an easy task, according to website integrity monitoring vendor Sucuri Security, which monitored the fallout of this flaw...Read More
. FROM THE SEEDS of inspiration, six squat and beautiful sculptures are born. In some countries, Google is celebrating Halloween on Monday with a very entertaining time-lapse video short. The “Google Doodle†on the home search page features company employees and friends who carve their way onto the global digital landscape by carving out a...Read More
It’s often the case that what works for PPC works for SEO, and vice versa – at least to a degree. You’ll certainly have to tweak your techniques when moving between organic and paid search efforts, but there’s no reason that gains and losses in one area can’t inform your decisions in the other –...Read More
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, and Federated Media have teamed up to give WordPress’s millions of users the ability to place ads on their blogs. The partnership, which the two companies announced at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, will allow brands and advertisers to target participating WordPress.com site owners in order to reach...Read More
BY AMIR EFRATI AND LAUREN A.E. SCHUKER Google Inc. on Friday announced the creation of around 100 online video “channels” on its YouTube website that will have new original programming involving celebrities such as such as singer Madonna, rapper Jay-Z, actor Ashton Kutcher and former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal. The venture, in partnership with dozens...Read More
Tweet Want more site visitors? These five top SEO (search engine optimization) tactics will help you rank higher in search results and attract more customers. 1. Choose and use the right keywords. Lots of people use insider jargon on their sites. You may think you sell “performance-enhancing stabilizers for over-pronators†– but your potential customers...Read More
SEO consultants like me usually get called in at an advanced stage of website development. Design elements are already in place, graphics created, page structure determined, even selling and lead generation processes finalized before the owner or manager invites us over to “slap SEO on†to their creation! Is that because to many of our...Read More
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